Homosexuality on television

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The representation of homosexuality on German television was a taboo subject for a long time . Although films were occasionally homosexuality themed (see. Homosexuality in the film ), broadcast, and was in talk shows talking about it, but in television productions, which were aimed at the masses, particularly television series , the subject was hushed up long or there were jokes about Made homosexuals. That only changed in the mid-1990s.

1970s

In the 1970s, ARD broadcast films for the first time that specifically dealt with homosexuality. On behalf of Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Rosa von Praunheim produced a film in 1970 with the provocative title: It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the situation in which he lives . After much tussle, the film was first broadcast in 1972 on WDR's 3rd program . This production overnight turned the homosexual filmmaker into an icon of the newly awakening gay movement . When the film was first broadcast in the joint ARD program on January 15, 1973, Bayerischer Rundfunk switched itself off and thus generated huge media coverage. The film also features the first kiss between two men on German television. With the television film Die Konsequenz from 1977, the ARD experienced another scandal, because when this film was first broadcast, Bayerischer Rundfunk again switched itself off from the network and broadcast a replacement program.

1980s

The 1980s were still largely shaped by public service programs. Homosexual characters in television series were rare in that decade; for example Steven, son of Blake Carrington in the US soap opera The Denver Clan . In addition, the television series Among Brothers ran in the United States on Cable TV Showtime from 1984 to 1989 , where the youngest of three brothers as the main character of the series is homosexual.

Wieland Samolak plays a homosexual son in the six-part WDR series No Beautiful Land from 1985. In the third episode there is the first kiss between two men in a German series.

In the ARD series Lindenstrasse , Carsten Flöter ( Georg Uecker ) has been a gay character since 1985, and in 1987 there was the first kiss between two men in the series, Carsten Flöter and Gerd Weinbauer ( Günter Barton ) kissed .

In the series Inspector Hooperman , broadcast on ZDF from 1989, a homosexual character appears with the supporting character of the gay policeman Rick Silardi, who is portrayed as a friendly, helpful colleague without clichés.

One of the seven non-broadcast episodes of the hit series Dallas , which ARD withheld from viewers when it was first broadcast from 1981 and has not been shown on German television to this day, dealt with the subject of homosexuality. In this episode (No. 26, originally titled Royal Marriage ), Lucy Ewing wants to get engaged to Kit Mainwaring. JR knows Kit is gay but still wants to force him into marriage. When Kit informs Lucy of his homosexuality, Lucy informs her family that she will not marry Kit.

In one episode of the Dallas competition The Denver Clan , which is running on ZDF , a scene showing the gay son Steven saying goodbye to his dying friend Luke was severely cut. This scene was then broadcast on private television reruns in the late 1990s.

The television series Motel is broadcast on Swiss television , an in-house production that is very successful for Switzerland and in which one of the main roles is homosexual.

1990s

The second kiss between men on Lindenstrasse in 1990, between Carsten Flöter and Robert Engel ( Martin Armknecht ), was followed by an outcry in the tabloid press and especially in conservative Bavaria. Uecker and Armknecht received wild insults and death threats, and bomb threats were made against the production company. The team had to deal with the hostility for between half a year and a year, during which time Uecker lived relatively hidden and was also given personal protection. A little less were compliments and love letters from men and women. The Bavarian television did not broadcast the repetition of the episode. The scriptwriters then sent the character Carsten to Australia for several years, while the character Robert suddenly became straight. From 1995 Carsten Flöter returned to the series and from then on had several partners in the series, such as Theo Klages ( David Wilms ), with whom he had the first symbolic gay marriage long before it was legalized. The first lesbian couple in the series were Tanja Schildknecht ( Sybille Waury ) and her lover Sonia Besirski ( Nika von Altenstadt ), who died in January 1998 of an overdose of morphine. At that time political statements were made again and again: When CSU politician Peter Gauweiler demanded the ghettoization of homosexual AIDS sufferers, he was called a fascist in Lindenstrasse by Chris Barnsteg, who showed solidarity . Gauweiler lost his defamation lawsuit.

