September 2026: What’s New, Gay and Streaming On Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, HBO Max and More

Hello it’s me, still on this after all these years and I am happy to report a pretty good month ahead with a variety of televisionary and cinematic programming options with lesbian, bisexual and queer women and/or trans characters. Did you all watch Sterling Point yet because honestly it’s kinda great. But let’s get into what this month has in store for us all!

Sidenote: if you’re a writer or creator who uses this post to make your own monthly queer tv/film guide we’d adore a tag or mention!

I imagine that I’m not alone in feeling: 1) I can’t believe there’s gonna be a LIFETIME movie based on Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, that feels like such an odd fit because Gay’s writing is so specific and vivid and unsparing and beautiful and smart, whereas Lifetime is so simplistic and sensationalized? 2) I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE because yes, I like stories the way Roxane Gay tells them, but listen… I also like movies the way Lifetime makes them!!!Truly I feel like this movie was made for me specifically. I couldn’t be more pleased. I will definitely cry.

Scavengers Reign: Season One Linear Premiere // September 5 // Adult Swim (Toonami)
This highly acclaimed adult animated sci-fi series initially premiered on HBO Max and was subsequently picked up by Netflix, who then opted not to renew it. It makes its linear TV debut this month on Adult Swim, airing three episodes a week through the month. Scavengers Reign follows the survivors of a damaged interstellar cargo ship as they attempt to adapt to a new alien planet, full of new life and dangerous civilizations. Lead character Azi Narine (Wunmi Mosaku from Sinners) is a lesbian cargo specialist traveling with robot voiced by Alia Shawkat. She has a romantic storyline with Mia, who’s voiced by Sepideh Moafi of The L Word: Generation Q / The Pitt fame.

The Paper: Season Two Premiere // September 9 // Peacock
This mockumentary from the Office universe is centered on a dying Toledo newspaper with a very idealistic new editor. Our favorite gay accountant Oscar (Oscar Nuñez) from Scranton serves as the bridge between shows. Lesbian comic Mo Welch is on the writer’s team and has a small role as Kimberly, a gay Softees sales rep.

The french series starring Camille Cottin as brash, brilliant, lesbian agent Andréa Martel is getting its very own movie — set five years after the closing of the ASK agency, Andréa is now a film director who loses her lead actor just before shooting begins and has to call in her old team to figure it out. Variety raves: “Fleet and fast-talking and packed, as ever, with Gallic industry in-jokes and celebrity cameos, Émilie Noblet’s film can hardly fail to please longtime fans.”

Colin From Accounts: Season Three // September 10 // Paramount+
This critically acclaimed Australian rom-com last aired in 2024, when Valerie noted it contained “a cute dog and some queer subplots.” The central romance is between Gordon and Ashley, but Ashley’s best friend Megan (Emma Harvie) is queer and this season is still dating pathological liar Rumi (queer actor Virginia Gay).

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Season Five Premiere // September 10 // Hulu
It is my understanding that one of the wives, Layla Taylor, came out as bisexual on a podcast this past June and is dating a woman, but am definitely not sure if any of that will turn up in the show!

Based on a Carl Hiaasen series, this South Florida PI drama returns with some lesbians literally on the side — R.J’s journalist ex Catherine Delacroix is a bisexual married to detective Melody “Mel” Abreu. Sasheer Zamata is joining the cast this season as Special Agent Melinda Windwood, who “shares a past” with Mel “which initially leaves her a bit buttoned-up and all business” but “eventually, the two find common ground and do what they’re best at: solving a complex crime.” Soooo

Slow Horses: Season Six Premiere // September 16 // Apple TV
You know I tried really hard to watch this show ‘cause it’s so critically acclaimed and is often nominated for awards but I just couldn’t get into it (I think it’s the kind of show where you really have to pay full attention), and so here we are now all the way in Season Six of this M15-rejects spy drama and I don’t know a thing about it! But I do know that Shirley Dander (Aimée-Ffion Edwards) is gay and will be present for the new season.

