Queer Streaming Guide 2025: Your complete list of new LGBTQ+ TV shows and where to find them
A full list of every new TV show that came out in 2025 on streaming with lesbian, gay, trans, bi, and other queer characters.
A full list of every new TV show that came out in 2025 on streaming with lesbian, gay, trans, bi, and other queer characters.
How queer the show is:
- 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈: It wouldn’t exist without queer characters
- 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈: There is an essential queer storyline spanning across multiple episodes, but it’s not the entire plot
- 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈: At least one of the main characters is openly queer but mostly doing non queer stuff, or it has a smaller queer side plot involving recurring characters
- 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈: There is at least one recurring queer character, but most of their plot lines have nothing to do with their queerness, or there are multiple queer guest characters with plot lines addressing their queerness
- 🏳️🌈: There is at least one guest queer character making an appearance during the show, but very little importance is given to their storyline or queerness
- 🚩: There are hints or sprinkles of queerness, but it mostly ends up being negative. This could be queerbaiting, where some characters are hinted to be queer without ever confirming it, or just negative treatment of a queer character or storyline, where there is little to no positive representation to get from it
Other details
- ❤️: The show features at least one queer romance storyline or queer couple (👭: WLW (woman love woman) couple | 👬: MLM (man love man) couple | ♾️: Polyamorous couple | 🧑🤝🧑: Non-binary couple)
- 🏳️⚧️: The show features at least one trans character
- 🫱🏽🫲🏿: The show features queer characters of color
Final Note
I keep the list updated with new shows once I can verify that they include queer representation. This often means I update with a 1-month or more delay to account for weekly releases. I haven’t seen all the shows listed, but I only include shows for which I can verify the queer representation from trustworthy sources. I also only include returning shows I’ve watched so don’t expect that section to be exhaustive. Mainly because it’s just too much for one person to follow everything 😅. If you see something that doesn’t sound right, let me know in the comments!
Newly added
- Rivers of Fate • Season 1 • 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
- Are You My First? • Season 1 • 🏳️🌈
My top 10 queer shows of the year (so far)
✨ Identifies new shows that premiered in 2025. Others are returning shows.
- Hacks • Season 4: It wasn't the queerest season of Hacks, but it was such a great season. Episode 9, "A Slippery Slope" is my favorite episode of the show and might be my favorite episode of any show ever. Every single minute of that episode is amazing, and Deborah's speech at the end still makes me emotional just thinking about it
- Black Mirror • Season 7: I'm huge fan of dystopian scifi so I'm biased but hear me out. "Hotel Reverie" (Episode 3) has an amazing lesbian romance set in an old black and white movie. It's the second time Black Mirror gives us a positive lesbian love story (the other being San Junipero). I'm beginning to think a dystopia might bring some good for us lesbians.
- The Last of Us • Season 2: I know the new season wasn't for everyone and I have a lot of complaints about how they handled Ellie's love storyline with Dina. The Last of Us: Part 2 game is my all time favorite game and I still really enjoyed the show so it ranks high and I'm really looking forward to season 3.
- Love on the Spectrum U.S. • Season 3: Love on the Spectrum is such a feel good show. It the type of show I want to watch when it's raining outside and I'm exhausted from a long day at work. This season also features a very sweet WLW couple who went on a few date and ended the season together.
- ✨ Clean Slate • Season 1: It's a real shame Amazon cancelled the show after only 1 season. It's a wholesome show with great trans representation and, above all, a great example of allyship from people living in a small southern town.
- ✨ Murderbot • Season 1: If you're in the mood for a quirky and goofy sci-fi show, Murderbot is for you. The entire crew is some type of queer, there is a brief polyamorous relationship and the entire society it's set in just doesn't seem to follow heteronormative norms.
- Poker Face • Season 2: It's become my ultimate comfort show. Every episode follows the exact same structure: a crime happens, Charlie is there somewhere in the background, she calls bullshit on someone, case closed. Natasha Lyonne unfortunately plays a straight woman but season 2 has 2 queer centric episodes: 8 & 9. My personal favorite was episode 8, where a couple of rough-looking gay guys help Charlie expose a scammer.
- ✨ Overcompensating • Season 1: Benito Skinner plays the perfect gay guy in college, trying to pretend he's a straight douche. Honestly, this show is made for queer people like me who went to college in the 2010s and were still closeted for a big part of the experience. It has a ton of pop culture references from the era (Glee, hello!) and just felt really relatable.
- Nine Perfect Strangers • Season 2: This show keeps serving great episodes and then messing it all up with a weird ending. Season 2 got slightly better, which is why it still lands in my top 10. If you don't know about it, the show follows Nicole Kidman's character as she runs a psychedelic retreat for people with a messed-up past. This season features a lesbian couple among the "patients". They clearly have issues like everyone else in the show, but the representation felt authentic, and I really enjoyed watching them
- ✨ Adults • Season 1: I'm not into men, but I might be slightly in love with both Anton and Paul Baker. I honestly was not expecting to love Adults so much. The comparison to FRIENDS and Girls is well earned, and as an early 90s millennial, I honestly related a lot more to Adults than I ever did to Girls. The cast is diverse, and I think they did a fantastic job with Anton's character as the black gay friend who's slightly too cool for school but also manages to befriend everyone he meets.
New Queer Shows
All shows that debuted in 2025 and featured at least 1 queer character
Clean Slate • Season 1
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Prime Video • Family Sitcom • 🇺🇸 United States • Cancelled
Comedy starring Laverne Cox and George Wallace about a conservative Alabama car wash owner who reconnects with his estranged daughter after she transitions. If you’re into shows that mix heart and humor with social relevance, this one’s worth checking out.
- Queer representation: Desiree (played by Laverne Cox) is a trans woman, and her gender identity is an essential part of the show. Most people in her small town don’t take issue with her being trans outside of the pastor. The show also features Louis, a friend of Desiree and a closeted gay man. He starts a relationship with a guy he met on Grindr in the last few episodes, but the guy ends up breaking up with him because he’s not out of the closet yet.
- Beyond the rainbow: Most of the cast is Black, and the show is set in Alabama. It has many references to southern traditions but generally avoids any more profound commentary on racism and challenges faced by characters due to their skin color.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer • Season 1
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Hulu • True Crime Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
A docuseries that revisits the case of Herb Baumeister, a seemingly ordinary Indiana man whose property was found to contain over 10,000 human bone fragments in 1996. It’s an unsettling watch, partly focused on identifying the victims and bringing families closure, and partly featuring weird paranormal segments.
- Queer representation: The victims were gay men, usually disappearing from gay bars and clubs. A big part of why the investigation was botched had to do with the attitude toward homosexuality at the time, and the assumption that the men who disappeared were just victims of the AIDS epidemic.