While only a few gays and lesbians appear in most of the series productions in the early to mid-90s, and if so, then at most represented a tolerated fringe group, the filmmaker Andreas Weiß produced television series as early as 1991, in which the gay and lesbian life in the metropolis Berlin is deliberately placed in the center. In series like Monday Children , Monday Stories, and From Man to Man , the action revolves mainly around a group of gay and lesbian friends, and straight characters become a minority.

The introduction of commercial television was of great importance for the visibility of homosexual characters on television.

The main lesbian character in the RTL series Behind Bars is the imprisoned Walter ( Katy Karrenbauer ). Katja Bellinghausen is the lesbian Coco in the series Lukas , in which she has affairs with various women, including Andreja Fräulein Schneider.

Internationally, the most famous lesbian TV series heroine is Ellen DeGeneres in Ellen , who caused a sensation in the late 1990s when the actress and the role came out at the same time . In the cult series Sex and the City , actress Kim Cattrall as Samantha has several straight and one lesbian relationships with Maria, who is played by Sonia Braga. One of the pioneers in international television is Sandra Bernhard, who also embodies this role in the series Roseanne .

2000 until today

In addition to numerous heterosexual roles, the long-running Lindenstrasse currently presents three gay characters: Georg Uecker as Carsten Flöter, Claus Vinçon as Carsten's husband Georg “Käthe” ​​Eschweiler and Gunnar Solka as Peter Lotti Lottmann. In addition to Tanja Schildknecht, representatives of lesbian love in the series are also Susanne Evers as Tanja's partner Suzanne Richter and Ines Lutz as Tanja's ex-girlfriend Franziska Brenner.

From the beginning of 2000 on, gays were mainly represented in the US series Queer as Folk and Six Feet Under - Death is Always , in which Michael C. Hall plays the homosexual undertaker David Fisher. Homosexuality is also a theme in the sitcom Will & Grace . In 2000 the fictional character Bianca Montgomery (played by actress Eden Riegel ) came out in the soap opera All My Children .

In the series Berlin Bohème since 2000 Tima the Divine , Rainer Hillebrecht and Volker Waldschmidt represent the three main gay characters. There are also main lesbian characters played by Yvonne Haß (season 1) and Hannah Rubinroth (season 2-4). In the series Moving men are Oliver Muth (as Norbert), Victor Schefé (as Waltraut ), Ingo Naujoks present as Frank since 2004 on German screens.

Homosexuality is also a theme again and again in daily soap operas such as Forbidden Love and Good Times, Bad Times . There were many lesbian relationships in Marienhof . Until recently, there was also a love affair between two schoolgirls in the series Hand on Heart . Currently there are the couple Christian Mann ( Thore Schölermann ) and Oliver Sabel ( Jo Weil ) in Verbotene Liebe .

From January 2006 to March 2008 ProSieben ran the German edition of the American series Queer as Folk .

From 2004 to 2009, ProSieben ran the German edition of the American series The L Word - When Women Love Women .

If series especially promote the acceptance of homosexual people in society, television programs such as the talk show Arabella, which has since been discontinued, are ascribed a more discriminatory effect.

In addition to Georg Uecker, Thomas Hermanns , Dirk Bach , Hella von Sinnen , Jürgen Domian , Thomas Hackenberg , Hape Kerkeling and Anne Will are among the most prominent representatives of homosexuality on German television.

At present, programs are increasingly not only addressing the relationships of homosexual couples, but also the lives of rainbow families , such as the American program Modern Family .

