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Posted on Last updated: July 27, 2021 By: Author Queer In The World
We all love a good binge-watch of the latest TV series, but sometimes it can be frustrating to see so few LGBT characters represented on our screens, particularly gay women.
Clearly, the television gods have been listening to our grumbles, because the past few years have seen a burgeoning of amazing and varied lesbian TV shows, ones that avoid stereotypes, limited storylines or patronizing approaches.
Here we’ve got a list that includes superhero and comic-book shows, period drama romps, modern teenage stories, and musicals – so whatever your tastes, you know that next time you snuggle up under a blanket to watch an episode or 4, you’re going to see queer women in all their multifaceted glory.
So slip out of those sandals, log out of the dating apps, and get comfy with your favorite t-shirt on the couch… This is going to be good!
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Hold on to your hats, this is the lesbian period drama romance that you’ve been waiting for. If you haven’t been waiting for this, who even are you?!
We joke, and reassure you that this amazing BBC interpretation of a true story is ideal even if you’re not a fan of British historical drama. Anne Lister was a wealthy landowner who lived in the 18th century, a woman whose determination, confidence, and passion meant she lived her life on her own terms – including who she loved. Resisting familial attempts to marry her well, she falls in love with the beautiful Ann Walker and the resulting story is captivating.
If nothing else, we love Gentleman Jack for the reminder that you don’t need dating apps or lesbian festivals to find love…who knew?
It’s almost cheating to have this on our list of top lesbian TV shows, as unless you’ve been in outer space for 6 years, chances are you’ve heard of Orange is the New Black, prison-based drama with a truly diverse cast including plenty of queer characters.
Piper Chapman goes to prison after being convicted of a crime that occurred 10 years previously, a crime that she committed for an ex-girlfriend. Upon arriving in Litchfield prison, she encounters a group of women who are by turns kind, violent, complex and funny.
These include trans women, queer women and bisexual women navigating the horrors and heartache of life behind bars.
Many of us coming of age in the early 2000s will remember The L Word, the long-running show about a group of (unrealistically) glamorous lesbians living in Los Angeles.
Think of it as Sex and the City for queer women – watching it now, it’s intensely problematic, but at the same time you’ve got to remember that this was one of the first TV shows with more than one queer character so it gets props for that. And despite its many problems, it’s a hell of a fun show! December 2019 saw a ‘Generation Q’ season released set 10 years after the original.
Are we allowed to put a TV series on a list of best lesbian TV shows merely because of one superb episode? We’re going to do it, anyway. To be fair, Master of None also gets points for featuring out lesbian Lena Waithe as main character Dev’s best friend, another friend casually talking about her sex life without it being a big deal at all.
Then there’s the famous ‘Thanksgiving’ episode, which Waithe co-wrote and rightly won an Emmy for, focusing on Denise’s coming out story. It’s an episode that spans about 25 years, set entirely in her family home, and is realistic, touching and full of authentic, fully-formed characters.
One of the things we love most about recent lesbian TV shows is the huge range of genres they showcase. From sitcom to period drama to graphic novel adaptation, in the case of Wynonna Earp. The title character returns to her hometown, Purgatory, to become a demon protector in the Wild West.
Yup, it’s as awesome as it sounds, made even better by the blossoming relationship between Wynonna’s sister Waverly and female police officer Nichole, a romance that might be one of our favourite lesbian TV pairings of all time.
Look, we’ve got the same issues with Glee that everyone else seems to, but there’s no denying that it packed a powerful punch when it came to showing queer relationships as every bit as meaningful as hetero ones, here in the context of teen love. Case in point: Brittana.
Glee managed to tell the story of Santana’s coming out in a way that beat the tropes of the ‘teen-lesbian-coming-out’ plotline, while providing lesbian fangirls with an authentic couple to root for. It also helped that we found an understated bisexual character in Brittany, who loved who she loved without being played for titillation.
Despite accusations of queerbaiting, we’re still going to call Killing Eve a lesbian TV show. OK, maybe we’re just trying to get you to watch it – but seriously, you should watch it, it’s incredible. Especially the first series, written by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which is dark, funny, violent and sexy all at once.
Sandra Oh plays a MI6 investigator on the tail of Jodie Cromer’s highly-skilled and possibly psychopathic assassin, who becomes obsessed with her in turn. Is it love? Is it comparison? Who knows, but we’re here for it. The cherry on top of the cake is the co-star turn by amazing (and out) Fiona Shaw.
When HBO’s new show came out, a lot of us seemed to think it would be a kind of updated OC-style teen drama so the explicit nature of the series might have come as a bit of a surprise – but not in a bad way! Plus, to be honest, what else can we expect of HBO?!