Mid-Century Modern • Season 1
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Hulu • Friends Sitcom • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Breezy sitcom about three longtime gay friends who decide to “retire” together in Palm Springs after an unexpected death. It’s a throwback that channels Golden Girls energy, perfect for fans of classic sitcoms.
- Queer representation: The three main characters are gay, and their sexuality is a central part of the plot and humor of the show. All three men have different approaches to love and dating. The show doesn’t get super heavy, but it acknowledges identity in a way that feels intentional and adds depth to the comedy.
- Beyond the rainbow: Arthur is an older Black gay man, which is not something we see portrayed very often. While the show has been compared to Golden Girls, Jerry is younger than the rest of the group and still works as a flight attendant, giving us interesting dynamics between different generations.
Overcompensating • Season 1
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Prime Video • College Comedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Typical college comedy with frat parties, horny students, new friendships, lots of alcohol, and a good dose of wholesomeness. The twist is that it follows a closeted gay guy as he tries to navigate his freshman year by pretending to be straight.
- Queer representation: The show revolves around Benny, a closeted college student who tries his hardest to act straight but ends up failing miserably. I found the show did a great job at capturing the internal torture of trying to hide your sexuality and being scared to come out. It also has a few secondary queer characters like a lesbian couple and a proud gay guy.
- Beyond the rainbow: The one openly gay kid on campus is Black. He’s mostly shown as confident and judgy of how stupid Benny is acting to save face, which is refreshing, as the gay characters would usually be bullied hard in shows like this.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
Cassandra • Season 1
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Netflix • Robot Scifi Horror • 🇩🇪 Germany • Ended
Creepy German sci-fi thriller about a family who moves into an old smart home and accidentally reactivates its AI caretaker, Cassandra. At first, she seems helpful, but things get dark as she tries to insert herself into the family’s life.
- Queer representation: Fynn, the son, has a romance plot line with one of his closeted schoolmates, Steve. I haven’t seen the show yet, but there are clips of their relationship all over YouTube.
- Beyond the rainbow: Fynn is bi-racial. His dad is white, and an actress of Afghan origin plays his mom.
Running Point • Season 1
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Netflix • Sports Comedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Lighthearted sports-comedy following Isla Gordon, the overlooked daughter who suddenly takes over her family’s pro basketball team after her brother hits a bump in the road. The jokes aren’t always the most subtle, but it has a lot of heart and potential for a great season 2.
- Queer representation: Sandy, one of Isla’s brothers, is gay and open to his family, although he is hiding his boyfriend from them. His siblings are very supportive of him, and their clumsy attempts at allyship are fun to watch. There is also an important subplot following his romance with Charlie that has a big rom-com happy ending.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
The Four Seasons • Season 1
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Netflix • Friends Dramedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Dramedy that follows three longtime couples reconnecting on quarterly getaways that unravel as one couple divorces and brings along a much younger partner. The series is quite different from the typical comedy work of Tina Fey and blends sharp mid‑life comedy with poignant drama.
- Queer representation: One of the couples features two guys who have an open relationship but are still romantically committed to each other. They also have one of the sweetest endings. The show uses a few light stereotypes, like the dramatic gay guy or the fact that gay guys like to party, but it moves beyond those quickly and never makes it the butt of the joke. Both are complex characters with flaws and qualities that make them very relatable and likable.
- Beyond the rainbow: One of the guys is Italian, and the other is a Black American.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
Murderbot • Season 1
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Apple TV+ • Scifi Space Comedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Quirky, deadpan comedy about a sarcastic, TV‑obsessed security robot named Murderbot who hacked its governor module so it can binge its favorite soap operas in peace. That’s until he’s tasked to protect a group of earnest space scientists and begrudgingly bonds with them.
- Queer representation: It’s one of those shows where everyone turns out to be a little queer. The scientist crew includes a nonbinary character who is in a polyamorous relationship with a man and a woman. The captain of the crew also talks about having multiple spouses at some point.
- Beyond the Rainbow: The crew is very diverse in terms of ethnicities. The captain is a Black woman, and the rest of the crew features multiple people of color from different undisclosed backgrounds. The society represented in the show doesn’t seem to have struggles related to race or sexual orientation. The only inequalities mentioned are around how bots are treated compared to humans.
Pee-wee as Himself • Season 1
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HBO Max • Celebrity Autobiography Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Poignant, funny documentary that follows Paul Reubens as he reflects on his life, career, and the complicated legacy of his iconic character, Pee-wee Herman. It gives a unique insight into his life, with interviews recorded shortly before his death.
- Queer representation: Reubens comes out as gay in the interviews featured in the documentary
Olympo • Season 1
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Netflix • Sports Drama • 🇪🇸 Spain • Fate Unknown
Sweaty, tension‑charged sports drama set at a high‑performance Olympic training academy in the Spanish Pyrenees, following ambitious young athletes as they chase glory, sponsorships, and personal freedom.
- Queer representation: The show features a wide range of queer characters, including Zoé, a Black gay heptathlete, and Roque and Sebas, two gay athletes who have a romance storyline. It tackles themes of homophobia and also introduces an intersex character, exploring the challenges of sex and gender in competitive sports.
- Beyond the Rainbow: The cast of athletes is diverse, and many social issues are addressed in the show. For example, Zoé is a complex character who has to navigate discrimination for both her sexual orientation and race. There are also themes around mental health struggles in the high-stress environment that the athletes have to navigate.
Back to the Frontier • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬
HBO Max • Social Experiment Reality • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Back-to-basics social experiment where three modern American families forsake running water, electricity, and smartphones to live as 1880s homesteaders for eight weeks. They must build shelter, tend livestock, grow food, and manage resources. Ultimately, racing against a winter-survival deadline.
- Queer representation: One of the three couples participating in the show is a same sex couple of two dads with their 10-year-old twin sons. There were a lot of criticisms from Christian fundamentalists when the cast was announced, but the show creator strongly defended his casting decision with this perfectly shady post: "Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never"
- Beyond the Rainbow: The show has a surprisingly diverse cast considering the "frontier" topic. In addition to our gay dads, the show also features a Black family.
Want to read more about the show?
Judy Berman
Amy Bradley Is Missing • Season 1
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Netflix • True Crime Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Typical true crime docuseries that revisits the disappearance of Amy Bradley during a Caribbean cruise in 1998. The series features interviews of Amy's family as well as people who worked on the ship at the time and people who believe they saw Amy around the Caribbean years after her disappearance.
- Queer representation: The series reveals that Amy was gay and interviews two of her ex-girlfriends. It also addresses the fact that her parents were not exactly supportive when she came out shortly before going on the cruise. I found it interesting because I had listened to an hour-long podcast about the case that did not once mention her sexual orientation. It seems like an important detail considering that she was supposedly last seen dancing with a guy on the boat.