This season of The Traitors will not contain any Real Housewives or Olympic figure skaters or Top Chefs or legendary bigots or Drag Race Queens or Survivors but instead will feature a cast of “civilians” aka “everyday Americans” aka “average Joes and Janes.” (The first season of U.S. Traitors was half-civilians half-celebs, but subsequent seasons have been all-celeb.) I guess this means that the five-time novelist who provides “advice with attitude” to their 250k insta followers and the creator from Michigan (1.2 million followers) who does those really funny videos where she deadpan whispers her invasive thoughts are average Joes and Janes? This is probably a larger, existential question about society and culture overall. Anyhow —good for them. Also good for us because I do like the girl from Midland quite a bit and also we’re getting a lesbian: Lawyer Kim Daly, who is dating Angela Perry, a creator who WNBA fans know as a consistent and delightful source of regular WNBA hot takes and updates. An early look from Entertainment Weekly praises the program as “ more authentic,” with Cumming saying, “In celebrity seasons, you’ve seen people coming in with kind of an agenda. The Housewives, for instance, sometimes think they’re going to bring the drama. It’s a mistake because the game is the drama. They don’t need to bring it. It’s already there. So it just looks kind of silly to be making more when there’s so much there already.”

Welp, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology is taking on Lizzie Borden. Murphy describes it as “women-driven, feminist, lesbian, dirty, unapologetic,” so we can expect the relationship between Lizzie (Ella Beatty) and her maid Bridget Sullivan (Vicky Krieps) to be gay. Also somehow Sarah Paulson plays Aileen Wournos in this. I unfortunately will be tuning in, there’s really no way around it. It’s important that somebody does a Lizzie Borden project every few years or so (see also: Lizzie, Lizzie Borden Took an Axe), otherwise her ghost is bound to rise from the ashes with a fresh axe.

Stop! That! Train! (2026) // September 20 // Netflix
NPR declared this World of Wonder drag disaster comedy “Loud! Dumb! and Gay!” when it had its theatrical premiere this past June. The cast is stacked with familiar faces to Drag Race fans (Rupaul, Ginger Minj, Jujubee, Symone, Marcia Marcia Marcia, Latrice Royale, Monét X Change) has cameos including Lisa Rinna, Sarah Michelle Geller, bi queen Missi Pyle, Matt Rogers et al. Rachel Bloom is featured as a government official concerned about the fate of the titular runaway train.

After “a monumental season of shepherding drag kings into the pop culture consciousness,” Cameron Esposito will be hosting the second season of the first-ever all-drag-KING competition series, with judges including Dustin Lance Black, Sasha Velour, Victo Ortiz, Frankie Simone, Dana Goldberg and Gottmik.

Shelley Beattie, a queer, deaf champion bodybuilder, got famous in the 1990s on American Gladiators, competing under the name “Siren.” Beloved actress Marlee Matlin, who also came into the spotlight in that era, is our guide through Shelley’s story in this documentary directed by Irene Taylor that details Shelly’s battles with “personal demons, struggling with mental illness, addiction and questions of her own identity.”

American Horror Story: 13 // Season 13 Premiere // September 24 // FX (next day on Hulu)
Hard to believe this show continues on but like the sunrise and sunset and the climbing cost of a gallon of milk, it does. This season promises the return of many characters from previous seasons, including a great deal of the shockingly straight season Coven. “What I was interested in was bringing back the baddies and the classic characters,” Ryan Murphy told Vogue, describing it as the ‘Avengers of American Horror Story’ that’ll see everyone coming together to defeat a new evil threat. Sarah Paulson will play six or seven roles, Cara Delevingne and Tig Notaro are also slated to appear, and Billie Lourd appears to be reprising queer character Winter Anderson from Cult.

Elliot Page’s PAGEBOOK Productions are delivering unto Crave a lesbian softball mockumentary about a chaotic last-place queer beer-league team (the Public Lass Brovaries) in Mississauga determined to secure a championship after their coach, Joanne, is dumped by her girlfriend who then deflects to a rival team. Emily Hampshire co-stars and co-produces. Crave’s the network who gifted the world with Heated Rivalry, and although HBO Max New Zealand has picked up Slo Pitch, there aren’t any U.S. broadcast plans just yet. But the volume of buzz is very loud so perhaps that will change.

Animal Control: Season 5 Premiere // September 27 // Fox (next day on Hulu)
This sitcom about a group of local animal control workers includes a bisexual character, Victoria Sands, who is described as “free-spirited” and “street smart.”

The Amazing Race: Season 39 Premiere // September 30 // CBS (next day on Paramount+)
You know I am extremely interested in there being more lesbians on The Amazing Race and thus so pleased to inform you that former pro soccer stars Ali Krieger (legendary divorcee) and Joanna Lohman will be competing together on a season that promises 13 express passes and the show’s first-ever visit to Albania.