JuliaMaia is a writer and filmmaker originally from Brazil. She grew up watching every piece of television and film she encountered from all over the world, which inspired her to come to Los Angeles to study film. She always knew that in order to be happy and fulfilled she had to be surrounded by art. She is always in search of the next film, show or performance that will inspire her. Her background in filmmaking helps her appreciate the technical elements of a film, as well as relish the journey of each story being told. There is not a topic Maia enjoys talking about more than film and the film industry and how it impacts the world and vice versa. The Hollywood Insider is the perfect platform for Maia to participate in the discourse about anything film related with many that , much like herself, love to take part in real important conversations and deeply appreciate the art of telling stories.
Aug 3, 2024
Pride month is over, but just because it is no longer June doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop celebrating love and consuming queer stories. In fact, we should always celebrate love and consume queer stories. So, here is a list of 74 shows with canon main LGBTQIA+ characters and couples.
Teens Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) and Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) navigate school and young love, as they embark on the journey to find themselves.
You can watch it on (USA): Netflix
Queer primary characters
Queer secondary characters
Paper Girls
Original Title: Paper Girls
Year: 2022
Creator(s): Stephany Folsom
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-MA
Seasons: 1
From time traveling to the potential end of the universe. It is the early morning after Halloween 1988, four paper girls (Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet, Sofia Rosinsky, Fina Strazza) are out on their delivery route when they realize they have traveled in time, something that could change the course of their lives forever.
We follow teenagers from a school in Oslo, Norway. Each season is told from a different person’s point of view. Season 1 focuses on Eva (Lisa Teige), Season 2 focuses on Noora (Josefine Frida Pettersen), Season 3 focuses on Isak (Tarjei Sandvik Moe), and Season 4 focuses on Sana (Iman Meskini).
You can watch it on (USA): Unclear
Queer primary characters
Motherland: Fort Salem
Original Title: Motherland Fort Salem
Year: 2020 – 2022
Creator(s): Eliot Laurence
Country: Canada, United States
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-14
Seasons: 3
Raelle Collar (Taylor Hickson), Tally Craven (Jessica Sutton) and Abigail Bellweather (Ashley Nicole Williams) are three young witches who prepare to defend the country against looming terrorist threats by using supernatural, ‘witchy’ tactics and weapons.
You can watch it on (USA): Freeform, Amazon Prime Video (rent/buy)
Zoa (Amaia Aberasturi) and four other young people are invited to a very exclusive party on an island, which is not the paradise they expected it to be.
We follow four college roommates (Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Reneé Rapp) navigate their new freedom on the prestigious campus of Essex College.
Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) is a teenage boy with a sex therapist mother (Gillian Anderson) teams up with high school classmate Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey) to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at their school.
We follow Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino), a new student at Creekwood High School, on his own journey of self-discovery.
You can watch it on (USA): Hulu
Queer primary characters
First Kill
Original Title: First Kill
Year: 2022
Creator(s): V.E. Schwab
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-MA
Seasons: 1
Juliette Fairmont (Sarah Catherine Hook) is a vampire and Calliope Burns (Imani Lewis) is a vampire hunter. They fall in love with each other but they are also ready to make their first kill.
Language: English, French, Spanish, Catalan, Russian, Polish, Romanian
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-14
Seasons: 4
After a series of events, the lives of a security operative, Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and an assassin ,Villanelle (Jodie Comer), become forever linked.
You can watch it on (USA): Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
A group of teen girls from different backgrounds are stranded on a remote island after a plane crash, completely unaware they are now subjects of a social experiment.
You can watch it on (USA): Freevee, Amazon Prime Video
We follow the love story between Park Jae-eon (Song Kang), a man who is annoyed with relationships, and Yu Na-bi (Han So-hee), a woman who wants to date but does not believe in love.
We follow as young nanny Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti) arrives at her new job at the haunting estate of Bly Manor. She will quickly find out the manor is haunted.
We follow a fractured family of seven as they confront haunting memories of their old haunted home, Hill house, and the terrifying events that drove them from it
You can watch it on (USA): Netflix
Queer primary characters
Baby
Original Title: Baby
Year: (2018 – 2020)
Creator(s): Antonio Le Fosse, Giacomo Mazzariol, Marco Raspanti
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-MA
Seasons: 3
We follow Chiara Altieri (Benedetta Porcaroli), a teenage high school girl, as she leads her double life.
We follow fraternal twin sisters Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini) balance teen life with an unlikely new career as bounty hunters.