Want to read more about the show?
Gabe Dunn
The Hunting Wives • Season 1
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Netflix • Soap Opera Crime Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Over-the-top drama following rich women in Texas with crime, romance, guns and a lot of sex. It follows typical soap opera topes with affairs, betrayals, a drug addict family member, a murder, an abortion story and pretty much any scandalous thing you would imagine could happen behind the perfect facade of rich Texan families.
- Queer representation: Let me tell you, the women in this show sure love to sleep with each other. The two lead characters, Margo and Sophie, have an overarching steamy romance storyline that unfortunately gets messy because of a crime. Margo is the rich wife of a Texas politician and we find out she was also having an affair with one of her lady friends before Sophie comes into the picture. All of this to say, there is a lot of lesbian action and a lot of spice.
- Beyond the rainbow: Characters are very stereotypical white, rich, conservative Texans. Read that as, they make a lot of noise to tell everyone they are anti-abortion, anti-immigration and pretty much anti everything but then proceed to ignore all of their own advice in the privacy of their own home. Just don't expect a lot of depth from this show. It's meant to entertain, not educate.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
Taurasi • Season 1
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Prime Video • Sports Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Inspiring sports docu-series about the incredible career of basketball player Diana Taurasi as a time when the WNBA was not as popular as today. The series includes interviews with Taurasi herself and people around her.
- Queer representation: Taurasi is married to her former teammate Penny Taylor, and they have two kids together.
- Beyond the rainbow: The series covers some struggles the player encountered through her career, like doping accusations or her time playing in Russia.
In The Mud • Season 1
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Netflix • Prison Drama • 🇦🇷 Argentina • Fate Unknown
Gritty prison drama in the vein of Orange is the New Black that follows inmates at a women’s facility as they navigate violence, power struggles, and unexpected alliances. Amid shifting loyalties and fraught relationships, the series exposes both the brutality and intimacy that shape life behind bars.
- Queer representation: The show features a lot of lesbian inmates making out within the prison. It also has a more focused storyline featuring a lesbian couple, but it seems to be more secondary. In episode 1, one of the inmates is introduced to a trans inmate named Coco Viridi who acts as the prison's councelor.
Missing You • Season 1
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Netflix • Crime Thriller • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Ended
Crime thriller based on a book by Harlan Coben that kicks off when Detective Kat Donovan spots her ex-fiancé, who vanished 11 years ago, on a dating app. It’s a show full of twists and turns that’s not the best thing you’ll ever see, but is highly bingeable on a rainy day.
- Queer representation: One of the main characters’ friends is a trans woman named Aqua. She plays mostly a background part but has a small involvement in the main crime plot. The second queer character is the protagonist’s dad, who had an affair with a man. His internalized homophobia plays a significant role in the main crime plot and honestly makes the queer representation in the show borderline negative.
- Beyond the rainbow: The dad and the guy he had an affair with are both Black. So is most of the main cast.
The Crow Girl • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭
Netflix • Crime Thriller • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Ended
Twisty psychological crime thriller that follows the intertwined stories of a detective, a psychologist, and refugees. It’s a good thriller with a very satisfying twist ending, but it has some very heavy storylines of sexual assault and torture, so it might not be for everyone.
- Queer representation: The two main female characters have flirty vibes and an overarching will-they-won’t-they storyline throughout the show. They’re both initially in relationships with men, but the good news is that they eventually do hook up! They also separate from their male partners before they do.
Scam Goddess • Season 1
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Hulu • Travel / Crime Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Lighthearted episodic true crime docuseries based on a famous podcast of the same name. The show follows the host, Laci Mosley, as she travels around the US covering fascinating and unusual scam stories.
- Queer representation: Laci identifies as bisexual. I watched one episode, and it hasn’t come up so far, but it’s nice to see such a positive, openly queer woman leading a crime show.
- Beyond the rainbow: Laci is a Black woman from Texas and has spoken a few times online about the importance of Black representation in media. She also features a diverse range of regular people from smaller cities across the US, where the scams occur.
Prime Target • Season 1
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Apple TV+ • Crime Thriller • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Fate Unknown
Crime thriller centered around a genius mathematician researching prime numbers. Since we all know prime numbers are essential to our security (just kidding, I didn’t know), his research is being closely monitored by different government agencies, and he ends up at the center of a string of deaths.
- Queer representation: The main character, played by Leo Woodall is gay and quickly gets involved with a bartender from his university campus. There is also a guest gay character who ends up dead after going to a gay bar in Baghdad.
- Beyond the rainbow: Part of the show is set in Baghdad, where some of the guest cast members are Arab, including the dead gay man who dared to venture into a gay bar.
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski • Season 1
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National Geographic / Hulu • Travel Food Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Warm and heartfelt food‑travel docuseries where Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski joins celebs like Florence Pugh, Issa Rae, Awkwafina, Henry Golding, Justin Theroux, and James Marsden to dig into their family histories by cooking ancestral dishes in their homelands.
- Queer representation: Antoni is gay and known for being part of the Queer Eye reboot.
Dabba Cartel • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Survival Drama • 🇮🇳 India • Renewed
Colorful Indian crime-drama set in 1960s Mumbai, where five middle-class women launch a lunchbox service that secretly doubles as a drug cartel. It’s got sharp twists, powerful chemistry, and a satisfying dose of woman empowerment
- Queer representation: There is a small romance subplot between Shahida and another woman. I haven’t seen the show, so I don’t know how far it goes, but it’s been positively called out on social media.
- Beyond the rainbow: All the characters are Indian, and the fact that the show takes place in the 60s makes it even more special to have queer representation.
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing • Season 1
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Netflix • True Crime Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Messed up true crime documentary about YouTube influencer Piper Rockelle and how her mom exploited other kids to build up her following online. The series features families and kids who were part of the influencer crew at some point and are looking to expose the abuse still happening.
- Queer representation: Piper’s aunt, her wife, and their kids are part of the main people telling their story. The show never highlights them as a same sex couple and just treats them like any other family. The series also interviews a trans man who was abused by Tiffany (Piper’s mom). The abuse is treated extremely seriously, and his story is told with respect.
Dying for Sex • Season 1
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FX / Hulu • Sex Centered Dramedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Innovative dramedy centered around Molly, a woman who was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and decides to explore her sexuality. It’s hard to give this show a genre because it’s so unique. It mixes deep reflections around dealing with a terminal illness and a very open portrayal of sex exploration.
- Queer representation: Sonya, a palliative care social worker who assists Molly, is queer and used to date a non-binary character named G. Both Sonya and G help Molly with her sexual exploration.
