Results for: representation
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LGBTQ Characters Are Thriving on TV While the World Burns, GLAAD Report Finds
GLAAD shows LGBTQ+ characters are at record highs across broadcast, streaming and cable, and for the first time ever, there are more QPOC than white LGBTQ+ characters on broadcast!
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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 506: Lights! Camera! Action! With Lauren Ashley Smith
“I feel like I’m very much a stickler for how Black church is shown on TV, and I think a lot of people get it wrong in movies and TV a lot, like it just never is quite right. And I feel like Hollywood is that way too. And I felt like this [portrayal of Hollywood] was very accurate, and I was shocked!”
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“Shameless” Racked Up 15+ Queer Women Characters While You Were Getting High
Valerie and Riese chat about “Shameless,” the Showtime dramedy we weren’t watching for the gay lady parts and then suddenly there were a lot of gay lady parts. Did we like them? Find out!
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#10YearChallenge: 2009 vs. 2019 LGBTQ TV
2009, the year The L Word ended and Glee began.
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Boobs on Your Tube: “grown-ish” Is Back and So Is Shane Doing Shane Things
Summer TV is here and you know what that means: Queen Sugar! Claws! grown-ish! Burden of Truth! And, weirdly, the end of The Bold Type’s third season.
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Tara Chambler’s Death on “The Walking Dead” Is More Than Just Another Buried Gay
“Tara Chambler wasn’t just the first openly LGBTQ character on The Walking Dead; she was the first gay woman I had ever seen in any form of zombie horror in my life.”
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Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out Final
You have 48 hours to vote for the WINNER!
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Make Susie Gay, You Cowards: On The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Lesbian Problem
This was gonna be a review of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but instead it’s just an entire thing about how Susie Myerson is a butch lesbian who works at a club surrounded by lesbian bars frequented by other butches and yet somehow she is not, officially, a lesbian, and neither is anybody else on this usually delightful show!!!
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Lena Waithe’s “Boomerang” Is Bringing a Gay Reckoning to BET
Not only has Boomerang proven itself to be one of the most cutting edge black voices on television, it’s also invested in showcasing a full spectrum of young blackness, including sexuality.
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Queer Eye’s “Black Girl Magic” Is the Blackest, Gayest, Most Moving TV Episode of 2019
Jess’ Blackness is tended to, built back up as the positive it is. I don’t think we have ever seen anything like this — but I certainly hope we see it again.
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“Days of Our Wives” Is IRL Marceline and Princess Bubblegum Out Here Proving Love Is Not a Lie
In the early days of 2019 I’ve found myself really drawn to books and TV and movies and podcasts that are full of light and warmth and hard-won happiness. Enter: Days of Our Wives.
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“Pose” Episode 201 & 202 Recap: Wintour Is Coming
“Blood does not family make. Those are relatives. Family are those with whom you share your good, bad, and ugly, and still love one another in the end. Those are the ones you select.”
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“The L Word: Generation Q” Episode 104 Recap: L.A. Times
It’s Shane’s fortieth birthday and Generation Q’s gift to you is a few pictures of Dana, a really REALLY hot sex scene and a cameo by Robin Roemer!
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Generation Q Showrunner Marja Lewis-Ryan On Period Sex, Why Carmen’s Not Coming Back and Dating Your Neighbor
“You can’t ask me that. Well, you can ask me. But I can’t tell you.”
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Every Major Female “Star Trek” Character, Ranked By Lesbianism
Our continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new lesbian life and new bisexual civilizations, and to boldly go where this franchise often vehemently refused to go before!
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The L Word: Generation Q Episode 108 Recap: Lapse in Judgment
It’s the season finale and we’ve got Roxane Gay, emotionally complicated sex, Bette Porter in hiking attire, Dani wanting to get married ASAP and honestly a lot of things that I can’t put in the excerpt because I don’t want to reveal any spoilers for people who haven’t seen it yet! Wheeee!
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“The L Word: Generation Q” Episode 102 Recap: Less Is More
This episode has everything: pool sex, Olivia Thirlby, fun poppy lesbians, Jamie Clayton, the flu, Jillian Mercado, divorce papers, a gift card, an engagement party and a traditional lesbian building furniture with her bare hands!
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Boobs on Your Tube: “The Bold Type” Gives Kat a New Lady Love
Plus updates on: The Flash, Gentleman Jack, Station 19, Charmed, Jane the Virgin, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Good Fight!
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“Good Trouble” Is a Worthy (and Gay) Successor to “The Fosters”
Stef and Lena may not show up until episode five, but their spirit is everywhere in The Fosters’ spin-off.
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Shrill Celebrates Body Positivity; If Only It Celebrated Its Black Lesbian Character, Too
Aidy Bryant’s Annie is young, pretty and fat. Her best friend Fran is also fat – and a British black lesbian. And if you’re a fat babe, you’ll find things to both like and cringe about in this show.