Our TV Team has voted and these are our picks for the Best TV Shows of 2021 with lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans characters.

Love remains not a lie here in 2022!

By erasing Melody’s queerness, Archive 81 gains nothing and loses a lot.

On the new season of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, Brandi Glanville said a woman has “lesbian eyebrows,” prompting questions like: What are lesbian eyebrows? Do I have them?

Julia’s dynamic with Adriana doesn’t look much different from the myriad co-dependent and somewhat romantic friendship duos of other Housewives programs, but it’s treated differently because of Julia’s bisexuality.

There are plenty of people out there still rooting for Jackie Quiñones; it’d be nice if it felt like the ones crafting her story were among them.

Rock teen Taissa energy by day and adult Taissa energy by night.

“I think the greatest compliment that we’ve gotten was somebody in the audience at TIFF saying how happy they were to see a show that wasn’t cynical at all.”

Sorry Baby.

“Gone is Ayesha’s confidence. Gone is her swagger. All that’s left is a girl with a crush.”

Someone who stands up to meanies and also had a silly side has always done it for me.

“If Shane asked me to go to couple’s therapy, I’d be like, “We don’t even know each other, but if this is what it takes to get you into a therapist’s office, absolutely, let’s do it.”

The show doesn’t look away from Deborah Vance’s homophobia (or from Ava’s flaws either), and it makes for a wildly uncomfortable and messy episode — in the best way.

Ava gives Gwyn the love is love speech, Sara tries to unfix a fixed point, and Spooner comes out as asexual!

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

Tia’s a complete scene stealer. She’s defies so many boxes or tropes of what we’ve been programmed to expect from a black lesbian on TV.

You ever heard of Max Chapman?

Eve makes a move against Hélène, and Hélène strikes back HARD.

We’ve got a series about lesbian vampires and a series about a queer actress angling to be in “Les Vampires,” a delightfully inclusive Queer as Folk reboot, Selena Gomez getting the girl in Season 2 of The Only Murders in the Building, a new 80s-set movie about a young Black queer singer and (truly) so much more!

February is bringing many LGBTQ+ tidings including the last seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, Shay Mitchell playing gay again, celesbian-studded game shows, an Anne+ movie, Abbi Jacobson as an animated queer princess and more!