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Television

We Need More Jewish Queer Women On The Teevee

We lost a lot of queer Jewish characters this year, and we’ve never needed them more.

By Riese| December 31, 2019 | 12 Comments
Television

We Honestly Loved the Transparent Musicale Finale and Fondly Recall This Profoundly Jewish Queer TV Show

“Being out of the closet is really intense when you’re related to Shelly Pfefferman.”

By Riese| September 27, 2019 | 8 Comments
First Person Television

“Transparent” Changed Me (And TV) Forever

“Do you have something to tell us?” my mom joked. It was a joke, because of course I didn’t. “No,” I said with a laugh. And I thought I was telling the truth.

By Drew Gregory| September 23, 2019 | 25 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

17 Bisexual Women TV Characters Who Thwarted Tropes and Won Your Hearts

Sometimes, on a rare harvest moon when the mermaids sing and the unicorns take flight, we’re treated to really authentic, layered, swoon-worthy portrayals of bisexual women on our favorite shows.

By The TV Team| September 23, 2018 | 77 Comments
Television

VOTE NOW in Autostraddle’s Inaugural Gay Emmys!

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences — like Hollywood itself, and mainstream TV criticism — continues to be dominated by a voting block of mostly straight white men. So, for the first time ever, we’ve decided to host our own Autostraddle TV awards to coincide with the Emmys.

By The TV Team| September 4, 2018 | 87 Comments
Television

Autostraddle March Madness — Best First Kiss: Round One, Pt. 2 (Drama Faves vs. Sci-Fi/Fantasy Babes)

Here’s part two of the first round of QUEER KISSING MARCH MADNESS!

By Natalie| March 25, 2018 | 39 Comments
Television

In 2017, Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters Did Pretty OK, and That’s a Pretty Big Deal

2017 somehow turned out to be the best year ever for lesbian and bisexual women on television — but we’ve still got a ways to go.

By Riese| January 2, 2018 | 67 Comments
Television

2017’s 18 Best Episodes of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV

These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.

By the team| December 22, 2017 | 8 Comments
Television

Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Women TV Characters of 2017

2017 was the best of times and the worst of times. LOL JK it was the absolute worst of times. But the queer TV was pretty good.

By the team| December 19, 2017 | 45 Comments
Television

“Transparent” Without Jeffrey Tambor: More Trans Women, More Potential Revolution

As cis white men are forced out of Hollywood to face repercussions for their actions, this could become an important moment for traditionally marginalized voices to tell stories in ways we’ve never been allowed to before.

By Mey| November 21, 2017 | 11 Comments
Television

Transparent Season Four Finds Its Heart by Keeping It in the Family

Transparent isn’t a show about any single person. It’s a show about family. That’s what it’s always been and when it focuses on that, it’s at its absolute best.

By Mey| September 28, 2017 | 5 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Your Vibe About Gaby Hoffmann Was Correct and Other Stories from the Week

Youtube’s LGBTQ problem, transgender veterans in Kansas, Mallory Ortberg’s latest, how internalized homophobia affects your clothing, and so, so very much more. Really, this is packed.

By Laneia| September 22, 2017 | 20 Comments
Television

31 Most Critically Acclaimed Queerish TV Shows Streaming On Netflix and Amazon

Planning on spending a lot of time on the couch? Here are 31 shows that would be good even without lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified queer female characters but luckily, they do!

By Riese| March 21, 2017 | 89 Comments
Television

Transparent’s Third Season Is Beautiful, Heartbreaking And Occasionally Infuriating

This is a highlight reel of the highs and lows of the trans storylines in Transparent’s third season.

By Sadie Edwards| October 3, 2016 | 9 Comments
Television

Top Nine Trans Characters Played by Trans Actors on Transparent

If you’re looking for trans actors playing trans characters, the absolute best place on TV to look is Jill Soloway’s show for Amazon Prime, Transparent.

By Mey| September 26, 2016 | 25 Comments
Television

A Gay Girl’s Guide to Fall 2016 TV: Featuring All The Queer Lady Characters Who Haven’t Died (Yet)

Sappho protect us.

By Heather Hogan| September 20, 2016 | 86 Comments
Television

Queer Women Take Over The 2016 Emmys

Kate McKinnon and Sarah Paulson and Jill Soloway (and Ellen and Hillary and Laverne and Tatiana Maslany and Regina King and Marcia Clark and Holland Taylor), oh my!

By Heather Hogan| September 19, 2016 | 36 Comments
Television

The Seven Most Influential Queer Girl TV Shows Of The Last Seven Years

In honor of our seventh birthday, a look back on the seven television shows with the biggest impact on the representation of LGBTQ women over the last seven years.

By Riese| March 9, 2016 | 48 Comments
Gender

“Her Story” Delivers on the Authentic, Quality Trans Representation it Promised

“It’s precisely because Her Story is written and directed by trans women, starring trans women and featuring trans women on the crew that it’s able to be so authentic and so acutely focused on its trans characters.”

By Mey| January 19, 2016 | 62 Comments
Television

Violence and Visibility: Transgender Women on TV in 2015

“We wrote more obituaries for murdered trans women in 2015 than TV recaps for any single show we cover.”

By Heather Hogan| December 31, 2015 | 16 Comments
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