TV A-L

 

Looking for gay characters or gay subtexts in tv shows from my childhood and beyond.  For shows that premiered after 2020 (or with n*de photos of the male stars), see RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

Some lists:

The top 18 gay-positive tv comedies: aliens, vampires, a Christian pastor, a ghost, a teenager named after meat, and a hunky Phung

 




A


Aaron Stone: Superhero and android

ABC Saturday Superstar Movie

Absolutely Fabulous

Adam-12: Cops bonding before CHIPS

Adventure Time: Gay-positive cartoon series

The Adventures of Pete and Pete

Alf: From Melmac to West Hollywood

The A-List: Bingeworthy Lost meets Riverdale

Alex Rider: A teenage James Bond

Alias Smith and Jones

Alice and Tommy: There's a new girl in town, with a teen idol son

All Hail King Julian: Mort is still into men's feet

All in the Family: The Gay Episode

Why we watched Amen in West Hollywood


American Horror Stories, Season 1: Horror anthology with a gay couple in one episode.

American Horror Stories, Season 2: All Men are Straight, Evil, and Fully Clothed

American Horror Story: A school for boys run by gay men

American Horror Story: Gay World

American Horror Story: The top ten gay hunks of New York

American Princess: My new favorite show, about workers in a Renaissance Faire

Andi Mack: Genderqueer teen and her gay-vague posse

Andy's Gang: Beefcake and bonding on 1950s childrens tv

The Andy Griffith Show: Looking for muscles

The Anita Bryant Spectacular: A Hate-Fest That Nobody Watched

Animaniacs: Heterosexist to the max

ANT Farm: Disney Channel fail

Apple and Onion

Are You Afraid of the Dark? retread: Are they afraid of beefcake?

Atlantis: The top 12 Greek myth mash-ups

B



Beany and Cecil: The Gay 1960

Beaver Falls: Mac reveals his shameful secret. Hint: it's being gay.

Bella and the Bulldogs: Is Nickelodeon still stick in gay-subtext territory?

Best Worst Weekend: Best teencom ever

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bewitched, bewildered, and gay

Beyond Evil: Gay cops against a serial killer in Korea

The Big Bang Theory: 10 homophobic things

Big City Greens: Disney Channel Cartoon with Gay Characters (If You Freeze Frame and Use a Magnifying Glass

Big Mouth, Season 3: The hormone monsters become gay positive

Big Valley: Show me Tom Barkley's guts!


BJ and the Bear: A trucker named after a s*x act and his chimp sidekick


Black Summer: First days of a gay-free zombie apocalypse

Black Summer, Season 2: Bury your hunks

Blood and Water: Two guys kissing in Cape Town

Bloodhounds: Strong Gay Subtext among Korean Boxers

The Boarding School/Las Cumbres: Pallid goings-on in a boarding school//dungeon

The Bob Cummings Show: Bob and his "nephew" Chuck

Bob's Burgers: The Most Gay-Positive Animated Fox Show

Bojack Horseman: Hetero-romantic ace but no gay men

Boss Baby: Rugrats meets Dilbert

The Boys: An Amazon Prime superhero spoof.  I'm just looking for the p*nises

Boy Meets World: Topanga isn't jealous of her boyfriend's boyfriend.  Much

The Bravest Knight: Sir Cedric and his husband, Prince Andrew, give their daughter life lessons, with "when I was your age" stories.

Breaking Bad: Everybody Loves Jesse

Brittania: Celts and Romans form alliances, have hidden agendas, listen to "Hurdy Gurdy Man"

Watching Brothers in West Hollywood

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Bugaloos: A male ladybug with biceps starts a rock band

Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures: Two Gay Surfer Couples

Bugs and Daffy: The gay Warner Brothers

Burns and Allen: Meredith Wilson is "not the marrying kind"

Bureau of Magical Things: Dumb title, cute teencom

Busting Loose: Spring 1977, on the brink of "busting loose"

C

Captain Underpants and the Perpetual Problem of Presenting Prepubescent Protagonists Who Are Probably Gay

How Queer is Carmen Sandiego?

The Carol Burnette Show: Looking for Muscles

Carter: Would you really watch Jerry O'Connell in anything?

Cartoon Couples You Thought Were Gay

Cartoon Muscle: Not just superheroes in Spandex

Cells at Work: Muscular blood cells fight bacilium monsters

Charlie's Angels: Yes, there was a gay connection

Control Z: Sordid secrets revealed in a Mexican high school. Is one about being gay?
Corner Gas, the Animated Series: Still not a lot goin' on
Cougar Town: Can a rich white hetero dude find love after age 40?
Cougar Town: The top hunks
Crack-Duck: A gay couple in a world of monsters
Crashing: A unique gay romance
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The top 10 hunks
Crossing Swords: The gay wedding episode

Cheers: Where nobody knows your name if you're gay

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: The top 10 hunks

Chico and the Man: Anglo-Hispanic gay couple

Chip n Dale: Park Life.  Is the gay subtext enhanced or erased?

