Recently, LGBTQ shows and movies have become the most trending topics that people are more curious about. LGBTQ shows on the Netflix streaming service have expanded a lot in these years. These shows feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender main characters that viewers can relate to and learn from. Most of these series celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer stories. These Netflix shows cover a range of genres, delivering more representation to romance, drama, comedy, mystery, and sci-fi fans.
Let’s have a look at the best LGBTQ shows on Netflix right now.
Heartstopper
Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy streaming television series on Netflix, adapted from the webcomic and graphic novel of the same name by Alice Oseman. Written by Oseman herself, the series primarily tells the story of Charlie Spring, a gay schoolboy who falls in love with classmate Nick Nelson, whom he sits next to in his new form. It also explores the lives of Tao, Elle, Tara and Darcy. The television rights for the series were purchased by See-Saw Films in 2019, and Netflix acquired distribution rights in 2021. The series was released on 22 April 2022. [Source: www.netflix.com]
Grace and Frankie
Grace and Frankie is an American comedy television series created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris for Netflix. The series stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as the eponymous Grace Hanson and Frankie Bergstein, two aging women who form an unlikely friendship after their husbands reveal they are in love with each other and plan to get married. The series premiered on Netflix on May 8, 2015. The seventh and final season premiered on August 13, 2021, with four episodes, and the final twelve released on April 29, 2022.
Call My Agent!
Call My Agent! is a French comedy-drama television series that premiered on France 2 on 14 October 2015. The series depicts talent agents at the fictional agency ASK (Agence Samuel Kerr) and their relationships with their actor clients, who are often real French celebrities playing themselves. It was initially announced that the show would end after its fourth season in 2020, but in April 2021 it was confirmed that the show would return with a 90-minute TV film followed by a fifth season. “Call My Agent!” has been broadcast by ICI ARTV in Canada, RTS Un in Switzerland and is available worldwide on Netflix, except in Austria, Spain, Germany and Portugal.
Feel Good
Feel Good is a British comedy-drama television programme created by Mae Martin and Joe Hampson. It is a semi-autobiographical romantic comedy starring Mae Martin as themselves and Charlotte Ritchie as Mae’s girlfriend George. The six-part series premiered its first episode on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2020, after which all six episodes were released on All 4. Netflix handled international distribution and released it internationally on 19 March 2020. Independently of Channel 4, Netflix renewed the series for a second and final season, which was released on 4 June 2021. [Source: www.ranker.com]
Sex Education
Sex Education is a British comedy-drama streaming television series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix. The series follows the lives of the students, staff and parents of the fictional Moordale Secondary School as they contend with various personal dilemmas, often related to sexual intimacy. The first series was released on 11 January 2019, the second on 17 January 2020, and the third on 17 September 2021. A fourth series was announced on 25 September 2021.
Elite
Elite is a Spanish thriller teen drama television series created for Netflix by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona. The series is set in Las Encinas, a fictional elite secondary school, and revolves around the relationships between three working-class teenage students enrolled at the school through a scholarship program and their wealthy classmates. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, was released on Netflix on 5 October 2018.
Schitt’s Creek
Schitt’s Creek is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy, that aired on CBC Television from 2015 to 2020. It consists of 80 episodes spread over six seasons. Produced by Not a Real Company Productions and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the series follows the formerly wealthy Rose family’s trials and tribulations. After their business manager embezzles the family business, Rose Video, the family loses its fortune and relocates to Schitt’s Creek, a small town they once purchased as a joke. Now living in a motel, Johnny and Moira along with their adult children, David and Alexis, must adjust to life without wealth.
Wynonna Earp
Wynonna Earp is a supernatural Western horror television series. Developed by Emily Andras, the Canadian-American program is based on the comic book series by Beau Smith. Melanie Scrofano plays the titular character, the great-great-granddaughter of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. In the series, Wynonna returns to her hometown of Purgatory, near the Canadian Rockies, where she battles revenants, the reincarnated outlaws that Wyatt killed. [Source: www.thecinemaholic.com]
