# List of made-for-television films with LGBTQ characters

The following is a list of made-for-television films that include fictional and factual lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters. The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned. The films premiered on terrestrial and cable television networks.
(For queer characters — non-binary, gender fluid, pansexual, etc. — see lists for asexual, intersex, non-binary, and pansexual characters.)

## 1950s

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1959 | South | ITV | Jan Wicziewsky | Peter Wyngarde | Wicziewsky is a Polish army officer living in exile in the antebellum South. He is torn by his feelings for fellow officer Eric MacClure (Graydon Gould). South is believed to be the earliest television film dealing with homosexual themes. | |

## 1970s
### 1970–1974

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes |
| 1971 | Vanished | NBC | Arnold Greer | Arthur Hill | A presidential adviser goes missing, and the FBI investigation into his disappearance reveals that he is secretly gay and has been having secret weekly meetings with another man in a rented apartment. Loosely inspired by the scandal that forced President Johnson's aid Walter Jenkins to resign in 1964. |
| 1972 | The Glass House | CBS | Hugo Slocum | Vic Morrow | Vic Morrow plays Hugo, a gay inmate in the prison. |
| 1972 | That Certain Summer | ABC | Doug Salter | Hal Holbrook | Doug is gay and divorced and living with his partner Gary McClain. While his ex-wife knows he is gay, his teenaged son Nick (Scott Jacoby) doesn't. When Nick goes to visit his father for the weekend, Doug comes out to him. Nick is upset and confused, and packs his bags and goes home to his mother, without even saying goodbye to his father. |
| 1972 | That Certain Summer | ABC | Gary McClain | Martin Sheen | Doug is gay and divorced and living with his partner Gary McClain. While his ex-wife knows he is gay, his teenaged son Nick (Scott Jacoby) doesn't. When Nick goes to visit his father for the weekend, Doug comes out to him. Nick is upset and confused, and packs his bags and goes home to his mother, without even saying goodbye to his father. |
| 1973 | Applause | PBS | Duane Fox | Harvey Evans | Televised production of 1970 Broadway musical Applause. In one scene, Margo Channing goes to a gay bar in Greenwich Village with her pal, Duane, and performs the song "But Alive" with patrons of the bar. |
| 1973 | Scream, Pretty Peggy | ABC | Jeffrey Elliot | Ted Bessell | Ted Bessell plays a transvestite killer. |
| 1973 | Steambath | PBS | Young Man #1 Young Man # 2 | Neil J. Schwartz Patrick Spohn | This was a filmed production of the off-Broadway show and aired on PBS in 1973. One scene contained two gay men singing the provocative "Let Me Entertain You" as they slowly remove their towels throughout the number. The controversial production included the first woman (Valerie Perrine) to be shown topless on public television and only 24 PBS affiliates aired the program. |
| 1974 | Born Innocent | NBC | Moco | Nora Heflin | A 14-year-old runaway, Christine Parker (Linda Blair), is sentenced to do time in a girls' juvenile detention center. In a controversial scene, Christine is raped with a plunger handle by a gang led by Moco. The film also made several negative references to lesbianism, with one version of the script containing a character description of Moco, implying that her lesbianism was a result of her surroundings, and what prompts her abuse of Christine and others. |