Until the 2010s, homosexuality was discussed in youth series, but very little or not at all in children's series. Russell T Davies had initial plans for a main character coming out in a children's series for The Sarah Jane Adventures on the British children's channel CBBC . He planned that the main character Luke Smith in the series should have his coming out, but this was ended early in 2011 and the plan could not be implemented. In the follow-up series Wizards vs Aliens, however, the main character Benny Sherwood came out as gay. In 2009, the 12th season of the Schloss Einstein boarding school series produced for Kika featured a same-sex couple for the first time, even if it later turned out that the character Karla Bussmann, the love for her best friend Marie Louise Krüger, was confusing with friendship and therefore not at all is gay. It wasn't until eleven years later that there was another lesbian couple at Schloss Einstein. In the 23rd season, the character Cäcilia Amelie von Toll came together with her roommate Leni Freytag.

Gay and lesbian TV channels

There are now some international television channels that target homosexuals.

  • Pink TV - full program with panel discussions, feature films, series and porn ( Cadinot and similar), French, but also English and occasionally German with subtitles
  • OUTtv - Canadian TV program (formerly: PrideVision TV 2001-2004 and HARD on PrideVision 2004-2005)
  • Gay.TV - Italian program, music, shows, films in Italian, English, German, Japanese and French (with Italian subtitles)
  • LOGO - American channel for LGBT audiences
  • Here! - American channel for LGBT audiences
  • TIMM - German broadcaster for LGBT audiences (now discontinued)
  • MundoPink - Spanish channel for LGBT audiences

On March 1, 2005, the gay channel 4Gay.TV went on air. In April 2005, he stopped working again. This station could be received via satellite TV via Astra Digital 12460 MHz transponder 103. The program consisted only of plaques with information for homosexuals.

For 2006, G-TV, another gay and lesbian television broadcaster in Germany, planned to distribute its programs via DVB-T , DVB-S and DVB-C and the analogue television cable network, but these plans have not yet been implemented (as of April 2007 )

Since November 1st, 2008 a new TV broadcaster, TIMM , has been broadcasting content aimed at homosexual or specifically gay audiences. For this purpose, the company DFW Deutsche Fernsehwerke GmbH was founded at the beginning of 2007, whose managing director is Frank Lukas . (As of September 25, 2008)

Gay and lesbian TV magazines

Homosexuality has also found its way into the German television landscape in the infotainment sector. The U. a. Anders Trend magazine, developed by Lindenstrasse actors David Wilms and Georg Uecker, mainly deals with homosexuality and provides information on news from the scene.

Precursors for Anders trend were several gay magazine programs, which have been around since the 1990s and were, but these were usually only in regional stations and open channels broadcast.

Examples are:

  • the monthly program Queerblick (since August 3, 2009) on TV-Lernsender.NRW [1] in the Unitymedia network is the first LGBT youth program. It was brought into being by the association of the same name, in which young gay and lesbian journalists from North Rhine-Westphalia have come together.
  • the in Berlin in the program FAB gay magazine Schrill, oblique, gay , which was launched by Rosa von Praunheim , later renamed Andersrum and u. a. moderated by David Wilms and Laurent Daniels (monthly broadcast from around 1991 to 1993), was the first gay magazine on German TV.
  • the DAVID magazine by Andreas Weiß, broadcast in Berlin's OKB , which in 1996 had six 30-minute episodes
  • the magazine programs Homo-viel and [Schwul] -das Magazin , which were broadcast on the Hamburg Open Channel for several years. Homo-viel was broadcast from May 1994 until the Hamburg Open Channel was closed in March 2003. [Schwul] - the magazine continued to run (until the end of 2007) on TIDE TV, the successor to OK, and from January to December 2007 it was also broadcast on the Berlin Open Channel with a Berlin regional edition
  • the show Regenbogen-TV , which was broadcast from 1997 to 2005 in the open channel Münster.
  • the show Queerfunk in the Offenen Kanal Kiel (February 1994 to February 2004, with well over 100 programs)
  • the show T3 - Types-Topic-Tolerance was a gay magazine with news, reports and interviews in the Flensburg Open Channel.
  • the program “AndersumTV”, which has been broadcast on the Hamburg broadcaster Tide since 2009

