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MARCH 2022: WHAT’S NEW, GAY AND STREAMG ON NETFLIX, HULU, HBO MAX, AMAZON PRIME, PEACK AND PARAMOUNT+
Queer characters were once srce on film and televisn, and when they did appear were often fed by their sexualy or limed to a one-off "special episo." Only the 1990s and 2000s did gay and lbian characters beg to appear regularly on TV. While the central relatnship was not explicly sexual, was generally terpreted as homoerotic, and there were ndid discsns of homosexualy that were taboo-breakg when the origal ic was published. The seri foced on a lbian uple and the teenage children they foster and adopt, which clud a son who eventually out as gay himself.
Morn Love's romantic storyl are based on stallments om the newspaper's popular, long-nng lumn of the same name, and while not every relatnship featured the seri is an LGBTQ+ one, several of the episos feature thentic portrayals of gay characters wh heartwarmg pth and fully flhed-out stori, somethg many shows often fail at by g token LGBTQ+ characters.
Queer as Folk was another historilly important LGBTQ+ show, butg the UK 1999 when was a rare tailed pictn of gay men's liv. The story is set Manchter's gay village and has a broadly edic tone, wh the characters meant to be gay archetyp. Liberal party lear Jeremy Thorpe's (Hugh Grant) gay affairs beg to emerge to the public doma, and he is willg to go to any lengths to keep them secret.