Pride Month. TO June all over the world yes celebrates rights month LGBTQIA +. Colorful initiatives and parades to celebrate the diversity of gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary and queer people. Just like it happened on June 28, 1970 in New York, for the first Gay Pride in history.
And when it comes to TV series, this “rainbow” 2022 is reserving a lot of nice surprises for us. See for example The Do Ignorant. Adaptation by Disney Plus by Ferzan Ozpetek who updates the acclaimed film of twenty years ago to the new generations. Also on the Mickey Mouse stream, the third and final season of Love, Victor. Inspired by the movie Yours, Simon (2018), the series follows the journey of self-discovery by Creekwood High School freshman Victor Salazar.
But what are the series LGBTQ + who have left their mark? Pride month is the perfect opportunity to recover them. In this gallery you will find them 10 of the most iconic. Starting from Glee: Ryan Murphy’s award-winning series centered on a group of singing high school students between redemption, acceptance and glasses of colored granita. From Queer as Folk to The L Wordfrom Will & Grace passing through It’s a Sin as far as Euphoria.
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1/10Glee (Disney Plus)
Ryan Murphy’s most famous show focused on a group of singing high school students between redemption, acceptance and glasses of colored granita. A curse looms over the award-winning teen series, which began in 2013 when Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson) was found dead in a hotel room after ingesting a mix of heroin and alcohol.
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2/10Will & Grace (Prime Video)
Get a neurotic interior designer and her gay best friend. Add a spoiled socialite and an exuberant homosexual actor; you will have the recipe for the sitcom that revolutionized American TV. The friendship between Will and Grace is inspired by the real one between co-creator Max Mutchnick and Janet Eisenberg.
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3/10Euphoria (Sky / Now)
Sex, drugs, friendship in the most beloved Gen Z series that redefined the teen drama genre. The show with Zendaya became iconic for its explicit plot, soundtrack and revolutionary make-up.
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4/10The L Word
The lives of a group of lesbian and non-lesbian women in the West Hollywood neighborhood. The code name of the project was Earthlings, a rare term used in slang for homosexual women. There is also an abbreviation that you will never forget.
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5/10Transparent (Prime Video)
The story of a Los Angeles family after the discovery that his father Mort is transsexual. The series is inspired by the father of creator Jill Soloway.
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6/10Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
The story of Piper Chapman, a respectable young woman sentenced to fifteen months in prison at Litchfield, a federal women’s prison. The series is based on the memoirs of Piper Kerman: a bisexual writer convicted of money laundering.
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7/10Queer as Folk
The story of three homosexual boys near the gay village of Canal Street in Manchester. The pilot contained the first sex scene between two men from the TV.
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8/10Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
The life of Grace and Frankie, two polar opposite women over 70, is turned upside down when their husbands, business partners for over twenty years, come out confessing that they have loved each other for years and want to get married.
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9/10It’s a Sin (Prime Video)
From the classic of the Pet Shop Boys, the tv series by Russell T Davies (creator of Queer as Folk) starring Olly Alexander, lead singer of Years and Years. The miniseries follows the lives of three gay 18-year-olds in London in 1981 overwhelmed by the AIDS epidemic.
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10/10Pose (Netflix)
The ball culture scene of New York in the 80s, in the revolutionary series by Ryan Murphy that boasts the largest LGBTQ cast in the history of TV.
Source: Vanity Fair
