Bt LGBTQ+ TV Shows to Watch Durg Pri Month 2022</tle><meta name="tle" ntent="Bt LGBTQ+ TV Shows to Watch Durg Pri Month 2022" /><meta name="scriptn" ntent="From Netflix's First Kill and Heartstopper to Showtime's The L Word: Generatn Q and Yellowjackets, the shows celebrate the diverse inty of the LGBTQ+ muny." /><meta name="keywords" ntent /><meta property="og:type" ntent="webse" /><meta name="theme-lor" ntent="#000000" /><lk href="/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/imag/" rel="in" /><meta property="og:se_name" ntent="Oprah Daily" /><meta name="fb:app_id" ntent="557569598006399" property="fb:app_id" /><meta name="article:publisher" ntent=" property="article:publisher" /><meta name="twter:se" ntent="@OprahDaily" /><meta name="google-se-verifitn" ntent="82jYkYSOEZ5GE7V8m8gSrd7kxTtY-J37c6dvl60N8" /><meta property="og:tle" ntent="13 Televisn Shows That Are Makg the LGBTQ+ Communy Proud" /><meta property="og:scriptn" ntent="From Netflix's First Kill and Heartstopper to Showtime's The L Word: Generatn Q and Yellowjackets, the shows celebrate the diverse inty of the LGBTQ+ muny." /><meta name="robots" ntent="max-image-preview:large,max-snippet:-1,max-vio-preview:30" /><lk rel="apple-touch-in" href="/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/imag/" /><meta property="og:image" ntent="" /><meta property="og:image:width" ntent="1200" /><meta property="og:image:height" ntent="600" /><meta name="thumbnail" ntent="" /><meta name="" ntent="" /><meta name="" ntent=" /><meta name="twter:image" ntent="" /><meta ntent=" property="og:url" /><meta name="to-publish" ntent="timely" /><meta property="og:type" ntent="article" /><meta name="twter:rd" ntent="summary_large_image" /><meta name="article:opn" property="article:opn" /><meta ntent="TV & Movi" property="article:sectn" /><meta ntent="2022-07-25T14:33:18Z" property="article:modified_time" /><meta ntent="2022-06-24T19:58:00Z" property="article:published_time" /><meta name="sailth.excerpt" ntent="In 2000, Showtime premiered Queer as Folk, followed by The L Word 2004. Neher show was perfect—both centered on affluent, whe, and th characters—but they were both revolutnary for their time. In the early ghts, LGBTQ+ reprentatn on televisn was still rare, and Queer as Folk and The L" /><meta name="" ntent="entertament,Culture & News,tv-movi,TV & Movi" /><meta name="" ntent="2022-06-24 19:58:00" /><meta name="sailth.socialtle" ntent="13 Televisn Shows That Are Makg the LGBTQ+ Communy Proud" /><meta name="ntenttype" ntent="longform-article" /><meta id="m1" name="m1" emProp="cssSelector " ntent=".ntent-hed" /><meta id="m2" name="m2" emProp="cssSelector" ntent=".ntent-k p" /><lk href="/" emSpe emType=" emRef="m1 m2" /><lk rel="prefetch" href="" as="image" /><lk rel="preload" as="image" image-src-set=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" image-siz="100vw" /><meta name="next-head-unt" ntent="46" /><meta name="next-font-prennect" /><script id="vice-tect" data-nscript="beforeInteractive">(()=>{nst o="ontouchstart" wdow||!!navigator.maxTouchPots||("__touch"),t=wdow.matchMedia("only screen and (max-width: 767px)").match,n=o&&t,i=o&&!t,e=[n?"mobile":"no-mobile",i?"tablet":"no-tablet",o?"touch":"no-touch"];,,,sktop=!(n||i),(...e)})();</script><script id="lux" data-nscript="beforeInteractive">LUX=(functn(){nst a=(typeof(LUX)!=="unfed"&&typeof(LUX.gaMarks)!=="unfed"?LUX.gaMarks:[]);nst d=(typeof(LUX)!=="unfed"&&typeof(LUX.gaMeasur)!=="unfed"?LUX.gaMeasur:[]);nst j="LUX_start";nst k=wdow.performance;let l=(typeof(LUX)!=="unfed"&&(():+(new Date())));if(k&&){}functn f(){if(k&&){return ()}nst ():+(new Date());return o-l}functn b(n){if(k){if(){return (n)}if(k.webkMark){return k.webkMark(n)}}({name:n,entryType:"mark",startTime:f(),duratn:0});}functn m(p,t,n){if(typeof(t)==="unfed"&&h(j)){t=j}if(k){if(k.measure){if(t){if(n){return k.measure(p,t,n)}return k.measure(p,t)}return k.measure(p)}if(k.webkMeasure){return k.webkMeasure(p,t,n)}}let r=0; let o=f();if(t){nst s=h(t);if(s){r=s.startTime}else if(k&&[t]){[t]}else{return}}if(n){nst q=h(n);if(q){o=q.startTime}else if(k&&[n]){[n]}else{return}}({name:p,entryType:"measure",startTime:r,duratn:(o-r)});}functn h(n){return c(n,g())}functn c(p,o){for(;i>=0;i--){nst n=o[i];if(){return n}}return unfed}functn g(){if(k){if(k.getEntriByType){return k.getEntriByType("mark")}if(k.webkGetEntriByType){return k.webkGetEntriByType("mark")}}return a}return{mark:b,measure:m,gaMarks:a,gaMeasur:d}})();(():+(new Date()));[];(a){(a)};(){([""])};(){(["send"])};LUX.addData=functn(a,b){(["addData",a,b])};LUX_ae=[];wdow.addEventListener("error",functn(a){(a)});LUX_al=[];if(typeof(PerformanceObserver)==="functn"&&typeof(PerformanceLongTaskTimg)==="functn"){nst LongTaskObserver=new PerformanceObserver(functn(c){nst b=c.getEntri();for(let a=0;a<;a++){nst d=b[a];(d)}});try{LongTaskObserver.observe({type:["longtask"]})}tch(e){}}; = "LongFormArticle";</script><script id="settgs" data-nscript="beforeInteractive">wdow.__FRE={env:"productn",ver:"0.7.401",cdn:te},wdow.__SITE={brand:"oprahdaily",doma:",dk:"aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub3ByYWhkYWlseS5jb::20=",lole:"en-",lole_path:"",trailg_slash:te},feProperti(wdow,{SELF_HOSTED_ADS:{value:te,wrable:!1},ADSFREE:{value:false,wrable:!1},GDPR:{value:false,wrable:!1}});</script><lk rel="preload" href="/_assets/e/_next/static/css/" as="style" /><lk rel="stylheet" href="/_assets/e/_next/static/css/" /><noscript data-n-css></noscript><script fer noModule src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script id="moapt-data-bundle" src="/_assets/moapt/2.113.0/" async fetchprry="high" data-nscript="beforeInteractive"></script><script id="moapt-bundle" src="/_assets/moapt/2.113.0/" async fetchprry="high" data-nscript="beforeInteractive"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script fer src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/"></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/pag/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/chunks/pag/_templat/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/6c2a6940df/" fer></script><script src="/_assets/e/_next/static/6c2a6940df/" fer></script><lk rel="preload" href="/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Juana_Light.b12bb34.woff2" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossOrig="anonymo" /><style type="text/css" id="ferred-fonts" media="none">@font-face {font-fay: 'Gilroy'; src: url('/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Gilroy_Medium.ba465da.woff2') format('woff2'); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-display: swap;} @font-face {font-fay: 'Gilroy'; src: url('/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Gilroy_Bold.782a04d.woff2') format('woff2'); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-display: swap;} @font-face {font-fay: 'Juana'; src: url('/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Juana_Regular.d456718.woff2') format('woff2'); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-display: swap;} @font-face {font-fay: 'Charter'; src: url('/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/fonts/e38fddd1-89a4-4995-9f7f-3c701b2e62f1.dd7387f.woff2') format('woff2'); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-display: swap;} @font-face {font-fay: 'Charter'; src: url('/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/fonts/74c2aebb-af4a-4c7d-a7f5-2db2c73334eb.c4fa4.woff2') format('woff2'); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-display: swap;} @font-face {font-fay: 'Charter'; src: url('/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/fonts/e4fc2e26-0ce1-4e6c-bb35-330c133f041c.c08ce2c.woff2') format('woff2'); font-weight: 400; font-style: alic; font-display: swap;} </style><script type="text/javascript" id="font-loar">(()=>{nst{search:o}=wdow.lotn;if(clus("disableFonts"))return;nst e=clus("bugFonts")?()=>({}),n=document,t=[],s=o=>("> FONT FAILED TO LOAD:",o),d=o=>o,{fontsLoad:a}=ssnStorage;if(!("fonts" n)||a){nst o=n.getElementById("ferred-fonts");return o&&("all"),void(a&&(e("> LOADING FONTS FROM CACHE"),((o=>{(()(d)(s))})),(t)((()=>{e("> FONTS LOADED FROM CACHE"),("fonts-load")}))))}wdow.addEventListener("DOMContentLoad",(()=>{[{"fay":"Gilroy","src":"/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Gilroy_Medium.ba465da.woff2","format":"woff2","scriptors":{"weight":400,"display":"swap","style":"normal"}},{"fay":"Gilroy","src":"/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Gilroy_Bold.782a04d.woff2","format":"woff2","scriptors":{"weight":"bold","display":"swap","style":"normal"}},{"fay":"Juana","src":"/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Juana_Regular.d456718.woff2","format":"woff2","scriptors":{"weight":400,"display":"swap","style":"normal"}},{"fay":"Charter","src":"/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/fonts/e38fddd1-89a4-4995-9f7f-3c701b2e62f1.dd7387f.woff2","format":"woff2","scriptors":{"weight":400,"display":"swap","style":"normal"}},{"fay":"Charter","src":"/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/fonts/74c2aebb-af4a-4c7d-a7f5-2db2c73334eb.c4fa4.woff2","format":"woff2","scriptors":{"weight":"bold","display":"swap","style":"normal"}},{"fay":"Charter","src":"/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/fonts/e4fc2e26-0ce1-4e6c-bb35-330c133f041c.c08ce2c.woff2","format":"woff2","scriptors":{"weight":400,"display":"swap","style":"alic"}}].forEach((({fay:o,src:e,format:n="woff",scriptors:a={}})=>{(new FontFace(o,`url('${e}') format('${n}')`,a)()(d)(s))})),(t)((o=>{e("> FONTS LOADED"),o.forEach((o=>o&&(o))),("fonts-load"),ssnStorage.fontsLoad=!0}))}))})();</script></head><body><style data-emotn="css-global 2pxq58">html{le-height:1.15;-webk-text-size-adjt:100%;}body{marg:0;}ma{display:block;}h1{font-size:2em;marg:0.67em 0;}hr{box-sizg:ntent-box;height:0;overflow:visible;}pre{font-fay:monospace,monospace;font-size:1em;}a{background-lor:transparent;}abbr[tle]{borr-bottom:none;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;-webk-text-ratn:unrle dotted;text-ratn:unrle dotted;}b,strong{font-weight:bolr;},kbd,samp{font-fay:monospace,monospace;font-size:1em;}small{font-size:80%;}sub,sup{font-size:75%;le-height:0;posn:relative;vertil-align:basele;}sub{bottom:-0.25em;}sup{top:-0.5em;}img{borr-style:none;}button,put,optgroup,select,textarea{font-fay:her;font-size:100%;le-height:1.15;marg:0;}button,put{overflow:visible;}button,select{text-transform:none;}button,[type='button'],[type='ret'],[type='subm']{-webk-appearance:button;}button::-moz-foc-ner,[type='button']::-moz-foc-ner,[type='ret']::-moz-foc-ner,[type='subm']::-moz-foc-ner{borr-style:none;paddg:0;}button:-moz-focrg,[type='button']:-moz-focrg,[type='ret']:-moz-focrg,[type='subm']:-moz-focrg{outle:1px dotted ButtonText;}fieldset{paddg:0.35em 0.75em 0.625em;}legend{box-sizg:borr-box;lor:her;display:table;max-width:100%;paddg:0;whe-space:normal;}progrs{vertil-align:basele;}textarea{overflow:to;}[type='checkbox'],[type='rad']{box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;}[type='number']::-webk-ner-sp-button,[type='number']::-webk-outer-sp-button{height:to;}[type='search']{-webk-appearance:textfield;outle-offset:-2px;}[type='search']::-webk-search-ratn{-webk-appearance:none;}::-webk-file-upload-button{-webk-appearance:button;font:her;}tails{display:block;}summary{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-list-em;display:-ms-list-embox;display:list-em;}template{display:none;}[hidn]{display:none;}*{box-sizg:borr-box;}html{font-fay:sans-serif;-ms-text-size-adjt:100%;-webk-font-smoothg:antialiased;-webk-text-size-adjt:100%;scroll-behavr:smooth;overflow-x:hidn;overflow-y:to;}@media (prefers-rced-motn: rce){*{-webk-animatn-duratn:0.01ms!important;animatn-duratn:0.01ms!important;-webk-animatn-eratn-unt:1!important;animatn-eratn-unt:1!important;transn-duratn:0.01ms!important;scroll-behavr:to!important;}},{overflow:hidn;} #__next, #__next{overflow:hidn;}body{m-height:100vh;m-height:-webk-fill-available;}a{lor:her;}a:foc-visible{outle:0.125rem dotted;outle-offset:0.313rem;}button{lor:her;}img:-moz-loadg{lor:transparent;}.__rp-ntaer{posn:relative;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;}.__rp-ntaer:before{ntent:'""';lor:transparent;display:block;width:100%;height:0;paddg-bottom:var(--aspect-rat, 100%);}.__rp-ntaer img:not( img):not(.filmstrip-image-wrapper img):not([data-dynamic-svg]),.__rp-ntaer vio{posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;m-width:100%;height:var(--height, to);max-height:100%;object-f:var(--object-f, ver);}.__rp-ntaer vio{object-f:nta;}.