Creator(s): Kim Coghill, Andrew De Angelis, Jeff Detsky
Country: Canada
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-MA
Seasons: 5
We follow Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) as she is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks exactly like her.
You can watch it on (USA): Amazon Prime Video (rent / buy)
We follow Sydney Novak (Sophia Lillis) as she navigates the trials and tribulations of being a teenage girl, while also dealing with mysterious superpowers.
We follow Lyn (Melissa Barrera) and Emma (Mishel Prada), two estranged sisters who come together to their childhood neighborhood after their mother dies.
Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a sorcerer, leads a group of misfits on a dangerous rescue mission into the unknown, twenty years after vanquishing the wicked queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh).
The series weaves between parallel and discordant memories of twin sisters, Tegan (Railey Gilliland) and Sara (Seazynn Gilliland) growing up down the hall from one another.
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-14
Seasons: 4
Wyatt Earp’s (Melanie Scrofano) great-great-granddaughter Wynonna (Dominique Provost-Chalkley) is the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
You can watch it on (USA): Netflix
Queer secondary characters
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
Original Title: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
Year: 2023
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-14
Seasons: 1
Taking place four years before the events of ‘Grease’, ‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ tells the story of a brainy misfit who sees her reputation decline and her popularity rise when she runs for student council president.
You can watch it on (USA): Paramount+
Queer secondary characters
Canceled
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Original Title: Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
A group of young American women are sent to secure husbands and titles, as they explode into the London season of the 1870s. To no one’s surprise, the culture shock is loud.
Mon (Rebecca Patricia ‘Becky’ Armstrong) and Khun Sam (Freen Sarocha Chankimha) are different in class and age, with a gap of eight years between them but love speaks louder.
Two teenage ghosts, Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), work alongside a clairvoyant, Crystal Palace (Kassius Nelson), to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele.
You can watch it on (USA): Netflix
Queer primary characters
Wreck
Original Title: Wreck
Year: (2022 -)
Creator(s): Ryan J. Brown
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): Not rated
Seasons: 2
We follow Jamie Walsh (Oscar Kennedy), a 19-year-old new recruit who joins the crew of a cruise ship in search of his missing sister.
Creator(s): Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Motion Picture Rating (MPA): TV-MA
Seasons: 3
We follow the dark mentorship between the legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and an outcast 25-year-old named Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder).
We follow teenager Julie Molina (Madison Reyes) as she finds her passion for music and life while helping the Phantoms become the band they were never able to be.
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JuliaMaia is a writer and filmmaker originally from Brazil. She grew up watching every piece of television and film she encountered from all over the world, which inspired her to come to Los Angeles to study film. She always knew that in order to be happy and fulfilled she had to be surrounded by art. She is always in search of the next film, show or performance that will inspire her. Her background in filmmaking helps her appreciate the technical elements of a film, as well as relish the journey of each story being told. There is not a topic Maia enjoys talking about more than film and the film industry and how it impacts the world and vice versa. The Hollywood Insider is the perfect platform for Maia to participate in the discourse about anything film related with many that , much like herself, love to take part in real important conversations and deeply appreciate the art of telling stories.
JuliaMaia is a writer and filmmaker originally from Brazil. She grew up watching every piece of television and film she encountered from all over the world, which inspired her to come to Los Angeles to study film. She always knew that in order to be happy and fulfilled she had to be surrounded by art. She is always in search of the next film, show or performance that will inspire her. Her background in filmmaking helps her appreciate the technical elements of a film, as well as relish the journey of each story being told. There is not a topic Maia enjoys talking about more than film and the film industry and how it impacts the world and vice versa. The Hollywood Insider is the perfect platform for Maia to participate in the discourse about anything film related with many that , much like herself, love to take part in real important conversations and deeply appreciate the art of telling stories.
JuliaMaia is a writer and filmmaker originally from Brazil. She grew up watching every piece of television and film she encountered from all over the world, which inspired her to come to Los Angeles to study film. She always knew that in order to be happy and fulfilled she had to be surrounded by art. She is always in search of the next film, show or performance that will inspire her. Her background in filmmaking helps her appreciate the technical elements of a film, as well as relish the journey of each story being told. There is not a topic Maia enjoys talking about more than film and the film industry and how it impacts the world and vice versa. The Hollywood Insider is the perfect platform for Maia to participate in the discourse about anything film related with many that , much like herself, love to take part in real important conversations and deeply appreciate the art of telling stories.
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