2023 gay series

How do I begin to describe the experience of crawling through the desert of my broken intellect in search of homosexual characters for this month’s streaming guide, I assume I could begin by calling it difficult, while also educational! When there’s nothing big to center the guide around, I am forced to observe deeply into every available show in the entire universe in search of a bit lesbian personality and it turns out many of them hold been here all along! But often in ways that are kind of ambiguous, not important enough for us to perceive about it until this month’s research… and in most cases, I can’t figure out if they’re gonna do anything else gay in the future. One can only pray.

That said, September is a month with some fine stuff coming your way in general, even though that stuff is not centered on queer women, including stuff with same-sex attracted male characters and stuff starring queer female actors. Normally I wouldn’t even mention this stuff but… desperate times! There’s gonna be three (3) Ryan Murphy projects such as horror show Grotesquerie, starring out actors Neicy Nash-Betts and Micaela Diamond, which debuts September 25th on FX. W

The Best LGBTQ TV Shows and Movies of 2023

“The Last of Us” (Season 1, HBO)

How it’s queer: “The Last of Us” Episode 3, titled “Long, Long Time,” was a headline-making tearjerker that saw Nick Offerman and “White Lotus” Season 1 star Murray Bartlett playing survivalist farmers living as complete to an idyllic life as they could muster in a world overrun by zombies — before tragedy inevitably strikes the dreamy couple’s protected compound. But the whole show is lgbtq+ with nonbinary guide Bella Ramsey playing lesbian hero Ellie opposite Storm Reid as love interest Riley in Episode 7, “Left Behind.”

Why it’s exceptional: In a sci-fi society overwrought with suffering, “The Last of Us” is believably emotional without playing too much into queer cliche. HBO’s new hit makes LGBTQ characters an intrinsic part of its fabric throughout. But its most memorable episodes center in on their homo-romances, giving us some classic horror beats through a lens that’s radically more inclusive. —AF

Read IndieWire’s Review of “The Last of Us” Season 1: &#

Well my friends, it is June, which means it’s time for networks to prove how much they care about us through creating new LGBTQ+ programming, and I don’t mean just creating a “Voices of Pride” section on their primary interface that houses all the LGBTQ+ movies in their catalog as skillfully as television they made and cancelled in the past.

Most importantly is that there will be a new season of The Ultimatum: Queer Love, and that will make everything else okay! Furthermore, I am recapping And Just Like That… so if you enjoy witty captions, be sure to check that out.

Netflix June 2025 LGBTQ TV + Movies

Ginny & Georgia // Season Three // June 5
Georgia faces a murder trial in the third season of Ginny & Georgia, which’ll push her daughter Ginny “to the limits.” Her queer friend Max (played by Sara Waisglass) is returning and furthermore, non-binary actor Noah Lamanna plays Tris, a non-binary skateboarder who is very smart.

Olympo // Season One // June 20
This new Netflix series follows a group of elite swimmers as they struggle to arrive the top while wearing their swimsuits and being s

Last year was a particularly rough one for queer advocacy. From the massacre of nearly every show on The CW (a network that, regardless of quality, always provided consistent representation for a variety of sexualities and gender identities) to the axing of series after series, the question for 2023 in the aftermath was: how will this year stack up? Will the representation be improved, or somehow even worse? The reply, it turns out, is complicated—as most things always are.

There have been a slew of unreal LGBTQ+ series that have aired this year, and the ones listed below are just barely scratching the surface. Featuring representation of lesbians, bisexuals, homosexual men, and even a bi-gender ethics, this year offered a slew of couples and characters all with varying degrees of triumph in their overall storytelling. But most importantly, queerness could always be initiate, in one way or another, in some of our biggest series.

However, we also lost a number of shows this year, whether that be to cancellation or straight-up deletion. The delightful Willow, which came out at the end of last year and featured a character who was technically Disney’s first queer princess,