Pop Culture Fix: Is “Station 19” Setting Up Maya and Carina to be a Legendary Gay Shondaland Couple?
Also: Evan Rachel Wood and Miranda July’s Kajillionaire trailer, Naya Rivera’s last TV appearance, Harley Quinn lands on HBO Max, and more!
Kayleigh Llewellyn and Lucy Forbes on “In My Skin,” Lesbian Adolescence, and How the Industry Needs to Change
“This industry needs an overhaul. It’s clear the time for excuses is over now and it’s going to be about action.”
With Javicia Leslie’s Batwoman, My Favorite Character Is Finally Being Played by Someone Who Looks Like Me
“Like many people of color and queer people, I’ve found ways to relate to a character that is nothing like me. As a poor, fat, Black queer woman I had seemingly nothing in common with a rich orphaned straight white man.”
Queer British Teen Dramedy “In My Skin” Hits Hard on Class and Mental Illness, Misses on Race
Ultimately Kayleigh Llewellyn’s show proves that writing from a place of lived experience will always result in the sharpest stories — that’s as evident in its failures as it is in its successes.
The Category Is “Shut Out of the 2020 Emmys” and the Winner Is Pose, the Reason Is Transphobia
The Emmy nominations are out and this year, there are 11 nominated lesbian, bisexual, queer or trans actresses being honored for their work! There’s 15 nominations going to LGBT women’s roles on screen. With so much to celebrate, it also hurts to once again see the trans cast and crew of Pose face yet another shut out.
My Top 10 Television Characters: Natalie, Who’s a Sucker For a Good Character Arc
I’m not sure what it says about me — or, more precisely perhaps, what it says about television — that this list isn’t full of characters that feel like representations of me or the people that I’m drawn to in real life.
“Wynonna Earp” Episode 401 Recap: Angel In Chains
After a two-year hiatus, Wynonna Earp is FINALLY BACK! And everyone is fighting like hell to get back to one another, with the help of old and new friends along the way.
The Straight TV Couples That Helped Me Realize I’m Gay
Growing up in fandom, I gathered a long list of straight fictional ships without realizing until much later that I had been projecting myself onto the male half of those ships.
My Top Ten Television Shows: Christina Tucker, Who Loves Hangout Comedies and White Women Going Off
“I watched it all in one night, vacillating from helpless laughter (Olivia Coleman’s line readings!!!) to shocked surprise (“Where did you just go?”) and when it was over I sent profanity littered texts about it to one of my best friends, then watched the entire season again.”
My Top 10 Television Characters: Drew Gregory, Who Is a Capricorn
If you’ve read this far I think it’s pretty clear that I love a highly competent femme with a lot of personal problems.
“The Bold Type” Makes a Last-Minute Finale Change, But Kat’s Storyline Is Still a Huge Mess
“Instead of feeling like an affirmation for my disdain for Kat and Eva’s relationship, it feels like The Bold Type is re-emphasizing one of the things that makes the Kat/Eva storyline problematic: diminishing the show’s lead black character to bolster the bonafides of its white ones.”
The Santana Lopez Moments That Changed Our Lives — And The World
“She raises both hands to the orchestra and she smiles into the audience. She nearly breaks her face in two because she knows, she really knows, that she did it. She’s the star.”
Yes All Cops, Even Olivia Benson
Law and Order: SVU presents Olivia Benson as a savior of survivors, and as a kid she was my hero. Later, I came to acknowledge that the cops cannot, will not, and do not want to save us — they’re harmful and unnecessary.
My Top 10 Television Characters: Heather Hogan, Who Loves a Tough Exterior and a Gooey Marshmallow Center
Anne Lister is that dyke.
Naya Rivera Is Dead at 33, Glee Star’s Body Recovered from Lake Piru After 6-Day Search
Naya Rivera was a firecracker, a superstar, a singular talent who simply could not be relegated to the background.
“Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts” Is the Best Queer Animated Series You’re Not Watching
Or maybe I was the only one not watch. Either way, we should all be watching!
Boobs On Your Tube: Sorry, “The Bold Type” — We Can’t Agree to Disagree
The Bold Type is romanticizing repugnant viewpoints, like hardline immigration and conversion therapy, and treating those issues like they’re things we can just agree-to-disagree on. Also: an inexplicable In The Dark finale.
My Top 10 Television Shows: Carmen Phillips, Who Has Always Been Rooting For Everybody Black
“There isn’t a thing Friends did that Living Single didn’t do FIRST and with essentially 1/8th the budget. Tattoo it on my skin. I stand by it.”
Meet Your New Batwoman — Bisexual Actress Javicia Leslie!
I texted Autostraddle Deputy Editor Carmen Phillips as soon as I saw the news and she said, “Here’s your official quote: LET’S FUCKING GO!!!!!!”
11 Newish TV Shows With New Lesbian and Bisexual Characters
We’ve got a lesbian taxidermist in Run, a fish cop in Hightown, Janelle Monae in a rowboat and so much more.