Wh over half of teens intifyg as queer, ’s about time televisn shows started reflectg their dienc. Luckily, there’s been an flux of media that actually pict real, queer liv (and don’t go for the classic fx pas of killg off gay characters). Here’s what we’re watchg and actually seeg ourselv .
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GAY DRAMAS/MOVI
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"Beyond The Bold Type's willgns to go there wh talk about sex between women, the seri also stars Stephen Conrad Moore, a same-genr lovg man of lor who portrays Oliver, the lightful gay head of the magaze's fashn partment who be a mentor to Sutton. Created by Eugene Levy (Wag for Guffman, Bt Show, A Mighty Wd) and his son Daniel Levy, who is gay, Scht's Creek brims wh absurdist humor that's (mostly) sadly missg om pop culture the days.
The show also featur a central gay character, Lnel (DeRon Horton), whose episo explorg the different queer scen on his llege mp this season is a mt-see lson tersectnaly.
Chillg Adventur of Sabra, a new supernatural show om gay Hollywood mogul Greg Berlanti, is a far cry om the Melissa Joan Hart vehicle of yore.
GAY M/M THAILAND - (DRAMAS)
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While the rt of his fay plots for power, the new season will reveal if the sger n keep the rpect of his once-homophobic father he's worked so hard to earn. Cam and Mchell got knocked for their sexls existence, but many thk their portrayal of lovg dads to ltle Lily helped soften gay folks to Ameri.
LisaGay Haton, who won hearts on The Practice back the day, plays Colonel Kayla Price, a queer woman of lor and an astront who champns the importance of science a planned missn to Mars that on the heels of one that end swift disaster. But even before Supergirl and Black Lightng, Berlanti's shows wh masked and/or ped characters already featured plenty of LGBTQ characters cludg Legends of Tomorrow's Sarah Lance (Cay Lotz), who began her stt on Arrow, which now featur a married gay superhero wh Mister Terrific (Echo Kellum).
BL/GAY SERI AND MOVI
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The Flash's queer characters clu Wentworth Miller's Cizen Cold, who appeared on Legends for a time but will return to Star Cy for a few episos this season, where he won't be the only out character, nsirg Police Capta David Sgh (Patrick Sabongui) is gay and married. 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.
Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage. Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010).
For years, ranged, perverse, and spible homosexuals were on full display — pecially om Ryan Murphy, who remas our most proment culture czar when to queer characters on TV. From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy.
BL / GAY (*RATED ORR*)
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In that way, ’s breakg siar ground to the Sundance Now seri This Close, om af actors Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, about a straight woman and gay man who are bti lookg for love and unrstandg.
And while the seri received as much hate mail as adoratn — an evable byproduct of beg the first show to have openly gay male lead characters — lasted eight seasons before endg 2006.