These are our picks for the best TV shows of 2023 with LGBTQ+ women and/or trans characters.

We’ve got the return of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a super-queer Australian teen series, Netflix’s campy dark comedy flick “Do Revenge,” Beth Ditto in country music drama “Monarch,” Rachel Bloom starring as a lesbian TV writer in Hulu’s “Reboot” and so much more!

Also this week, Covid comes to Work In Progress and American Horror Story was actually pretty scary!

We’ve got an anti-vaxxer with a literal worm in his brain, a Christian Nationalist axe-thrower, a World Wrestling Federation founder, a former log-roller reality TV star, Marco F*cking Rubio and so many more bigoted losers nominated for Trump’s cabinet.

When the sound of a scream leaves my throat, it is a choice. I am never accidentally screaming. I scream in the car and it is on purpose.  

“This is starting to feel pretty gay, Elena.”

We partnered with REI to encourage queer folks to explore their cities and move their bodies all while meeting new local queers!

We’re here in this round of advice to tackle everything that is heavy. Our team answers questions around adoption, sexual assault within the queer community, the personal decisionmaking around having white friends as a POC — and more.

There is no taste I associate more with being 13 than a lukewarm Clearly Canadian.

It’s modern gay lore that if you were once a star on the Disney Channel, you’re gay now. And for this National Coming Out Day, we wanted to know the truth.

“i just think patty melt IS a gender tbh”

“Skating as a culture is getting more and more visibly queer”

Something Paul Verhoeven and I have in common is that we both love boobs. Something we don’t have in common is how much lesbian sex we’ve had. With his latest, Benedetta, we were promised another of his delicious trashy masterpieces — instead he reveals the limits of his gaze.

Drew and Kayla discuss why they love the sequels, the first times they watched these movies, and the fact that Reloaded is the horniest Matrix installment.

“Anne Lister is haunting my house! I should probably start writing more of my journals in code.”

Isn’t that the point — to be able to search and connect outside of your real life and sometimes find that solace or sameness that you’re in search of?

I don’t know about you, but every single year when the cold depressing months come around, I cheer myself up by putting together a list of potential crafts I could do to pass the time.

I’ve grown to see sampling, when done well, as a love language, a way to remain connected to our history and communicate with the musical innovators who shaped, and continue to breathe life into, our culture.

Read essays from our 2018 A-Camp Campership recipients and find out how to help send more lucky campers to this year’s celebration in Ojai!

We’ve got 60 Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Netflix Original TV shows streaming right now on the very internet you’re reading!