Netflix boasts a plethora of incredible LGBTQ+ comedies, dramas and thrillers, so we’ve rounded up some of the best that you can stream right now.Ĭast: Lea Michele, Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Darren Criss, Harry Shum Jr, Chord Overstreet, Jacob Artist, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Heather Morris, Jenna Ushkowitz, Corey Monteith Over the past few years, the streamer has built a reputation as one of the most inclusive sources for content, whether it’s originals such as Orange is the New Black, Dear White People or Hollywood, to network classics like American Horror Story, Pose or RuPaul’s Drag Race. It’s impossible to deny the role Netflix has had in this. In fact, a recent report from GLAAD discovered that the amount of queer characters on our screens has increased by over 100 to a new record. As of 2021, however, representation for the LGBTQ+ community in television has never been better. No shade to some of these characters of course, because a lot of them paved the way for the positive queer representation we see today. So.did you love it as much as we did? Hit the comments! And sign on to Twitter for our #EDrinkingGame now.Remember when LGBTQ+ characters were the sidekick? The stereotypical white gay who popped up in a recurring capacity for comedic effect? Or if they were the central character, their sexuality would be downplayed and scenes of intimacy would be non-existent? Yeah, we’ll admit: we don’t really miss those days. Stand by for the next Spoier Chat for more on how exactly that love triangle plays out, and the amazing flashback and flashforward structure of this show. The script says that she touches him inapporpriately and she went there. She has two men in her life right now, and that will be complicated."Īnd by the way, that nipple rub that Annalise did to her student in the bathroom? Nowalk reveals that it was improvised.
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To look forward to with Annalise (Viola Davis)! "We'll delve into Annalise's romantic life. It was important to me to show a gay person as a full-fledged character.Īnd there is So. Connor's definitely going to have a romance the first season, starting with the second episode. Michaela's engaged what's gonna go on there now that she's involved in a murder. Wes and his neighbor, there's going to be something strange that happens in their relationship, Laurel and Frank, she got a phone call from him and he was shirtless in the four months later, what's gonna go on there. "There's a lot of romantic entanglements. Nowalk teases this for what's ahead for all of the romantic developments:
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It was in important to show a gay person as a full-fledged character."Īnd of course it goes without saying, there will be lots of straight romance and straight sex, too. Nowalk reveals that Connor ( Jack Falahee), the gay character, is definitely going to have a romance in the first season, right off the bat, starting with the second episode. I just feel like it's a lack of vision that you don't see it on TV, but ABC has never had a note about any of the weird stuff in the show, so I'm gonna keep it going." Because I didn't see that growing up, and I feel like the more people get used to two men kissing, the less weird it will be for people.
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"And to me, writing the gay characterization and writing some real gay sex into a network show is to right the wrong of all of the straight sex that you see on TV. "I knew I wanted to push the envelope, especially with the gay sex," Nowalk explained to me.
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Peter Nowalk, who created Murder, and who worked alongside Rhimes on Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, reveals, "We never got any pushback about from the network."Īnd you can expect a lot more same-sex sex and same-sex romance as the series continues because, as Nowalk puts it, "It's part of life."