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A Record-Breaking 9 Women of Color TV Couples Fell in Love This Summer

This is groundbreaking. Women of color finally being given space to find beauty and strength and comfort in each other for once — well, those are the kind of love stories we can’t wait to hear more of.

By The TV Team| August 30, 2019 | 5 Comments

Boobs On Your Tube: “Why Women Kill” Is The Bisexual Polyamorous Misandrist Dark Comedy of Your Dreams

Plus updates on Beverly Hills 90210, Claws, Bachelor in Paradise, and Ambitions!

By The TV Team| August 16, 2019 | 14 Comments

Boobs on Your Tube: Andrea Zuckerman Is Queer on “BH90210” — Your Gaydar Was Correct, ’90s Kids

Plus updates in Ackley Bridge and Claws.

By the team| August 9, 2019 | 9 Comments

Boobs on Your Tube: Hey, Did You Meet These Gays on “Ambitions” and “Grand Hotel”?

Plus updates on Ackley Bridge, Claws, and Siren!

By The TV Team| August 2, 2019 | 10 Comments

Boobs on Your Tube: 4 Gay Smooches and a Funeral

Killjoys, Queen Sugar, Claws, Grand Hotel, Ambitions, and Burden of Truth!

By The TV Team| July 26, 2019 | 14 Comments

Boobs on Your Tube: “grown-ish” Says Goodbye to Shane

Plus updates on Claws, Siren, Grand Hotel, and Ambitions!

By The TV Team| July 19, 2019 | 5 Comments

Boobs on Your Tube: “Claws” Leans into a Painful Lesbian on TV Mistake

Plus: Ackley Bridge, Burden of Truth, grown-ish, and Siren continues to be #hornyformermaids!

By The TV Team| June 28, 2019 | 19 Comments

Boobs on Your Tube: “grown-ish” Is Back and So Is Shane Doing Shane Things

Summer TV is here and you know what that means: Queen Sugar! Claws! grown-ish! Burden of Truth! And, weirdly, the end of The Bold Type’s third season.

By The TV Team| June 14, 2019 | 12 Comments

Latinx Butches Lit Up Television in 2018

I considered titling this “Latinx Butches 2018: Welcome To The Thirst Trap,” but that didn’t seem very professional, you know?

By Carmen Phillips| December 31, 2018 | 8 Comments

Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2018

“Is this how cis white dudes feel all the time?”

By The TV Team| November 29, 2018 | 34 Comments

Boobs on Your Tube: Lesbian Love Persists on “Younger” and “Ackley Bridge”

Plus: Updates on General Hospital and Younger; and Insatiable is as horrifying as you’ve heard.

By The TV Team| August 17, 2018 | 18 Comments

Boob(s On Your) Tube: Quiet Ann Is in Love on “Claws,” Niska Is Still Here and Queer on “Humans”

Plus updates on Queen Sugar, Younger, The Young & the Restless, General Hospital, and Critical Role.

By The TV Team| July 27, 2018 | 23 Comments

18 2018 LGBTQ Women of Color TV Characters Crushing It

I don’t know if you’ve felt it yet, but we certainly have. This is the year where lesbian, bisexual, queer, and trans women of color are taking over your television screens.

By The TV Team| July 12, 2018 | 28 Comments

Boob(s On Your) Tube: Everyone Is Gay On Quiet Ann’s Episode of “Claws”

Plus hey did you know there’s queerness on Comedy Central’s “Detroiters”?

By The TV Team| July 6, 2018 | 20 Comments

Spring/Summer 2018 TV Preview: All the Lesbian and Bisexual and Trans Women TV Characters Your Heart Requires

It’s gonna be cool for the summer with all these TV shows featuring lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters.

By Riese| May 1, 2018 | 24 Comments

Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Claws” and “Dark Matter” Didn’t Quite Live Up to Their Queer Potential This Summer

“These stupid white dudes fighting (with Whitney Houston playing in the background!!) while this black woman waits for them to tire themselves out so she can fix their problems. As ridiculous as it is, it’s my absolute favorite scene of the entire first season…and a fitting metaphor for the moment our country is in.”

By Heather Hogan| September 1, 2017 | 18 Comments

Boob(s On Your) Tube: “The Fosters” Wins Again With a Stef and Lena-Heavy Episode

Also let’s check in with the women of Claws and the smoochy shenanigans on Younger.

By Heather Hogan| August 11, 2017 | 7 Comments

Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Queen Sugar” Breaks the Bordelons and Our Hearts

It’s also time to catch up with the women of Claws!

By Heather Hogan| July 21, 2017 | 25 Comments

“Claws” Features a Butch Lesbian, a Bisexual Crime Boss and a Chance to Stop Talking About “Breaking Bad”

Claws is not Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is not Breaking Bad if Walter White isn’t a white man cloaked in respectability. You share that narrative through the eyes of a struggling black woman, a recent parolee, a recovering addict, a lesbian and a former sex worker, and the story changes completely.

By Natalie| July 6, 2017 | 13 Comments

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