Starring Zendaya as a 17-year-old just out of rehab, it explores her blossoming relationship with transgender girl Jules. It’s so unusual to see teen sexuality represented in this diverse way, without creepiness and showing the complexities of emotions. 
Honestly, how could we not feature the show with the first black lesbian superhero on TV? It also yet again proves that nowadays lesbian TV shows can come in all genres!
We love a bit of sci-fi at the best of times, and especially one that features queer relationships with a woman who can make herself stronger through her breathing and create powerful shockwaves. Fighting increasing crime rates and institutional racism, Anissa Pierce/Thunder works with her father Jefferson.
This out-of-the-box show met with mixed reviews for its first season, but by the time it was cancelled after the second, the internet was basically fully in love with it. It’s probably safe to say that if it’s your kind of thing, you’ll love it forever.
A group of 8 strangers find themselves able to connect telepathically after shared visions, and get together to try and find out what’s going on. Basically, every character is pansexual and there’s a lesbian relationship that will warm the cockles of your heart (even as you find yourself wondering what on earth is going on with this plot!). 
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Diverse, queer, female experiences are far from dominating on TV, but these titles are a great start.
When social distancing began a brief 700 years ago, I half-heartedly tweeted that we (queer women) didn’t have enough lesbian content to get us through this. At the time, I had no idea how long this pandemic-induced isolation would stretch, but, regardless, I had evidence: a lifetime of searching for women-loving-women entertainment that often turned up empty results.

But that finally seems to be changing. In 2020, there are a (limited, but decent) plethora of shows which depict lesbian and bisexual women, from a Los Angeles chief of police to a candidate for mayor to a trendy women’s magazine editor to a Midwestern adult in middle-aged crisis. While the diversity of queer, female experiences is far from being comprehensively captured on TV screens, these lesbian TV shows are a great start.
Queer content, of course, isn’t just for queer people. Embracing fully developed, complicated, lovable (and sometimes unlikable) queer characters is also an important part of being an ally. When there are still so few LGBTQ characters on TV, sometimes we have to actively seek out queer women onscreen.
And thankfully for all of us, there’s a wide range of lesbian-led TV shows streaming for free right now. From half-hour sitcoms to movie-quality dramas to family-friendly ensemble shows to reality classics, here’s what you should be watching to become an expert in contemporary lesbian TV canon.

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Lena Waithe’s single-camera semi-autobiographical sitcom, chronicling a queer Black aspiring screenwriter (Hattie, played by Jonica T. Gibbs) and her two straight best friends’ life in Los Angeles, didn’t receive the attention it deserved when it debuted on BET in March 2020 (blame the pandemic). But thankfully, all eight episodes are currently streaming. Catch up before the second season premieres in 2021.
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Ryan Murphy’s bingeable backstory of the mildly (okay, very) deranged Nurse Mildred Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest stars Sarah Paulson as the titular character and Cynthia Nixon as her love interest, Gwendolyn Briggs. Briggs seduces Paulson's character over oysters on the California coast, and the series is only uphill from there. It even includes a stop at a women’s bar that would make an excellent setting for most of season two.
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While the title seems apt for 2020, this Netflix original is actually perfectly-suited for our collective 1990s nostalgia. Set in Boring, Oregon, this coming-of-age story explores a small-town high schooler embracing her sexuality—with an epic soundtrack to match.
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Starring out Latinx actress Monica Raymund as Jackie Quiñones, a National Marine Fisheries Service agent on Cape Cod, Hightown is the type of show that makes you hold your breath until you compulsively finish each episode. The series starts with Jackie finding a body on the beach and resolving to solve a murder, all while battling with sobriety.
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Netflix’s lesbian-centric series by standup comic Mae Martin tells a fictionalized version of her coming-of-age as a Canadian expat in England, while she recovers from drug addiction, falls in love with unattainable (previously straight-identifying) women and figures out their gender identity through comedy. Lisa Kudrow plays Mae’s delightfully unlikeable mom, which is just another reason to binge the six-episode first season of Feel Good.
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Tig Notaro’s series about moving from Los Angeles to her Southern hometown after her mother's sudden death is loosely based on her own tragic year battling grief, illness, and complicated family dynamics. The comedy delves into hard-to-talk about issues like abuse and harassment, cleverly using humor as a coping and narrative mechanism to further each episode arc.
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Chicago-based comedian Abby McEnany slipped under the radar until her semi-autobiographical half-hour sitcom debuted on Showtime in December 2019. The dark comedy centers on Abby, a lesbian in her 40s, whose therapist suddenly dies mid-session. The unexpected tragedy spurs a series of unprecedented events as Abby falls for a transgender man in his early 20s (Theo Germaine), attempts to manage her OCD without professional guidance, and looks at her hurtful past relationship with new perspective. A new season is on the way, so catch up before it premieres.