### 1975–1979

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes |
| 1975 | The Naked Civil Servant | ITV | Quentin Crisp | John Hurt | A biographical film about the life and times of openly gay and flamboyant Quentin Crisp. The film depicts his life from coming of age to growing old in conservative England. Based on the 1968 book of the same name. |
| 1975 | Cage Without a Key | NBC | Tommy | Jonelle Allen | Tommy is a black lesbian teenager in a juvenile detention center. She sacrifices her life for a wrongly imprisoned white girl, Valerie Smith. |
| 1976 | Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway | NBC | Alexander Duncan | Leigh McCloskey | Dawn falls in love with bisexual hustler named Alexander. |
| 1976 | James Dean | NBC | James Dean | Stephen McHattie | Biopic about Dean based on the biography by Bast, Dean's good friend and roommate during the 1950s. The movie featured several homoerotic scenes between Dean and Bast. In one scene, Dean talks with Bast about being open to gay encounters. In the film's final scene, Bast tells his therapist that he never got the chance to tell Dean how much he loved him. |
| 1976 | James Dean | NBC | William Bast | Michael Brandon | Biopic about Dean based on the biography by Bast, Dean's good friend and roommate during the 1950s. The movie featured several homoerotic scenes between Dean and Bast. In one scene, Dean talks with Bast about being open to gay encounters. In the film's final scene, Bast tells his therapist that he never got the chance to tell Dean how much he loved him. |
| 1976 | Song of Myself | CBS | Walt Whitman | Rip Torn | The story begins with Whitman, a gay poet, in his 70s, sitting for photographs being taken by Thomas Eakins. His life is then depicted in flashbacks, with Whitman reading passages from his poetry on a voice-over soundtrack. It was broadcast as part of CBS‐TV's "American Parade" series. |
| 1976 | Song of Myself | CBS | Peter Doyle | Brad Davis | Peter Doyle is a young streetcar operator who becomes Whitman's lover for 10 years. |
| 1976 | The War Widow | PBS | Amy | Pamela Bellwood | Set during World War I, Amy is married to a man who enlisted early. On a trip to New York City, she meets Jenny, a photographer. Their friendship blossoms into romance and they eventually become lovers. |
| 1976 | The War Widow | PBS | Jenny | Frances Lee McCain | Set during World War I, Amy is married to a man who enlisted early. On a trip to New York City, she meets Jenny, a photographer. Their friendship blossoms into romance and they eventually become lovers. |
| 1977 | Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn | NBC | Alexander Duncan | Leigh McCloskey | Alexander is a street hustler; only in it for the money, he sleeps with both men and women. At one point in the film he is a houseboy for a closeted gay pro football player. In the end, he reunites with his girlfriend Dawn, and they leave California and head up north. Sequel to the TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. |
| 1977 | In the Glitter Palace | NBC | Ellen Lange | Barbara Hershey | Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey, who is accused of murder. Daisy is lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is a lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian who was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim. |
| 1977 | In the Glitter Palace | NBC | Casey Walker | Diana Scarwid | Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey, who is accused of murder. Daisy is lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is a lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian who was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim. |
| 1977 | In the Glitter Palace | NBC | Daisy Dolon | Carole Cook | Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey, who is accused of murder. Daisy is lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is a lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian who was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim. |
| 1977 | In the Glitter Palace | NBC | Ricky | Lynn Marta | Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey, who is accused of murder. Daisy is lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is a lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian who was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim. |
| 1977 | In the Glitter Palace | NBC | Grace Mayo | Tisha Sterling | Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey, who is accused of murder. Daisy is lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is a lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian who was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim. |
| 1977 | In the Glitter Palace | NBC | Kendis Winslow | Salome Jens | Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey, who is accused of murder. Daisy is lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is a lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian who was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim. |
| 1977 | Terraces | NBC | Dr. Roger Cabe | Lloyd Bochner | A married doctor has an affair with Alex, an openly gay actor. When Roger breaks it off for the sake of his wife and family, Alex has a hard time accepting the break-up and swallows a bottle of pills. Roger suspects that Alex may have attempted suicide, so he and other tenants of the building where they live break into his apartment and find him unconscious. Roger forces Alex to drink coffee until he wakes up, and in the end, Roger moves in with Alex. |
| 1977 | Terraces | NBC | Alex Bengston | James Phipps | A married doctor has an affair with Alex, an openly gay actor. When Roger breaks it off for the sake of his wife and family, Alex has a hard time accepting the break-up and swallows a bottle of pills. Roger suspects that Alex may have attempted suicide, so he and other tenants of the building where they live break into his apartment and find him unconscious. Roger forces Alex to drink coffee until he wakes up, and in the end, Roger moves in with Alex. |
| 1978 | A Question of Love | ABC | Linda Ray Guettner | Gena Rowlands | Linda Ray is a lesbian and divorced nurse with two kids. She moves in with Barbara, also a lesbian, and they are in a relationship. Linda's teenaged son tells his father about his mother and Barbara's relationship. The ex-husband then sues for custody of the younger boy, because the teenager had already moved back in with his dad. When they go to trial, Linda loses custody of her young son. Based on the true story of Mary Jo Risher, who in 1975 lost custody of her 9-year-old son because she was in a lesbian relationship. |
| 1978 | A Question of Love | ABC | Barbara Moreland | Jane Alexander | Linda Ray is a lesbian and divorced nurse with two kids. She moves in with Barbara, also a lesbian, and they are in a relationship. Linda's teenaged son tells his father about his mother and Barbara's relationship. The ex-husband then sues for custody of the younger boy, because the teenager had already moved back in with his dad. When they go to trial, Linda loses custody of her young son. Based on the true story of Mary Jo Risher, who in 1975 lost custody of her 9-year-old son because she was in a lesbian relationship. |
| 1978 | Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force | NBC | Leonard Matlovich | Brad Dourif | This was the true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated. |