- Beyond the rainbow: Sonya is Black and comments on how women, and especially Black women, tend to be dismissed and not treated seriously by healthcare workers. She mentions that it’s what made her want to work in the medical field.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
Étoile • Season 1
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Prime Video • Dance Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Cancelled
Dramedy from Amy Sherman‑Palladino and Daniel Palladino that follows two elite ballet companies in New York and Paris as they swap their top dancers in a bold stunt to save their art amid post-pandemic challenges.
- Queer representation: Gabin and Tobias have a gay romance storyline.
Wear Whatever The F You Want • Season 1
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Prime Video • Makeover Reality Show • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Modern makeover series on Amazon Prime reuniting Stacy London and Clinton Kelly as they guide self‑selected clients to express their true selves through clothing and personal style, rather than enforcing fashion rules.
- Queer representation: Both hosts are openly queer. While it’s very common to see gay guys featured as fashion experts, it’s a lot rarer to see queer women in this role, so the duo is a refreshing one!
The Royals • Season 1
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Netflix • Romcom • 🇮🇳 India • Fate Unknown
Lighthearted romantic comedy following Sophia, a driven startup CEO, and Aviraaj, a carefree royal unexpectedly made maharaja, as they team up to transform his ancestral palace into a luxury B&B, sparking romance and family drama.
- Queer representation: The show features a lesbian relationship, but there seems to be criticism about how little importance it’s given. I haven’t seen the show, but I’d say to proceed with caution.
- Beyond the rainbow: Both queer characters are Indian.
Snakes and Ladders • Season 1
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Netflix • Dark Humour Dramedy • 🇲🇽 Mexico • Fate Unknown
Tense dark comedy set in an elite Guadalajara elementary school, it follows ambitious prefect Dora as she navigates a scandal sparked by a playground fight among children of powerful parents. As she vies to become headmistress, Dora must compromise her ethics amid bribes, political maneuvering, and her son’s gambling debts.
- Queer representation: There is a plot centered around a closeted gay teen who enters a relationship with another man and slowly comes to terms with his sexuality.
- Beyond the rainbow: The show is set in Mexico, with Mexican characters.
Adults • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
FX / Hulu • Friends comedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Ensemble comedy set in Queens, following five Gen‑Z friends cramming into Samir’s childhood home as they stumble through work woes, dating disasters, and roommate chaos. The show has often been compared to FRIENDS or Girls.
- Queer representation: Anton, one of the roomates, is gay and openly flirts with one of his roommates’ boyfriend.
- Beyond the rainbow: Anton is Black, and most of the roommates are from different ethnic backgrounds.
Stick • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️🧑🤝🧑 | 🏳️⚧️
Apple TV+ • Sports Dramedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Ted Lasso style dramedy with a lot of heart centered around an ex-golfer who finds a new wind in life coaching a troubled teen prodigy after his wife leaves him.
- Queer representation: Zero is a non binary character who works at the country club and has a romance storyline with Santi, the prodigy kid golfer. Zero is played by Lilli Kay who uses she/they pronouns.
We Were Liars • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬
Prime Video • Rich People Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Moody teen mystery set on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts, following Cadence Sinclair and her cousins as they unravel the secrets behind a tragic summer accident. With its dreamy visuals and crazy twists, the show blends rich-family drama with slow-burn suspense and emotional depth.
- Queer representation: Johnny Sinclair, Cady’s cousin, is openly gay. I haven’t seen the show yet, but different sources mention storylines of bullying and coming out.
Young Millionaires • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬
Netflix • Friends Dramedy • 🇫🇷 France • Fate Unknown
Creative French dramedy about a group of 17-year-old friends from Marseille who suddenly become rich after winning the lottery. The show has a lot of heart, the friends all have unique personalities that bring a lot to the table, and it's pretty funny.
- Queer representation: In the first episode, David, one of the guys in the friend group, hooks up with a guy when they go to a club to party. His sexuality is not really commented on, and the friend group seems very accepting of him. He's also a pretty average guy who fits none of the usual gay stereotypes, which makes the representation surprisingly refreshing.
- Beyond the rainbow: The friends are from more modest backgrounds, they are seen counting money for gas at the beginning of episode 1, and sharing one scooter to ride to school. The group is very diverse, and the show creators are clearly making an effort to go against stereotypes. One of the women in the group gets a professional football contract, the Black kid is more of a studious type who wants to save the environment, and the girl playing the bimbo does very well in school. It's all done so well that it doesn't stand out as trying to hard like some other shows.
Doc • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Fox / Hulu • Medical Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Heartfelt medical drama with a twist where a top doctor loses her memory and has to start over, both at work and in her personal life. It’s a great mix of emotional patient stories and overarching storylines between the main cast. The show also covers heavy topics like assault in a very thoughtful manner.
- Queer representation: The main character’s best friend, Dr. Gina Walker, is married to a woman. We don’t see her on screen, but she references her a few times and shows wedding pictures to Amy after she lost her memory. In episode 6, one of the patients is a young woman who cannot feel pain. She is at a party, making out with another woman, when her medical emergency happens.
- Beyond the rainbow: Both queer women are Black, and while the story doesn’t focus on their race, they’re portrayed as complex, competent, and fully realized characters, offering strong, positive representation.
The Pitt • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭👬 | 🏳️⚧️ | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
HBO Max • Medical Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Outstanding hour-by-hour medical drama that follows the staff of a Pittsburgh emergency department throughout their shift. It’s intense and has been praised by medical staff for being one of the most realistic medical shows on TV. Every character is layered and has a strong narrative arc.
- Queer representation: None of the main staffers are confirmed to be queer, but Santos has flirty banter with other women throughout the show, so let’s see what season 2 brings. The representation in season 1 mostly happens through guest characters who are patients at the hospital. Episode 2 features a loving lesbian couple in a long-term relationship. Episode 4 has a storyline with a trans woman, with a touching moment where one of the staff members quietly lets her know that she’s corrected her name or gender markers on her hospital chart. Episode 11 features a gay couple who are here for the birth of their child via surrogate.
- Beyond the rainbow: The lesbian couple is both Black women, and the gay couple is an interracial relationship between a Black and a White man. As a whole, The Pitt has a lot of very diverse characters with nuanced storylines.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | 🏳️⚧️ | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Peacock • Media Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Special behind-the-scenes docuseries to celebrate the 50 years of SNL. It features some of the most iconic cast members and moments of the show in a truly impressive lineup. Each episode shows different parts of the staff recounting some iconic moments or take us through a typical week.
- Queer representation: A few of the cast members interviewed are openly queer including Bowen Yang, Terry Sweeny and Harper Steele. There are some short conversations around being gay and how to integrate that into the show. One of the episodes shows behind the scenes in the writer’s room on a week when the main guest is Ayo Edebiri.
- Beyond the rainbow: There are some comments on race and how certain actors can be typecast into specific sketches because of it. They also have a great diversity of people interviewed, from older generations to the newer cast members.