There were also lesbian TV magazines in Berlin and Hamburg :

  • Läsbisch-TV (April 11, 1991 - May 15, 1993) on television from Berlin , inspired by Rosa von Praunheim , was the world's first lesbian television magazine
  • Lesbians in Sight (1994-1998 with 51 issues) in the Offener Kanal Hamburg

Currently (2008) there are two magazine programs for gays in Vienna on Okto :

  • the LesBiSchwul transgender TV magazine
  • the magazine "Queer Lounge"

Series

English-language series with predominantly homosexual subjects

  • Stadtgeschichten (Tales of the City) (USA 1993, 6 episodes in 1 season)
  • Ellen (USA 1994–1998, 109 episodes in 5 seasons)
  • Will & Grace (USA 1998-2006, 194 episodes in 8 seasons; resumption: USA since 2017, so far 34 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • Queer as Folk (GB 1999-2000, 10 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • Queer as Folk (USA / Canada 2000-2005, 83 episodes in 5 seasons, remake of the British "Queer as Folk", German first broadcast January 9, 2006, includes topics such as coming out, discrimination and AIDS)
  • The L Word - When Women Love Women (USA 2004–2009, 70 episodes in 6 seasons, group of lesbians in Los Angeles )
  • Noah's Arc (USA 2005–2006, 17 episodes in 2 seasons, German first broadcast since 2008 on TIMM)
  • Sugar Rush (GB 2005-2006, 20 episodes in 2 seasons, German first broadcast 2010, story from the perspective of 15-year-old Kim, who falls in love with her best friend)
  • Dante's Cove (USA 2005–2007, 12 episodes in 3 seasons, horror series)
  • The Lair (USA 2007-2009, 28 episodes in 3 seasons, horror series)
  • Skins - Hautnah (GB 2007-2013, 56 episodes in 7 seasons, youth drama series)
  • Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (Canada / USA 2007–2009, 14 episodes in 2 seasons,animation series produced usingthe stop-motion method)
  • Modern Family (USA 2009-2020, 250 episodes in 11 seasons, rainbow family Mitchell Pritchett - Cameron Tucker)
  • Lip Service (GB 2010–2011, 12 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • Threesome (GB 2011–2012, 14 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • BoysTown (USA 2012–2016, 18 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • Hunting Season (USA 2012–2015, 12 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • The New Normal (USA 2012-2013, 22 episodes in 1 season)
  • Please Like Me (Australia, USA 2013-2016, 32 episodes in 4 seasons)
  • The Fosters (USA 2013-2018, 104 episodes in 5 seasons)
  • Vicious (GB 2013–2016, 13 episodes in 2 seasons & a 45-minute farewell special)
  • Looking (USA 2014–2016, 18 episodes in 2 seasons & a concluding feature film)
  • Faking It (USA 2014-2016, 38 episodes in 3 seasons)
  • Transparent (USA 2014–2019, 40 episodes in 4 seasons & a final feature film)
  • Cucumber (GB 2015, 8 episodes in 1 season)
  • Banana (GB 2015, 8 episodes in 1 season)
  • Feral (USA 2016, 8 episodes in 1 season)
  • Gaycation (USA 2016-2017, 10 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • When We Rise (USA 2017, 8 episodes in 1 season)
  • Pose (USA since 2018, so far 18 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • Years and Years (GB 2019, 6 episodes in 1 season)
  • The L Word: Generation Q (USA since 2019, so far 8 episodes in 1 season, continuation of The L Word )
  • A special life (special) (USA since 2019, so far 8 episodes in 1 season)
  • Stadtgeschichten (Tales of the City) (USA 2019, 10 episodes in 1 season)
  • Love, Victor (USA since 2020, so far 10 episodes in 1 season)
See also: Homosexuality in the United States: Television .