__rp-ntaer {posn:absolute;top:0;}. img[importance=to]{-webk-transn:opacy 0.3s lear;transn:opacy 0.3s lear;opacy:0;}. img[importance=to].lazyload{opacy:1;}{posn:absolute;left:-10000px,width:1px;height:1px;paddg:0;marg:-1px;overflow:hidn;clip:rect(0, 0, 0, 0);whe-space:nowrap;borr-width:0;}{-webk-background-size:ver;background-size:ver;-webk-background-posn:center;background-posn:center;}@media prt{{display:none!important;}}@font-face{font-fay:'Juana';src:url('/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/fonts/Juana_Light.b12bb34.woff2') format('woff2');font-weight:300;font-style:normal;font-display:swap;}[data-embed]:not(:fed){display:none;}[data-embed]:fed{display:-webk-var(--data-embed-display, block);display:var(--data-embed-display, block);}</style><div id="__next"><style data-emotn="css-global ploijv">{clear:both;}@media (m-width: 90rem){():not([data-embed]="body-image"){clear:none;}}</style><sectn data-teractive="SiPanel-1" class="css-0 e7czha50"><style data-emotn="css 1rky92r">{visibily:hidn;ntent-visibily:hidn;background-lor:#ffffff;lor:#000;width:20rem;max-width:20rem;height:100%;overflow-x:hidn;overflow-y:scroll;posn:fixed;top:0rem;z-x:5999998;-webk-transn:-webk-transform 0.2s lear;transn:transform 0.2s lear;-webk-transform:translateX(-20rem);-moz-transform:translateX(-20rem);-ms-transform:translateX(-20rem);transform:translateX(-20rem);} >div{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;m-height:100%;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;} ~.sipanelToggleable{-webk-transform:ial;-moz-transform:ial;-ms-transform:ial;transform:ial;-webk-transn:-webk-transform 0.2s lear;transn:transform 0.2s lear;}{-webk-transform:translateX(0);-moz-transform:translateX(0);-ms-transform:translateX(0);transform:translateX(0);visibily:visible;ntent-visibily:to;} ~.sipanelToggleable{-webk-transform:translateX(20rem);-moz-transform:translateX(20rem);-ms-transform:translateX(20rem);transform:translateX(20rem);}@media(m-width: 90rem){ ~.sipanelToggleable{-webk-transform:translateX(7rem);-moz-transform:translateX(7rem);-ms-transform:translateX(7rem);transform:translateX(7rem);}}</style><nav id="sipanel" aria-hidn="te" class="new-sipanel-menu hidn css-1rky92r eqt11jm15"><div data-foc-lock-disabled="disabled" data-foc-lock="ma"><style data-emotn="css 1kkonqv">{marg:1rem 1rem 0 1rem;paddg:0 0.6rem;width:to;height:2.1875rem;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;marg-right:6rem;} svg{fill:#000000;}</style><a href="/search/" class="css-1kkonqv e1c1bym14"><style data-emotn="css 13htjwu">{width:1rem;height:1rem;}</style><svg alt="Search" tle="Search" data-dynamic-svg class="css-13htjwu eqt11jm0"><e data-href="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/"></e></svg><style data-emotn="css qxy83x">{paddg:1rem;lor:#000000;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02em;le-height:1.4;}</style><span class="css-qxy83x eqt11jm14">Search</span></a><style data-emotn="css 19toa0d">{paddg:0.6rem;right:1.0625rem;top:1rem;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;posn:absolute;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;}</style><a href="#" aria-label="Close Sipanel" class="css-19toa0d e1c1bym14"><style data-emotn="css 1lgifh3">{width:1rem;height:1rem;fill:#000000;}</style><svg alt="Close" role="img" tle="Close" data-dynamic-svg class="css-1lgifh3 eqt11jm13"><e data-href="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/"></e></svg></a><style data-emotn="css xwjhf9">{marg:0.5rem 1rem 0.125rem;paddg:0rem;opacy:35%;height:0.0625rem;borr:0;width:to;background-lor:#000000;lor:#fff;}</style><hr class="css-xwjhf9 eqt11jm12" /><style data-emotn="css 16b9o1x">{posn:relative;list-style:none;marg:0rem;paddg:0.6rem;-webk-flex:1 0 to;-ms-flex:1 0 to;flex:1 0 to;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;letter-spacg:0.02em;le-height:1.4;} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;}</style><ul class="css-16b9o1x eqt11jm11"><style data-emotn="css m3jgmd">{-webk-transn:background-lor 0.2s lear;transn:background-lor 0.2s lear;paddg:0 1rem;}{posn:relative;paddg:0.5rem 1rem;lor:#000000;-webk-transn:paddg 0.3s lear,background-lor 0.2s lear;transn:paddg 0.3s lear,background-lor 0.2s lear;}{paddg:0.5rem 1rem 0;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;}{outle:0.0625rem solid black;}@media (any-hover: hover){{background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;}}</style><li data-id="1" class="nav-em has-children has-submenu submenu-closed css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><style data-emotn="css 75z2gz">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;posn:relative;width:100%;height:2.875rem;lor:#000000;-webk-transn:lor 0.2s lear;transn:lor 0.2s lear;} {height:unset;display:le;-webk-align-ems:unset;-webk-box-align:unset;-ms-flex-align:unset;align-ems:unset;paddg:0.5rem 0;}@media (any-hover: hover){{lor:si-panel-menu-lk;}}</style><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Oprah Daily Insirs</a><style data-emotn="css pjjyzu">{posn:absolute;right:1.4rem;top:1.2rem;borr-lor:#000000;borr-style:solid;borr-width:0 0.0625rem 0.0625rem 0;paddg:0.2rem;-webk-transn:-webk-transform 0.25s ease--out;transn:transform 0.25s ease--out;cursor:poter;background-lor:transparent;lor:#fff;}.submenu-open {-webk-transform:rotate(45g);-moz-transform:rotate(45g);-ms-transform:rotate(45g);transform:rotate(45g);}.submenu-closed {-webk-transform:rotate(-45g);-moz-transform:rotate(-45g);-ms-transform:rotate(-45g);transform:rotate(-45g);}</style><button role="button" tabInx="0" aria-expand="false" class="css-pjjyzu eqt11jm7"></button><style data-emotn="css 1t2le0x animatn-1dfsy">{posn:relative;list-style:none;marg:0rem;paddg:0rem;max-height:0rem;-webk-transn:max-height 0.3s cubic-bezier(0, 1, 0, 1),opacy 0.2s lear 0.15s,marg 0.3s lear;transn:max-height 0.3s cubic-bezier(0, 1, 0, 1),opacy 0.2s lear 0.15s,marg 0.3s lear;height:unset;overflow:hidn;opacy:0;visibily:hidn;-webk-animatn:1s animatn-1dfsy;animatn:1s animatn-1dfsy;-webk-animatn-fill-mo:forwards;animatn-fill-mo:forwards;width:lc(100% + 2rem);marg-left:-1rem;background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000;}.submenu-open {max-height:27rem;overflow-y:scroll;height:to;opacy:1;visibily:visible;marg-top:0.75rem;}.submenu-closed {max-height:0rem;}@-webk-keyam animatn-1dfsy{99%{visibily:hidn;display:none;}100%{visibily:visible;display:block;}}@keyam animatn-1dfsy{99%{visibily:hidn;display:none;}100%{visibily:visible;display:block;}}</style><ul class="css-1t2le0x eqt11jm10"><style data-emotn="css c4pepa">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;cursor:poter;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;height:2.5rem;paddg:0 1rem;} {-webk-transn:background-lor 0.2s lear;transn:background-lor 0.2s lear;} {background-lor:#ffffff;lor:#000;} a{opacy:0.8;}{background-lor:#F5F5F5;lor:#000000;}</style><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Subscribe</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a rel="nofollow" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Insir Exclive Stori</a></li></ul></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">My Bookmarks</a></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/oprah-tentn-vios/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Intentns</a></li><li data-id="4" class="nav-em has-children has-submenu submenu-closed css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">The Life You Want Class</a><button role="button" tabInx="0" aria-expand="false" class="css-pjjyzu eqt11jm7"></button><ul class="css-1t2le0x eqt11jm10"><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Breathwork</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Longevy</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Menopse</a></li></ul></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Oprah's Favore Thgs</a></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/life/health/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Your Healthit Self</a></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/entertament/books/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Books</a></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/life/relatnships-love/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Relatnships</a></li><li data-id="9" class="nav-em has-children has-submenu submenu-closed css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/entertament/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Culture</a><button role="button" tabInx="0" aria-expand="false" class="css-pjjyzu eqt11jm7"></button><ul class="css-1t2le0x eqt11jm10"><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href="/entertament/tv-movi/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">TV & Movi</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href="/mic/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Mic</a></li></ul></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/life/work-money/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Work and Money</a></li><li data-id="11" class="nav-em has-children has-submenu submenu-closed css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/life/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Liftyle</a><button role="button" tabInx="0" aria-expand="false" class="css-pjjyzu eqt11jm7"></button><ul class="css-1t2le0x eqt11jm10"><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href="/life/food/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Food</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href="/travel/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Travel</a></li></ul></li><li data-id="12" class="nav-em has-children has-submenu submenu-closed css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/bety/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Bety</a><button role="button" tabInx="0" aria-expand="false" class="css-pjjyzu eqt11jm7"></button><ul class="css-1t2le0x eqt11jm10"><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href="/bety/hair/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Hair</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href="/bety/sk-makp/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Sk & Makp</a></li></ul></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href="/style/" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Style</a></li><li data-id="14" class="nav-em has-children has-submenu submenu-closed css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">The Oprah Daily Shop</a><button role="button" tabInx="0" aria-expand="false" class="css-pjjyzu eqt11jm7"></button><ul class="css-1t2le0x eqt11jm10"><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Love and Happs Journal</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Daily Inspiratn Cards</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">The Life You Want Planner</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Live Your Bt Life Mugs</a></li></ul></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Newsletter</a></li><li class="nav-em css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">About Us</a></li><li data-id="17" class="nav-em has-children has-submenu submenu-closed css-m3jgmd eqt11jm9"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="#follow" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Follow</a><button role="button" tabInx="0" aria-expand="false" class="css-pjjyzu eqt11jm7"></button><ul class="css-1t2le0x eqt11jm10"><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Instagram</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Facebook</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Twter</a></li><li class="nav-em css-c4pepa eqt11jm8"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-75z2gz e1c1bym14">Ptert</a></li></ul></li></ul><style data-emotn="css 5a7ket">{marg:0 to;} .ei3fq280{borr:0.0625rem solid black;}</style><div class="css-5a7ket eqt11jm3"></div><style data-emotn="css sfww4i">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;width:100%;height:3.125rem;-webk-flex-shrk:0;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrk:0;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;paddg-left:1rem;}</style><footer class="sipanel-footer-ntaer css-sfww4i eqt11jm2"><style data-emotn="css 1o0jy4g">{font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;letter-spacg:0.025em;le-height:1.3;marg-right:1rem;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;} {-webk-transn:opacy 0.2 lear;transn:opacy 0.2 lear;} {lor:activsi-panel-sub-menu-hover;}{marg-right:0rem;}</style><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-1o0jy4g e1c1bym14">Privacy Notice</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="/terms-of-e" class="css-1o0jy4g e1c1bym14">Terms Of Use</a></footer></div></nav></sectn><div data-foc-lock-disabled="disabled" data-foc-lock="ma" class="sipanelToggleable"><span tabInx="0"></span><style data-emotn="css 13t8k">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;background-lor:#E61957;borr:medium solid whe;borr-radi:50rem;box-shadow:0 0 0 3px #55adff;lor:#ffffff;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.75rem;font-weight:bold;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;left:1rem;letter-spacg:0.05em;le-height:1.15;opacy:0;paddg:0.625rem 1.25rem;paddg-left:2rem;paddg-right:2rem;posn:absolute;text-align:center;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-transform:upperse;top:1rem;-webk-transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));-moz-transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));-ms-transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));width:to;z-x:9999999;}@media(max-width: 73.75rem){{m-width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{m-width:11.25rem;}}{opacy:1;-webk-transform:translateY(0%);-moz-transform:translateY(0%);-ms-transform:translateY(0%);transform:translateY(0%);}{outle:none;}{background-lor:#9D002F;lor:#ffffff;}</style><style data-emotn="css 1w0mzhy">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;background-lor:#E61957;borr:medium solid whe;borr-radi:50rem;box-shadow:0 0 0 3px #55adff;lor:#ffffff;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.75rem;font-weight:bold;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;left:1rem;letter-spacg:0.05em;le-height:1.15;opacy:0;paddg:0.625rem 1.25rem;paddg-left:2rem;paddg-right:2rem;posn:absolute;text-align:center;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-transform:upperse;top:1rem;-webk-transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));-moz-transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));-ms-transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));transform:translateY(lc(-100% - 2.5rem));width:to;z-x:9999999;}@media(max-width: 73.75rem){{m-width:100%;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{m-width:11.25rem;}}{opacy:1;-webk-transform:translateY(0%);-moz-transform:translateY(0%);-ms-transform:translateY(0%);transform:translateY(0%);}{outle:none;}{background-lor:#9D002F;lor:#ffffff;}</style><a href="#ma-ntent" class="e1i650950 css-1w0mzhy e1c1bym14">Skip to Content</a><style data-emotn="css 12vlgu8">{background-lor:#000000;lor:#fff;height:100%;posn:-webk-sticky;posn:sticky;top:var(--nav-offset, 0);z-x:999;}@media prt{{display:none;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{borr-bottom:0.125rem solid #E61957;borr-image-slice:1;borr-image-source:lear-gradient(to right, #0ED2C6 0 15%, #7A3BAF, #FF3F44);posn:-webk-sticky;posn:sticky;top:var(--nav-offset, 0);}}</style><nav data-trackg-id="topNav" class="css-12vlgu8 efnztv77"><style data-emotn="css 1pqs8">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;height:100%;marg:0 to;max-width:75rem;paddg-left:0;paddg-right:0;width:100%;z-x:1;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{-webk-box-flex-wrap:nowrap;-webk-flex-wrap:nowrap;-ms-flex-wrap:nowrap;flex-wrap:nowrap;}}</style><div class="nav-bar-ntaer css-1pqs8 efnztv76"><style data-emotn="css ggl5nc">{le-height:0.7;marg-left:0.9375rem;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{paddg:0.5rem 0.25rem 0.5rem 0.