These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.

It’s 2017, and married power lesbians Jenny Schecter and Shane McCutcheon face some tough stuff only days before Carmen De La Pica Morales is coming in for a weekend visit that turns out a whole lot cooler than anybody could’ve predicted.

A showrunner for The L Word BABY!, Airbnb is trying, don’t get hacked, here for imperfect black female protagonists, Smitten Kitchen, queering modern day church, a brief Buffy interlude, and so much more!

The black lesbian superhero saved her bisexual Asian-American girlfriend. It’s the fantastical fairy tale I would have never felt brave enough to dream for myself. Not as a child, and as much as I hate to admit it out loud, not even now, as an adult. Still, here it is.

Updates on Legends of Tomorrow, Fresh Off the Boat, grown-ish, The Arrangement, Grey’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Once Upon a Time and more.

Autostraddle Staff Writers Carmen and Alaina in a conversation about the TV series, the legacy of Spike Lee’s work, black female representation on film, polyamory, and pansexuality.

This female-focused episode of Supergirl kicked ass and took names.

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.

Grey’s Anatomy, grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Fosters, and Sara Ramirez in that tux!

And Ximena smooches Callie right on her mouth!

Alex and Kara travel to Earth-1 to team up with Sara Lance and the rest of the CW DC heroes to punch some Nazis.

Gay updates on: Riverdale, Once Upon a Time, Life Sentence, 9-1-1, Legends of Tomorrow, The Fosters, and Grey’s Anatomy!

“Almost all of the characters are terrible people and the main values I share with them are workaholism and excellent hair. But sometimes when things fall apart, it can be nice to see things fall apart somewhere entirely different, again and again and again.”

Yes, we’ll be talking about “Love Island”.

Get that lesbian vampire space opera out of your head and onto the interwebs!

I needed to know how they did it. I needed to see if the “way that we live,” was a way that I could live.

Lena sets out with Kara to take down Edge once and for all while Alex tries to figure out the cause of Sam’s blackouts.

It’s whimsical and fresh and progressive and tender in parts and hopeful in other parts and compelling throughout.

Kara has an unexpected visitor, Sam discovers more about her past, Alex is criminally underused, and Lena is MIA.

It is not a small thing for Y&R to cast Mariah’s love for Tessa in the same mold as one of the show’s great supercouples, Nick and Sharon. It’s a normalizing force for a conservative audience that might not view a same-sex story that way.