CHIPS: The episode where Leif Garrett is in love with his agent

Clarence: The first gay kiss on children's tv

The Club:  Dynasty, Ecstasy, and Gay-Positive Hunks

Columbo: The disheveled detective tackles a case in West Hollywood

The Consultant: Tawdry, Tasteless Homophobia

Corner Gas: Not a lot goin' on

Clickbait: Gay Representation on the "Non-Stop Thrill Ride" about a Kidnapped Family Man

Curon, Episode 1: A gayer, creepier "Locke and Key"

Curon, Episode 2: Even gayer and creepier


D

Danger Force: Trans and nonbinary representation

 Danger Force: The gay dads episode

Danger Island: Jan-Michael Vincent's first boyfriends

Daybreak: A gay couple in a teen zombie apocalypse

Daniel Boone: He was a big man

Dark Shadows: Barnabas and Willie

Dark Shadows: David Collins, gay heir to the Collins dynasty.

Davey and Goliath: Gay Christian Allies

David Cassidy Man Undercover

Dear White People, Season 1

Dear White People, Season 3

Degrassi Junior High


Degrassi: The Next Generation, with more gay plotlines

Degrassi: The New Class, with even more gay plotlines

Diary of a Future President: Bobby's Coming-Out Story, Part  1  

Diary of a Future President: Bobby's Coming-Out Story, Part 2

Dickensian: The top 10 Dickensian hunks

The Dick Van Dyke Show: looking for muscle

A Different World: Angst and beefcake at college

Diff'rent Strokes: The "Bicycle Man" gay predator episode

Disenchantment: A gay-free heroic fantasy spoof

Disney Channel Gay Programming Blocks

Dog with a Blog: absurd homophobia on Nickelodeon

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings: The Gay Couple Two Doors Down



Doogie Kamealoha: A Fierce Doctor, a Gay Brother, and Lots of Hawaiian Hunks

Doogie Kamealoha queerbaiting update

The Doris Day Show: Gays next door in 1972

Downton Abbey: Two gay guys, maybe three, amid the Between-the-Wars glitz

Drake and Josh and Craig and Eric: yep, they were gay

The Drew Carey Show: Why was this my favorite program in 1999?

Ducktales Reboot: Gay dads appear, briefly, in one scene

The Dukes of Hazzard: Backwoods Adonis cousins and their Confederate Flag

The 44 Dumbest Things You See on TV

Dynasty: Why we watched in West Hollywood

E

EastSiders: 13 diverse hunks in Silverlake Light

Eerie Indiana: Omri Katz, paranormal investigator

Eight is Enough to fill our lives with schmaltz.  But at least Grant Goodeve took his shirt off

Episodes: Matt LeBlanc discusses his p*nis

Even Stevens: Shia LaBeouf's gay subtext teencom

Everybody Hates Chris, but loves Tequan Richmond



F

F is for Family: Gay Characters and Beefcake, circa 1974

The Facts of Life: We all know that Jo was gay

Family Reunion: Is Mazzie gay...um, I mean musical?

Family Reunion: The coming out episode

Fangbone!: 3rd Grade Barbarian and Boyfriend Fight Monsters

Father, Dear Father: Gay-friendly Britcom without gays

Fear the Walking Dead: 24 dead hunks

The Feathered Serpent: Gay British Aztecs

The Flash: Gay characters and subtexts in a DC comics reboot

Fleabag: Britcom full of hunks and horrors, but no lesbians..wait...




G

Get Even: Riverdale Light

Ghostwriter; Urban teen muscle

Gidget and her boys

Gilligan's Island: Gilligan and the Skipper, a 1960s gay couple?  The Professor asexual? Ginger a drag queen?

Gilligan's Island: The Sequels

Ginny and Georgia, Episode 1.1: The Gilmore Girls, with more s*x and murder

Ginny and Georgia, Episode 2.1: Dozens of miscellaneous relatives at three Thanksgivings

The Girl in the Mirror: Amnesia, Demons, Mafiosi, and a Gay Couple in a Paranormal/Teen Angst Drama 

Girl from Nowhere: Thai girl knows all your secrets, including the gay ones.