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg:0.5rem 0.25rem 0.5rem 0;} svg{fill:#ffffff;-webk-transn:fill 0.3s ease--out;transn:fill 0.3s ease--out;} svg:hover{fill:#ffffff;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem) and (max-width: 90rem){{marg-left:2.5rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg:0.5rem 0.625rem 0.5rem 0.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{marg-left:0rem;}} svg{width:1.875rem;height:1.875rem;}</style><a aria-label="Sipanel Button" href="#sipanel" class="css-ggl5nc e1c1bym14"><svg alt="Menu" tle="Si Panel" data-dynamic-svg><e href="/_assets/sign-tokens/e/static/ins/"></e></svg></a><style data-emotn="css 5lrzot">{height:to;le-height:0;marg-right:to;width:7.5625rem;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{marg-right:0.3125rem;}}</style><a href="/" aria-label="Oprah Daily" class="nav-logo css-5lrzot e1c1bym14"><img data-dynamic-svg src="/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/imag/logos/" fetchprry="high" alt="Logo" height="to" width="to" class="css-0 e1ccpyf90" /></a><style data-emotn="css 1kmx18w">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;borr-bottom:th solid #F5F5F5;borr-top:th solid #F5F5F5;borr-width:0.125rem;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-orr:1;-ms-flex-orr:1;orr:1;overflow-x:to;overflow-y:hidn;width:100%;}@media(max-width: 73.75rem){{borr-top:0.125rem solid #E61957;borr-bottom:0;borr-image-slice:1;borr-image-source:lear-gradient(to right, #0ED2C6 0 15%, #7A3BAF, #FF3F44);}}@media(m-width: 20rem){{background-lor:her;}}@media(m-width: 61.25rem){{background-lor:her;borr-top:0;borr-bottom:0;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{-webk-orr:0;-ms-flex-orr:0;orr:0;width:to;}}{height:0rem;}</style><div style="scrollbar-width: none;" class="css-1kmx18w efnztv73"><style data-emotn="css xs3857">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;list-style:none;marg:0rem;paddg-left:1.125rem;-webk-transform:translateX(unfedpx);-moz-transform:translateX(unfedpx);-ms-transform:translateX(unfedpx);transform:translateX(unfedpx);width:100%;}@media(m-width: 40.625rem) and (max-width: 61.25rem){{paddg-left:2.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:3.125rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><ul class="css-xs3857 efnztv72"><style data-emotn="css b3xl25">{font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;letter-spacg:0.02em;le-height:1.3;paddg:0 1.875rem 0 1.25rem;text-transform:palize;whe-space:nowrap;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg:0 1.25rem 0 1.25rem;paddg-left:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.625rem;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0.625rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:1.875rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:1.875rem;}}</style><li class="css-b3xl25 efnztv71"><style data-emotn="css c8i4ma">{lor:her;display:le-block;le-height:2.58918;m-height:3rem;m-width:3rem;paddg:.5rem 0 .5rem 0;text-align:center;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;-webk-transn:outle 0.3s ease--out,outle-offset 0.3s ease--out;transn:outle 0.3s ease--out,outle-offset 0.3s ease--out;}@media(m-width: 61.25rem){{lor:her;}}{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;}</style><style data-emotn="css 7qn7yr">{lor:her;display:le-block;le-height:2.58918;m-height:3rem;m-width:3rem;paddg:.5rem 0 .5rem 0;text-align:center;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;-webk-transn:outle 0.3s ease--out,outle-offset 0.3s ease--out;transn:outle 0.3s ease--out,outle-offset 0.3s ease--out;}@media(m-width: 61.25rem){{lor:her;}}{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;}</style><a href="/oprah-tentn-vios/" aria-current="false" class="e1c1bym11 css-7qn7yr e1c1bym14">Intentn</a></li><li class="css-b3xl25 efnztv71"><a href="/lights/" aria-current="false" class="e1c1bym11 css-7qn7yr e1c1bym14">Delights</a></li><li class="css-b3xl25 efnztv71"><a href="/entertament/books/" aria-current="false" class="e1c1bym11 css-7qn7yr e1c1bym14">Books</a></li><li class="css-b3xl25 efnztv71"><a href="/longevy-class/" aria-current="false" class="e1c1bym11 css-7qn7yr e1c1bym14">The Longevy Class</a></li><li class="css-b3xl25 efnztv71"><a href="/life/a41652152/oprahs-favore-thgs-2022/" aria-current="false" class="e1c1bym11 css-7qn7yr e1c1bym14">Favore Thgs</a></li></ul></div><style data-emotn="css 16rmqjy">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;background-lor:#E61957;borr:th solid transparent;borr-radi:50rem;lor:#000;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;font-weight:bold;height:1.875rem;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;letter-spacg:0.05em;le-height:1.2;marg:0 0 0 to;marg-bottom:1rem;marg-top:1rem;paddg-left:1.05rem;paddg-right:1.05rem;text-align:center;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-transform:upperse;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;width:to;} {width:unset;word-spacg:unset;}@media (any-hover: hover){{-webk-transn:box-shadow 0.2s lear,background 0.2s lear;transn:box-shadow 0.2s lear,background 0.2s lear;}{;;}}@media(max-width: 48rem){{marg-right:0.625rem;}}{outle:0.125rem dotted #000000;outle-offset:0.2rem;}{outle-lor:#000000;}{box-shadow:0 0.25rem 0.375rem -0.0625rem rgb(0 0 0 / 10%),0 0.125rem 0.25rem -0.0625rem rgb(0 0 0 / 6%);background-lor:#9D002F;lor:#ffffff;borr:th solid transparent;}</style><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href=" class="css-16rmqjy e1c1bym14">Subscribe</a><style data-emotn="css 1y41cbl">{paddg-right:0.9375rem;posn:relative;}@media(m-width: 40.625rem) and (max-width: 90rem){{paddg-right:2.5rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-right:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-1y41cbl e7dmux20"><style data-emotn="css 3f44o2">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;letter-spacg:0.02em;le-height:1.3;marg-left:0.3125rem;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-transform:palize;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg-left:0.9375rem;}}</style><a rel="nofollow" href="/th/csrf?actn=log&return_url=/" class="css-3f44o2 e1c1bym14"><style data-emotn="css mq46yn">{whe-space:nowrap;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.3;letter-spacg:0.02em;text-transform:palize;}</style><span class="css-mq46yn e7dmux21">sign </span></a></div></div></nav><div class="oop-ad css-0 e1x3pu1"><div id="gpt-ad-oop-1" class="ad-ntaer css-0 e1x3pu0"></div></div><style data-emotn="css 1ny62y9">{background-lor:bg-primary;posn:relative;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{marg-right:var(--sponsor-panel-width, to);}}</style><ma id="ma-ntent" class="css-1ny62y9 e1q9j2sb0"><style data-emotn="css 11eq7o5">{borr-bottom:th solid #969696;borr-top:th solid #969696;lor:#6F6F6F;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;paddg:.9375rem .625rem;text-align:center;width:lc(100% + (.938rem*2));}@media prt{{display:none;}}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100vw;}}</style><div class="css-11eq7o5 eidw0493"><style data-emotn="css 1c5ip">{marg:0rem;paddg-left:1.875rem;paddg-right:1.875rem;}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:2.5rem;paddg-right:2.5rem;}}</style><p class="css-1c5ip eidw0491"><span class="css-0 eidw0490">Our edors handpick the products that we feature. We may earn missn om the lks on this page.</span></p></div><style data-emotn="css joveom">{width:100%;max-width:100vw;display:grid;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;posn:relative;z-x:to;}@media prt{{max-width:100%;}} .ejku7p03{top:0.75rem;right:0.75rem;bottom:to;}</style><hear class="css-joveom exadjwu12"><style data-emotn="css 1s0pb9c">{marg:to lc(50% - 50vw) 0.9375rem;width:100vw;}</style><div class="css-1s0pb9c m8yu71"><style data-emotn="css 8atqhb">{width:100%;}</style><div class="css-8atqhb exadjwu5"><style data-emotn="css 1l0fjlu">{width:100%;posn:relative;} img{width:100%;height:100%;object-f:ver;vertil-align:top;}</style><picture class="css-1l0fjlu e1t1zklq0"><source srcSet="" media="(m-width: 73.75rem)" /><source srcSet="" media="(m-width: 48rem) and (max-width: 73.75rem)" /><source srcSet="" media="(m-width: 40.625rem)" /><img src="" alt="tv show logos on lorful pri tv background" tle="tv show logos on lorful pri tv background" width="1920" height="1080" dg="async" fetchPrry="high" siz="100vw" /></picture><style data-emotn="css 13l7o78">{paddg-left:0.625rem;}</style><div class="css-13l7o78 m8yu70"><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><style data-emotn="css 1sepnu9">{paddg-right:0.3125rem;lor:#6F6F6F;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1.2;letter-spacg:0.05em;text-transform:upperse;}</style><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Dign by Nile Goldfarb</span></figptn></div></div><style data-emotn="css mktybr">{marg:0 to;max-width:75rem;paddg:0 0.938rem;text-align:center;}@media(m-width: 64rem){[data-has-sponsor] {text-align:start;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg:0 2.5rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg:0.9375rem 1.875rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg:0 1.875rem;}}</style><div class="css-mktybr exadjwu4"><nav aria-label="breadcmbs" class="css-0 e9l0kn03"><style data-emotn="css t5yjrh">{lor:#6F6F6F;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;list-style:none;marg:0 to;max-width:75rem;paddg:1.25rem 1.25rem 0 1.6875rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:1.25rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg:1.25rem 2.5rem 0 3.3125rem;paddg-left:2.5rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg:1.25rem 0 0 0.8125rem;paddg-left:0;}}</style><ol emSpe emType=" class="css-t5yjrh e9l0kn02"><style data-emotn="css zxq36b">{display:le;}{paddg:0.25rem;ntent:">";}</style><li emProp="emListElement" emSpe emType=" class="css-zxq36b e9l0kn01"><style data-emotn="css rg26">{-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;}{lor:#000000;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;}</style><style data-emotn="css 10asp0m">{-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;}{lor:#000000;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;}</style><a emProp="em" href="/entertament/" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Breadcmbs" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Culture & News" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="e9l0kn00 css-10asp0m e1c1bym14"><span emProp="name">Culture & News</span></a><meta emProp="posn" ntent="1" /></li><li emProp="emListElement" emSpe emType=" class="css-zxq36b e9l0kn01"><a emProp="em" href="/entertament/tv-movi/" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Breadcmbs" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="TV & Movi" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="e9l0kn00 css-10asp0m e1c1bym14"><span emProp="name">TV & Movi</span></a><meta emProp="posn" ntent="2" /></li><style data-emotn="css huh8md">{display:none;}{paddg:0.25rem;ntent:">";}</style><li emProp="emListElement" emSpe emType=" class="css-huh8md e9l0kn01"><a emProp="em" href="/entertament/tv-movi/a40369030/bt-lgbtq-tv-shows/" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Breadcmbs" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="13 Televisn Shows That Are Makg the LGBTQ+ Communy Proud" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="e9l0kn00 css-10asp0m e1c1bym14"><span emProp="name">13 Televisn Shows That Are Makg the LGBTQ+ Communy Proud</span></a><meta emProp="posn" ntent="3" /></li></ol></nav><style data-emotn="css nno972">{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:300;grid-lumn:1/-1;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-top:0;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.5rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;font-size:2.5rem;le-height:1.1;letter-spacg:-0.01em;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg-bottom:1rem;font-size:3.25rem;le-height:1.1;letter-spacg:-0.02em;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:3.875rem;le-height:1.05;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{font-size:3.875rem;le-height:1.05;}} span:first-of-type:before{-webk-background-posn:center;background-posn:center;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webk-background-size:ver;background-size:ver;ntent:'';display:block;height:1.125rem;width:1.375rem;} span:first-of-type:before{background-image:url('/_assets/sign-tokens/oprahdaily/static/imag/');}@media(max-width: 73.75rem){ span:first-of-type:before{marg:1.25rem to;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){ span:first-of-type:before{marg:1.75rem to;}}</style><h1 class="css-nno972 exadjwu10"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span>13 Televisn Shows That Are Makg the LGBTQ+ Communy Proud<span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h1><style data-emotn="css 157op6k">{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.3125rem;font-weight:normal;letter-spacg:-0.01em;le-height:1.2;marg-bottom:0;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:1.25rem;paddg-right:1.25rem;}} p{marg:0rem;} a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-157op6k exadjwu8"><p>From Netflix's<em> First Kill </em>and<em> Heartstopper </em>to Showtime's <em>The L Word: Generatn Q </em>and<em> Yellowjackets</em>, the TV shows celebrate the diverse inty of the LGBTQ+ muny.