These Lists of television programs with LGBT characters include:
Characters
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List of bisexual characters in television
This is a list of live action bisexual characters in television (includes TV movies and web series). The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. Roles include lead, main, recurring, supporting, and g ...
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List of gay characters in television
This is a list of live action gay characters in television (includes TV movies and web series). The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. Roles include lead, main, recurring, supporting, and guest ...
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List of lesbian characters in television
This is a list of live action lesbian characters in television (includes TV movies and web series). The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. Roles include lead, main, recurring, supporting, and ...
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List of transgender characters in television
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List of LGBT characters in radio and podcasts
This is a list of LGBT Character (arts), characters in radio and podcast programs. Podcasts are similar to radio programs in form, but they exist as audio files that can be played at a listener's convenience, anytime or anywhere.
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List of LGBT characters in soap operas
This is a list of soap opera characters who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, and the live action television and radio soap operas which feature them. Characters who are pansexual, asexual, non-binary and intersex are also included. ...
Episodes
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List of 1970s American television episodes with LGBT themes
Following the Stonewall riots and the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, gay activists began challenging the way American television episodes with LGBT themes presented homosexuality. With the slowly increasing visibility of LGBT ch ...
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List of 1980s American television episodes with LGBT themes
With the onset of the AIDS epidemic, American television episodes with LGBT themes sometimes featured LGBT characters, especially gay men, as a way for series to address the epidemic. Legal dramas like '' L.A. Law'' and ''Law & Order'' included e ...
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List of 1990s American television episodes with LGBT themes
A list of 1990s American television episodes with LGBT themes includes a number that engendered controversies relating to LGBT representation. With the exception of what would come to be known as "lesbian kiss episodes", in which a straight-iden ...
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Lists of American television episodes with LGBT themes
Lists of American television episodes with LGBT themes are organized by period and contain articles about episodes on television in the United States with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender themes.
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List of animated series with LGBTQ+ characters
This is a list of animated series with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, genderqueer, and pansexual characters, along with other (LGBTQ) characters. This list includes fictional characters in animated cartoons, adult anim ...
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List of comedy television series with LGBT characters
This is a list of comedy television series (including web television and miniseries) which feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters. Non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and graysexual characters are also included. The orie ...
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List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 1960s–2000s
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List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 2010–2015
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List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 2016–2019
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List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 2020s
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List of horror television series with LGBT characters
This is a list of horror television series (including web television and miniseries), which feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender characters. Non-binary, pansexual, asexual, intersexual, demisexual, graysexual, questionin ...
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List of television series with bisexual characters
This is a list of live action bisexual characters in television (includes TV movies and web series). The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. Roles include lead, main, recurring, supporting, and gu ...
Miscellaneous
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List of fictional bisexual characters
This is a list of bisexual characters in fiction, i.e. characters that either self-identify as bisexual or have been identified by outside parties to be bisexual. Bisexuality is a sexual orientation that refers to the romantic and/or sexu ...
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List of fictional lesbian characters
This is a list of lesbian characters in fiction, i.e. characters that either self-identify as lesbian or have been identified by outside parties to be lesbian. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one ...
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List of fictional gay characters
This is a list of gay characters in fiction, i.e. characters that either self-identify as gay or have been identified by outside parties to be gay, becoming part of gay media. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest ...
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List of fictional asexual characters
This is a list of asexual characters in fiction, i.e. fictional characters that either self-identify as asexual or have been identified by outside parties to be asexual. Listed characters may also be aromantic. Not listed are celibate but not ...
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List of fictional non-binary characters
This is a list of non-binary characters in fiction, i.e. fictional characters that either self-identify as non-binary (or genderqueer) or have been identified by outside parties as such. Listed are agender, bigender, genderfluid, genderqueer, an ...
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List of fictional pansexual characters
This is a list of pansexual characters in fiction, i.e. characters that identify as pansexual or are identified by outside parties to be pansexual. Pansexuality is the sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people regardless of thei ...
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List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
This is a list of live action made-for-television films that feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters. The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned.
(For fictional queer characters ( ...
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List of reality television programs with LGBT cast members
This is a List of reality television programs that include real life lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, pansexual, or otherwise LGBT, persons in the cast. Reality programs that feature an LGBTQ+ theme, with or without LGBT ...
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Television works about intersex
Intersex, in humans and other animals, describes variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary not ...
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Lists of LGBT-related television shows
Television programs
A television show – or simply TV show – is any content produced for viewing on a television set which can be broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed betw ...
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