Girl Meets World: Teencom with Actual, Real Gay Characters

The Golden Girls: Homophobic favorite of gay fans, for some reason

The Good Place: Afterlife beefcake and bonding

The Good Place: Chidi takes off his shirt

Goosebumps: Ten teen idols

The Great North: Bears, Moose, Bigfoot, and a Gay Son in the Alaskan Wilderness

The Greatest American Hero, believe it or not

Green Acres: Gay siblings on 1960s tv

The Greenhouse: Top 16 hunks

The Green Hornet: Batman light

Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: Nergal and Irwin, gay couple

Grown-ish: Black-ish girls go to college, make bi friends


H

Hacks: Disgraced comedian decides to turn lesbian, gay leather guy spirals, and there are some jokes. With bonus Devon Sawa

Hannah Montana and the Real Dan Booko

Hard Times of RJ Berger: A teencom where size matters

Hart to Hart: Hairy-Chested Robert Wagner and His Wife Solve Glitzy 1980s Murders

Hart to Hart: "Murder is a Drag": Jonathan and Jennifer Don't Solve a Murder, Max Does Drag

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Is there any LGBT representation in the 2021 Netflix reboot?

Head of the Class: The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

Heartbreak High: Lots of Hookup Secrets at an Australian High School

Henry Danger: A gay subtext classic

The Herculoids: Domo, grown up and tied up

Here's Lucy: The gay-positive episode

Hey, Dad...!: Australia's Growing Pains

High Chapparal: Billy Blue and the bulging Manolito

High Heat: Do They Mean the Fire, or the N*ked Men?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Always bring a towel

The Hogan Family: Which heartthrob was your favorite, Jason, Jeremy, or Danny?

The Hollow: Adam is gay!  He even says the word!

Hollywood: Henry Willson, Scotty Bowers, Rock Hudson: The Gang's All Here

Home and Away: Gay subtext soap opera from Australia that I watched in France

Home Economics: Gay and straight siblings bicker over money

H.R. Pufnstuf: The Dragon and the Witch compete over Jimmy's...um...flute

Huge in France: Watch it for the beefcake

Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Feeling very grown-up and sort of dirty

I

I Didn't Do It: Disney Channel teencom with underwear models

ICarly: Gay villains and bisexual brothers

I Dream of Jeannie

I Heart Arlo: Gay alligator boy in the big city

I Know What You Did Last Summer (tv): Some gay teases.

I'm Dickens...He's Fenster: Early 1960s buddy-bonding

Imposters: Gay subtexts during a long con

The Invaders: The Gay Menace from outer space

 It's A Man's World: A gay threesome from the 1960s

It's About Time: Astronauts and cave men

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac finds his Pride

 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Why you should be watching Always Sunny

It's Gary Shandling's Show: Was Garry the world's greatest comic, bi, both, or neither?

It's Your Move: Jason Bateman as a teen con artist



K

Katts and Dog: Andrew Bednarski gets tied up

Kenan and Kel: Nickelodeon gay teen duo

Kickin' It: Jack and Jerry, a modern romance

Kid Cosmic: Is Stuck Chuck gay?

Kim's Convenience: Korean-Canadian family runs a convenience store

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Farther Toward Gay Inclusivity than Any Other Cartoon

Kojak: Who loves ya?

Kyle XY: Chromosomal heterosexual clone


L

La Brea: More plot holes than Lost, but not as much beefcake

Lab Rats: Bionic brothers

Land of the Lost: Yet another teenager trapped far from home, with Sleestaks

The Land of Ziggy Zaggy: Dad thought that I liked girls because I wanted to watch

Lanigan's Rabbi: Rabbi-cop buddy bonding

Laramie: Brokeback Mountain for the 1950s

Lassie's Boys 1: Jon Provost

Lassie's Boys 2: Tommy Rettig

Lassie's Boys 3: Skip Burton

The Last Kids on Earth: All straight.

The Last of Us: Top 10 dour hunks

Laverne and Shirley: Why didn't they just come out?

Letterkenny: On a scale of one to America, how homophobic is small-town Canada?

Lidsville: Butch Patrick's bubble bathz's Boys 1:  Jon Provost

Little House on the Prairie: hunks face fire, flood, disease, disaster, murder, and angst 

 Lost in Space: Was Dr. Smith gay?

 Lost in Space: Is the new series worth a trip?

Love Boat/Fantasy Island: Love won't hurt anymore

Love, American Style: I will defend your right to shine

Love, Sidney: Tony Randall plays...um...you know

The Lucy Show: Los Angeles as home 

Luis Miguel: TV Series about the Latin Singing Sensation Doesn't Skimp on the Gay Subtexts


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