</p></div><style data-emotn="css 1t9ufoh">{display:block;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0.625rem 0 0.3125rem;marg-bottom:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{marg-top:1.35rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg-top:1.75rem;}} addrs{marg:0rem;} span{le-height:1.6;display:le-block;marg:0rem;}</style><div class="css-1t9ufoh exadjwu7"><style data-emotn="css b9totx">{font-style:normal;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0.625rem 0 0.3125rem;}</style><addrs class="css-b9totx ehvvd9m2"><style data-emotn="css 1gwutwq">{paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;marg:0.625rem 0 0.3125rem;}</style><span class="css-1gwutwq ehvvd9m1"><style data-emotn="css 1sa04t">{borr-radi:50%;vertil-align:middle;marg-right:0.3125rem;object-f:ver;}</style><img src="" alt="Headshot of Gretchen Smail" tle="Headshot of Gretchen Smail" width="40" height="40" dg="async" fetchPrry="high" class=" css-1sa04t ehvvd9m0" />By <style data-emotn="css 7l5upj">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href="/thor/248416/gretchen-smail/" class="css-7l5upj e1c1bym14">Gretchen Smail</a></span><style data-emotn="css 1gryrf1">{display:le-block;text-transform:unset;marg-left:0.625rem;}</style><time class="css-1gryrf1 exadjwu6">Published: Jun 24, 2022</time></addrs></div><style data-emotn="css wkpw2c">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><div class="no-prt css-wkpw2c exadjwu15"><style data-emotn="css 1hpjtwr">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;posn:relative;marg-top:0.9375rem;}</style><div class="ntent-hear-actns css-1hpjtwr exadjwu14"><style data-emotn="css 1x55pmg">{background-lor:#E61957;lor:#ffffff;borr:th solid transparent;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;paddg:0.625rem 1.25rem;marg-top:0rem;marg-bottom:0rem;-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-transform:upperse;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;width:to;borr-radi:50rem;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;letter-spacg:0.05em;}{background-lor:#9D002F;lor:#ffffff;cursor:poter;borr:th solid transparent;}{marg-left:1rem;}{outle:0.125rem dotted #000000;outle-offset:0.2rem;}</style><button data-tooltip-id="article-hear-save" class="ntentSaveButton css-1x55pmg e12nq69g1"><style data-emotn="css 7g4d0s">{width:1rem;height:1rem;marg-right:0.625rem;} path{fill:#ffffff;} path{fill:#ffffff;}</style><svg xmlns=" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 48 62" class="css-7g4d0s e10k4xbi2"><path fill="#000" fill-le="evenodd" d="M24 46.52 48 61V0H0v61.44l24-14.92ZM5.67 50.9 24 39.5l18.33 11.4V5.7H5.67v45.2Z" clip-le="evenodd"></path></svg>Save Article</button><style data-emotn="css 3s1l0y">{width:160px;text-align:left;lor:#595959;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.70284rem;le-height:1.1;letter-spacg:0.045rem;}</style></div></div></div></div></hear><style data-emotn="css 149neno">{marg-left:to;marg-right:to;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;max-width:m(lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem), lc(100vw - 1rem * 2));} .e152u5os0{marg-left:lc((100vw - m(lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem), lc(100vw - 1rem * 2)))/-2);width:100vw;}@media(m-width: 48rem) and (max-width: 61.25rem){ .e152u5os0{marg-left:lc(lc((100vw - m(lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem), lc(100vw - 1rem * 2)))/-2) - 3.5rem);}}@media(m-width: 90rem){ .e152u5os0{paddg-left:0.1rem;paddg-right:0.1rem;marg-left:lc(lc((100vw - m(lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem), lc(100vw - 1rem * 2)))/-2));}}</style><div class="longform-ntaer ntent-ntaer article-ntaer css-149neno ewisyje2"><style data-emotn="css woto36">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;posn:relative;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:3.5rem;paddg-right:3.5rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem) and (max-width: 61.25rem){{max-width:45.25rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;}}@media(m-width: 61.25rem){{paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem) and (max-width: 100rem){{paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;paddg-right:0rem;}} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}{clear:both;ntent:" ";display:block;font-size:0.7rem;le-height:1.5rem;height:0rem;visibily:hidn;}</style><div class="article-body-ntent article-body longform-body css-woto36 ewisyje7"><style data-emotn="css hxci">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;}{float:left;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;marg-right:0.9375rem;marg-bottom:-0.625rem;marg-top:0;}{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:3.8431rem;font-weight:300;le-height:1;}@-moz-document url-prefix(){{marg-top:0.625rem;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:6.25rem;le-height:0.9;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:6.25rem;le-height:0.9;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:7.87499rem;le-height:0.9;}} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="body-dropp css-hxci et3p2gv0">In 2000, Showtime premiered <em>Queer as Folk</em>, followed by <em>The L Word </em> 2004. Neher show was perfect—both centered on affluent, whe, and th characters—but they were both revolutnary for their time. In the early ghts, LGBTQ+ reprentatn on televisn was still rare, and <em>Queer as Folk </em>and <em>The L Word</em> particular centered queer characters while allowg them to embody a full range of human emotns and experienc, rather than be relegated to jt a tragic si character or quirky bt iend.</p><style data-emotn="css aeyldl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} em{font-style:alic;font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The dramas gave the muny a shared pot of nnectn, worked to change perceptns around queerns, and gave viewers an opportuny to see queer characters who were both plex and thrivg. For many, the shows were a sgular, val way to feel seen and loved. After all, <em>Queer as Folk </em>premiered two years after <style data-emotn="css 9cezh6">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#E61957;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="ABC nceled Ellen DeGener’s s" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>ABC nceled Ellen DeGener’s s</u></a> followg protts over her g out, and <em>The L Word </em>aired a year before the heartbreakg romance <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Brokeback Mounta buted amid wispread ntroversy and backlash" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><em>Brokeback Mounta </em>buted amid wispread ntroversy and backlash</a>.<br /></p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Today’s media landspe seems to be improvg: <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="GLAAD reported their annual “Where Are We on TV” study that we’re seeg a wir array of shows" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>GLAAD reported their annual “Where Are We on TV” study that we’re seeg a wir array of shows</u></a> that lve to the nuanc of inty and explore how there’s no sgular experience or “right” way to be queer. Beloved shows like<em> Pose, Feel Good, Dickson, It’s a S, Euphoria, Hacks</em>, and <em>One Mississippi </em>have all featured queer ma characters grapplg wh real-life issu, such as substance abe, reer hurdl, and faial tragedy. </p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Elsewhere, we’re seeg an creasg number of three-dimensnal characters ensemble seri, om the romantic foibl of Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) on <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="teen edy " class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">teen edy </a><em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Sex Edutn" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Sex Edutn</a> </em>to <a href="'Umbrella,referred%20to%20as%20Number%20Seven." target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk="'Umbrella,referred%20to%20as%20Number%20Seven." data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Ellt Page’s character g out as a trans man" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Ellt Page’s character g out as a trans man</a> on <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="The Umbrella Amy" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">The Umbrella Amy</a></em>, as well as wizards Moirae (Rosamund Pike) and Siuan (Sophie Okonedo) fallg love on fantasy seri <em><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Wheel of Time" data-vars-ga-product-id="e0b83ea6-9ba7-44e2-bbac-a18884bb6a" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"31518d15-56f8-4a3f-8799-8066452d82","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{},"work":{"id":"469ce69f-4798-416d-9432-eaa9954b4053","name":"Amazon","metadata":{}}}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="ee63d34e-7623-4cdf-bcda-7f706da65446" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0">Wheel of Time</a></em>. </p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="4" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="wh an creasg amount of young people openly intifyg as queer the media we nsume will only ntue to reflect this realy" tle="wh an creasg amount of young people openly intifyg as queer the media we nsume will only ntue to reflect this realy" loadg="lazy" width="1332" height="800" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"></div></div></div><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Wh an creasg amount of <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="young people openly intifyg as queer" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>young people openly intifyg as queer</u></a>, the media we nsume will only ntue to reflect this realy. From a lbian perd piece to swashbucklg gay pirat, check out the currently streamg shows—wh some that don’t necsarily center on a queer lead—that celebrate LGBTQ+ stori, makg them jt as vibrant and val as ever.</p><style data-emotn="css 1m6q79k">{font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:normal;letter-spacg:-0.005em;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.125rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.625rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="6" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">1. <em>The L Word: Generatn Q</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="7" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="the l word tv show" tle="the l word tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Liz Morris/SHOWTIME</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Given how formative the origal was, 's no surprise that Showtime rebooted <em>The L Word </em>for a younger dience. Boastg a <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="more diverse wrers room" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>more diverse wrers room</u></a> this time around, <em>Generatn Q</em> seems aware of the shortgs of the origal, reflectg the<em> te </em>diversy of Los Angel. The reboot still follows characters Bette (Jennifer Beals), Shane (Kathere Moennig), and Alice (Leisha Hailey), but also troduc a number of newer and more youthful characters, whose storyl overlap and unfold unique ways.