Welcome to the 2023 Autostraddle TV Awards! These awards celebrate the best in LGBTQ+ television and beyond.

What TV shows could you watch on Hulu if you want to see some gay, lesbian or bisexual women characters? If you’re looking for an answer — boy have I got the post for you, my friend!

We’ve got Lena Hedley topping women in space, Josie Totah playing queer in a delightful period piece, the “Black Cake” adaptation, the lesbian pregnancy thriller on Lifetime, new seasons of Selling Sunset and Rap Sh!t, and more!

“In terms of classical ballet — and even most contemporary works — it’s all about the guy saving the girl. That’s the dynamic. It’s always a girl and a guy. And like bang bang cool I’m obsessed with it. Literally. I love it. But it creates a culture. It’s not even just that no one talks about it — it’s like it doesn’t exist.”

This year for Trans Awareness Week, I wanted us to focus on recent trans history. Autostraddle itself is part of that history.

Like many trans people in recent weeks, I’ve found myself buried in government paperwork and waiting in lines at various agencies.

It’s Halloween in Lesbian Los Angeles and nobody is respecting how cute Sophie’s costume is! Also Dani’s rebounding with her Bad Friend, Micah’s getting parenting advice from a REALLY SPECIAL GUEST STAR, Alice and Taylor are having a spooky night in and Ivy’s waiting out back in her car for Shane, so….

Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.

Gay grown-ups! More trans characters! One our faves comes out as asexual! Get ready to have your own personal heart wrapped up in a warm hug!

“My connection with gay women is the through-line of my entire life. But my queer community, as a whole, is not reducible to sexual practice. It’s more attitudinal. It’s the way we look at the world and stand outside certain norms.”

Across the film and television landscape, whether aimed at kids or adults, 2023 in animation took things to the next level.

Black queer people are in this community. Trans queer people are in this community. And we deserve to get lost in a good time, too. We deserve fun, messy, sexy storylines. Just as much as any cis white woman over 50.

It’s mid-November, and where I am on the east coast, that means it is time to swan about dramatically in various kind of outerwear!

We’ve got 60 Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Netflix Original TV shows streaming right now on the very internet you’re reading!

Love is Blind is not just a reality dating show; it’s a show about dating as virtual reality.

Doll/Girl, a musical portrait of trans artist Greer Lankton, is exactly what’s been missing from the American theatre.

To celebrate the release of Wicked here is an exhaustive look at the representation of queer women in movie musicals.

Plus, Sarah Paulson chewing through scenery in the new season of American Horror Story as only she can, Motherland: Fort Salem’s season finale was INTENSE, and BET’s The Ms. Pat Show is turning out laughs from the most unexpected places.

The lack of sex that resulted from our wildly differing needs has had a lasting impact.

To live out a love that is healthy, queer, non-mongamous has been a source of deep personal transformation.