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”?
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.
Another anime suggestion would be RWBY. However I don’t want to explain it, if you’ve never seen it… it would be a big spoiler.
I wouldn’t call RWBY a good example. First, it goes downhill after season 3. Second, the relationship you’re referring to was only added in due to fans continually demanding it just from the two merely looking at each other in season 1.
And before you start to argue the second point: Monty Oum created the show. If you want a leg to stand on, go find evidence of him claiming the relationship was intended from the start. And please don’t give me a quote from Miles Luna, he’s the one that drove the show into the ground
It was a simple suggestion. If you don’t agree, fine.
I enjoyed the show… I am not politically invested in it. Nor do I care to argue about it. I don’t know shit about what you’re referring too.
Take your rage out on someone else.
I’m not raging out. It’s just that the show’s fanbase is fairly hostile, to put it mildly.
Mainly, I was trying to head off some bad-faith arguments I’ve seen used in the past
