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The 25 Most Essential LGBTQ TV Shows of the 21st Century

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    What it is: The dearly departed “Tuca and Bertie” was one of TV’s best shows about friendship, dating, and being a warm mess: tried and true subject matter many queer people can relate to. The titular avian duo — impulsive party animal tucan Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) and sensible but anxious song thrush Bertie (Ali Wong) — possess one of TV’s loveliest friendships, as the two total opposites support each other through career and romantic struggles. While the main romantic relationship of the show is between Bertie and her adorably square boyfriend Speckle (Steven Yeun), Tuca is very much an out-and-proud bisexual fowl, flitting around from romantic partners of all genders and species.

    Why it&#;s essential: The best season of the show, Season 2, features Tuca entering a relationship with Kara (Sasheer Zamata), a seagull nurse. Initially a positive bond, the show steadily tracks the flaws in the pairing, as Kara puts Tuca down and forces her to convert to fit the

    40 Great LGBTQ TV Shows to Stream Now

    Who hasn’t learned to kiss from watching others verb it onscreen? Before the internet and everyone having a device in their pockets, that was the way most of us casually absorbed images of verb and love. And yet, for decades, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affection. That left a great swath of humanity desperate to see something that resembled their lives. It may appear quaint now, when we have TV series favor Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latinx teen exploring sexual fluidity) or Netflix’s Bonding(about sex verb and alternative sexuality), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGeneres coming out on her sitcom in was a bombshell that didn’t necessarily convince the networks that they’d open the gates to LGBTQ experiences.

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    Luckily Will & Grace debuted in and the groundbreaking NBC series convinced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t scare of

    All You Need: The New Gay Berlin TV Show and 3 More Queer Shows to Watch

    photo: ARD Degeto/Andrea Hansen. 

    When I stare around the TV landscape of recent years I feel quite happy that there are so many shows right now representing LGBTQIA+ people and issues, and that they are no longer just minor storylines of side characters but they&#;ve also become the center of attention. When I grew up the only show there was Queer As Folk and not much else in the decades after, so no matter if you liked it or not, it was a must-watch and highlight for gay guys at the time.

    To see a fully gay verb as the first thing on the main page of the ARD Mediathek (German&#;s major general TV channel) felt really nice today, I have to speak. I was half expecting they would hide it somewhere in the archive and you would have to search for it, but no, it&#;s pretty in your face. Correct me if I&#;m wrong, but I contemplate All You Need really is the first German TV exhibit exclusively dealing with gay men as the main characters and getting such a prime notice. And I think the exhibit really deserves to be position in the lim

    The 35 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of All Time

    Fellow Travelers ()

    In this heart-wrenching Showtime miniseries, Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer engage two Capitol Hill men caught in the horrors of McCarthyism, falling in love despite a political atmosphere that is trying to crucify all its queer members. The show charts their relationship over the next three decades, all the way up to the AIDS crisis, with a beautiful, poignant story that echoes with political issues we’re still seeing to this morning. Just be sure to contain a box of tissues sitting nearby.

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    Hacks (–present)

    In Hacks, viewers follow a veteran comedian named Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), who realizes her career has been stuck in autopilot when she meets a struggling young writer named Ava (Hannah Einbinder), who inspires her with a renewed sense of creativity and ride. Through their relationship, we view the struggle of generations trying to learn from one another and, notably, how Ava’s bisexuality opens Deborah’s eyes to past prejudices.

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