## 1980s
### 1980–1984

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes |
| 1980 | From the Life of the Marionettes | ZDF | Tim | Walter Schmidinger | Tim is Katarina's friend and business partner. |
| 1980 | Marilyn: The Untold Story | ABC | Natasha Lytess | Viveca Lindfors | The film explores the star's bond with Natasha Lytess. |
| 1980 | The Shadow Box | ABC | Brian | Christopher Plummer | Brian is a married man who falls in love with another man named Mark in this TV film directed by Paul Newman and subsequently nominated for three Emmy awards. |
| 1980 | The Women's Room | ABC | Iso | Tovah Feldshuh | Iso is a lesbian divorcee and a friend of the main character, Mira. This television film received highly favorable reviews and was nominated for four Emmy awards. |
| 1981 | Inmates: A Love Story | ABC | Salt | Rita Taggart | Salt and Pepper are a biracial lesbian couple in the jail. |
| 1981 | Inmates: A Love Story | ABC | Pepper | Cynthia Avila | Salt and Pepper are a biracial lesbian couple in the jail. |
| 1981 | The Running Man | CBC | Ben Garfield | Chuck Shamata | Ben Garfield is married with two kids, a teacher, and is secretly gay. Michael is his openly gay best friend. |
| 1981 | The Running Man | CBC | Michael | Don Scanlon | Ben Garfield is married with two kids, a teacher, and is secretly gay. Michael is his openly gay best friend. |
| 1981 | Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend | NBC | Sidney Shorr | Tony Randall | Sidney Shorr is a reclusive gay illustrator. He meets and befriends Laurie Morgan, a cheerful, forthright woman who spends the night in his apartment. Sidney's sexuality is clear to Laurie from his wistful gaze toward a man's photo positioned on the mantle. Since Sidney can no longer afford his apartment alone, Laurie moves in; she eventually gets pregnant, and they raise the child together. TV movie that was the pilot for the series Love, Sidney. |
| 1981 | Valley of the Dolls | CBS | Vivienne Moray | Camilla Sparv | Vivienne is a Parisian lesbian artist. |
| 1982 | Fifth of July | Showtime | Kenneth Talley Jr. | Richard Thomas | Kenneth Talley Jr. is a gay paraplegic Vietnam veteran living in his childhood home in Lebanon, Missouri. Jed Jenkins is a gardener and Kenneth's boyfriend. Ken hosts a reunion of his old UC Berkeley college friends, and they muse about days gone by and what the future holds for them. Based on the play of the same name. |
| 1982 | Fifth of July | Showtime | Jed Jenkins | Jeff Daniels | Kenneth Talley Jr. is a gay paraplegic Vietnam veteran living in his childhood home in Lebanon, Missouri. Jed Jenkins is a gardener and Kenneth's boyfriend. Ken hosts a reunion of his old UC Berkeley college friends, and they muse about days gone by and what the future holds for them. Based on the play of the same name. |
| 1983 | An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later | HBO | Himself | Lance Loud | Follow-up reunion film to the 1973 PBS series An American Family, which included gay son, Lance. |
| 1983 | An Englishman Abroad | BBC | Guy Burgess | Alan Bates | Story of the chance encounter between a gay Cambridge spy, Guy Burgess, and actress Coral Browne. The film is based on real-life events; The Cambridge Spy Ring. |
| 1983 | Family Business | PBS | Jerry Stern | Jeff Marcus | Jerry is gay and the youngest son of a wealthy man who is dying and wants to make amends with his four sons. |
| 1983 | Making of a Male Model | ABC | Chuck Lanyard | Jeff Conaway | Chuck Lanyard is gay and a washed-out model. He can't even land a gig standing next to a car at an auto show, because he's too old. He eventually dies from a drug overdose. |
| 1983 | Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer | CBS | Alan Cahill John Charles Turner | Barton Heyman Shannon Presby | Alan is the lover of John, who murdered Mary Alice Nolan. After John flees from New York to Florida to avoid being caught, Alan agrees to help the police locate him. The film is loosely based on the investigation surrounding the murder of Roseann Quinn. |
| 1984 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Showtime | Brick Pollitt | Tommy Lee Jones | Brick, an alcoholic former Southern football hero, pines for his dead best friend, Skipper; while being indifferent towards his wife, Maggie. This production restored the homosexual undertones of the original play that were diluted in the 1958 feature film version. |
| 1984 | The Glitter Dome | HBO | Lorna Dillman | Colleen Dewhurst | Lorna is a lesbian film editor. |