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The Netflix reboot of the 1970s sitcom re-envisions the central family, the Alvarezes, as a close-knight Cuban-American grandmother, mother, daughter and son living in current-day Echo Park, Los Angeles. The ensemble show isn’t like the after-school specials of your childhood. Now, the Alvarezes openly deal with sexism, homophobia, racism, sex-positivity, and more, in quick, laugh-out-loud episodes. The best part? Teenage daughter Elena coming to terms with her sexuality, falling in love with a nonbinary teen, and wearing a tux to her quinceañera (light spoiler, sorry).
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What if Emily Dickinson hooked up with her best friend (also her brother’s fiancée), spoke like modern day Millennials, and had no qualms about being herself? It’s feasible, in the new beautifully anachronistic Apple TV series that loosely tells the story of the 19th Century writer.
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The 2018 series follows two Mexican-American siblings, Lyn and Emma, reunited in their childhood home with their mother’s (secret) wife after their only parent passes away unexpectedly. It's heart-wrenching and timely in all the right ways, with plenty of Starz’s signature sex scenes. The unlikely trio deal with gentrification, maintaining their family’s rundown bar, and caring for each other, all while coming into their own identities and community roles. Each episode is charming, surprising, and will keep you hooked through the third season’s series finale.
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Is BBC Three’s melodramatic riff on The L Word’s early-2010s success the best lesbian-centric show out there? Absolutely not. But if you’re craving women-centric drama, deep Scottish accents, and a few plot twists that will leave you yelling at your screen, this Glasgow-set ensemble series is all yours. Only 12 episodes exist, so savor them.
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Abigail Thomas a.k.a. Tommy (Edie Falco) is Los Angeles’ (fictional) first-ever lesbian chief of police. And the recent New York transplant is really, really good at her job. Whether cop dramas are your thing or not, it’s hard not to be drawn in by Falco’s acting and her character’s aptitude for crime-solving in less than 40 minutes. Complicated family dynamics as well as Falco’s first-ever on-screen kiss with another woman are additional reasons to watch the network drama.
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Prepare to have the show’s eponymous ditty stuck in your head after every episode of this period dramedy. The BBC-produced show tells the story of Anne Lister, England’s first “modern lesbian,” as she begins an on-and-off romance with her IRL wife-to-be, Ann Walker. It that doesn't have you ready to binge, the catchy theme song, incredible 19th Century costumes, and awkward breaking of the fourth wall should.
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Imagine a same-sex couple helming a goofy weeknight sitcom, and you have Take My Wife. Wives (now exes, but don’t let that deter you), comics, and co-workers Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher loosely based the series on their romance off- and on-stage, detailing the experiences of being queer comics, working alongside your partner, and getting married amid career success. Relatable jokes about the way queer people exist in the straight world are interwoven with intimate, sweet moments that are still rarely seen between LGBTQ characters on sitcoms.
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Based on a comic book of the same name, this 2020 Netflix series tells the story of Syd, an angsty Pennsylvania teen with inexplicable kinetic powers. Think Carrie, but queer. Episodes progress rapidly, and even those who aren’t convinced by the sci-fi element will be swept in by Syd, her quirky friends, and her early exploration of her sexuality.
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The original L Word and the 2019 reboot, Generation Q, are streaming on Showtime, for seemingly endless lesbian, bisexual and queer entertainment. Reality spin-offs, The Real L Word and 90-minute docu-series The L Word Mississippi: Hate The Sin are also streaming, if you really want to dive into the canon. (Do it.)
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Think The Bling Ring but the most popular kid in school is played a nonbinary person of color (Quintessa Swindell, who plays the wealthy and deeply confused Tabitha) and the crew of shoplifters has a charming lesbian ringleader, Elodie. In this series, coming out isn’t an issue; queerness is just a fact of life. Instead, the drama focuses on theft, friendship and first love.
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Ruby Rose stars as a Jewish, lesbian superhero tasked with saving Gotham in Batman’s absence. Yes, Batwoman is the first out hero (or villain, for that matter) in the DC Comics world, and, naturally, she has an awkward relationship with her ex, Sophie, who’s also working to protect the city. Lesbian drama in an alternate universe? Perfect escapism.
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Two of the three main characters are straight but we'll take 33% for this narrative arc. In the show, protagonist Kat deals with the realization that she isn’t straight and perhaps isn’t a lesbian either. Her forays at fictional lesbian cocktail bars, dating and breaking up with a woman for the first time, and running for office, are both relatable and
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