Celebrity Bear Hunt • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Reality Survival Competition • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Fate Unknown
Celebrity survival competition where a group of relatively famous people are dropped into a wilderness arena and need to escape from adventurer Bear Grylls. It’s more or less a spin on Survivor, but they get to sleep in a nice hut between hunting sessions.
- Queer representation: The show featured Steph McGovern, who is openly queer, and Mel B, who identifies as bisexual. Steph casually mentions her ex in the first episode and doesn’t shy away from talking about her lesbian identity.
- Beyond the rainbow: Mel B. is Black, and the show has a few other Black contestants.
The Residence • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬
Netflix • Murder Mystery Dramedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Darkly comedic look at the messy lives of two suburban couples and their tangled friendships, affairs, and betrayals. Set almost entirely in stark, intimate spaces, the show dissects modern relationships with uncomfortable honesty and biting dialogue.
- Queer representation: The president of the United States is gay and married to another man. They are suspects in the investigation, but their sexual orientation doesn’t play a big part in the storyline.
- Beyond the rainbow: Both gay men are white, but the show features diverse characters in roles not usually played by people of color.
North Of North • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Small Town Comedy • 🇨🇦 Canada • Renewed
Fresh and funny comedy that shines light on a small Inuit community in the north of Canada. The whole show feels very modern, vibrant, and positive. It gives a unique look at the Inuit community by focusing on Siaja as she leaves her husband and builds a life for herself.
- Queer representation: Siaja’s friends at the community center are a gay man and a queer woman. There isn’t a huge focus on their sexual orientation, but there are a few fun scenes that confirm they are queer, like Colin lusting after firefighters or Millie picking up a woman at the airport.
- Beyond the rainbow: Colin is from Hawaii, and Millie is Inuit, like most of the other characters. The show includes many references to Inuit culture and offers a unique perspective on this often underrepresented community.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
Súper Sara • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | 🏳️⚧️
HBO Max • Famous Person Documentary • 🇪🇸 Spain • Ended
Vibrant and moving docuseries that celebrates the life of iconic Spanish actress and singer Sara Montiel. Told with flair and intimacy, it reveals how she broke taboos around sex, fame, and femininity during Franco-era Spain. The series offers a fresh perspective on her legacy through rare footage and voices from Spain’s queer and cultural communities.
- Queer representation: Sara Montiel was known as a queer icon, and the docuseries features interviews with Bibiana Fernández, a trans woman, and Supremme de Luxe, a drag performer.
Ballard • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬
Prime Video • Police Procedural Drama• 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Grounded police procedural that follows LAPD Detective Renée Ballard as she runs an underfunded cold-case unit. Reopening long-forgotten murders, she faces internal corruption and pushback, relying on a small team of misfits to pursue justice with quiet determination.
- Queer representation: Thomas Laffont, Ballard’s retired former police partner, is gay and has a long-term partner. I haven’t seen the show yet, but people compliment the representation and say it’s well done and subtle.
Too Much • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Quirky RomCom • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Quirky and slightly over-the-top romantic comedy following an American woman who moves to England for work and meets a British musician. The show is written by Lena Dunham and clearly adapted from her own life. It could have been a fun show if the main character wasn't so annoyingly aimless and obsessed with her ex's new girlfriend.
- Queer representation: Most of the main character's colleagues are gay. Boss (that's the guy's name not his title) is a gay guy with pink hair and the other colleague is a black woman whom Boss mentions "wants to lick the boss' assistant". I've only seen a few episodes but they are very obnoxious for now. If it doesn't improve, I might have to move this show to the red flag section.
- Beyond the rainbow: Jessica's family and ex are Jewish. They make it clear but it's also not the most important part of the show. On the other hand, dialogues can get quite preachy when it comes to talking about women's experiences. There is a scene at a bar where Jessica starts lecturing a football player about double standards. The message is not wrong but it's delivered in a way that just takes you out of the show entirely. The cast is fairly diverse in terms of race, although it's less of an overt topic of conversation. The lesbian colleague is a Black American woman for example.
Want to read more about the show?
Beth Lisogorsky
Delirium • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Psychological Thriller • 🇨🇴 Colombia • Ended
Slightly over-the-top psychological thriller with intense family drama that explores generational mental illness and elite hypocrisy in 1980s Bogotá. It unfolds through fragmented flashbacks that peel back layers of trauma, taboo, and corruption as the main character races to piece together what drove his wife to madness.
- Queer representation: There is a son in the family, named Carlos (nickname Bichi), who has been exiled because he's gay. He appears only in flashbacks but is portrayed as kind and supportive to his sister.
- Beyond the rainbow: The show is set in Colombia with a Colombian cast. It also centers around mental illness and intergenerational trauma.
For the Win: NWSL • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Prime Video • Sports Reality • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Behind-the-scenes documentary following several players during 2024 National Women's Soccer League playoff. It does a great job at showcasing a variety of veteran and newbie players from different teams. It's focuses primarily on the sport and only briefly touches on social issues like sexual harassment, woman sports pay gap or the player's personal lives.
- Queer representation: The show features Marta who is openly queer. There are generally a lot of out players in the league but the docuseries does not touch on it. You just can see Pride flags in the supporter stands are almost every game they film 😄.
- Beyond the rainbow: Players come from different countries and ethnicities. Marta is Brazilian and another featured player is the daughter of NBA player Dennis Rodman. They also make it a point to highlight the first Black head coach to win a trophy in the NWSL.
Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser • Season 1
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Netflix • Media Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Shocking and eye-opening docuseries about the reality show The Biggest Loser. The series features interviews from former contestants, producers, and staff who worked on the show, focusing primarily on dangerous moments and abuse the "losers" had to endure. It doesn't bring any big new revelations, but it's still a pretty damning look at how little the people working on the show cared about the contestants' safety.
- Queer representation: The documentary features interviews with trainer Bob Harper, who is openly gay. It also features clips of his co-star Jillian Michaels, who is a lesbian, even though she refused to participate in the series. Their sexuality is not explicitly addressed within the documentary, as it's not the focus of the show. It's also worth noting that Jillian is a pretty despicable person with multiple controversies under her belt. Bob doesn't come off very likable from the documentary either, as he doesn't seem to regret his actions on the show.
- Beyond the rainbow: The true strength of the Fit for TV is the diverse stories from former contestants and how the show impacted their lives.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
Rivers of Fate • Season 1
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Revenge Thriller • 🇧🇷 Brazil • Ended
Tight Brazilian thriller miniseries where a teenager is kidnapped by a trafficking gang, a river pirate is caught between crime and conscience, and a mother goes all-in on vengeance. Their lives collide in the Amazon region, and there’s also this creepy “curse” vibe (called “pssica”) that seems to hang over everything. Definitely not your light watch, but hard to tear away from.