</p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The more nsc foc on diversy is most reflected s racial and trans reprentatn. Though the 2004 versn featured <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="televisn’s first trans man seri regular wh Max Sweeney" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">televisn’s first trans man seri regular wh Max Sweeney</a> (Daniela Sea), he was portrayed as a utnary tale about transng. In ntrast, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Generatn Q featur Leo Sheng" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><em><u>Generatn Q</u></em><u> featur Leo Sheng</u></a>’s Mih Lee, a gentle tor whose inty as a trans man evolv over the urse of two seasons. He eventually go om cshg on the neighborhood male hotti to fallg for his iend Mirabel (Jillian Merdo), an Ao-Latx attorney who has mcular dystrophy. Siarly, the seri lv eper to characters of lor than s precsor, focg on a central romance between <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Dani (Arienne Mandi) and Sophie (Rosanny Zayas)" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>Dani (Arienne Mandi) and Sophie (Rosanny Zayas)</u></a>, two Latx women who e om <em>very</em> different backgrounds and clash as a rult. </p><p data-no-id="10" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The chang make the reboot feel more culturally and socially aware, while still beg as sexy and soapy as ever. It’s still <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="not immune to crique" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>not immune to crique</u></a>—issu around fatphobia, for example, persist—but what’s great is that now the <em>L Word </em>no longer has to rry the burn of beg the only show on air about queer inty, and n jt be leisurely enjoyed like a beachy summer read. </p><p data-no-id="11" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><style data-emotn="css 1mgakr0">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#000;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;display:le-block;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;text-transform:upperse;width:to;paddg:0.625rem 1.25rem;background-lor:#E61957;borr-radi:50rem;font-weight:bold;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.3;letter-spacg:0.02em;text-align:center;}{lor:#fff;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;background-lor:#9D002F;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="e9d94d77-ed9f-4ac5-8687-7762f0e2b4" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-price="$84.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="a4e1c6a5-aff3-4065-b415-4b7ae633379e" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="12" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">2. <em>Yellowjackets</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="13" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="yellowjackets tv show screenshot" tle="yellowjackets tv show screenshot" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Kailey Schwerman/SHOWTIME</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="14" class="body-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">If <em>Yellowjackets </em>premiered 10 years ago, the four ma leads—Shna, Taissa, Natalie, and Misty—likely would have all been jt whe and straight. But, thankfully, that isn’t the se, as the seri wouldn’t be the same whout Taissa, played two separate timel by Tawny Cyprs and Jasm Savoy Brown. The seri, which premiered 2021, follows a high school girls soccer team whose plane mysterly crash the woods, forcg them all to creasgly <em>Lord of the Fli</em>-que scenars that eventually lead to cultism, nnibalism, and possibly wchcraft. While Taissa’s story isn’t about her intifyg as a lbian, ’s certaly an tegral part of who she is, and her sexualy plays to both her teen and adult storyl, where she fends off creatur both real and (possibly) supernatural as they target her girliend, and later, her wife and child.</p><p data-no-id="15" class="body-text css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>Yellowjackets</em><em> </em>may be the fn of “I support women’s wrongs,” and Taissa may very well be the most clever and thls of all the women. But the wake of teen soccer film <em>Bend It Like Beckham</em> beg dubbed <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="“the gayt love story never told,”" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>“the gayt love story never told,”</u></a> ’s rehg that a show fally acknowledg that y, there are queer women who play and love soccer, as <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Megan Rapoe n attt" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>Megan Rapoe n attt</u></a>.</p><p data-no-id="16" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="0596357e-c1f0-4d3f-af-08231e180a" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Pilot" data-vars-ga-product-price="$84.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="80451900-06b7-4f8b-aa5c-0eb24827f84d" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Pilot" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="17" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">3. <em>Our Flag Means Death</em><br /></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="18" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="our flag means ath tv show" tle="our flag means ath tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Aaron Epste/HBO Max</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">David Jenks’ <em>Our Flag Means Death</em> is an unabashedly queer romp on the high seas. Loosely based on the life of Ste Bon's <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="“The Gentleman Pirate,”" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>“The Gentleman Pirate,”</u></a> the seri tak liberti wh history and portrays a romance between Ste (Rhys Darby) and the notor pirate Blackbeard (Taika Wai). Full of dark humor and pathos, the story follows the genteel Ste as he learns to be a ltle more thls and attempts to teach Blackbeard to be a ltle ls so.</p><p data-no-id="20" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">It’s a h take on an often very stereotypilly mascule and straight genre, and ’s credible to see how the seri portrays Ste havg a nearly all queer crew, cludg Luci (Nathan Foad), Black Pete (Matthew Maher), Oluwan (Samson Kayo), and Jim, who’s played by nonbary actor Vi Ortiz and teach the crew to e they/them pronouns. This is stark parison to shows the early ghts, which were often cricized for teasg dienc wh possible romantic relatnships between same-sex leads, only to pull back last mute—<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a term lled “queer-bag.”" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>a term lled “queer-bag.”</u></a> In a Verge terview, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Jenks admted that he had no ia how prevalent queer-bag was" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0">Jenks admted that he had no ia <u>how prevalent queer-bag was</u></a>, and he found “heartbreakg” how many fans were “aaid to let themselv believe that” the show<em> really</em> was leadg up to a Ste and Blackbeard romance. <em>Our Flag Means Death</em> feels revolutnary how effortlsly portrays all the queer characters livg, sgg, and pillagg together.</p><p data-no-id="21" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="98baab39-c66d-4aa7-9711-e32dae88720a" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="d63052e7-9e16-4592-940c-2e65d60a6396" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="22" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">4. <em>Gentleman Jack</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="23" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="gentlemen jack tv show" tle="gentlemen jack tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Aimee Spks/Lookout Pot/HBO</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="24" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">For lovers of perd piec who wish the Geian era had more women kissg, <em>Gentleman Jack </em>is for you. This seri is notable for the sheer fact that tells the <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="te story of 1800s lbian dtrialist and landowner Anne Lister" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>te story of 1800s lbian dtrialist and landowner Anne Lister</u></a>, who chronicled her travels, studi, and “love for the fairer sex” over 24 volum of diari. <em>Gentleman Jack</em> is a lh queer romance done the style of <em>Emma </em>or <em>Pri and Prejudice</em>—somethg we’ve never seen before beyond films like <em>The Favoure </em>and <em>Portra of a Lady on Fire.</em></p><p data-no-id="25" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The seri also ph to qutn how much of history has been “straight-washed.” After all, Anne wore mascule cloth, but her stat as a member of the upper class allowed her to get away wh beg dubbed an eccentric. She married a woman, but there weren’t any urts that regnized as legal. She even wrote extensively her diari about her sexual dallianc wh women, but was all done <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="d “crypt hand”" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>d “crypt hand”</u></a> that morn day historians are still unravellg today. Not only is the show a remr that queer people existed at all pots history, remds viewers that queer history simply is <em>our </em>shared history. </p><p data-no-id="26" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="593347db-74ea-45f5-adf8-85ce9170be8b" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="lu" data-vars-ga-product-price="$1.00" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="a430d3ab-e94a-4e3a-927d-0511edaafe29" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="lu" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="27" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">5. <em>Sort Of </em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="28" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="sort of tv show ma character" tle="sort of tv show ma character" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Courty of HBO Max</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="29" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Sometim a show don’t need to be anythg more than a quiet and ntaed matn about life and the choic that fe . Such is the way wh the drama <em>Sort Of</em>, which was -created by and stars Bilal Baig, who’s notable for beg <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the first queer South Asian Mlim actor" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>the first queer South Asian Mlim actor</u></a> to lead a Canadian primetime seri. Baig plays Sabi, a genr-fluid Pakistani Mlim nanny, who’s a ltle too nice for their own good and is torn between a big, life-changg move or stayg put to re for a fay. As <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Baig explaed to Xtra Magaze" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>Baig explaed to </u><em><u>Xtra Magaze</u></em></a>, the show is ls about a tradnal g out narrative than is about “somebody who’s on the quieter si of life,” who exus a lm “energy and ra.” The rult is a pretty soothg and tenr dramedy that feels siar to <em>Fleabag </em>and also don’t shy away om the cultural clash that Sabi fac as a non-bary brown person. The seri also boasts several queer leads, cludg Sabi’s bt iend 7ven (Amanda Cordner), and their employer, Bsy (Grace Lynn Kung).</p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>Sort Of</em>’s gentle and straightforward humor has clearly ronated wh viewers. <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Baig told Fashn Magaze" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>Baig told </u><em><u>Fashn Magaze</u></em></a> that the wake of season 1, their DMs have been full of “love and gratu” om viewers who felt seen by Sabi. “Their parents have started to e their pronouns rrectly,” they said. “They feel more certa than ever that they will transn or e out to their fay. It’s like this spir of openg.” <em>Sort Of</em> was renewed for <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="season 2 Febary" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>season 2 Febary</u></a>. </p><p data-no-id="31" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="eb1b9102-b7a3-4203-bd6b-df7a896ead60" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="f68d403d-0496-4e6f-8d6b-b4db4a4a62" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="32" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">6. <em>Heartstopper</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="33" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="heartstopper tv show" tle="heartstopper tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Courty of NETFLIX</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="34" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">You n’t get much softer than<em> Heartstopper</em>, a dreamy g-of-age rom- based on a <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="slice-of-life web ic by Alice Oseman" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>slice-of-life web ic by Alice Oseman</u></a>. Compared to <em>Love, Simon</em>, which centered on the trma of g out, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Oseman explaed to Buzzfeed" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>Oseman explaed to Buzzfeed</u></a> that she “really lik takg characters through queer disvery a joyful way.” The story follows Charlie (Joe Locke), an awkward schoolboy who falls love wh Nick (K Connor), the good-natured jock he ss bi. The seri also expands the ic’s story to clu Charlie’s almost entirely queer group of iends, which notably clus Elle (Yasm Fney), a trans girl who transfers to a nearby girls school and forms her own group of queer iends there and pursu a romance wh Tao (William Gao), her iend om her prev all-boys school.