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We’ve all crowd to the <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tiff Bell Lightbox</a>, for an advance screeng of <em>The L Word: Generatn Q</em>, <a href=">which premiered December 8</a> and is the reboot of the popular lbian-centric seri that aired on Showtime for six seasons. This is, as my too-genero wife remds me, my first <em>L Word</em> viewg party—I was a young teenager when the origal seri aired.</p><p><em>The L Word</em> aired long before the popularizatn of streamg servic, a time when queer characters were sentially ignored on mastream TV and viewers would rarely, if ever, hear the word <em>lbian</em> any scripted program. It was the era of Limewire and DVDs, and an age of immense speratn for LGBTQ+ reprentatn all media. And so <em>The L Word</em> beme a pivotal show for LGBTQ+ people of var backgrounds, experienc, and ag. Almost everyone I’ve talked to who has endured five seasons of listeng to the show’s “The Way That We Live” theme song—the tchy tune didn’t play for the first season—has a story about watchg <em>The L Word</em>. For many, the show beme central their g-out procs or their bondg experience wh other queer people.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Back to the screeng: As a diverse group of women clapped for Shane McCutheon as she scend the steps of a private plane, cheered and hollered Bette Porter’s name as she clapped back on screen, and oohed at Alice Piczieki’s newfound succs, the appeal of <em>The L Word</em> watch party—an almost mystified experience I uldn’t que take part the first time around—surround me. I realized there’s nothg like cheerg on your (fictnal) hero among queer fam. Especially a foreign cy where you’re signifintly ls likely to n to an ex.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Watchg the origal <em>The L Word</em> meant so much to so many different people. I spoke to six of them to share their experienc.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="i8mpu"></div></div><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Jennifer Beals Leisha Hailey Er Daniels and Landy Cannon on season one of The L Word." class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE gPFWXR ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cbKNQD asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd cDlsmo iXWezO ptn__text">Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Er Daniels, and Landy Cannon on season one of <em>The L Word</em>.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd qnzYb fNaHcW ptn__cred">Showtime Networks Inc./Courty Everett Collectn</span></div></figure><h2>Elizabeth Estochen, 29, Denver, queer poet and host of <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sexntified</a></h2><p>“I me out of the closet 10 years ago, and <em>The L Word</em> has a special place my heart for how stmental was my g out. I actually started rewatchg recently (for the third time!) to gear up for the reboot. While the reprentatn was the first of s kd, and seeg lbian sex on TV was huge for me, I certaly have my opns on how the show alt wh transns, nsent, monogamy (and totally ignorg polyamory as an optn), and emotnal rponsibily. I started watchg the show 2009, so the first few seasons were on Netflix and the [last season] was airg. Before I me out, I watched alone. After I me out, I had another lbian as a roommate, and some iends who would e over and we’d watch together. There was a lol lbian bar, North Charlton, lled The Chart that had viewg parti. Unfortunately I never went bee I was a baby gay, and the crowd that equented the bar was mostly elr lbians. I wish I’d gone before that place shut down.”</p><h2>Alexa Carmona, 24, Brooklyn, sger, songwrer, and producer who performs as <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">broox</a>)</h2><p>“When I was 12, I walked on my grandma and nt watchg <em>The L Word</em> durg a Shane and Carmen sex scene. I remember askg myself, ‘Why am I to this?’ Years later I saw a post about on Tumblr and was like, Oh my God, my young nfg fantasi now make sense and n be fulfilled. The show was my pe, and I’d n home to watch alone after class sophomore year of llege. I didn’t have many queer iends yet, but sometim I’d make my straight cis iends watch the livg room wh me. They had a lot of qutns, naturally, and they liked to watch bee they thought Shane was hot. I bged all six seasons a uple months. I remember feelg seen and unrstood for the first time a while. I was learng so much of this world that I was so exced to step to and explore, a world that started to feel more tangible. It’s as if <em>The L Word</em> was my queer night school that I was so exed to e home to. I remember specifilly watchg shows for the lbian plot, so to fd a show where s entire storyle is takg place surround by lbian drama was like diggg for gold and htg the jack pot.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="p2z92"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="rtaz6"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dxlOSM body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>“I sperately wanted a queer group of iends. I wanted an Alice to lean on, and a Shane to wg-woman me at the bar. Throughout the years I’ve found my queer people, my fay. One by one, like a domo effect. If there’s one thg about the queer muny, ’s that if you meet one queer, one turns to five, to 10, and eventually you end up meetg a ln. It’s tly never fuckg endg. And I love . We’re a tightly kn muny nsistg of betiful dividuals who are strong and look out for one another. This queer muny of me has ma me who I am today, supportg me and my mic. Now I will be watchg the <em>Generatn Q</em> premiere wh them my livg room, listeng for my song, ‘Low Key,’ featured one of the scen.”</p><h2>Angela Darrisaw, 32, New York Cy, founr and CEO of <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">C-Sue Coach</a></h2><p>“I first watched <em>The L Word</em> as a hman at Davidson College. It was life-changg at a time when so many of were qutng, bee had so many answers, drove nversatns, and forced to rensir our own stereotyp about what a queer relatnship had to look like. There were so many reprentatns of var styl of relatnships and typ of women clud. We were all plete thirstbuckets for the show, and we never watched a sgle episo alone. It was always a group activy. I watched wh an upperclassman, a female iend who was an out lbian, who troduced me to . We didn’t have Showtime on our mp, so she actually bought the DVDs and we would watch one at a time. It started wh jt , and over time we would ve other women. It was always such good bondg. Usually on Sunday nights my dorm room or mon area. It ma an otherwise isolatg experience, beg the South on a really Christian mp, feel way ls isolatg.