Who snagged top honors at the most important television awards show in the entire world and also in the entire history of the planet?!?!?!?!?!?!

These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.

A tangled web of exes who still love you and also have chemistry with each other is truly the gayest possible thing.

“Whether it’s the gay internet or a show like ‘Trinkets’ it makes it easier to be like maybe I’m not the one that’s wrong. Maybe everyone around me is wrong.”

Our TV critics smashed their heads together to deliver our picks for the years’ 25 best shows with queer, lesbian, bisexual and trans women characters as well as each of our individual top 15s. So much TV you’ve gotta see in here!

“If Shane asked me to go to couple’s therapy, I’d be like, “We don’t even know each other, but if this is what it takes to get you into a therapist’s office, absolutely, let’s do it.”

I’ve studied the show, collected the evidence, and now I’m ready to tell you which “Bob’s Burgers” characters are bisexual AF.

This show forces straights to do what lesbians do all the time — talk about their deepest fears and feelings, endlessly.

One thing that does unite every show on this list is that each of them came into my life at the exact right time and also all influence my own writing in some way.

Naya Rivera was a firecracker, a superstar, a singular talent who simply could not be relegated to the background.

We have arrived at The Bold Type mid-season finale. Plus updates on: Boomerang, Twenties, and Legacies.

This episode is Way Haught from beginning to end, though things aren’t all quite what they seem.

2017 somehow turned out to be the best year ever for lesbian and bisexual women on television — but we’ve still got a ways to go.

Our angelic bisexual badass and soft butch sheriff are officially returning to us!

Also! Finally! An official still of Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya in Birds of Prey! Queen Latifah will play the lead in the Equalizer reboot, the first 99 seconds of season seven of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lizzo’s flute should get its own Grammy, Bex Taylor-Klaus chats about their new lesbian character on Deputy, and more!

Plus, what’s happening on “Almost Family”?? And updates on “Legacies.”

2017 was the best of times and the worst of times. LOL JK it was the absolute worst of times. But the queer TV was pretty good.

Listen, I love an ensemble drama!

Sara and Charlie face off against Charlie’s sister and Zari 2.0 meets Original Zari in Legends of Tomorrow’s triumphant return.

As always, Caroline’s relationships are given equal weight with everyone else’s, and her cagey responses to questions about her love life show she’s got her eye on someone.