In a year in which watching excesses has become a lifestyle for many people, those looking for television shows and films that include LGBTQ have had a variety of new content to choose from while settling in.
When 2020 comes to an end, we ask NBC Out followers on Facebook and Twitter to share your favorites with us. Here are some of the many titles you enjoyed this year, along with some of our favorites.
‘The band boys’
Like Tony’s 1968 winning piece of the same name, Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of “The Boys in the Band” on Netflix takes place over night in an apartment in the late 1960s, where a group of gay people gathered to celebrate a birthday.
“My message to young people is to let this film guide them, to mark them, to remind them of who you are, who you came from, what the ancestors went through and why we all need to work until the end, to we never go, “said actor Robin de Jesus, who plays Emory in the film.
‘Star Trek: Discovery’
This CBS All Access series, which is currently in its third season, follows the crew of the USS Discovery on various adventures while patrolling space. Earlier this year, the series made history in the franchise by introducing the first transgender and non-binary characters.
‘Little fires everywhere’
Based on the best-selling novel by Celeste Ng of the same name, the Hulu series “Little Fires Everywhere” follows two mothers in the 1990s whose lives are intertwined when they live under the same roof. Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon star and co-produced the drama, which includes an LGBTQ story.
‘Love, Victor’
This Hulu series follows the 2018 film “Love, Simon”, the first gay teen romantic comedy made by a major Hollywood studio. The show is centered around the coming of age of a Latin high school student raised in a working-class religious family.
‘A secret love’
Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel lived as a couple behind closed doors for seven decades, taking care to hide their same-sex romance from society. The Netflix documentary “A Secret Love” highlights the women’s clandestine love story and their decision to live their final chapter as an openly gay couple.
‘Umbrella Academy’
This Netflix superhero program, based on a comic book series of the same name, has two seasons on its resume and one third in the works. It focuses on seven separate brothers with extraordinary powers who are reunited after their father’s death. New transgender actor Elliot Page is among the stars of the series.
‘Half of it’
Ellie is a heterosexual student hired by an athlete who needs help to win a girl at her high school. This Netflix show gets complicated when Ellie starts to develop feelings for the same girl.
‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’
Victoria Pedretti stars in this Netflix series as Dani, an American au pair in charge of looking after two orphaned children on a British property. Fans loved the strange love story that unfolds between Dani and the estate’s gardener at this horror show set during the 1980s.
‘Ammonite’
Oscar winner Kate Winslet plays 19th-century paleontologist Mary Anning, who falls in love with the wife of a wealthy man (Saoirse Ronan) after she falls ill and is left in Anning’s care. The film is based on a true story, and the letters between the two women served as inspiration for Winslet’s performance, she told Variety.
‘The L Word: Generation Q’
This sequel to Showtime’s innovative lesbian drama “The L Word”, which aired from 2004 to 2009, explores the lives and loves of queer women in Los Angeles. “Generation Q” brings back some of the original characters and adds several new and diverse roles to the mix.
‘Disclosure’
Transgender activist and actress Laverne Cox executive produced this Netflix documentary that examines more than 100 years of trans people represented on the screen.
‘Schitt’s Creek’
The sixth and final season of this year had fans mourning the Canadian comedy about a wealthy family who are forced to move to a small rural town after losing everything. The show won nine Emmy awards this year.
‘Happiest Season’
Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Aubrey Plaza and Dan Levy star in this Hulu rom-com holiday. Stewart’s character, Abby, plans to propose to his girlfriend (Davis) at his family’s home for Christmas, but things change when Abby discovers that the woman he loves is not known to his family.
‘Teenage Bounty Hunters’
In this Netflix comedy series, teenage twin sisters team up with a veteran bounty hunter to take down criminals in their southern city. Although the show has many vocal fans on Twitter – and a brilliant Rotten Tomatoes score – was canceled after one season, according to Deadline.
‘Wynonna Earp’
“Wynonna Earp” follows Wyatt Earp’s great-granddaughter as she “fights demons and other creatures” and brings the “paranormal to justice,” according to SyFy. Now in its fourth season, this Canadian series has several queer female characters.
‘Uncle Frank’
This Amazon Prime film tells the life of a teenager who leaves her hometown to study at New York University, where her uncle Frank works as a teacher. She discovers that he is not only gay, but lives secretly with his partner. After Frank’s father’s death, he reluctantly returns with his niece to his hometown in the south, where he finally faces the trauma from which he is fleeing.
‘Euphoria’
This teen drama series stars actress and singer Zendaya and transgender model and actress Hunter Schafer as her characters “navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma and social media”, according to HBO. Zendaya, 24, won an Emmy this year for her acting, becoming the youngest to win the best lead actress in a drama.
‘Pose’
Ryan Murphy’s FX show, “Pose,” highlights the struggles of black trans women in a series that takes place on New York’s Black and Latinx ballroom scene in the late 1980s. The award-winning show, starring trans actresses Indya Moore and Angelica Ross, made history in the Emmy last year, when Billy Porter became the first committed homosexual to win the best lead actor in a drama.
‘The politician’
Ryan Murphy’s “The Politician” follows an ambitious young student during his political campaigns as he seeks to become president. The comedy series, starring Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow, was applauded for including queer characters without making their sexuality or gender identity their defining trait. The second season was released on June 19 on Netflix.
‘Batwoman’
“Batwoman” follows the lesbian Kate Kane as she battles bandits on the streets of Gotham. The first season starred Ruby Rose as Kane / Batwoman, but Rose decided to leave the CW series in May. Javicia Leslie took on the title role in the second season, which opens on January 17.
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