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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 hot 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 tune thrush Bertie (Ali Wong) — have one of TV’s loveliest friendships, as the two total opposites support each other through career and romantic struggles. While the main lovey-dovey relationship of the present is between Bertie and her adorably square partner Speckle (Steven Yeun), Tuca is very much an out-and-proud bisexual bird, 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 affair 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 change to fit the mold of her perfect partner. It’s a hard few episodes to watch, but a fascinating and rare TV
The 35 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of All Time
Fellow Travelers ()
In this heart-wrenching Showtime miniseries, Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer compete two Capitol Hill men caught in the horrors of McCarthyism, falling in love despite a political atmosphere that is trying to crucify all its queer members. The present charts their relationship 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 night. Just be sure to have a box of tissues sitting nearby.
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Hacks (–present)
In Hacks, viewers obey 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 drive. Through their relationship, we notice the struggle of generations trying to learn from one another and, notably, how Ava’s bisexuality opens Deborah’s eyes to past prejudices.
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La Casa de las Flores (The Dwelling of Flowers) (–)
In this Mexican black-comedy series from cr
People Are Sharing Their Favorite LGBTQ+ TV Shows Of All Time And, Wow, I Have A Lot To Watch
"By Season 7, our main cast was made up of a bisexual woman and her lesbian wife, a homosexual man who invented occasion travel to save his boyfriend, a fairly dramatic pansexual — arguably not cis — alien with a girlfriend, the only asexual on network television, and had just said goodbye to a bisexual person man who’d had meaningful relationships with men and women — who just left, didn’t die, just left. The rest of the characters were ostensibly straight, but all the actors said they were comfortable with the thought of their characters entity LGBTQ+ as well and supported and encouraged headcanons. The show started with one bisexual woman and a bunch of linear people.
On top of that, it was just so much FUN, and big-hearted. This was a goofy family who had the best time and got up to the silliest stuff. It’s so joyful and a great antidote to serious, heterosexual superhero stuff."
—garebehr
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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, sapphic, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and more people touch less alone in the world – to recognize there is a huge 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 awareness into the LGBTQ+ encounter, 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 Queer TV shows, we emphasize 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 experiences; shows that feature Gay characters and stories, but where that isn&#;t necessarily the primary
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