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“The Bold Type” Makes a Last-Minute Finale Change, But Kat’s Storyline Is Still a Huge Mess

“Instead of feeling like an affirmation for my disdain for Kat and Eva’s relationship, it feels like The Bold Type is re-emphasizing one of the things that makes the Kat/Eva storyline problematic: diminishing the show’s lead black character to bolster the bonafides of its white ones.”

By Natalie| July 17, 2020 | 24 Comments
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Boobs On Your Tube: Sorry, “The Bold Type” — We Can’t Agree to Disagree

The Bold Type is romanticizing repugnant viewpoints, like hardline immigration and conversion therapy, and treating those issues like they’re things we can just agree-to-disagree on. Also: an inexplicable In The Dark finale.

By The TV Team| July 10, 2020 | 23 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: Seriously, What Is “The Bold Type” DOING?

Natalie would like a word about Kat’s new love interest and Valerie has some Happily Ever After feelings as In the Dark barrels toward its season two finale.

By The TV Team| July 3, 2020 | 23 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: “The Chi” Celebrates Queer Black Joy in The Season 3 Premiere

Also: Kat kicks off a new podcast on The Bold Type, ex drama on In The Dark, a trailer for the new season of Wynonna Earp, and lots of your faves at QFX Cloud Con.

By The TV Team| June 26, 2020
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Boobs on Your Tube: “Betty” Is The Best Queer Show You Probably Missed

And we’re baaaaaaack! We’ve been gone for a while, but here’s a link to catch up on everything we covered and you maybe missed. Sending you lots of love for air conditioning, a fan, and some good TV to keep

By The TV Team| June 19, 2020 | 12 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: Kat and Adena Reunite, Take Down Powerful White Men on “The Bold Type”

We have arrived at The Bold Type mid-season finale. Plus updates on: Boomerang, Twenties, and Legacies.

By The TV Team| March 27, 2020 | 22 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: Oh Hey Now “Manifest” Got Gay in Its Second Season!

Plus updates on the All American and Black Lightning season finales, Legacies, and Batwoman!

By The TV Team| March 13, 2020 | 5 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: Are Those Wedding or War Bells We Hear on Black Lightning?!?

Plus updates on The Bold Type, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, S.W.A.T. and All American!

By The TV Team| March 6, 2020 | 21 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: Shondaland’s Bisexual Firefighter and Dr. Orgasm Are The Crossover Queer Romance You’ve Waited For

Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 are giving the gays everything that they want. Plus updates on All American, Black Lightning, God Friended Me, Deputy, and Nancy Drew!

By The TV Team| February 28, 2020 | 10 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: “The Bold Type” Puts Kat Back on Tinder to Delightfully Bisexual Results

Also: Patience is a real one on All American, Lisa has a lil’ ex drama on All Rise, and Hope continues to choose a flaming marshmallow over Josie on Legacies.

By The TV Team| February 21, 2020 | 10 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: The Bold Type’s Throwing a Sex Party! Happy Valentine’s Day!

Plus updates on All American, some incredibly important episodes of Grown-ish and Deputy, and the TV Team made you a special valentine that’s full of our favorite tv ladies kissing.

By The TV Team| February 14, 2020 | 4 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: Sexy Superqueero Fight Alert on Black Lightning!

Plus updates on All American, the Bold Type, and it’s time you start watching Party of Five.

By The TV Team| February 7, 2020 | 11 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: Those Thunder Grace Kisses Are Sparking up Black Lightning!

Plus updates on Nancy Drew, All American, Arrow, and The Bold Type!

By The TV Team| January 31, 2020 | 5 Comments
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Winter 2020 TV Preview: Where To Find All The LGBTQ Women and Trans People on Your Television

Behold! Our seasonal list of every single TV show — new and returning — featuring a queer or trans woman character!

By The TV Team| January 10, 2020 | 11 Comments
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Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2019

Here’s what we loved this year and what we didn’t like very much at all. We’d love to hear your opinions too, obviously!

By The TV Team| December 3, 2019 | 29 Comments
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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
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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
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“The Bold Type” Gives Kat a New Girlfriend, an Old Girlfriend and a Voice of Her Own

The Bold Type’s third season is setting Kat Edison up for a love triangle — but the sweetest journey has been watching her own self-discovery as she uncovers her young, queer voice.

By Carmen Phillips| May 30, 2019 | 16 Comments
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Boobs On Your Tube: Gentleman Jack’s Misandry Remains Transcendent

Plus: JR and Petra try co-parenting on Jane the Virgin, Lena Waithe smooches Halley Berry on the mouth on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Kat’s new love gets complicated on The Bold Type.

By The TV Team| May 24, 2019 | 19 Comments
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Boobs on Your Tube: “The Bold Type” Gives Kat a New Lady Love

Plus updates on: The Flash, Gentleman Jack, Station 19, Charmed, Jane the Virgin, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Good Fight!

By The TV Team| May 17, 2019 | 27 Comments
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“The Bold Type” Season Three Brings On the Lesbian Heartbreak

Buckle up, folks. We’re in for a gay breakup arc, and it’s not going to be pretty.

By Kayla| April 15, 2019 | 6 Comments
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