German-language series with predominantly homosexual topics

(in order of origin)

  • Licht und Schatten (gay soap from 1991 to 1993)
  • Dream Dancer - The Culture Office (1994)
  • Monday Children (1995)
  • Monday Stories (30-part gay soap opera by Andreas Weiß , 1997)
  • From man to man (1st gay erotic series on German television, 1998)
  • Berlin Bohème (1999-2006)
  • Sweet home - my father, his friend, his ex and I (2002-2004)
  • Moving men (2003-2006)
  • Sunday men (gay erotic soap by Andreas Weiß, 2008)

Other series with predominantly homosexual themes

  • Woke (Les engagés) (F 2017–2018, 20 episodes in 2 seasons)
  • I love you! (F 2018, 3 episodes in 1 season)

Series that often address homosexuality

  • 90210 (From season 3 - Teddy comes out - then some love affairs.)
  • AJ and the Queen (main character Ruby Red is gay and falls for the bisexual farm catcher Damien Sanchez, later she falls in love with Darrell, the bodyguard of a friend; Ruby's roommate Louis starts an affair with the police officer Patrick Kennedy; several guest appearances by well-known homosexual drag queens )
  • American Dad (animated series)
  • Anna Pihl - On patrol in Copenhagen (Jan, where Anna lives with her son, is gay, this is often discussed when Jan is looking for a partner, for example, or he is looking for a lesbian woman who would like to have children with him)
  • Anna and Love (Lily Rüssman & Jasmin Al Sharif 2011)
  • Everything that counts (main gay character Roman Wild, bisexual main character Deniz Öztürk, gay main character Joscha Degen, gay main character Dr. Kai Seeberg)
  • Alpha team - The lifesavers in the operating room (gay main character Dr. Eberhard Scheu, together with his partner Erich Buresch and his (care) son)
  • Arrow (Sara Lance and Nyssa al Ghul from season 2 episode 13)
  • Barry (main character NoHo Hank is in love with Cristobal Sifuentes, gay minor character Nick Nicholby)
  • Berlin, Berlin (main lesbian character Rosalie in season 1)
  • Beverly Hills, 90210 (homosexual roles and storylines keep recurring throughout the series)
  • Black Sails (Eleanor and Max in season 1, 2014, Max and Anne Bonny in season 2, 2015)
  • Block B - Under Arrest (Christine Wuttke Lesbian)
  • The Bold Type (main character Kat Edison is initially unsure of her sexuality and later starts relationships with Adena El-Amin and Tia Clayton)
  • Borgen (Danish television series since 2010; Minister of Justice married to a woman is secretly gay; later in the series suicide)
  • Brothers & Sisters (main gay character Kevin Walker)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Willow and Tara Season 4, Kennedy Season 7, Larry Blaisdell)
  • Call My Agent! (Relationship between main character Andréa Martel and Colette Brancillon is often discussed, main character Hervé André-Jezack is gay)
  • Carmilla (vampire series in which a vampire falls in love with a student, several main characters and minor characters are lesbian)
  • Carnivàle
  • Celebrity: Fame (one of the main characters is a gay Hollywood star)
  • Chaos City (gay character Gordon Heywood)
  • Chicago Fire (One of the paramedics, Leslie Elizabeth Shay, is a lesbian. Dies in the series finale of season 1.)
  • Clarence (main character Jeffrey Randell has two mothers, EJ and Sue)
  • Class (gay love story between two main characters)
  • Crashing (main characters: Fred, Sam, Will, Jessica)
  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (multiple homosexual and bisexual characters, e.g. Darryl and Valencia)
  • Dawson's Creek (from season 2 main gay character Jack McPhee and several other characters)
  • Dead to Me (gay main character Christopher Doyle, according to Liz Feldman intended lesbian subtext between main characters Jen Harding and Judy Hale, the latter has a brief relationship with Michelle, the ex-girlfriend of supporting character Ana Perez, in the second season)
