dear universe

[kindkit]

Please send me a show in which everyone is lesbian, gay, or bi. Not a show like Queer As Folk or The L Word that's specifically about a queer community, but an ordinary show that's about space adventures or pirates or demon fighters or cops or lawyers or boring white suburban middle-class couples. Just, all of them are LGB (some of them could be T, too, because that would be awesome, but they're also L, or G, or B). No straight people. Even the incidental characters with just one or two lines have to be wearing a Pride button or something.

A show like that might, just possibly, begin to make up for all the shows (even now) without any queer characters, or the ones where the queer characters are speedily killed off, or the ones that queerbait and then say "Nope, these characters are straight," or the ones that have an unspoken quota system for queer characters so there can only be so many.

I eagerly await your response in this matter.

Sincerely,

Me

Comments

[sovay]

Not a show like Queer As Folk or The L Word that's specifically about a queer community, but an ordinary show that's about space adventures or pirates or demon fighters or cops or lawyers or boring white suburban middle-class couples.

I have been hearing that Black Sails is very close to this for pirates: it does not just have significant queer characters in the main cast, the queer characters are the main cast whose stories drive the plot, which ran four planned seasons and apparently just stuck the landing in spectacular style. rydra_wong and selenak especially have been making it sound worthwhile.

[executrix]

It's utter rubbish, but Dante's Cove is about lots of good-looking gay guys and some good-looking lesbians having vaguely supernatural adventures. As for a really *good* series where everyone is lesbian, gay, or bi, I got nothin'.

[aurumcalendula]

This!

The closest I've got of the shows I'm watching is Wynonna Earp (the great-granddaughter of Wyatt Earp and her allies deal with demons and various other monsters in a town called Purgatory) - by season 2 about half of our heroes are textually queer.

[halotolerant]

very much seconding the above

*sighs*

I am interested by the comment discussion about Black Sails. I gave up on it after about 3 episodes, and if those are not representative then I would be prepared to give it another shot. I've never really got over Hornblower TV series as my first hugely slash fandom, give or take *g*

[silveradept]

At least according to Word of God (or Word of St. Peter), Torchwood is supposed to be that program, although the queerness of characters is not necessarily demonstrated consistently on the screen.