</p><p data-no-id="35" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">While the seri don’t avoid acknowledgg teenage homophobia and bullyg, the issu are often smoothed over wh the gidds of havg a teen csh. <em>Heartstopper </em>feels radil how don’t dwell on feelgs of shame, and stead centers self around the joy of a young queer person beg able to live their full and thentic self. This portrayal has clearly ronated wh viewers: It nabbed a rare <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="100% crics ratg on Rotten Tomato" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>100% crics ratg on Rotten Tomato</u></a>, along wh <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="an early season 2 renewal" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>an early season 2 renewal</u></a> followg s April 2022 but.</p><p data-no-id="36" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><style data-emotn="css 17dphmw">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#000;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;display:le-block;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;text-transform:upperse;width:to;paddg:0.625rem 1.25rem;background-lor:#E61957;borr-radi:50rem;font-weight:bold;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.3;letter-spacg:0.02em;text-align:center;}{lor:#fff;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;background-lor:#9D002F;}{outle-lor:body-cta-btn-lk-foc;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-17dphmw et3p2gv0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="37" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">7. <em>First Kill </em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="38" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="first kill tv show" tle="first kill tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Brian Douglas/Netflix © 2022</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="39" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><em>Romeo and Juliet </em>meets <em>Twilight </em> Netflix’s queer lbian romance <em>First Kill</em>. Based on a short story by V.E. Schwab, <em>First Kill </em>centers on Juliette and Callpe, star-crossed lovers om rival fai. The two young teens meet unr rather ght circumstanc: Vampire Juliette has picked Callpe as her first victim, not knowg that she om a long le of credibly proficient monster hunters. </p><p data-no-id="40" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The vampire subgenre has long equated <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="vampirism wh queerns" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>vampirism wh queerns</u></a>—most notably wh the 1872 erotic novella <em>Carla</em>—yet queer reprentatn vampire shows and films has been few and far between on seri like <em>Vampire Diari </em>and <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em>. While <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="buted to middlg reviews" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>buted to middlg reviews</u></a>, <em>First Kill </em>is the only seri currently airg that fully centers a lbian vampire romance. As pure YA drama fodr that’s full of teenage lt, <em>actual </em>blood-lt, and fanfictn trop that may e you to roll your ey, don’t expect <em>First Kill </em>to be any sort of ep exploratn of inty. But even young queer supernatural fans need their guilty pleasur, don’t they? </p><p data-no-id="41" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-17dphmw et3p2gv0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="42" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">8. <em>Star Trek: Disvery</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="43" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="star trek disvery" tle="star trek disvery" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Michael Gibson/CBS ©2020 CBS Interactive, Inc.</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="44" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">The <em>Star Trek</em> anchise has always been at the foreont of progrs, om featurg the <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="first terracial kiss on televisn " class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>first terracial kiss on televisn</u> </a>to havg an <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="ethnilly diverse crew" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>ethnilly diverse crew</u></a>. Today, that diversy extends to featurg numero queer characters among the crewmembers on seri like <em>Pird</em>, <em>Lower Decks</em>, and <em>Strange New Worlds</em>. And ’s <em>Star Trek: Disvery</em> that’s particularly notable, as portrays -pth a gay married uple on ck, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a first for the anchise" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>a first for the anchise</u></a>. When the seri first unveiled the relatnship between medil officer Culber (Wilson Cz) and science officer Stamets (Anthony Rapp) episo three, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Gee Takei thanked the seri" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>Gee Takei thanked the seri</u></a> for “gog where no <em>Star Trek </em>show has gone before.” In some seasons, their love que lerally transcends time and space. Later seasons clu lbian engeer Jett (Tig Notaro), non-bary character Adira (Blu l Barr), and Adira’s trans boyiend Gray (Ian Alexanr), whose symbtic relatnship wh Adira is an tegral aspect of season 3. </p><p data-no-id="45" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Though science fictn is lerally centered around futuristic ias, most televisn shows and films this genre have been pretty retrogra their plete lack of queer characters. So, ’s always hearteng to see a major anchise ntue to lead the charge when to queer reprentatn. </p><p data-no-id="46" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk="null$null$star%20trek%20disvery&gclid=Cj0KCQjwntCVBhDdARIsAMEwACmrJTh2vs-0KwODtEFnDwgPr6M7fA6n0Z1HWghFwc9kkmXqCsaJ0HsaAiJlEALw_wcB&;_ivgu=35b1624c-2765-40d6-b538-15541e1455" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="b9fd531a-2a87-4063-b154-ad8faec5df3c" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href="null$null$star%20trek%20disvery&gclid=Cj0KCQjwntCVBhDdARIsAMEwACmrJTh2vs-0KwODtEFnDwgPr6M7fA6n0Z1HWghFwc9kkmXqCsaJ0HsaAiJlEALw_wcB&;_ivgu=35b1624c-2765-40d6-b538-15541e1455" data-product-url="null$null$star%20trek%20disvery&gclid=Cj0KCQjwntCVBhDdARIsAMEwACmrJTh2vs-0KwODtEFnDwgPr6M7fA6n0Z1HWghFwc9kkmXqCsaJ0HsaAiJlEALw_wcB&;_ivgu=35b1624c-2765-40d6-b538-15541e1455" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="9a73ff8f-9c0d-460e-a518-1235f1b79d62" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="47" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">9. <em>Severance</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="48" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="severance tv show" tle="severance tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Courty of Apple</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="49" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">On the t, you’d never expect <em>Severance </em>to have a queer romance among s many wdg storyl. The sci-fi drama follows four people who elect to unrgo a ntroversial procre that severs their outsi self om their workplace self. Thk shas of <em>Wtworld </em>meets <em>Lost. </em>Amid all of this is an achgly timate love story between Irvg (John Turturro) and Burt (Christopher Walken). Dpe beg om two separate partments, they end up fallg love and rryg on a urtship secret. It’s surprisgly tenr—a term I never thought I’d e for a Walken character—and ’s heartwarmg to see two olr characters explore a same-sex romance whout the show feelg like needs to over-expla or label their obv soulmate nnectn. The season cliffhanger between them also leav plenty to explore season 2, which <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="was announced April" data-vars-ga-product-id="406f5cb2-772b-4655-84c6-0300ee50b2e7" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="eac0a7c2-f0f8-4615-83a3-8973c0c14d93" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" class="body-lk product-lks css-9cezh6 ebsw2pb0"><u>was announced April</u></a>.</p><p data-no-id="50" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="272e02f4-1785-415a-a536-bdd7f139293e" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="a20fb7b4-f712-4db1-a188-a8121d799e1f" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="51" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">10. <em>Rebel</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="52" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="rebel tv show" tle="rebel tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Mayra Ortiz/NETFLIX</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="53" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Amerin viewers might be unaware of how beloved the Mexin telenovela <em>Rebel </em>was wh the Latx muny the early ghts. The origal seri centered around a band formed at a super-ele boardg school, and like the now-inic <em>Spice World </em>movie, featured a real and popular mil group playg the characters. Gnge girl character Roberta (Dulce María) was dubbed by many as <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="their moment of “gay awakeng,”" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>their moment of “gay awakeng,”</u></a> but none of the lead characters <em>actually</em> had any gay romanc. That ccial shortg has been fixed Netflix’s reboot of the seri, which has some llbacks to the origal but mostly foc on a new group of stunts at Ele Way School.</p><p data-no-id="54" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Jt like the other teen-centric shows on this list, the seri is celebrated for havg several queer characters the st. There’s Andi (Lizeth Selene), who falls for Eia (Gvanna Grig), and together they explore their attractn to women for the first time. There’s also La (Fran Masi), the band’s gay mician who berat classmat who throw around slurs. The show n certaly be a b mpy and is very YA-foced, but for those missg the mil drama of <em>Glee </em>and who’ve already fished the siarly queer-centric Spanish drama <em>Ele</em>, <em>Rebel </em>is worth a watch. <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="As Merces Viera wrote for Refery29" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>As Merces Viera wrote for Refery29</u></a>, “I’m sure Andi is already someone’s gay awakeng, jt like Roberta was ours.”</p><p data-no-id="55" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now " rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" class="body-btn-lk css-17dphmw et3p2gv0">Watch Now </a></p><h2 data-no-id="56" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">11. <em>We Are Lady Parts</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="57" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="we are lady parts tv show" tle="we are lady parts tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Saima Khalid/Peack</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="58" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">While Nida Manzoor’s Brish s <em>We Are Lady Parts</em> largely foc on straight character Ama (Anjana Vasan), the seri is boundary-breakg how centers a punk rock band ma entirely up of Mlim women. Among the members is dmmer Ayha (Juliette Motamed), who has an awakeng mid-season when she’s stck wh love at first sight for a woman: fluencer Zara (Sofia Barclay). While Ayha’s burgeong queerns is not the foc of the season—which only nsists of six short episos—the seri was<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn=" renewed for a send season" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u> renewed for a send season</u></a>, leavg space for Ayha’s inty to be explored further. </p><p data-no-id="59" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Regardls how of briefly the show picts Ayha’s csh, <em>We Are Lady Parts</em> is one of the few (and possibly the <em>only</em>) current pictns of a queer Mlim woman on televisn. It’s a rehg remr that years after the origal <em>The</em> <em>L Word</em>, televisn is slowly explorg the tersectns of what means to be a queer person of lor who’s movg agast the gra their own culture. </p><p data-no-id="60" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href="}" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="78b4ac3b-49d8-4db1-be05-fc345244cd08" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url="}" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"6a99e7c0-d3d6-4405-bd1a-13926e6084ba","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{"trackonomics":{"merchant_id":"195712","merchant_name":"Peack