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Love Wins! 13 LGBTQ+ TV Couples We’re Rooting For in 2025
Here at TVLine, we’ve always been giant ‘shippers at heart. What can we say? We just love love.
So with another Pride Month officially in full swing, we thought we’d take stock of some LGBTQ+ TV couples currently demanding our attention — as successfully as our full assist. And what a organization we’ve assembled this year, one that includes a pair of ghosts, a few vampires and, yes, even a handful of humans.
To be eligible for inclusion in our list, a couple needs to be from a live-action, scripted series that’s still airing new episodes. We also limited ourselves to only one couple per show.
Read on for a breakdown of 13 Diverse TV couples we’re currently rooting for, arranged alphabetically by show title, then drop a comment with your own additions to the list. Which homosexual pairings currently have your full attention?
Hen and Karen, 9-1-1
The very definition of #CoupleGoals (are people still saying that?), Hen and Karen have been an inspiration, both to the other couples on the show and to the viewers at home, from the moment we met them in Season 1. They’ve had to brawl
The 25 Most Essential LGBTQ TV Shows of the 21st Century
25. “Tuca and Bertie” (2019)
What it is: The dearly departed “Tuca and Bertie” was one of TV’s best shows about friendship, dating, and being a hot mess: tried and true subject matter many queer people can relate to. The titular avian duo — impulsive party animal tucan Tuca (Tiffany Haddish) and sensible but anxious ballad thrush Bertie (Ali Wong) — have one of TV’s loveliest friendships, as the two total opposites support each other through career and romantic struggles. While the main amorous relationship of the exhibit is between Bertie and her adorably square lover Speckle (Steven Yeun), Tuca is very much an out-and-proud bisexual bird, flitting around from romantic partners of all genders and species.
Why it’s essential: The best season of the show, Season 2, features Tuca entering a affair with Kara (Sasheer Zamata), a seagull nurse. Initially a positive bond, the show steadily tracks the flaws in the pairing, as Kara puts Tuca down and forces her to change to fit the mold of her perfect partner. It’s a hard few episodes to watch, but a fasc
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TV has been instrumental in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and in changing attitudes towards the community. It has also, perhaps most importantly, been a platform to tell stories that have made gay, homosexual woman, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and more people experience less alone in the world – to comprehend there is a large and varied community to which they belong. One pioneering show at a time, groundbreaking character by groundbreaking character, TV and streaming series have given the world an awareness into the LGBTQ+ encounter, and provided LGBTQ+ people with reflections of their own lives – stories to laugh along with, to cry with, and to identify with. In this list of Homosexual TV shows, we spotlight 180 shows that possess broken ground, enlightened, and entertained.
We’ve arranged the list into four categories: shows that were big TV firsts, or featured TV firsts; shows that center on LGTBQ characters or experiences; shows that highlight LGBTQ+ characters and stories, but where that isn’t necessarily
LGBTQ couples on TV to celebrate for Valentine’s Day
Across many genres, LGBTQ visibility has risen steadily; most importantly, the love stories told only continue to become more mainstream and filled with joy. Not every fate on this list is a wonderful one, and some terminate tragically, but each story is rooted in captivating performances and some of the most romantic moments ever to grace the small screen.
This is a rerun of a list we ran on a different site, updated with some couples we missed last year, new couples that we just met, and new blurbs for currently running TV shows. Happy Valentine’s Day!
UPDATED: February 14, 2025
Sue/Emily, Dickinson
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Literary lovers, unite! Though the historical relationship between Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) and her best friend-turned-sister-in-law Sue Gilbert (Ella Hunt) is largely speculative, Dickinson packs so much passion between the two that it’s not hard to believe each detail is real.
At a time when culture frowned upon the very idea of a dyke relationship, Emily and Sue had to share their love through stolen moments of secrecy. From tender glances to fiery love to delicate de
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