Results for: representation
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We Relived the Black, Feminist Magic of “Living Single” and You Can Too
Unlike so many other sitcoms from the ’90s, this one really holds up.
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TV Team Roundtable: Seeing Our Baby Gay Selves in Our Favorite Baby TV Gays
“I felt connected to her on a deep level — she is the only girl I’ve written an entire zine about — but wasn’t ready to really engage with it.”
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10 Things We Know About the Carmilla Movie, Straight from Natasha Negovanlis and Elise Bauman at NYCC
Natasha and Elise talk about what’s in store for their characters in the upcoming feature-length Carmilla movie.
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“Black Lightning” Episode 113 Recap: The Black Lesbian Wins in the End
In the Black Lightning season one finale, Anissa Pierce once again refuses to run away from the white men who try to intimidate her. She stands with her family, and she fights back
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“One Day at a Time” Brings Even More Heart and Humor and Gayness to Season 2
One Day at a Time is the most generous, compassionate, loving family sitcom on television. Carmen reviews the season, plus a bonus interview with her mom!
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Of Course The “Grey’s Anatomy” Spin-Off Has a Bisexual Firefighter!
Station 19 is gay out of the gate, Star buries a gay in a completely heartbreaking way, Legends of Tomorrow unleashes an army of Avas, Nyssa is back(!) on Arrow, and Once Upon a Time is going out with a lesbian bang!
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Watching “The L Word” For The First Time: A Gentle Guide
A guide to watching “The L Word” for first-timers, chock-full of L Word trivia for repeat offenders.
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“Grown-ish” Is Here, Queer and Even Better Than We Hoped
Somewhere between Zoey’s orientation visit to California University on black-ish and the debut of grown-ish last week on Freeform, the writers decided to make her imperfect — and that’s a good thing!
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“Black Lightning” Episode 103 Recap: All Aboard the Good Train #ThunderGrace!
Meet Grace Choi. She loves comic books, one day she will love Anissa Pierce, and she’s ready to light our hearts afire.
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Shondaland’s “How To Get Away With A Scandal” Crossover Event Was a Black Feminist Masterpiece
Carmen and Natalie watched the black feminist television opera that was Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder’s two-hour crossover event. And they got together to tell you all about it!
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“Transparent” Without Jeffrey Tambor: More Trans Women, More Potential Revolution
As cis white men are forced out of Hollywood to face repercussions for their actions, this could become an important moment for traditionally marginalized voices to tell stories in ways we’ve never been allowed to before.
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Hulu’s “Harlots” Is a Gift to Feminists, Sex Workers, Queers and Herstory Lovers
Despite taking place 250 years ago, Hulu’s Harlots manages to depict indoor-market sex work more authentically than any show or movie I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot!) — queer stuff very much included.
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Legends of Tomorrow” Knew AvaLance Was Canon All Along
Plus gayness on Once Upon a Time, The Mick, 9-1-1, The Chi, and a rundown of our can’t-miss TV #content from the past two weeks.
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We Love Lesbian TV Show “Take My Wife” and Will Give Up On Life Altogether If Season Two Isn’t Picked Up
Seeso’s shuttering puts “Take My Wife”‘s second season in jeopardy, which is bad news for fans of Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, Brittani Nichols, Gaby Dunn, Tegan & Sara, Jen Richards, Clea Duvall and positive lesbian representation in general.
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“Steven Universe: Art & Origins” Offers Us a Glimpse Behind the Scenes of TV’s Queerest Cartoon
It’s an important thing to learn about and acknowledge the people who make the things we love, and this book gives Steven Universe fans an opportunity to do just that.
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Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Women TV Characters of 2017
2017 was the best of times and the worst of times. LOL JK it was the absolute worst of times. But the queer TV was pretty good.
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11 Intentionally or Incidentally Homoerotic Haircut Scenes from Cinema, Ranked
Haircuts in film are often melodramatic, but they can be sexy, too!
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5 Steps for Making Your Gay Web Series Dream a Reality
Get that lesbian vampire space opera out of your head and onto the interwebs!
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Winter 2017/2018 TV Preview: Some Lesbian and Bisexual Content for Y’all
We’ve got Lena Waithe’s “The Chi,” a lesbian assassin in a parallel universe in “Counterpart,” budding superhero Anissa Pierce and her girlfriend badass bisexual bartender Grace Choi, Anna Paquin on a virtual reality holiday gifted by her wife and so many other lesbian and bisexual characters on now or coming soon to a teevee or otherwise-identified device near you.
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QTPOC Roundtable: TV and Movie Characters That Made Us Feel Seen
“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”