TV","work_name":"IR","work_id":"3","product_id":"949","product_name":"Oprah Daily US","product_external_id":"949","product_url":null}},"work":{"id":"a332915a-6423-480f-9153-e3973f438607","name":"Trackonomics","metadata":{}},"product_metadata":{"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b":{"lk":"subid}","work_name":"ir","append_lk":"subid}&subid3=xid:{xid}","last_updated_at":"2023-06-16 22:58:42.207004"},"530bacd4-96b2-4cfe-a9a6-1fbd7c749e22":{"lk":"subid}","work_name":"ir","append_lk":"subid}&subid3=xid:{xid}","last_updated_at":"2023-06-16 21:31:56.496524"},"c7b9f75a-2f85-4251-a92e-dbc6c7213473":{"lk":"subid}","work_name":"ir","append_lk":"subid}&subid3=xid:{xid}","last_updated_at":"2023-06-16 23:32:41.410484"}}}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Get Started" data-vars-ga-product-price="$2,021.00" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="b41266-0c09-43-9366-5b5959b7b18d" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Get Started" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="61" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">12. <em>Dafne and the Rt</em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="62" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="dafne and the rt tv show" tle="dafne and the rt tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Copyright HBO Max, 2021</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="63" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Who don’t enjoy a rom- about the humor and tragedy of onle datg? Created by and starrg Abril Zamora, the HBO drama <em>Dafne and the Rt </em>follows Dafne, a trans woman whose love life hs rock bottom when she’s dumped by her boyiend after he adms that he’s fallen out of love wh her. It’s a heartbreakg start, but Dafne then go on a journey of self-disvery, all while figurg out if she has <em>maybe</em> fallen for her good iend and roommate of many years.</p><p data-no-id="64" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">As <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Zamora explaed to GLAAD" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>Zamora explaed to GLAAD</u></a>, she never wanted Dafne’s story to be solely about her inty as a trans woman, but rather wanted to be a reflectn of what feels like to be a falterg 30-somethg whose life hasn’t gone to plan. Zamora also said that so many pictns of trans characters foc on jt the transng phase, or issu around trma or rejectn. In ntrast, she wants her projects to e om a more posive place, and explore a trans woman fallg love, gog through ups and downs, and learng to fix her mistak, jt like everyone else. “I thk the humany enurag empathy others,” Zamora said. “I wanted to talk about my life.”</p><p data-no-id="65" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="7591556c-2791-42e7-941e-ecdd1f5a6c61" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-product-price="$9.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="f6142435-27c7-4879-a634-1b49a961ccb5" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><h2 data-no-id="66" class="body-h2 css-1m6q79k et3p2gv0">13. <em>Queer as Folk </em></h2><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="67" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="queer as folk tv show" tle="queer as folk tv show" loadg="lazy" width="1055" height="844" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-1sepnu9 e6iqd2">Alyssa Moran/Peack</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="68" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Jt like <em>The L Word</em>, <em>Queer as Folk </em>is makg a eback the hop of ronatg wh today’s dienc. Stephen Dunn and Jaclyn Moore’s new seri kicks off wh a shootg at a gay club New Orleans, which is then ed to explore how each character manag their trma. Compared to the origal, this rebooted versn of <em>Queer as Folk</em> tells a much wir and more varied set of stori through characters like Brodie (Dev Way), his trans bt iend Ruthie (Jse Jam Keel), and drag performer Mg (F Arg). The seri is not so much a reboot as is “takg what’s behd [the origal]—the ia of <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="queer fiance and queer joy" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>queer fiance and queer joy</u></a>—and tellg a story about that,” executive producer and wrer Moore, who is also trans, explaed. She add that “queerns” has evolved sce the late ‘90s, and she wanted <em>Queer as Folk </em>to be able to speak to a new generatn. </p><p data-no-id="69" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">This is most clear wh <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the character of Ruthie" class="body-lk css-9cezh6 et3p2gv0"><u>the character of Ruthie</u></a>, who Moore said felt like a mirror of herself all her three-dimensnal, plex glory. Ultimately, while the seri never shi away om the tragedy and difficulti of beg a trans person, the seri also ptur the triumphs. “It’s really hard to be a trans person [when] the world is nstantly tellg you why you’re not allowed to live,” she told <em>Collir</em>. But she add, “If there’s a young, pre-transn girl or boy out there who se themselv [<em>Queer as Folk</em>] and … se that Ruthie is this unapologetic, betiful, funny person who’s livg a very full life … I hope helps.”</p><p data-no-id="70" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href="}" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Watch Now" rel="nofollow" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="85a7b20e-27ac-47e3-93bc-8bc8724a4eb5" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url="}" data-affiliate-work="{"id":"6a99e7c0-d3d6-4405-bd1a-13926e6084ba","se_id":"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b","metadata":{"trackonomics":{"merchant_id":"195712","merchant_name":"Peack TV","work_name":"IR","work_id":"3","product_id":"949","product_name":"Oprah Daily US","product_external_id":"949","product_url":null}},"work":{"id":"a332915a-6423-480f-9153-e3973f438607","name":"Trackonomics","metadata":{}},"product_metadata":{"10a25939-3448-4c42-8343-9bfdfc32076b":{"lk":"subid}","work_name":"ir","append_lk":"subid}&subid3=xid:{xid}","last_updated_at":"2023-06-17 02:32:13.786565"}}}" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Queer as Folk" data-vars-ga-product-price="$4.99" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="8cfc6a57-03eb-4c5f-96bd-046c96e3f187" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Queer as Folk" class="body-btn-lk product-lks-button css-1mgakr0 ebsw2pb0">Watch Now</a></p><style data-emotn="css 2ok9l4">{marg-top:1.875rem;borr-top:th solid #595959;}</style><div data-jam-id="thor-b" class="css-2ok9l4 e13rjwo40"><style data-emotn="css 1ut75dr">{display:grid;grid-template-lumns:to 1;grid-lumn-gap:0.625rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;clear:both;borr-top:th solid black;}</style><div class="css-1ut75dr e19xk9rq8"><style data-emotn="css irehmq">{borr-radi:50%;height:60px;width:60px;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{width:40px;height:40px;}}</style><span class="css-irehmq e19xk9rq1"><style data-emotn="css o0wq4v">{width:100%;height:100%;borr-radi:50%;vertil-align:middle;object-f:ver;}</style><img src="" alt="Headshot of Gretchen Smail" tle="Headshot of Gretchen Smail" width="100%" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" class="css-o0wq4v e19xk9rq3" /></span><div><style data-emotn="css 3sqxrq">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;grid-gap:4px;-webk-align-ems:basele;-webk-box-align:basele;-ms-flex-align:basele;align-ems:basele;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;}</style><div class="css-3sqxrq e19xk9rq7"><span class="css-0 e19xk9rq5"><style data-emotn="css 1bkjo21">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#E61957;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;letter-spacg:0.1em;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><style data-emotn="css t7nu">{lor:#E61957;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;letter-spacg:0.1em;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:#E61957;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;text-transform:upperse;font-weight:bold;letter-spacg:0.1em;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;}{lor:#595959;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href="/thor/248416/gretchen-smail/" class="e1c1bym13 css-t7nu e1c1bym14"><span>Gretchen Smail</span></a></span></div><style data-emotn="css ffnsqy">{display:-webk-box;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.3;overflow:hidn;paddg-top:0.5rem;-webk-box-orient:vertil;-webk-le-clamp:5;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{-webk-le-clamp:10;}}>*{display:le;} p{marg:0rem;} p a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;} p a:hover{text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-ffnsqy e19xk9rq4"><p>Gretchen Smail (she/her) is a eelance wrer who vers TV, movi, books, gam, and pop culture. An entertament wrer at Btle for over three years, her byl have also appeared Oprah Daily, Vulture, The Guardian, and The Hollywood Reporter. A member of the Asian Amerin Journalists Associatn, her reer highlights clu terviews wh BTS, Michelle Yeoh, Margaret Cho, and Mg-Na Wen. Follow her on <a href=">Twter</a> and <a href=">Instagram</a></p></div></div></div></div><style data-emotn="css ciejky">{clear:both;marg-top:1.25rem;}</style><div id="journey-le" class="css-ciejky e1cslvxz0"></div><style data-emotn="css 79elbk">{posn:relative;}</style><div class="css-79elbk eg8z2o90"><div class="css-79elbk e1tp40ll1"><div data-anchor-id="P0-0" class="css-0 e1tp40ll0"></div></div><style data-emotn="css hi6ssp">{display:block;grid-area:article_body;grid-lumn:article_body-start/article_body-end;grid-row:to;jtify-self:center;marg:1.25rem 0 0;}@media prt{{display:none;}}@media(max-width: 30rem){{width:100%;}}@media(max-width: 61.25rem){{m-height:28rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:488px;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:612px;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{max-width:40.25rem;}}</style><div class="css-hi6ssp eg8z2o92"></div></div></div></div><div></div><div data-teractive="WatchNext-1" class="css-0 e10xr3vp6"><style data-emotn="css 1pqv15d">{marg-bottom:1.875rem;marg-top:1.875rem;paddg:0 0.938rem;}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg:0 2.5rem;}}</style><div data-embed="watch-next" class="css-1pqv15d e10xr3vp5"><style data-emotn="css 14vh9p">{text-align:center;marg:0 to;max-width:60rem;}</style><div class="css-14vh9p e10xr3vp4"><style data-emotn="css 1sowyjy">{marg-bottom:1.25rem;}</style><div class="css-1sowyjy e10xr3vp3"><style data-emotn="css qd6w">{marg:0rem;font-weight:bold;borr-image-slice:1;borr-image-source:lear-gradient(to right, #0ED2C6 0 15%, #7A3BAF, #FF3F44);borr-top:0.125rem solid #E61957;font-fay:Gilroy,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.8125rem;le-height:1.2;letter-spacg:0.05em;paddg-top:0.625rem;text-transform:upperse;}</style><h6 class="css-qd6w e10xr3vp2"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><span class="css-0 e10xr3vp1">Watch Next</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css od14dt">{-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;font-fay:Juana,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:normal;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;letter-spacg:-0.005em;marg:0rem;m-height:to;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.1;marg:0.9375rem 0 1.25rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2rem;le-height:1.1;marg:1.3rem 0 1.875rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.125rem;le-height:1.1;}}</style><h6 class="css-od14dt e10xr3vp0"> </h6></div><style data-emotn="css 1ui7hop">{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;--aspect-rat:56.25%;}</style><div class="__rp-ntaer css-1ui7hop e6l0f0"><style data-emotn="css 1yu8e3d">{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;width:100%;height:100%;} .__rp-ntaer{height:to;}</style><div data-embed="embed-vio" class="vio-player css-1yu8e3d e1ou1fny0"><style data-emotn="css 1uds6oo">{height:100%;width:100%;posn:relative;}</style><div class="css-1uds6oo e1f7ylgd6"><style data-emotn="css 1iiivv4">{background-lor:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);borr:.1875rem solid whe;borr-radi:50%;lor:#fff;cursor:poter;height:3.75rem;left:50%;posn:absolute;top:50%;-webk-transform:translate(-50%,-50%);-moz-transform:translate(-50%,-50%);-ms-transform:translate(-50%,-50%);transform:translate(-50%,-50%);-webk-transn:all 0.4s;transn:all 0.4s;width:3.75rem;z-x:1;}.e1f7ylgd6:hover {background-lor:rgba(33, 150, 245, 0.8);lor:#ffffff;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{height:5.625rem;width:5.625rem;borr:.28125rem solid whe;}}</style><button aria-label="Play Vio" class="css-1iiivv4 e1f7ylgd1"><style data-emotn="css 1lhf7lq">{fill:#ffffff;height:1.4rem;vertil-align:middle;width:1.45rem;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:2.3125rem;height:3rem;}}</style><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" style="fill: var(--primary, #000);" role="img" tle="Play" class="css-1lhf7lq e1f7ylgd2"><tle>play in

