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The 100 Best Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Shows of All Time

Vampires and zombies and spaceships and swords and clones and superpowers and ghosts and time-travel, oh my!

By Valerie Anne| January 24, 2020 | 44 Comments
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Haunting of Hill House’s Spooky Lesbian Empath Helped Me Understand My Own Ghosts

“I have enough of my own grief, I don’t need yours, too.”

By Valerie Anne| October 31, 2019 | 14 Comments
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Monsters & Mommis: Three Trips to Hill House

As The Haunting of Hill House has found new life across decades, the queerness has become more explicit yet less important to the overall work.

By Drew Gregory| October 8, 2019 | 11 Comments
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Vote Now in Autostraddle’s Second Annual Gay Emmys!

Queer women’s television has grown significantly in recent years. Still, we’ve watched our best continue to be sidelined by a straight white male majority that won’t pay attention to queer stories, women’s stories, stories about people of color. Well, no more my friends!

By The TV Team| September 11, 2019 | 54 Comments
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“Is this how cis white dudes feel all the time?”

By The TV Team| November 29, 2018 | 34 Comments
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Netflix’s New “Haunting of Hill House” Gave Us a Lesbian Who Lives, Took Our Whole Weekend

The new Netflix reboot of Shirley Jackson’s classic has made a lot of changes; one thing that’s stayed, though, is kickass horror lesbian Theo — now with a whole backstory of complicated family trauma!

By Rachel| October 15, 2018 | 17 Comments

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