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The 25 Most Essential LGBTQ TV Shows of the 21st Century
&#;Tuca and Bertie&#; ()
What it is: The dearly departed “Tuca and Bertie” was one of TV’s best shows about friendship, dating, and being a scorching mess: tried and true subject matter many queer people can relate to. The titular avian duo — impulsive party animal tucan Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) and sensible but anxious song thrush Bertie (Ali Wong) — own one of TV’s loveliest friendships, as the two total opposites support each other through career and romantic struggles. While the main romantic relationship of the show is between Bertie and her adorably square boyfriend Speckle (Steven Yeun), Tuca is very much an out-and-proud bisexual fowl, flitting around from romantic partners of all genders and species.
Why it&#;s essential: The best season of the show, Season 2, features Tuca entering a association with Kara (Sasheer Zamata), a seagull nurse. Initially a positive bond, the show steadily tracks the flaws in the pairing, as Kara puts Tuca down and forces her to transform to fit the
40 Great LGBTQ TV Shows to Stream Now
Who hasn’t learned to kiss from watching others do it onscreen? Before the internet and everyone having a device in their pockets, that was the way most of us casually absorbed images of wish and love. And yet, for decades, lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and lgbtq+ people rarely ever saw displays of affection. That left a great swath of humanity desperate to see something that resembled their lives. It may appear quaint now, when we have TV series like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latinx teen exploring sexual fluidity) or Netflix’s Bonding(about sex labor and alternative sexuality), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGeneres coming out on her sitcom in was a bombshell that didn’t necessarily convince the networks that they’d open the gates to LGBTQ experiences.
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Luckily Will & Grace debuted in and the groundbreaking NBC series convinced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t scare of
The 35 Best Gay TV Shows of All Time
Fellow Travelers ()
In this heart-wrenching Showtime miniseries, Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer play two Capitol Hill men caught in the horrors of McCarthyism, falling in adore despite a political atmosphere that is trying to crucify all its gay members. The present charts their partnership over the next three decades, all the way up to the AIDS crisis, with a beautiful, poignant story that echoes with political issues we’re still seeing to this day. Just be sure to have a box of tissues sitting nearby.
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Hacks (–present)
In Hacks, viewers track a veteran comedian named Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), who realizes her career has been stuck in autopilot when she meets a struggling young journalist named Ava (Hannah Einbinder), who inspires her with a renewed sense of creativity and steer. Through their bond, we see the struggle of generations trying to understand from one another and, notably, how Ava’s bisexuality opens Deborah’s eyes to past prejudices.
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TV has been instrumental in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and in changing attitudes towards the community. It has also, perhaps most importantly, been a platform to tell stories that have made gay, woman loving woman, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and more people experience less alone in the world – to recognize there is a great and varied community to which they belong. One pioneering show at a time, groundbreaking character by groundbreaking character, TV and streaming series have given the world an intuition into the LGBTQ+ trial, and provided LGBTQ+ people with reflections of their own lives – stories to laugh along with, to cry with, and to identify with. In this list of Homosexual TV shows, we point out shows that have broken ground, enlightened, and entertained.
We&#;ve arranged the list into four categories: shows that were big TV firsts, or featured TV firsts; shows that center on LGTBQ characters or life