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In Living Color (sketch comedy) FOX 1990-1994

  • Blaine Edwards 1990-1992 (Damon Wayans)
  • Antoine Meriweather 1990-1992 (David Alan Grier)
Recurring "Men on Films" sketch. original series hit takes place between 1929-1931, in the run-up to Spain’s 1931 Republic, with a last season time jump forward seven years, to the final months of the Spanish Civil War.

It centers on four female switchboard operators who meet in the National Telephone Company in Madrid including bisexual heiress Carlota, whose romantic relationships run the gamut over the course of the program, including a polyamorous relationship and a girlfriend who eventually comes out as a trans man. ”

Minx (1970s)

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This woefully under-appreciated gem finds earnest young female journalist Joyce Prigger (Ophelia Lovibond), thwarted in her crusade to launch a staunchly feminist magazine, instead joining with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women.

Later C.J. represented her ex-lover Maggie (Elisabeth Kemp) in a child custody case. One such `continuing saga' was that of 14 year old Francesca (Tracy Ullman) who lived with her father David and his lover William. America(1970s)

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This Hulu limited series is decidedly star-studded — Sarah Paulson, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Melanie Lynskey, Margo Martindale, Nicey Nash and Uzo Abuba, to truly name only just a few — as it takes us through the interpersonal work of political progress, including storylines where lesbians and women of color feel pushed out of the party platform and where an activist’s marriage, commodified to advance a movement goal in a debate with Phyllis Schlafley and her husband, is challenged by her recently-ignited bisexuality.

The cast is remarkable, including actors like Rosie O’Donnell, Ivory Aquino, Mary Louise Parker, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Kenneth Williams, Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, David Hyde Pierce, T.R. Knight, and Debra Winger.

Daisy Jones & The Six (1970s)

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Adapted from a best-selling novel of the same name, Daisy Jones is clearly a fictionalized take on the real-life drama of legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac.

Following the titular band from their 1970s rise in the LA music scene to their eventual split at the height of their success, the adaptation adds a Black queer storyline that wasn’t present in the book. Sexual orientation "toned down," and practically undetectable, for television.

Don't Wait Up (sitcom) BBC 1983-1990

  • Jeremy (Joe Dunlop)
  • Martin (Timothy Carlton)
Gay neighbours of the central father-and-son household.

Beginning as their paths cross in 1950s D.C at the height of the Lavender Scare, their love struggles through Hawkins’ marriage and Timothy’s political activism as we push forward through the Vietnam war era and the growing HIV/AIDS criris of the 1980s. Vote on the best queer Netflix shows of all time and let us know which ones moved you, made you laugh, or kept you on the edge of your seat.

In later seasons, Toy becomes romantically involved with Nellie Davenport, a wealthy widow with a Sonoma vineyard that offers asylum to Chinese migrants including sex workers.

Cable Girls / Las Chicas De Cable (1920s – 1930s)

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Mary & George(1610s)

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While other period pieces modernize with pop music and other anachronisms — to various success — this seemingly modest series about George and May Villiers instead leans into timeless faithfuls: sex and violence.

Season One introduced us to the world’s dimensions and delivered an unexpected, delightful storyline between a sex worker and the daughter of a religious activist. Dr. Rose Marie ran a men's sexuality counselling service wherein she advised her clients to avoid orgasm no matter what. Eddie was an informer working for Belker, and snitched on his own lover.

The Tracey Ullman Show (sketch comedy) FOX 1987-1990

  • David (Dan Castellenata)
  • William (Sam McMurray)
Within the sketch format, there were several recurring characters.

Rose Marie (Barbara Flyn)

  • Greta Gretowska 1988 (Joanna Kanska)
  • Glenn Oates (James Noble) an athelete patient of Dr. Buzzard
    • Low-brow sitcom set in a University health service. Series set in San Francisco.

    As the World Turns (daytime serial drama) CBS 1956-2010

    • Hank Elliot 1988-1989 (Brian Starcher)
    Hank was a dress designer, who had come to town to find occupation away from his HIV+ lover Charles (never seen).

    gay/bisexual actors in old tv shows

    (Stanley Kamel) Lawyers C.J. Lamb and Abby Perkins (Michele Greene) shared a kiss in the parking lot that many interpreted as a lesbian advance. Unlikely friendships build across very literal intergenerational divides and romantic tension simmers, particularly between a lesbian parole officer stuck at a moral crossroads and a queer Muslim IT nerd already certain of the proper path forward.

    The First Lady (1930s – 1940s)

    Stream on PBS

    This series was a bit of a bomb but it had its moments — including a full and generous portrait of the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson) and two-decade-long lover and confidant, Lorena “Hick” Hickok (Liby Rabe).

    Bomb Girls (1940s)

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    Set in a munitions factory in World War II Canada and centered on a group of women who work together there, Bomb Girls is devoted to a moment of radical and sudden independence for women — with husbands away at war, women entered the workforce, fostered relationships with each other and were actually allowed to wear pants.