TNT NTENR JHAY LORD, PASALI NG TATAY NIYA NOON SA MS. GAY | IT’S SHOWTIME

A groundbreakg seri about gay men and women ntemporary Ptsburgh. Brash humor and genue emotn make up this origal seri revolvg around the liv, lov, ambns, reers and iendships of a group of gay men and women livg on Liberty Avenue ntemporary Ptsburgh, PA. The show offers an unapologetic look at morn, urban gay and lbian liv while addrsg the most cril health and polil issu affectg the muny.

The gang fight agast Proposn 14, an anti-gay iative; Babylon gets bombed and Michael nearly los his life; Jt and Brian ntemplate a future together; Mel and Ldsay rne. Jt gets gay bashed; Michael and Jt start a ic book; Michael starts seeg Ben, and HIV-posive man; Ldsay and Mel get married; Ted starts his own bs. And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn.

It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc.

9 Gay & Queer TV Shows to Watch This Sprg

Recent Posts

Tags

Contents:

TNT NTENR JHAY LORD, PASALI NG TATAY NIYA NOON SA MS. GAY | IT’S SHOWTIME

BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM MS GAY SHOWTIME

9 Gay & Queer TV Shows to Watch This Sprg

Recent Posts

Tags

Contents:

TNT NTENR JHAY LORD, PASALI NG TATAY NIYA NOON SA MS. GAY | IT’S SHOWTIME

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MS GAY SHOWTIME

BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM MS GAY SHOWTIME