Hulu is your new go-to for The L Word, but that’s not all! There are so many queer TV shows on Hulu, including original programming, comedies, dramas, and something for everybody to enjoy!
Who’d have thought this would be the most difficult thing for me to write for Autostraddle?
I’m not sure what it says about me — or, more precisely perhaps, what it says about television — that this list isn’t full of characters that feel like representations of me or the people that I’m drawn to in real life.
“I watched it all in one night, vacillating from helpless laughter (Olivia Coleman’s line readings!!!) to shocked surprise (“Where did you just go?”) and when it was over I sent profanity littered texts about it to one of my best friends, then watched the entire season again.”
If you’ve read this far I think it’s pretty clear that I love a highly competent femme with a lot of personal problems.
Amazon Prime has loads of TV shows for queers who love to watch queer content! View our updated list of television shows and web-series available to stream at Autostraddle.com.
We’ve got 88 Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer-ish Netflix TV shows streaming right now on the very internet you’re reading!
Anne Lister is that dyke.
“There isn’t a thing Friends did that Living Single didn’t do FIRST and with essentially 1/8th the budget. Tattoo it on my skin. I stand by it.”
We’ve got a lesbian taxidermist in Run, a fish cop in Hightown, Janelle Monae in a rowboat and so much more.
And a healthy dose of women in top hats.
Wynonna Earp is funny and smart and full of found family feels, which I suppose is how it led me to my smart, funny found family.
“Fire is hot, water is wet and ‘The Wire’ is the greatest television show of all time. Facts on facts on facts.”
“This show gives me permission to be the person I am and the artist I want to become.”
One thing that does unite every show on this list is that each of them came into my life at the exact right time and also all influence my own writing in some way.
Listen, I love an ensemble drama!
If you like Sex and the City, watch Girlfriends. If you like Community, watch A Different World. If you like Girls, watch Twenties.
Vampires and zombies and spaceships and swords and clones and superpowers and ghosts and time-travel, oh my!
An incompetent, racist, homophobic, madman is driving at the wheel of our country. But we’ve been here before. We fought back. We survived it. And I believe that we’ll survive this, too.
Our TV critics smashed their heads together to deliver our picks for the years’ 25 best shows with queer, lesbian, bisexual and trans women characters as well as each of our individual top 15s. So much TV you’ve gotta see in here!