  • Dear White People (main gay character Lionel Higgins, several gay and lesbian minor characters)
  • The Denver Clan (main gay / bisexual character Steven Carrington and some supporting characters)
  • Desperate Housewives (Andrew, the son of the main character Bree, is gay and there is also a gay couple living in the neighborhood)
  • Doctor Who (in season 10 for the first time an openly lesbian companion and main character in Doctor Who, Bill Potts, before that there was already a lesbian love story between the recurring characters Jenny Flint and the alien Vastra, who first appeared in episode 6x07 was also Jack Harkness a companion who describes himself as omnisexual and got his own spin-off. Jack was seen for the first time in episode 1x09.)
  • Dr. Klein , 2014 (role Patrick Keller , played by Leander Lichti , partner of role Prof. Dr. Magnus Eisner, played by Miroslav Nemec )
  • Drawn Together (animated series)
  • Easy (main lesbian characters Chase and Jo)
  • A special life (main character Ryan Hayes is gay)
  • The Ellen Show (Ellen DeGeneres plays a lesbian woman, follow-up series to Ellen )
  • Emergency Room (Dr. Kerry Weaver from season 7, Dr. Maggie Doyle (supporting character in seasons 3–6))
  • Epitafios - death is the answer
  • Euphoria (main character Rue Bennett falls in love with her bisexual classmate Jules Vaughn, bisexual main character Cal Jacobs, lesbian secondary character Anna)
  • Everything Sucks! (Main character Kate Messner falls in love with the bisexual Emaline Addario, but initially does not find the courage to come out)
  • Faking It (romantic comedy about two best friends who, because of their sudden popularity, fake lovers. Amy, however, really feels more about karma and is therefore in a sexual orientation crisis. In season 2, Amy begins a lesbian relationship with Djane Reagan.)
  • Family Guy (cartoon series)
  • Just in case, Amy (Maxine takes in Eric Black, an underage gay boy who has been molested multiple times)
  • Friends (Ross' ex-wife Carol and her partner Susan)
  • Glee
  • Golden Girls (Blanche's brother Clayton is gay, Dorothy's college friend Jean is lesbian, some other episodes also address homosexuality)
  • Gossip Girl (across seasons Eric Van der Woodsen - some relationships.)
  • Grace and Frankie (Grace and Frankie are abandoned by their long-time husbands as they come out as gay and want to marry each other)
  • Grey's Anatomy (Callie is bisexual and has a short-term relationship with Dr. Erica Hahn, then with the lesbian pediatric surgeon Dr. Arizona Robbins)
  • Good times, bad times (several homosexual relationships since the beginning of the soap, since 2006 especially in connection with the young lesbian policewoman Paula Rapf ( Josephine Schmidt ) and Carsten Reimann ( Felix Isenbügel ) and Leonard "Lenny" Cöster ( Alexander Becht ), as well as the bisexual characters Jasmin and Katrin Flemming as well as the lesbians Anni Breme and Rosa Lehmann)
  • Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (Kūko and Hastur)
  • Hand on heart (Jenny Hartmann and Emma Müller)
  • Happily Divorced (Fran lives in a flat share with her ex-husband Peter after he came out as gay)
  • Hollywood (main gay characters Dick Samuels, Archie Coleman, Rock Hudson , Henry Willson , other real homo- and bisexual people as minor characters)
  • Hex (Thelma Bates, Tom Wright, Maya Robertson, nomination for the GLAAD Media Award as Outstanding Drama Series)
  • Behind bars - Der Frauenknast (lesbian love affairs)
  • How to Get Away with Murder (Connor Walsh and Oliver Hampton gay, Annalize Keating bisexual, Eve Rothlo lesbian)
  • I Am Not Okay With This (main character Sydney Novak falls in love with her best friend Dina, who slowly returns her feelings)
  • Inspector Hooperman (continuous supporting character of gay cop Rick Silardi, an early example of a less clichéd portrayal of a homosexual character)
