The Best 2020 TV Shows With LGBTQ Women and Non-Binary Characters
Autostraddle’s TV Team shares our picks for the best TV shows of 2020 featuring girls, gays and theys.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Is Queer Women Culture
There’s nothing inherently more lesbian about watching two famous cishet Rachels playact queerness than watching a nonbinary drag queen kiss the shoulder of a trans woman drag queen.
BTW, Shannon Berry from “The Wilds” is Queer
The stars of The Wilds say it’s a great day to be gay.
Amazon’s “The Wilds” Brings Lesbians to a Deserted Island
The Wilds is sometimes cheesy, sometimes saccharine, all times dramatic as hell.
Boobs on Your Tube: Teddy Faces Her Bisexual Past on “Grey’s Anatomy,” Is There Hope for a Bisexual Future?
Plus: updates on BET’s A Christmas Lottery, S.W.A.T, and brand new first-look photos from Batwoman!
Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer TV Couples of 2020
“It’s funny that I’ve seen a hundred queer couples on TV at this point, and it was finally these two teenage dorks who really reflected my own reality back to me for maybe the first time.”
HBO Max’s “Veneno” is the Television Masterpiece Trans Icon Cristina La Veneno Deserves
For me, what makes the show so unique are the moments Valeria spends with Cristina and Paca and all the other trans women around them. It’s watching this cross-generational support among trans women that’s so important for us but so rarely portrayed on screen.
Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Episodes of 2020
“Even once the surprise of it has been lost, I find myself returning to it time and again in my memory. A truly perfect moment of acting, of cinematography, of television. Easily the best of the year.”
Boobs on Your Tube: It’s Sunlight Kitchens and Sweaty Kisses on “Station 19”
Plus, we’re getting Muslim teen superhero Ms. Marvel coming to TV and here’s an update on S.W.A.T.
Rosie O’Donnell Playing “Carrie” on “The L Word: Generation Q” Season 2 — Which Is Absolutely Tina’s Fiancée’s Name
The L Word Generation Q’s first sliver of news has arrived: lesbian icon Rosie O’Donnell will play a “brash and kindhearted” public defender in Season Two and Jordan Hull (Angie) has been upped to series regular status!
10 Times Things Went Well But Also Very Badly For Lesbians on Rooftops
“It’s a real mark of our collective queer delusion that everyone tries to forget how weird it is when serial roof marauder Piper Perabo climbs on top of her car to screech about wankers over the standstill of London traffic.”
The Derry Girls on Great British Bake Off Is the Only Good Thing to Happen in 2020
“See, in Ireland, we love slime. It’s traditional that we have slime for the New Year. So, please don’t dis the culture of my people.”
Boobs on Your Tube: Binge “Filthy Rich” and This Tawdry Christian Gay Love Affair Is Yours
Plus updates on “Station 19” and both seasons of “Coroner,” get in here!
“Euphoria” Returns With a Wonderful and Frustrating Zendaya Tour De Force
I ship Zendaya’s Rue and Hunter Schafer’s Jules like some people shipped Brittana.
Peacock’s “Saved By The Bell” Reboot Is a Queer and Loving Skewering of the Original Series
“Does this place ever stop being weird?!?”
What’s New and Gay To Stream in December 2020
December on HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime has everything: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a Euphoria special, troubled girls stranded on a desert island and so much more.
Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2020
Here’s what we loved this year, and what pained us to see.
“Adventure Time: Distant Lands — Obsidian” Gives the Gays Everything They Want
Marceline and Pricness Bubblegum return for one more adventure, and we get all the answers to all the questions we asked for eight years.
Pop Culture Fix: “The Last of Us” Is Bringing its Lesbians and Clickers and Trauma to HBO
Also: The teaser for Batwoman season two!!!!, don’t hold your breath for a GLOW movie, Dua Lipa’s out here licking Miley Cyrus’ face, how Sailor Moon taught us femininity isn’t fragile, and more!
The Angsty Buddhist: “Avatar” & Telling Our Own Stories
I don’t think it matters much whether Avatar: The Last Airbender is “respectful” of Asian culture. I think the show is racist, and also I like it. I’m interested in what we do with the sense of agency it gives us, how it allows us to critique the structures that exist and envision our own worlds.