We love queer television because television brings us together, and nothing better defines that spirit than this little homegrown awards contest.

Here’s what we loved this year, and what pained us to see.

“What do we in want from and for Lisa in 2019? Justice for him, or peace of mind for us? The desire to reach back in time and pull him into our present is natural because we – especially trans people – want to see her character restored in dignity, thus preserving our own dignity.”

Ten thousand reader votes later…

“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.”

“Faking It” seems to really be going for the cold when it comes to representing every letter in the LGBTQIA umbrella at least a little bit — here are 17 other shows who’ve presented a spectrum of identities.

The goal of the Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards is to recognize and celebrate positive representation for queer women and feminist issues in comics, webcomics and graphic novels.

With how it played into the “But Not Too Bi” trope – bi characters who have a bias toward one gender or the other – The L Word flipped a common heterosexist script in media. But in doing so, it still excluded actual bi people from its world.

Seriously, where the hell are all the butches?

Asian stereotypes are everywhere. Let’s talk about them, yell about them and do something about them.

The new game Daggerheart is designed for explicit inclusion and metaphorical representation from the top to the bottom.

Eli, a New School dropout with a background in jazz drumming, has played in various bands and currently tours with others. Fig, a former musical theater kid, has been playing guitar since they were 11. Unbeknownst to either of them, their traditional training would lead to something entirely unconventional: a T4T slut rock band.

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

“What I do not enjoy is people saying a woman marrying a woman will lead to a woman marrying a dog. I do not want to marry a woman. I am very little and she would crush my bones.”

I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.

Not all of our personal faves made it into our Top 25 Best LGBTQ TV Shows of 2021 list, so here’s our chance to tell you all about them.

“As a person of Midwestern experience, I can say that a Lake House is supposed to be on a lake.”

“Ìfé is a story that not many queer people have seen come out of Nigeria. I’m really hoping that, apart from everything else that it does – normalizing the queer experience and being a great source of representation – I’m really hoping that it brings joy to the LGBT community.”

The L Word: Generation Q featured 12 new queer characters of color in its first season, but media conversations about the show have largely remained driven by white points of view. So, we set out to change that.

We can debate the actual quality of Euphoria, but what’s undeniable is Sam Levinson is writing about people most of the film and television world has ignored. After two failed movies focusing on cis white people and one mediocre HBO movie about an old cis white guy, Levinson discovered what Hollywood at large still hasn’t.