  • In The Flesh (the main characters Kieren Walker and Simon Monroe , and the secondary character Rick Macy )
  • Cologne 50667 (Guido and Dennis)
  • LA crash
  • Lindenstrasse (gay character Carsten Flöter and his relationships, lesbian character Tanja Schildknecht and their relationships)
  • Lost Girl (Bo and Lauren, Canadian mystery series since 2010)
  • Lukas (lesbian character Coco Weber, Lukas' best friend)
  • Lüthi and Blanc
  • Man doesn't have to be (one of the first series to portray homosexual AIDS patients in a positive light, Suzanne's childhood friend Eugenia is a lesbian, Suzanne doesn't believe in the existence of bisexuality, homosexuality is also an issue in other episodes)
  • Marienhof (many lesbian relationships)
  • Melrose Place (main gay character Matt Fielding and others)
  • Men in Trees
  • With heart and handcuffs (main gay character Leo Kraft)
  • The nanny (homosexuality is discussed in several episodes)
  • Nola Darling (pansexual main character, starts a relationship with her old school friend Opal Gilstrap)
  • Now Apocalypse (main gay character Ulysses Zane, secondary gay characters Gabriel and Isaac, secondary lesbian character Frank)
  • OC, California (Alex & Marissa, 8 episodes)
  • One Day at a Time (Elena realizes she's a lesbian and comes out)
  • Orange Is the New Black (several women in prison are lesbian or bisexual, but mainly about the relationship between Piper and her ex-girlfriend Alex)
  • Orphan Black (Cosima and Delphine from seasons 1–3, Cosima and Shay in season 3)
  • The Other Two (main gay character Cary Dubek, his own statement as a straight roommate Matt is constantly flirting with him, secondary gay characters Curtis and Jeremy Delongpre)
  • Person of Interest (Root lesbian, Sameen Shaw bisexual)
  • The plague (main character Luis de Zúñiga is homosexual)
  • The Politician (bisexual main characters Payton Hobart, River Barkley and Georgina Hobart, lesbian main character Skye Leighton, who is having an affair with McAfee Westbrook, lesbian minor character Brigitte)
  • Pretty Little Liars (Emiliy Fields, Maya St. Germain, Paige McCullers)
  • The Real O'Neals (main gay character "Kenny O'Neal")
  • Rookie Blue (Series Cop, Gail & Holly, mid-season 4)
  • Roseanne (lesbian supporting character Nancy, gay supporting character Leon and others)
  • Sailor Moon (In the Japanese original, Haruka and Michiru are a lesbian couple; Zoisite [who is a man in the original] and Kunzite in season 1, Fisheye, who is also a man in the original and chooses male victims in season 4)
  • Scrubs (son of chief physician Robert Kelso, who is often mentioned orally, as well as some minor characters who appear occasionally)
  • Sense8 (transsexual woman Nomi Marks in a lesbian relationship with Amanita Caplan, gay relationship between Lito Rodriguez and Hernando Fuentes, pansexual minor character Zakia Asalache)
  • Sex and the City
  • Sex Education
  • Shadowhunters (main gay character Alec Lightwood, main bisexual character Magnus Bane)
  • She-Ra and the Rebel Princesses (animated series, several main and secondary homosexual characters)
  • The Simpsons (Waylon Smithers, from 2006 also Patty Bouvier) repeatedly allusions to Rod and Milhouse as well as Lenny and Carl, and otherwise the topic is raised again and again. In the first 23 seasons (over 500 episodes by May 2012 in the USA and March 2013 in Germany) four episodes have a larger homosexual storyline: S08E15 - Homer and certain fears ( Homer's Phobia ); S14E17 - Homer on the wrong track( Three Gays of the Condo ); S16E10 - So Check Who Ties Forever ( There's Something About Marrying ); S22E11 - Moeback Mountain ( Flaming Moe ) According to an analysis by Erwin In het Panhuis of the first 500 episodes, there are “around 490 more individual gay and lesbian scenes and more than 70 gay and lesbian people in the US animated series with speaking roles identify. Homer Simpson, the head of the family, has already kissed men on the mouth more than 50 times. ”Overall, the result of the depictions was positive:“ Despite the recourse to clichés, the 'Simpsons' are almost always intelligent, fair and entertaining To observe homosexuality. "