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="A scene om The L Word" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE gPFWXR ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cbKNQD asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd cDlsmo iXWezO ptn__text">Kathere Moennig and Sarah Shahi season three. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd qnzYb fNaHcW ptn__cred">©Showtime Networks Inc./Courty Everett Collectn</span></div></figure><div id="stylics-marker"></div><h2>Cal Copple Masgill, 36, Boise, founr and print, Full Swg PR</h2><p>“<em>The L Word</em> was huge my own g-out procs. I bge-watched the seri my apartment Sun Valley, Idaho, where I worked as a cktail wars for a year. I watched wh my bt iend, Amy, who was straight but very supportive of my g out-procs. Havg also grown up ral Idaho, she was pretty trigued by the L.A. lbian subculture of the day. I uldn’t fd any lbians to date Idaho, so was a rough year, but watchg <em>The L Word</em> gave me hope that I’d fd someone eventually and be able to explore my te sexual orientatn. Sure enough, when I moved to Montana for graduate school, Missoula proved to be full of lbians, and watch parti of <em>The L Word</em> ensued. I met my first girliend shortly after I moved there. I dated women pretty much exclively for a but end up gettg back together wh my uber-supportive llege sweetheart, a du named Jeff. I prefer to intify as queer and not bisexual. I feel like I’m 80% gay and 20% bi, and Jeff happens to fall the 20%. We’ve been married sce June 2017 and have a three-year-old, and we live Boise. I was the first openly LGBTQ person elected to the Missoula Cy Council 2011, when I was 27.”</p><h2>Kenny Screven, 24, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, LGBT+ advote and <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">social media fluencer</a></h2><p>“The first time I watched <em>The L Word</em>, I had recently me out of the closet. Durg that time, I was extremely aaid of not beg accepted. Then I found the <em>The L Word</em>. I was extremely happy to watch somethg that supported the LGBT+ muny. I thought was so surreal and necsary. I enjoyed every mute of <em>The L Word</em> and really thought the world need to see upl that aren’t heterosexual. The characters on the show were amazg and did a really good job showsg what ’s like to be a lbian. Meang, their relatnships aren’t much different om your typil heterosexual relatnship. The show remd me of <em>Sex and the Cy</em>, lbian edn. <em>The L Word</em> also shows the stggle LGBT+ people have to go through on the daily. It really picts the liv of some of my lbian iends. I loved Ta and Bette as a uple. Ultimately, I jt thk ’s important for society to play shows like this bee giv LGBT+ folk somethg to relate to. It n be really annoyg to watch a show that you n’t relate to whatsoever. I watched my dorm room alone and sometim wh a group of iends. But mostly alone. When I’m really to a show, I don’t like to get distracted om all the tea, but I enjoy nversatns wh my iends about . As a gay man, I totally related to some of the stggl faced by some of the <em>L Word</em> characters. Reprentatn is super important. For society to move forward, ’s necsary.”</p><h2>Mara Wilson, 32, Los Angel, actor and <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wrer</a></h2><p>“As a teen, I was eply closeted and th nflicted about openly enjoyg anythg even mored to be about women lovg women. It was years before I admted my love for the Spice Girls, let alone the Indigo Girls. Lbians pop culture were eher the object of a joke or an object of male fantasy. So was a relief when iends of me started passg around DVDs of <em>The L Word</em> at boardg school. Y, was sensatnalist and very of s time, but was one of the first shows I saw that showed queer women as people. I remember beg happy when I took a personaly quiz and got Bette, and annoyed when I took another one and got Jenny. It was the first time I felt that I uld intify fully wh fictnal queer women, maybe bee all my iends, regardls of orientatn, were dog too.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>”I fely still had a long way to go, though: A few years later I saw a play New York wh my then boyiend and said ‘Oh, my God!’ when I saw Kate Moenng’s name the playbill. My boyiend said, ‘What do you know that actrs om?’ I said, ‘Oh, jt om…stuff.’"</p><p><em>Melissa Kravz is a wrer based New York Cy. 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summary-em--ARTICLE summary-em--has-small-image-mobile-only summary-em--no-in summary-em--text-align-left summary-em--layout-placement-si-by-si-mobile-only summary-em--layout-posn-image-right summary-em--layout-proportns-33-66 summary-em--si-by-si-align-center summary-em--si-by-si-image-right-mobile-false summary-em--standard SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm kIHirg" role="button" tabx="0"><div class="SummaryItemAssetContaer-gwhFFH VOyg summary-em__asset-ntaer"><a class="SummaryItemImageLk-dshqxb cPpCwE summary-em__image-lk summary-em-trackg__image-lk" href=" aria-hidn="te" tabx="-1" data-ponent-type="recirc-river" data-recirc-id="em-image-3" data-recirc-pattern="summary-em" target="_self"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset SummaryItemRponsiveAsset-hjGIGg egpoQR summary-em__image"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz hlQxkn"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa 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class="ClampContent-hilPkr jVhSBH"><div class="SummaryItemHedTag-TWblf gxaOcP" data-ttid="SummaryItemHed">To All the People Sayg They’re Glad the USWNT Lost, Please Touch Grass</div></div></div></a><div class="SummaryItemByleWrapper-boCfbi cuRXdL summary-em__byle-date-in"><div class="SummaryItemBaseByle-fFbXkY fbXPcA summary-em__byle"><div class="summary-em__byle__ntent"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH ksagZo byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd dvgOmM gnILss byle__preamble">By </span>Kathleen Walsh</span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ SummaryCollectnGridSummaryItem-WColm kIHirg ad ad--read-more"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--read-more" 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