- Queer representation: Mariangel's son, Guilherme, is gay and has a boyfriend called Zé. They are both positive characters in the show and support the women at the center of the story. Unfortunately, I found a comment on Reddit that indicates that at least one of them dies in typical "bury your gays" fashion...
- Beyond the rainbow: Rivers of Fate puts the spotlight on Brazil’s Amazon region, with Indigenous, Black, and rural communities at the center of the story rather than the margins.
On Call • Season 1
🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Prime Video • Police Procedural • 🇺🇸 United States • Cancelled
30-minutes police procedural following a duo of first responders in Long Beach. The two main cops we follow throughout the show make up a strong team, and the woman is in the lead while the guy is a rookie. Long Beach is portrayed as a drug-ridden city controlled by gangs.
- Queer representation: There is a small storyline in episode 3 where a woman catches her husband’s lover running away from their house and accuses him of burglary. While it’s not treated negatively, it gets very little screen time, and this is the only queer representation in the show, which is mostly negative.
- Beyond the rainbow: Most of the characters in the show are Latine, which isn’t always positive, considering most of the characters are also drug addicts and gang members. Diaz, the rookie, is a strong protagonist with a complex family history. He’s portrayed as someone with strong morals who makes mistakes but mostly learns from them.
Prison Cell 211 • Season 1
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Netflix • Prison Drama • 🇲🇽 Mexico • Ended
Gritty and violent prison drama where a lawyer gets trapped in a prison during a riot and has to help the prisoners and hide his true identity to not get killed.
- Queer representation: The show features a group of trans women prisoners. They are in the men’s prison, but it’s never really addressed. The show doesn’t necessarily treat the characters poorly, but there are a few shots showing men looking at them weirdly, and it’s unclear why they made it a point to feature trans prisoners at all.
- Beyond the rainbow: Almost all the characters are Mexican, and most of them are criminals since the show is set in prison.
Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke • Season 1
🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭
Hulu • True Crime Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Disturbing true-crime docuseries about Ruby Franke, a YouTube mom who went from running a popular family channel to being arrested for horrible acts of child abuse. The show includes interviews with her ex-husband and kids, and reveals a lot of horrifying details about the abuse endured by the younger kids.
- Queer representation: Ruby is rumored to have been in a romantic relationship with “life coach” Jodi Hildebrandt. It’s briefly mentioned in the show, but handled with care and never linked to the abuse the two women inflicted on the children.
Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney • Season 1
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Netflix • Talk Show • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
John Mulaney’s weekly live Netflix talk show with sidekick Richard Kind. Expect quirky monologues, celebrity interviews, sketches, musical guests, and viewer call-ins.
- Queer representation: The season features a few openly queer guests, but I’m not sure if their sexuality is discussed.
House of Knives • Season 1
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The Food Network / HBO Max • Cooking Competition • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
High-stakes cooking competition show hosted by Scott Conant, where chefs fight for the “House of Knives” throne and a chance at a $100K prize. Each week, one chef claims the ruler’s seat while another is banished and replaced, making it part cooking contest, part strategic game.
- Queer representation: One of the contestants, Anne Burrell, was previously in a long term relationship with a woman. She is currently dating a man, but was very open about dating women.
Last One Laughing UK • Season 1
🏳️🌈
Prime Video • Reality Comedy Competition • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Renewed
Reality game show where a group of comedians is locked in a room with the challenge to make each other laugh. Hosted by Graham Norton, it’s chaotic, silly, and full of weird bits.
- Queer representation: One of the contestants, Joe Lycett, is pansexual.
The Studio • Season 1
🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Apple TV+ • Media Industry Comedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Guest star packed comedy following a Hollywood movie studio executive and his team. It’s hectic, doesn’t take itself too seriously, and has an imposing lineup of famous people playing themselves.
- Queer representation: They are filming a movie with a lesbian kissing scene in episode 2. They also talk about having a same sex couple in the Kool-Aid movie when trying to see how they can bring diversity without being offensive.
- Beyond the rainbow: One of the actresses playing in the lesbian movie is Asian. The Kool-Aid episode is also focused on diverse representation.
Number One on the Call Sheet • Season 1
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Apple TV+ • Media Documentary • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Inspiring two-part documentary that celebrates the milestones of Black actors as top-billed stars in Hollywood. Part one focuses on legendary men, while part two highlights women trailblazers.
- Queer representation: The docuseries features Cynthia Erivo and Tessa Thompson, who both identify as bisexual.
- Beyond the rainbow: The show focuses on successful Black actors and how they overcome hurdles to be “number one on the call sheet”.
Your Friends & Neighbors • Season 1
🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Apple TV+ • Rich People Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Sharp, dark comedy about a disgraced hedge fund manager who starts robbing his wealthy neighbors to keep up appearances in a posh suburb. As he digs deeper into their lives, he uncovers a web of secrets, betrayals, and a possible murder that could unravel everything.
- Queer representation: Maggie and Suzanne, Mel’s friends, are a lesbian couple
- Beyond the rainbow: Suzanne is Black
Got to Get Out • Season 1
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Hulu • Challenge Based Reality Competition • 🇺🇸 United States / 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Fate Unknown
High-stakes reality competition where 20 players, including reality stars and regular people, are trapped in a mansion with a ticking $1 million prize. They must decide when to escape with the money or stay and risk it all, leading to shifting alliances and surprise betrayals.
- Queer representation: Two of the contestants are openly bisexual women: Kim Zolciak-Biermann and Demi Burnett
Battle Camp • Season 1
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Netflix • Challenge Based Reality Competition • 🇺🇸 United States / 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Fate Unknown
High-energy reality competition on Netflix where 18 stars from shows like Squid Game: The Challenge, The Circle, and Too Hot to Handle are split into three teams and face physical and mental challenges to avoid elimination.
- Queer representation: The show features Lexi from Ultimatum: Queer Love and Gio from Selling The OC. Both identify as bisexual.
With Love, Meghan • Season 1
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Netflix • Lifestyle Cooking Show • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Hyper produced lifestyle show following Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex as she hosts guest at her beautiful home and cooks beautiful dishes for them.
- Queer representation: In the first episode, she invites her friend and make-up artist Daniel Martin, who is openly gay. They mention his partner a few times.
- Beyond the rainbow: Daniel is of French-Vietnamese descent, Meghan herself is of mixed ancestry and she hosts a diverse group of people in the show. That being said, the whole thing feels very posh, sanitised and slightly out of touch with reality.
Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark • Season 1
🏳️🌈
Netflix • Dating Show • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Surprisingly sweet dating show that puts six singles in a motel hoping for new flings. But, surprise! Their ex-hookups are there too. It’s messy, a little awkward, and somehow still kind of wholesome.
- Queer representation: The host, Chloe Veitch, is openly bisexual.