  • Sirens (main gay character Henry Isaiah "Hank" St. Clare)
  • Six Feet Under - There is always death (main character David with partner Keith, but also Claire and Edie in some episodes)
  • SK Kölsch (heterosexual "macho inspector" gets along with a gay professional partner)
  • Skins (the gay teenager Maxxie in the first two seasons, Naomi and Emily's burgeoning lesbian relationship from season three)
  • Shameless (main gay character Ian Gallagher, main gay / bisexual character Mickey Milkovich)
  • Soap - Sweet Home (main character Jodie Dallas)
  • SOKO (various secondary characters, including SOKO Leipzig episode fresh meat , 2015)
  • South Park (animated series)
  • Spartacus (Gladiator Barca and slave Pietros ; Agron and Nasir )
  • Stargate Universe (lesbian relationship between main character Camile Wray and Sharon)
  • Star Trek: Discovery , 2017, main character Hugh Culber (played by Wilson Cruz) and Paul Stamets (played by Anthony Rapp) in relationship
  • Tara's worlds
  • The 100 (Clarke Griffin and Lexa from season 2, episode 6)
  • The Aliens (main gay character Dominic, who falls in love with Lewis)
  • The Shannara Chronicles (bisexual main character Eretria)
  • The Tribe (May falls in love with Salene in season 5)
  • Torchwood (various scenes, both gayly, between Ianto and Jack, as well as two lesbian scenes)
  • True Blood (Lafayette Reynolds, Jesus Velasquez, James Kent and many other secondary and main characters are homosexual, the fate of the vampires in the series is based on that of the gay and lesbian movement in the USA and their terminology.)
  • Undateable (main gay character Brett who is about to be paired up)
  • Among brothers (main gay characters Cliff Waters and Donald Maltby)
  • Unter uns (bisexual main character Richard "Ringo" Beckmann, gay secondary character Yannik Benhöfer, gay main character Ingo "Easy" Winter)
  • Forbidden love (multiple gay and lesbian relationships since the soap started)
  • In love with Berlin (the main character Hugo Haas was only gay after he met Britta, bisexual)
  • Vida (bisexual main character Emma Hernandez, her late mother was in a lesbian relationship with Eddy Martínez, homosexual main characters Cruz and Nico)
  • Suburban women (main characters Georg "Schorsch" Schneider, bisexual; František "Francesco" Kovacs, homosexual hairdresser; Sabine Herold, bisexual; Helga Pariasek, bisexual)
  • Welcome to life (main character Enrique "Ricky" Vasquez, gay high school student, minor character Mr. Katimski, gay teacher & his partner)
  • Work in Progress (main character Abby is lesbian, but starts an open relationship with young Chris, lesbian minor character Melanie)
  • Wynonna Earp (Waverly Earp and Nicole Haught lesbian relationship)
  • Xena - The Warrior Princess (Xena and Gabrielle. No open portrayal, but sometimes extremely clear subtext . Especially clear in the 6th season of the series.)
  • Wizards vs Aliens (The main character Benny Sherwood is gay. In the course of the series he has his coming out. This makes Wizards vs Aliens one of the few children's series that deal with homosexuality)

literature

  • Vanessa Jung: The representation of homosexuality in German TV entertainment programs (diploma thesis at the University of Bamberg in the department of German studies), GRIN Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-640-21769-1

See also

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  1. ↑ Long live the Dalai Rosa. The time , accessed July 8, 2019 .
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    Chaos City = Spin City
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    The Denver Clan = Dynasty
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