Netflix was the most represented service, with six shows on the list, and HBO had five - an impressive showing for a network with less than 20 original scripted programs currently airing. Only five programs from network channels (two from ABC, three on The CW). On a more technical note 11 of these shows premiered this year, four ended this year (or, in the case of The Good Place, are about to). We have two shows with all LGBTQ-ensembles Pose and The L Word: Generation Q. In some of these, queer love and sex are centered, too and in some of them queer love and sex are centered and the protagonists are actually masculine-of-center: Gentleman Jack and Work-in-Progress.
Her Emmy nomination, if she’d ever get one. Her name at the top of the credits on imdb.
I’m talking the whole fucking world revolving around her. I’m not talking ensemble shows here where there’s a queer person in a lead ensemble. Ten of these programs are centered squarely on one or two lesbian or bisexual female leads - a situation that was virtually unheard of five years ago. We have a record number of shows (17) on this list in which a protagonist or other lead character is queer or trans. Room has been made for stories that aren’t focused on straight cis white people and rooms have been given to the writers best equipped to write them, like on A Black Lady Sketch Show, Vida, Pose and One Day at a Time.
This year’s list of top TV shows with LGBTQ women characters have played with form and format, from Fleabag‘s fourth-wall smashing to the drop-dead-dynamic visual style of Euphoria and Dickinson to Russian Doll’s binge-catered loops.
An ability to target niche audiences and to deliver content outside of the weekly one-hour or half-hour broadcast slot has made this form of media an honest-to-goddess thrill to cover over the past decade, especially with a specific focus on the representation of LGBTQ+ women and trans characters. The “streaming revolution” that began around 2013 has radically transformed what a television show is allowed to be, and each year we see the thrilling edges of that unfolding push our cultural consciousness further and further out of bounds. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.