Sirens • Season 1
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Netflix • Rich People Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
White lotus-style drama that centers around two sisters who reunite on an island full of pastel-wearing wealthy white people, where the younger sister works for a wannabe cult leader. What starts as a protective older sister intervention quickly snowballs into manipulation, power plays, romantic entanglements, cult-like vibes, and hefty sibling drama that’s as sharp as it is unexpected.
- Queer representation: In episode 4, the cook who works on the island with the younger sister casually mentions that she has a wife.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
Dept. Q • Season 1
🏳️🌈 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Noir Crime Thriller • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Fate Unknown
Dark and gritty crime thriller set in Scotland following a newly established police department in charge of solving cold cases. It’s full of loveable grumpy characters with a decent plot around finding a woman who disappeared years ago.
- Queer representation: Two small characters are revealed to be queer in the show. The son of the small island police officer, where the woman has been kidnapped, mentions he’s gay during a car ride with one of the cold case detectives. Merritt’s PA subtly mentions she’s queer when being interviewed by the police about her relationship with Merritt, who unfortunately doesn’t “bat for the same team”.
- Beyond the rainbow: The queer PA woman is Asian. One of the main detectives investigating the case is a refugee from Syria who sometimes mentions his life as a detective back home. He’s a really great character and has fun banter with the British lead detective.
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
The Waterfront • Season 1
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Netflix • Rich Corporation Family Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Darkly atmospheric family crime drama set in a small beach town in North Carolina, following the powerful Buckley family as their crumbling fishing empire draws them into poorly executed drug-smuggling, toxic betrayals, and moral chaos. The show blends pulpy intrigue with messy emotional arcs.
- Queer representation: Shawn, a bartender at the property, is gay, but it’s not a big deal in the show. He seems to mention it mainly in passing.
Ironheart • Season 1
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Disney+ • Marvel Superhero Show • 🇺🇸 United States • Ended
Action-packed Marvel series set in Chicago, following teenage genius Riri Williams as she builds her own high-tech suit and steps into the legacy of Iron Man. Balancing school, grief, and superhero chaos, Ironheart blends coming-of-age energy with sharp tech battles and rising threats from both science and magic.
- Queer representation: There is a nonbinary character called Slug, played by famous drag performer Shea Couleé. It is also speculated that Riri is bisexual, but I couldn’t find any sources that confirmed it.
- Beyond the rainbow: Slug is a black nonbinary hacker, and a young Black female inventor leads the show. In general, Ironheart features a wide range of characters of colors in roles we don’t often see them play.
Building the Band • Season 1
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Netflix • Music Competition • 🇺🇸 United States / 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Fate Unknown
Reality competition where 50 singers are split into pods and have to form bands without ever seeing each other. The catch is that they only meet face-to-face after deciding to team up, testing whether vocal chemistry can survive the big reveal.
- Queer representation: One of the contestants, Pillow Prince, is openly queer.
- Beyond the rainbow: The cast is fairly diverse in terms of race and gender. This is refreshing to see, considering this is a boy/girl band competition. The bling element also encourages inclusivity by forcing people to choose bandmates without seeing them. Pillow Prince is a black queer guy.
Hitmakers • Season 1
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Netflix • Music Competition • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Music docu-reality series that follows a group of accomplished songwriters and producers as they gather for songwriting camps in places like the Bahamas, Nashville, and Cabo San Lucas, creating and pitching original demos to well-known artists.
- Queer representation: Two of the songwriters featured in the show, Ferras and JHart, are openly gay.
Are You My First? • Season 1
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Hulu • Dating Show • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Reality dating show where 21 singles who’ve never had sex get thrown together on a tropical island. Instead of the usual hookups, it’s all about awkward flirting, first crushes, and seeing if anyone actually finds their first real connection. It’s part sweet, part messy, and kind of fascinating to watch unfold.
- Queer representation: The singles are all straight, but the show's host, Colton Underwood, is openly gay. This doesn't really affect the show itself, but it's worth mentioning in this list.
Returning Queer Shows
This is not an exhaustive list but I wanted to highlight a few returning shows that had great queer storylines and are worth watching!
The Ultimatum: Queer Love • Season 2
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Dating Reality • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Season 1 was messy as hell and set the bar high for a second season. Let me just say that season 2 delivered! We had a good range of couples from young love to a 10-year-old relationship, with a good mix of masculine and feminine lesbians. Most of them should not be together if you ask for my opinion, but a surprisingly high number of ladies left engaged. This show proves that we need more lesbian dating shows out there. So much potential…
Want to read more about the show?
Aurelie Chazal
XO, Kitty • Season 2
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭👬 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Teen Dramedy • 🇺🇸 United States / 🇰🇷 South Korea • Renewed
It’s one of those “full of queer characters” type of shows. It has bisexual Kitty trying to figure out her feelings for Yuri, who is in a relationship with another woman at the beginning of the season. She also has a gay best friend who has his own romance storyline. Since the show takes place in South Korea, most of the characters are Korean or Korean-American. Other ethnicities are also represented: Yuri’s girlfriend is Black, the gay BFF Q is played by an actor of Filipino & Iranian descent, and Kitty briefly dates an Indian student. It doesn’t have much commentary around race or Korean culture, but it does a good job at bringing together people from different backgrounds in a lighthearted K-Drama style show.
Black Mirror • Season 7
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Dystopian Scifi • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom • Fate Unknown
Episode 3, called “Hotel Reverie” has a plot centered around a lesbian romance between a popular present-day actress and the female lead of an old-timey romantic movie. There are some moving scenes about the actress from the past struggling because she couldn’t be out. It reminded me a lot of the other famous Black Mirror lesbian couple from San Junipero. The other episodes don’t have any notable queer representation, but the season deserves the four flags rating just for this episode! The present-day actress is a Black woman who’s annoyed at always being cast in the same type of roles and jumps at the opportunity of playing the lead (as in the typically male lead) in a remake of an old romantic comedy. It’s very special to see a typical black and white romance film being reinvented with two women as leads and one of them being Black.
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Love on the Spectrum U.S. • Season 3
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Dating Show • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Pari, a train enthusiast and new addition to the cast, goes on dates with another woman. They have a great vibe going on and end up sharing a kiss. Both women are Asian, and Pari’s date has a visual impairment. They openly talk about their journey with autism.
The Last of Us • Season 2
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
HBO Max • Zombie Apocalypse Scifi • 🇺🇸 United States / 🇨🇦 Canada • Renewed
Ellie, the main character in season 2, is a lesbian and has a romance storyline with Dina, who identifies as bisexual. Dina is Jewish in the game, but I don’t think they’ve established the same in the show.
