Autostraddle Autostraddle

  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
  • Shop
  • Sign in
    • Register
    • Lost Password?
  • Support Us
    • Buy Our Merch
    • Become an A+ Member
    • Give Us Money
    • Shop Our Affiliates
  • Issues
  • A+
    • All A+ Posts
    • Join A+
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Into the A+ Advice Box
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diary
    • Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
    • Personal Essays
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • 2020 LGBTQ Television Guide
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • The L Word: Generation Q recaps
    • The L Word
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Recaps
    • Boobs On Your Tube
    • 202 Dead Les/Bi TV Characters
  • Arts+Pop Culture
    • All Arts + Pop Culture Posts
    • The 200 Best Lesbian, Queer & Bisexual Movies Of All Time
    • I Watched Classic Lesbian Movies
    • Film
    • Books
    • Vapid Fluff
    • Fashion/Style
    • Music
    • Comedy
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
  • Sex+Dating
    • All Sex + Dating Posts
    • Lesbian Sex 101
    • How To Have Lesbian Sex
    • How To Be Gay
    • NSFW Sunday
    • Shibari 101
    • Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey
    • Anonymous Sex Toy Reviews
    • View From the Top
    • Bottoms Up
    • Poly Pocket
  • Politics
    • All News + Politics Posts
    • COVID-19
    • This Is Not The Church of Social Justice
    • The Resistance
  • Community
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • Roundtables
    • Herstory
    • First Person
    • Queer IRL
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Advice
    • You Need Help
    • Events + Meet-Ups Hub
    • Queer Girl City Guides
  • Columns
    • Year Of Our Lorde
    • Come Vibe With Me
    • Straight People Watch
    • The Dyke Kitchen
    • For Your Consideration
    • Things I Read That I Loved
    • Queering Disability
    • Find Your Fit
    • Queer Horoscopes
    • No Filter
    • What I Wore
    • Butch Please

Life

  • Food and Drink
  • DIY / Crafting / Food / Home
  • Health + Athletics
  • Travel
  • Business + Work

Geekery

  • All Geekery Posts
  • Drawn to Comics
  • Queer Your Tech
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons
  • Notes From A Queer Engineer
  • Gayme Corner
  • Video Games

LGBT Culture

  • Politics + Activism
  • Herstory
  • Marriage Equality
  • Coming Out
  • International News

Our Best Work

  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked By Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Research/Investigations
  • Personal Essays
  • Longreads
  • Photo Essays
  • Shopping Guides
  • Listlings Without Commentary
  • Serious Business
  • Playlists

Etc.

  • Things I Read That I Love
  • Fake News
  • This Business Of Art
  • The Way We Were
  • Events
  • Video
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Calendar Girls
  • Hot 100
  • Autostraddle Merch

Autostraddle Autostraddle

  • Support Us
    • Buy Our Merch
    • Become an A+ Member
    • Give Us Money
    • Shop Our Affiliates
  • Issues
  • A+
    • All A+ Posts
    • Join A+
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Into the A+ Advice Box
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diary
    • Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
    • Personal Essays
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • 2020 LGBTQ Television Guide
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • The L Word: Generation Q recaps
    • The L Word
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Recaps
    • Boobs On Your Tube
    • 202 Dead Les/Bi TV Characters
  • Arts+Pop Culture
    • All Arts + Pop Culture Posts
    • The 200 Best Lesbian, Queer & Bisexual Movies Of All Time
    • I Watched Classic Lesbian Movies
    • Film
    • Books
    • Vapid Fluff
    • Fashion/Style
    • Music
    • Comedy
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
  • Sex+Dating
    • All Sex + Dating Posts
    • Lesbian Sex 101
    • How To Have Lesbian Sex
    • How To Be Gay
    • NSFW Sunday
    • Shibari 101
    • Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey
    • Anonymous Sex Toy Reviews
    • View From the Top
    • Bottoms Up
    • Poly Pocket
  • Politics
    • All News + Politics Posts
    • COVID-19
    • This Is Not The Church of Social Justice
    • The Resistance
  • Community
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • Roundtables
    • Herstory
    • First Person
    • Queer IRL
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Advice
    • You Need Help
    • Events + Meet-Ups Hub
    • Queer Girl City Guides
  • Columns
    • Year Of Our Lorde
    • Come Vibe With Me
    • Straight People Watch
    • The Dyke Kitchen
    • For Your Consideration
    • Things I Read That I Loved
    • Queering Disability
    • Find Your Fit
    • Queer Horoscopes
    • No Filter
    • What I Wore
    • Butch Please
  • More
    • Life
      • Food and Drink
      • DIY / Crafting / Food / Home
      • Health + Athletics
      • Travel
      • Business + Work
    • Geekery
      • All Geekery Posts
      • Drawn to Comics
      • Queer Your Tech
      • Saturday Morning Cartoons
      • Notes From A Queer Engineer
      • Gayme Corner
      • Video Games
    • LGBT Culture
      • Politics + Activism
      • Herstory
      • Marriage Equality
      • Coming Out
      • International News
    • Our Best Work
      • Greatest Hits
      • Ranked By Lesbianism
      • Epic Lists
      • Research/Investigations
      • Personal Essays
      • Longreads
      • Photo Essays
      • Shopping Guides
      • Listlings Without Commentary
      • Serious Business
      • Playlists
    • Etc.
      • Things I Read That I Love
      • Fake News
      • This Business Of Art
      • The Way We Were
      • Events
      • Video
      • Lists/Top Tens
      • Calendar Girls
      • Hot 100
      • Autostraddle Merch
  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
  • Shop
  • Sign in
    • Register

      Lost Password?

