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Land of Women trans: the three leads of the series sit on a bed next to each other with the trans daughter/granddaughter in the middle
TV Reviews

‘Land of Women’ Is Must-Watch Fun TV — Especially for Gay Trans Girls

In the second episode, before we learn of her transness, Kate gets flustered in a meet cute with a lesbian mechanic. This allowance of a trans girl, first and foremost, to have lesbian storylines is unprecedented.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 26, 2024 2 Comments
Orphan Black Echoes: a close up of Krysten Ritter wet in red lighting.
TV Reviews

‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ Is Not an Exact Clone of the Original — It’s Gayer

Also, as an added queer bonus, the new theme song is written and performed by Julien Baker.

Valerie Anne June 25, 2024 12 Comments
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TV Reviews

‘Wreck’ Season Two Said It’s Hot Queer Slasher Summer

‘Wreck’ turns the horrors of capitalism into slasher-comedy thrills.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 17, 2024
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TV Reviews

Disco Was Always for the Gays

Just in time for Pride, PBS is releasing the three-part documentary series ‘Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution’ that tracks the rise and fall of disco over the course of the 1970s.

Sa'iyda Shabazz June 16, 2024 4 Comments
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Did ‘The Acolyte’ Just Introduce a Coven of Lesbian Witches to the Star Wars Universe?

Jodie Turner-Smith is an absolute scene stealer in “Destiny.”

Nic Anstett June 12, 2024 5 Comments
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TV Reviews

At Long Last, ‘The Acolyte’ Gives Us a Star Wars Series Made by a Lesbian

Star Wars has managed to become an inflection point for culture war grifters who claim that it’s become a radically queer Marxist text. I f*cking wish.

Nic Anstett June 6, 2024 43 Comments
We Are Lady Parts season two: the core five members of Lady Parts in suits and sunglasses walk down the street with instruments
TV Reviews

‘We Are Lady Parts’ Is Back When We Need It Most

We Are Lady Parts is back and even better with overt politics, a sharp self-awareness, and more great songs.

Natalie May 31, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Reviews

Netflix’s ‘Bodkin’ Should Have Let Its Lesbian Take the Lead

Siobhán Cullen is the undeniable star of the new Netflix series Bodkin. And not just because her character is a lesbian.

Drew Burnett Gregory May 10, 2024 4 Comments
Pretty Little Liars Summer School - two girls one blonde with short hair, one brunette with long braids, share an emotional embrace
TV Reviews

‘Pretty Little Liars: Summer School’ Adds Sapphic Romance to the Worthwhile Reboot

Only the first two episodes of Summer School are out so far, and it’s already adding more queerness to the mix.

Valerie Anne May 10, 2024
Velma season two: Velma in orange monochrome holding a shovel against a dark blue background
TV Reviews

‘Velma’ Season Two Is Less Problematic — So Why Is It Even Worse?

While the first season had an ugly personality, at least it was bold enough to have one at all.

Rendy Jones May 2, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Reviews

‘Hacks’ Is Sooooo Back and Better Than Ever

Exes — I mean, ex- boss and employee — Deborah and Ava are back in another brilliant season.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 2, 2024 7 Comments
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TV Reviews

‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Has a Goth Lesbian Butcher, Gay Ghosts, and a Cheryl Dunye-Directed Episode

I may be a vegetarian, but I want more of this goth lesbian butcher!

Valerie Anne May 1, 2024 4 Comments
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TV Reviews

‘Renegade Nell’ Stands and Delivers on Fun, But Not on Gay Content

“Played by Derry Girl Louisa Harland, Nell Jackson is a fierce, funny, sarcastic woman with no interest in behaving the way people of her time think women should behave.”

Valerie Anne April 23, 2024 3 Comments
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TV Reviews

‘Under the Bridge,’ a True Crime Drama With Queer Leads, Wants More for Its Girls and the Genre

Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough deliver magnificent performances as the queer leads of a ’90s-set true crime drama that is less concerned with scandal or mystery than it is with empathy and curiosity.

Riese April 19, 2024 3 Comments
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TV Reviews

Will ‘Baby Reindeer’ Welcome a New Era of Complex Television?

We cannot fight stigmas around transness, queerness, and surviving abuse by reducing the complexities of life into rules and checklists.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 19, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Reviews

‘Heartbreak High’ Somehow Gets Even Gayer in Season Two

Bisexual love triangles, queer awakenings, and messy desires abound.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 11, 2024 2 Comments
Mary and George queer: Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine stand next to each other with the background desaturated
TV Reviews

‘Mary & George’ Reveals Being Good at Gay Sex Doesn’t Mean You Can Lead a Country

Nearly everyone on-screen is a bisexual sex fiend. Nearly everyone on-screen would kill blood, boo, or bestie to rise in society.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 8, 2024 3 Comments
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TV Reviews

New ‘Top Chef’ Season 21 Host Kristen Kish Has Us Hungry AND Thirsty

There’s something about the way she looks into the camera, both smirking and glaring at the same time, that makes me want to watch Top Chef until the end of time … but also turn off the TV immediately because it is TEW MUCH.

Nic March 28, 2024
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TV Reviews

“Apples Never Fall” Wants To Be “Big Little Lies” but Has Bad Little Writing

When watching Apples Never Fall, the new Peacock series based on a novel by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, I kept thinking about the woman who put $50,000 in a shoebox and handed it to her scammers.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 14, 2024 3 Comments
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Comedy TV Reviews

“Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda” Brings Brilliant Trans Comics to the Famously Transphobic Netflix

Give jobs to trans comics not because it’ll end the protests at your executive offices but because they’re really fucking funny and good at what they do.

Motti March 14, 2024 2 Comments
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