For Pride2020, THR's TV critics take a look at the current state of LGBTQ representation on the small screen — from the queering of CW's superhero space to the refreshing tendency toward flawed LGBT characters, steamy same-sex love scenes and more
, an FX series that utterly blows the representation doors off the barn, because when it premiered we were still at a point where it was forward-looking for shows to have a trans character or two trans characters. Back then, we were still being forced to confront the speed with which a show likepremiered and it had trans heroes and trans villains and trans characters with the complexity to be both of those things at once.
Nicholas is also a fairly new paradigm because he’s a gay protagonist on a show for a young audience, but he fucks, and does so in terms that TV has rarely, if ever, depicted before; the series fills in a middle space between utter chasteness — a series like Hulu's new still treats its gay protagonist in G-rated terms — and the adults-only territory occupied previously by.
, which rewrites period romances to show the hidden spaces lesbian eroticism could fill; and Netflix's RuPaul’s Drag Race , but — surprise, surprise — drag queens are behind some of the most delightfully dirty, least respectable jokes on TV. For me, there’s no better barometer for queer representation on television — and its shifting standards — than the cultural institution that has become, which just wrapped up its 12th season.
Along the way, the producers have stayed attuned to changes within queer discourse. For example, they got rid of transphobic gimmicks while shifting to openly embrace trans competitors and even confronting racism within thefandom.
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