Faking It

Television

15 TV Shows We Loved and Lost and Were Actually Sad About

News breaking last week that queer fan favorites One Day at a Time and Wynonna Earp were facing an uphill battle getting another season made has caused our TV team to: a) wail and gnash our teeth, and b) reflect on some of the shows we’ve actually mourned losing.

By The TV Team| March 4, 2019 | 38 Comments
Television

Cast Full of Lesbians: 15 TV Shows That Put Queer Women First

“The L Word” was supposed to be the beginning of a new era of teevee shows about the real true lives of lesbian and bisexual women — and although we never quite got there, here are 15 examples of shows that don’t just have queer characters in them, but are also *about* being queer.

By Riese| February 22, 2019 | 31 Comments
Television

The Top 12 Lesbian and Bisexual TV Fever Dreams

Fan service and character development and sex sex sex, oh my!

By Heather Hogan| August 27, 2018 | 22 Comments
Television

Gay Hairplay: Top 11 Times a Girl Touched Another Girl’s Hair on TV and Film

Lesbian and bisexual gal pals caressing each other’s hair on TV and in movies has gotten a bad rap, probably because that’s what most fictional queer women have historically done instead of kissing on the mouth. But hairplay can also be really sexy!

By Heather Hogan| January 11, 2018 | 57 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 310 Recap: But I Know What I Want Now!

On the very last episode ever of “Faking It,” everybody attends a very weird New Year’s Eve party.

By Riese| May 17, 2016 | 47 Comments
Television

Which TV Shows Win The LGBTQIA Alphabet Soup Contest?

“Faking It” seems to really be going for the cold when it comes to representing every letter in the LGBTQIA umbrella at least a little bit — here are 17 other shows who’ve presented a spectrum of identities.

By Riese| May 13, 2016 | 75 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 309 Recap: So Can We Be Girlfriends?

This week on Faking It, Amy gets a girlfriend! Kinda!

By Riese| May 11, 2016 | 31 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 308 Recap: Just Pick “Bisexual” So We Can Have Christmas!

This week on Faking It, everybody has to pick a label. Literally. Also, girls kiss other girls, in contexts both unexpected and SIGH expected.

By Riese| May 4, 2016 | 59 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 307: What Dreams Of Fake Lesbianism May Come

This week on Faking It, everybody has a great time at Game Night and Karma gets very jealous about the new girl in town!

By Riese| April 27, 2016 | 55 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 306 Recap: This Is Where The Kissing Usually Happens

This week on “Faking It,” everybody goes to a haunted hook-up party and it turns out Amy isn’t the only lady-loving lady in Hester High. Also, the mid-season trailer teases some girl-on-girl action.

By Riese| April 20, 2016 | 29 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 305 Recap: We’re Gonna Ask Diane To Be Our Girlfriend!

This week on Faking It, everybody goes to SwingFest but it’s not the kind of SwingFest Karma’s parents thought it would be! HEY-O!

By Riese| April 13, 2016 | 44 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 304 Recap: Can Anybody Find Amy Somebody To Love?

This week on “Faking It,” Shane dyes his hair blue for a minute, there’s a new trans character, Amy wants Lauren to star in a documentary about being intersex, Felix comes back and I made you a really neat chart.

By Riese| April 6, 2016 | 98 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 303 Recap: I Love Everybody Being Totally Over Me!

This week on Faking It, everybody reads Amy’s diary and you’re probably going to end up in compost detention.

By Riese| March 30, 2016 | 22 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 302 Recap: Is The Universe Telling Karma and Amy To Make Up?

This week on Faking It, Zita throws a “Surprise Bar Mitzvah” but nobody gets me a gift basket and Karma and Amy debate the pros and cons of squashing this thing and reuniting as “best friends” forever.

By Riese| March 23, 2016 | 20 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 301 Recap: Summer Lovin’ Had Them A Blast

Welcome back to “Faking It,” a show in which Amy definitely doesn’t have feelings for Karma anymore at all, definitely not.

By Riese| March 16, 2016 | 24 Comments
Television

10 Sexiest Lesbian TV Scenes That Got Everybody Wet (Because Pools)

Regina George was right: You invite a lesbian to a pool party, and it’s gonna get gay.

By Heather Hogan| February 25, 2016 | 43 Comments
Television

Every Queer TV Storyline of 2015, Ranked

The good, the bad, the ugly, and the revolutionarily boring queer TV storylines of the year.

