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Love Wins! 13 Homosexual TV Couples We’re Rooting For in 2025
Here at TVLine, we’ve always been big ‘shippers at heart. What can we say? We just love love.
So with another Identity festival Month officially in full swing, we thought we’d get stock of some LGBTQ+ TV couples currently demanding our attention — as well as our full support. And what a collective we’ve assembled this year, one that includes a pair of ghosts, a few vampires and, yes, even a handful of humans.
To be eligible for inclusion in our list, a couple needs to be from a live-action, scripted series that’s still airing fresh episodes. We also limited ourselves to only one couple per show.
Read on for a breakdown of 13 Gay TV couples we’re currently rooting for, arranged alphabetically by show title, then drop a comment with your control additions to the list. Which lgbtq+ pairings currently acquire your full attention?
Hen and Karen, 9-1-1
The very definition of #CoupleGoals (are people still saying that?), Hen and Karen have been an inspiration, both to the other couples on the illustrate and to the viewers at dwelling, from the moment we met them in Season 1. They’ve had to fight
LGBTQ couples on TV to commemorate for Valentine’s Day
Across many genres, LGBTQ representation has risen steadily; most importantly, the love stories told only continue to grow more mainstream and filled with joy. Not every fate on this list is a pleasant one, and some end tragically, but each story is rooted in captivating performances and some of the most romantic moments ever to grace the little screen.
This is a rerun of a list we ran on a different site, updated with some couples we missed last year, new couples that we just met, and new blurbs for currently running TV shows. Happy Valentine’s Day!
UPDATED: February 14, 2025
Sue/Emily, Dickinson
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Literary lovers, unite! Though the historical association between Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) and her best friend-turned-sister-in-law Sue Gilbert (Ella Hunt) is largely speculative, Dickinson packs so much passion between the two that it’s not hard to believe each detail is real.
At a hour when society frowned upon the very idea of a womxn loving womxn relationship, Emily and Sue had to share their love through stolen moments of secrecy. From tender glances to fiery affection to delicate de
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TV has been instrumental in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and in changing attitudes towards the community. It has also, perhaps most importantly, been a platform to tell stories that have made gay, sapphic, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and more people undergo less alone in the world – to grasp there is a great and varied community to which they belong. One pioneering show at a time, groundbreaking character by groundbreaking character, TV and streaming series have given the world an intuition into the LGBTQ+ exposure, and provided LGBTQ+ people with reflections of their own lives – stories to laugh along with, to cry with, and to identify with. In this list of Gay TV shows, we feature 180 shows that include broken ground, enlightened, and entertained.
We’ve arranged the list into four categories: shows that were big TV firsts, or featured TV firsts; shows that center on LGTBQ characters or experiences; shows that film LGBTQ+ characters and stories, but where that isn’t necessarily
The 25 Most Crucial LGBTQ TV Shows of the 21st Century
25. “Tuca and Bertie” (2019)
What it is: The dearly departed “Tuca and Bertie” was one of TV’s optimal shows about friendship, dating, and existence a hot mess: tried and genuine subject matter many queer people can relate to. The titular avian duo — impulsive party animal tucan Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) and sensible but anxious song thrush Bertie (Ali Wong) — have one of TV’s loveliest friendships, as the two total opposites encourage each other through career and idealistic struggles. While the main romantic association of the present is between Bertie and her adorably square boyfriend Speckle (Steven Yeun), Tuca is very much an out-and-proud bisexual person bird, flitting around from romantic partners of all genders and species.
Why it’s essential: The optimal season of the show, Season 2, features Tuca entering a relationship with Kara (Sasheer Zamata), a seagull nurse. Initially a positive bond, the exhibit steadily tracks the flaws in the pairing, as Kara puts Tuca down and forces her to change to fit the mold of her flawless partner. It’s a hard few episodes to watch, but a fasc