It’s been a very uneven year for television with lesbian, bisexual and queer characters — but these 25 shows stuck with us.

One part love letter, one part history lesson, one part all-star roster of LGBTQ TV icons.

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.

“Kristen Stewart ghost hunting show” is not something we made up in a peak pandemic fever dream. 

There have only been 46 times — out of 169 characters — when a Black queer character was paired with a Black partner on television. Only six have had multiple Black partners.

‘So Gay For You’ is a loving portrait of chosen community, a roaming time capsule of queer pop culture, a platonic love story, a behind-the-scenes look at a groundbreaking show and an introspective, juicy celebrity memoir.

Will this be the first Marvel property to give us an on-screen sapphic kiss?

Jodie Foster and Jessica Gunning won Emmys, the LGBTs wore great outfits, Lily Gladstone and Greta Lee held hands and more gay highlights from the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.

As in previous seasons, it’s hard not to feel that a show that’s theoretically about raising the profile of an often-misrepresented racial minority in America, instead completely misrepresents racism as it exists in America.

Believe it or not, Peacock has a surprisingly robust slate of television shows with major lesbian, bisexual and queer women and/or trans characters. Here’s a list of our favorite LGBT TV shows on Peacock.

I love that Suranne Jones is being typecast as a woman who doesn’t suffer fools gladly.

Plus updates on The Equalizer’s queerest episode to date, All American, and the new nonbinary AI character on Beacon 23!

“My wish was for Max’s present to reflect more of a life like mine. I don’t hang out with mostly cis people, I don’t hang out with mostly white people. Diverse is such a weird word but my community is mixed and diverse in all sorts of ways. That’s my queer community.”

Jenna Coleman and Ashley Benson star in this psychological thriller, with a bonus appearance by Morgana Van Peebles as the lesbian best friend.

Keke Palmer plays a queer, anxious surgeon and Stephanie Hsu plays her rule-breaking best friend on this animated Grey’s Anatomy in space.

You have Academy Award nominee ELLIOT PAGE!! Use him!!

A League of Their Own, Sort Of, The Last of Us, and more! Here are the winners of the 6th annual Autostraddle TV Awards.

“Black Cake” digs through memory, trauma, abuse and chaos in ways that reverberate to the core.

Fewer gay shows are being produced and the ones that do slip through are often canceled. But that makes it all the more important to celebrate the work that does get made!

Welcome to the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards (previously known as the Gay Emmys)! These awards are meant to celebrate the best of television — through a lens of LGBTQ+ representation.