By Heather Hogan| December 31, 2015 | 65 Comments
Television

9 “Lesbian Falls For Her Best Friend” TV Storylines From Heart-Wrenching To Heart-Warming

Kim and Sugar. Camilla and Jocelyn. Alice and Dana. A look at the legendary duos that lived the nightmare and sometimes came out alive.

By Riese| November 5, 2015 | 47 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 220 Recap: The Track Is Just a Loop That Runs Straight Through My Heart

It’s the season finale of “Faking It” and it’s time to talk about The Kiss.

By Riese| November 3, 2015 | 36 Comments
Television

“Faking It” Puts Out Call For Trans Actors, Getting Closer To Repping Every Letter In LGBTQIA+

They’re looking for trans and gender non-conforming actors to play both background characters and speaking roles in the show’s upcoming third season.

By Mey| November 1, 2015 | 15 Comments
Television

Faking It Episode 219 Recap: You’re Not That Kind Of Girl OR ARE YOU

This week on Faking It, the world decides to have a party at Lauren and Amy’s house and nobody brought finger-foods, just beer. It was okay. A lot of stuff happened. You should probably read this.

By Riese| October 26, 2015 | 33 Comments
1 2 3 4 Next Page →

BECOME AN A+ MEMBER!

Reads: Who else? ...is gonna tell you that NO YOU SHOULD NOT TEXT YOUR EX no matter how many times you need to hear it? Support our writers who are doing this WORK. Become a Member! (Just $1 / Week)

Affiliate of the Month

wet for her logo

Wet For Her is an online sex toy retailer that's a welcoming space for queer women and the folx they love — celebrating a diverse range of bodies, genders, and orientations.

shop Wet For Her →

Support Autostraddle While You Shop!

Illustration of shopping bag surrounded by sparkles. Text reads Visit the Affiliate Marketplace

kickback some of your amazon purchase to us!

From the Archives

  • You Need Help: Requisite Crush on a Barista

    You Need Help: Requisite Crush on a Barista

  • Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Video: Even Gayer Than Actual Dance Clubs

    Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Video: Even Gayer Than Actual Dance Clubs

  • Latin Lovers and Spicy Bombshells: What “The L Word” Got Wrong About Latinas

    Latin Lovers and Spicy Bombshells: What “The L Word” Got Wrong About Latinas

Latest Comments

  • Work Time On We Need a Three Day Work Week "I can’t agree with you more! There was an experiment in Japan that showed that working 4 days a week…"

  • Magic wand massager On Holigay Gift Guide: Sex Toys for All Sensations "With all this exploration going on, you never know exactly what sort of twisted up positions in which you’ll find…"

  • Mathilde On Your Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons "I knew 3 was Jamie :) and I knew 6. I guess I’m good at guessing the plant lovers!"

  • Lois R. Lynch On “Marvel’s Runaways” Hasn’t Achieved Its Full Gay Potential Yet, but It’s Already a Thrilling Ride "I have heard a lot about Marvel and finally glad to find its blog. This person is a great one…"

  • Katie On Your Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons "I got 2, 3, and 6!"

  • Joanie On The Amazing Race: One Million Miles, 32 Seasons, 653 Contestants, 373 Episodes, 5 Out Lesbians "Completely agree with everything in this piece. I actually want to go on the show and be the queer and…"

  • Chandra On Also.Also.Also: Trace Lysette Is the Mommi of Your Dreams in Her First Music Video, “SMB” "Thank you for this! I looked it up and read her anecdote about the laptops. This gives me much to…"

  • HS On How To Pick Up Chicks: A Lesbian Guide to Getting Girl-on-Girl Action "I know this article is over 10 years old but I found it very interesting and helpful as I’ve been…"

Support Us

Latest Posts

  • Also.Also.Also: Trace Lysette Is the Mommi of Your Dreams in Her First Music Video, “SMB”

    Also.Also.Also: Trace Lysette Is the Mommi of Your Dreams in Her First Music Video, “SMB”

  • Your Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

    Your Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

  • Queer Tarotscopes for Aquarius Season 2021: It’s Time to Find Your North Star

    Queer Tarotscopes for Aquarius Season 2021: It’s Time to Find Your North Star

  • The Amazing Race: One Million Miles, 32 Seasons, 653 Contestants, 373 Episodes, 5 Out Lesbians

    The Amazing Race: One Million Miles, 32 Seasons, 653 Contestants, 373 Episodes, 5 Out Lesbians

  • You Need Help: How Can I Help My Partner With COVID Anxiety?

    You Need Help: How Can I Help My Partner With COVID Anxiety?

Upcoming Meet-Ups & Events

Submit to our Community Calendar →
View More Meet-Ups & Events →
1 2 3 4 Next Page →
Autostraddle Autostraddle

Our Network

  • Community
  • Store
  • A-Camp

About Us

  • What is AS?
  • Meet The Team
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Copyright 2009 - 2021 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

NEW SHIRTS, SWEATSHIRTS, STICKERS AND FACE MASKS IN THE AUTOSTRADDLE STORE! Get your gay apparel while its hot →