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AMERIN GAY SERI
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Pl, managed to change many nservative viewpots the black muny — cludg Timbaland, who crafted the seri’ tchy origal tracks — and was a rare moment which a gay character of lor had so much visibily. Thomas manag to upend nventnal storyl and tackl everythg om mental illns to gay-guy/straight-girl iendships to the g-out procs. Matilda has high-functng tism, and some of the bt scen revolve around her explorg her fluid sexualy, while both girls embrace their gay half-brother’s relatnship failur as send nature.
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An utter charmer about a gay, reverg addict edian (-creator Mae Mart) and a prevly straight teacher (Charlotte Richie) who fall eply, dangeroly love wh each other.
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The entire n of this lightful throwback s has queer-iendly ntent, but particularly s first season (still streamg on Netflix, even though the latt season was ma for Pop), which slowly but refully charted the journey of Elena (Isabella Gomez), a Latx teen g to the realizatn that she’s gay, and gradually disverg how to tell her very Catholic fay about .
The show vers a lot of big topics — cludg a bold Season Two storyle spired by the sexual misnduct of Louis C.K., who was technilly still an executive producer at the time — but one of the most important them is Tig tryg to fd a gay muny this part of the world where she feels fortable, and the growg csh she’s velopg on her apparently straight rad producer Kate (played by Notaro’s wife, Stephanie Allynne). The show plays to the gay-for-prison fantasy so many straight men seem to still harbor, but also shows how you n enjoy male-male timacy while also beg a harned badass.