Hi guys, do you know any shows with relevant lesbian or bisexual characters that are either really good, or just older than 10 years… (The show, not the characters) Alternately, just some shows which are a little more LGBT focused than the “Standart”?
The Wire. Don’t want to spoil it by saying which one, but a key character turns out to be a lesbian.
I hate the notion that The Wire counts as an old show! 😁
Isn’t it made clear from nearly the beginning that this certain person is openly lesbian?
Overall, I really like how the show deals with it’s LGBT characters. It’s just matter of fact. Even the one little reveal of a certain secondary character is just there and gone, just a little detail on them not necessarily a defining part of their persona within the confines of the story.
Oh God, I can’t believe I forgot this one.
Xena
Babylon 5 has two women start a relationship… sort of.
They set up a frienship that was supposed to turn into a romantic relationship, but one of them left the show, cutting that subplot short. They still try to work it in, as the last couple episodes before the character exit heavily imply they are romantically/sexually involved, but nothing is explicitly confirmed until the next season when the remaining character briefly opens up about having loved the now absent character.
It’s not much, but it’s still pretty big for the early to mid 90s.
Roseanne had a lesbian couple in it. Roseanne’s boss at the diner was also gay, but I don’t remember if they ever introduced his partner.
Once Upon A Time has a pretty well-done lesbian relationship in the seventh season. Season five had a lesbian romance episode, but the characters involved were then never mentioned again. Season seven did a better job, with the lesbian characters being recurring characters throughout the season
Sailor Moon, but not in the American or German versions. I think in America they were cousins and all the romance cut out and in Germany one was turned into a guy.
- The L Word is older than 10 years 😭
- Lip Service is a kind of L Word from Scotland
- Sugar Rush is a British teen drama centered around a Lesbian character
- True Blood has a lesbian character and 2 bi characters
- Queer as folk is considered a landmark in queer Television
Also, shout out to https://lezwatchtv.com/
I’ve watched all except queer as folk… I’ll give it a try!
6 feet under has one of the main characters who is living a gay marital life.
Skins UK attempted to deal with every topic they could get their hands on, including lesbianism (and homophobia iirc), with the drama turned up to 11.
I don’t know how it holds up today, but back then as a dramatic teen myself I loved it.
Cousin Liz from All in the Family, aired 1977.
Orange is the New Black.
Old? 😭
Yep. Premiered in 2013, so it meets the OP’s requirements.
Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for my fiber supplement, and Matlock will be on the television box soon, so I’d better go.
My TV Guide doesn’t have Matlock on today. Damn TV Guide!
Grey’s Anatomy.
If u don’t mind anime suggestions, Madoka Magica is a great pick. The mcs are all lesbian/bi asf (I don’t think it’s confirmed, but if u watch it you’ll understand…) and they all have a lot of depth to them, especially homura :)
The Forsters season 1 came out 2013…
It’s about a Lesbian /bisexual couple taking in forster kids and the problems/traumas they bring with them as well as how they get a long with the kids of one of them from an earlier marriage.
Trigger warning: it’s quite dramatic & some heavy topics such as rape are part of the show.
Ellen - before she was a talk-show host, Ellen DeGeneres played the main character in an Emmy award-winning sitcom. The show had LGBT characters, with Ellen herself (both the character and actress) coming out later in the show’s run.
I’m surprised I’ve not seen Will & Grace mentioned (I’m sure it must be here, but I didn’t notice it). That show famously featured many LGBT characters, including a lesbian couple who were Will and Grace’s main rivals.
Less specifically for lesbian characters, but featuring a gay couple as main characters, you’ve also got The New Normal, a fantastic show about a gay couple that was cancelled after one season, and, of course Modern Family.
I wouldn’t say that this programme was good, but Brookside famously featured the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV (the watershed is the point, 9pm, where it’s assumed that children will no longer be watching TV). This was in 1994, when we still had backwards Conservative Party laws about it being illegal to “promote public discussion” of homosexuality. For context, it’s worth noting that even two years later, when Carol and Susan got married in Friends they didn’t kiss.