The two first kiss while drunk at a New Year's party and slowly develop a more serious relationship while they travel together to Seattle. The romance isn’t the main storyline, but it’s at the center of a few episodes. I personally liked the two characters better in the game, and I think the showrunners made a lot of strange, awkward choices in the show. It’s still a good story, but I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite on-screen lesbian romance of all time.
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And Just Like That… • Season 3
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭👬♾️ | 🫱🏽🫲🏿 | 🏳️⚧️
HBO Max • Friends Comedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
The show feels like the writers were given a checklist of diversity boxes to check and just spend their entire energy making sure they checked as many boxes as possible. Unfortunately, they forgot to write actual characters in the process so we just end up with a mess of token representation.
This season, we have Charlotte’s nonbinary kid, Rock, taking more of a backseat, but her sister (Charlotte’s other kid) is now in a polyamorous relationship with her bisexual Latino dancer boyfriend.
Miranda is looking for love. She has a brief encounter with a nun played by Rosie O’Donnell and a proper romance storyline with a British colleague and her 2 dogs. Honestly, I hope she gets a happy ending after all she went through with Che.
And of course, let’s not forget Charlotte’s annoying, snarky gay best friend who is still dating the well-endowed Italian guy and trying to sell bread to horny gays and middle-aged women.
Yellowjackets • Season 3
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Paramount+ • Survival Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Season 3 doesn’t particularly focus on a queer storyline, but the show still has a lot of main queer characters all openly living their queerness. We have Tai and Van, who continue living their renewed romance while Tai seems to forget about her wife and son. Shauna and Melissa have a weird romance story in the queer timelin,e and adult Melissa is married to a woman. Coach is also present in the teen timeline and makes a few comments about being gay. Tai is Black and is married (or was married, I guess) to a Black woman. They also have a son together. Tai was one of the most successful adults in the earlier season with her political career. Unfortunately, she takes more of a backseat in season 3 and is mostly focused on supporting Van. She also has a strange supernatural storyline about having a dark side to her.
Hacks • Season 4
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️ ♾️ | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
HBO Max • Dramedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
Ava, one of the leads of the show, is bisexual, and she has a brief polyamorous relationship with a couple she meets at a sex shop. They eventually break up with her because she’s not ready to commit to anything. The show also features two gay guys as secondary characters. One of them takes Deborah to a gay club. The show also takes a strong stance against sexual harassment and consistently comments on the lack of women in comedy.
Nine Perfect Strangers • Season 2
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👭 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Hulu • Rich People Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Season 2 features a lesbian couple who are both musicians, but one of them is struggling with mental health and is unable to play the piano. They are part of the main ensemble cast, but their storyline takes more of a backseat. They also break up at the end without much of an explanation, but it’s presented as a way for them to move on and be happy. One of them is Black and comes from a poor background. The people around them are very accepting, and there are no issues with homophobia.
Kaulitz & Kaulitz • Season 2
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ❤️👬
Netflix • Famous Person Documentary • 🇩🇪 Germany • Cancelled
One of the brothers is queer and dates men. He deals with a break-up at the beginning of this season, and his brother tries to hire a matchmaker to help him find a new partner. His sexual orientation is not at the center of the show, but it’s also openly embraced.
Squid Game • Season 3
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | 🏳️⚧️ | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Netflix • Dystopian Drama • 🇰🇷 South Korea • Ended
One of the main game contestants of seasons 2 and 3 is a trans woman. She dies early in season 3, but she has a very touching and important storyline in the hide and seek episode. Overall, she was one of the best characters of the second game for me, and she is portrayed in a non-stereotypical and 100% positive light. Her transness is not ignored, but it’s also not the main aspect of her personality. This is a pretty rare instance of nuanced representation in a Korean drama.
All that being said, the character is played by a cisgender man, which is a problematic casting choice. The director explained that it was virtually impossible to find a trans actress in South Korea. I definitely believe that, but why go with a cis man instead of a cis woman, considering how far the character was in her transition? I don’t think any of the creators of Netflix did this with ill intent, and they reported having LGBTQ+ and trans consultants working with them, but it doesn’t sit 100% right with me. I still think the character was excellent outside of this, so I decided not to add the season in the red flags section.
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Poker Face • Season 2
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ️❤️👭👬 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
Peacock • Procedural Crime Dramedy • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
Poker Face returned with a season 2 full of incredible guest stars and two episodes featuring storylines with queer couples.
In episode 8, a gay couple helps Charlie expose a conman's crimes. One of the men is part of the conman crew, and his husband poses as a gangster. The show builds the fact that the husband is the opposite of a stereotypical camp gay into a twist.
Episode 9 centers around a con woman who seduces an Asian grandma to get her rent-controlled apartment. The grandma is bisexual, and her granddaughter is supportive of her sexuality but immediately suspicious of the con woman.
Both storylines have central queer characters, but they are treated like any other fleshed-out characters and don’t rely on stereotypes.
Shiny Happy People • Season 2
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 | ️❤️👬 | 🏳️⚧️
Prime Video • Cult Docuseries • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
This second season of Shiny Happy People focuses on the Teen Mania organization. Episode 3 focuses on how Teen Mania actively fought against gay marriage and took a strong stance against gay people. In addition to this, the dad of two of the interviewees is gay and has found a new partner.
Finally, Mica, a Teen Mania alumni who took down the organization with zir blog uses ze/zir pronouns and is now a dedicated activist against white evangelism.
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Shows that did not get it right
Shifting Gears • Season 1
🚩 | 🫱🏽🫲🏿
ABC / Hulu • Family Sitcom • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
There is a lesbian mechanic at the dad’s car shop who has 2 scenes where all she says is basically that she’s a lesbian. It’s not played out for laughs, but it’s also very unnecessary and feels very much like a token gay character. The lesbian mechanic is Latina. Considering all of the main characters with actual storylines are white and straight, this is slightly ridiculous. But don’t worry, there is also a Black mechanic in a wheelchair to keep her company who has a touch more dialogue.
The White Lotus • Season 3
🚩 | ❤️👬
HBO Max • Rich People Drama • 🇺🇸 United States • Renewed
The only two moments of queer adjacent representation in this season were an incestuous handjob between brothers and a hilariously disturbing monologue by a guy about not knowing if he wanted to fuck Asian girls or be an Asian girl. The show has fucked up storylines for everyone, and this season is still worth a watch, but it deserves the red flag for bad queer representation.
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Unspeakable Sins • Season 1
🚩 | ❤️👬
Netflix • Soap Opera style romance • 🇺🇸 United States • Fate Unknown
There is a central gay plot, but it revolves around a wife working with a male escort to trap her closeted gay husband and use his gay sexcapades as leverage. If the wife sounds awful, Claudio, the husband, actually sounds worse from the synopsis. He's abusive to his wife and equally horrible to his son. The show sounds like a typical soap opera with much exaggerated drama and stereotypes.
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