### 1985–1989

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes |
| 1985 | An Early Frost | NBC | Michael Pierson | Aidan Quinn | Michael is a successful lawyer who returns to his parents home to reveal he has AIDS and is gay. His father refuses to accept that reality, until Michael has seizures and an ambulance is called, which refuses to transport him. After Michael gets out of the hospital, his ex-lover, Peter, who gave him the disease, arrives and talks Michael out of suicide. One of the first mainstream treatments of AIDS on American television. |
| 1985 | An Early Frost | NBC | Peter Hilton | D. W. Moffett | Michael is a successful lawyer who returns to his parents home to reveal he has AIDS and is gay. His father refuses to accept that reality, until Michael has seizures and an ambulance is called, which refuses to transport him. After Michael gets out of the hospital, his ex-lover, Peter, who gave him the disease, arrives and talks Michael out of suicide. One of the first mainstream treatments of AIDS on American television. |
| 1985 | Consenting Adult | ABC | Jeff Lynd | Barry Tubb | Jeff is a gay college student, and his parents struggle to accept his homosexuality. When they refuse to accept him, he cuts them out of his life. Stuart is his boyfriend who he lives with after getting kicked out of his college dorm by his roommate. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name. |
| 1985 | Consenting Adult | ABC | Stuart | Joseph Adams | Jeff is a gay college student, and his parents struggle to accept his homosexuality. When they refuse to accept him, he cuts them out of his life. Stuart is his boyfriend who he lives with after getting kicked out of his college dorm by his roommate. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name. |
| 1986 | As Is | Showtime | Rich | Robert Carradine | Rich is a gay writer dying of AIDS. His former lover Saul returns to care for him. Based on the play of the same title. In 1986, Showtime's senior vice president said, "As Is is probably the frankest treatment of the homosexual life style ever seen on television". |
| 1986 | As Is | Showtime | Saul | Jonathan Hadary | Rich is a gay writer dying of AIDS. His former lover Saul returns to care for him. Based on the play of the same title. In 1986, Showtime's senior vice president said, "As Is is probably the frankest treatment of the homosexual life style ever seen on television". |
| 1986 | Dress Gray | NBC | David Hand | Patrick Cassidy | David is a gay cadet at the fictional Ulysses S. Grant Military Academy who is raped and murdered. |
| 1986 | My Two Loves | ABC | Gail Springer | Mariette Hartley | After her husband dies, Gail finds a job as a chef for a company, where she meets Marjorie, an executive who is open about being a lesbian. Their friendship becomes a love affair. The script was co-written by Rita Mae Brown. |
| 1986 | My Two Loves | ABC | Marjorie | Lynn Redgrave | After her husband dies, Gail finds a job as a chef for a company, where she meets Marjorie, an executive who is open about being a lesbian. Their friendship becomes a love affair. The script was co-written by Rita Mae Brown. |
| 1986 | Second Serve | CBS | Renée Richards | Vanessa Redgrave | Biopic of transgender surgeon turned professional tennis player, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was transgender. A New York State Superior Court judge ruled in Richard's favor, because her weight, height, and physique were comparable to a biological female, despite her high male chromosome count. |
| 1986 | The Truth About Alex | HBO | Alex Prager | Peter Spence | Alex is gay and a gifted pianist. He is also on the football team, and comes out to his best friend Brad, the quarterback, who tells him that it doesn't make any difference. When the word gets out that Alex is gay, both Brad and Alex face problems with their homophobic coach and teammates. In the end, they both defy the bigotry and remain best friends. Adapted from the novel Counterplay. |
| 1986 | Welcome Home, Bobby | CBS | Bobby Cavalero | Timothy Williams | Bobby is a 16-year-old gay high school student who is arrested during a drug raid while in the company of Mark, an older gay man. After being released from jail, he struggles with rejection and bullying from his school friends and his father when his sexuality becomes known. Bobby finds a friend and support from Mr. Geffin, a gay teacher. |
| 1986 | Welcome Home, Bobby | CBS | Mark Reed | Stephen James | Bobby is a 16-year-old gay high school student who is arrested during a drug raid while in the company of Mark, an older gay man. After being released from jail, he struggles with rejection and bullying from his school friends and his father when his sexuality becomes known. Bobby finds a friend and support from Mr. Geffin, a gay teacher. |
| 1986 | Welcome Home, Bobby | CBS | Mr. Geffin | John Karlen | Bobby is a 16-year-old gay high school student who is arrested during a drug raid while in the company of Mark, an older gay man. After being released from jail, he struggles with rejection and bullying from his school friends and his father when his sexuality becomes known. Bobby finds a friend and support from Mr. Geffin, a gay teacher. |
| 1987 | Two of Us | BBC | Matthew | Jason Rush | Matthew is gay and has a sexual relationship with Phil. In the end, Phil and Matthew decide to run off together to the coastal resort of Seaford on the Sussex coast. In the hostile atmosphere of Section 28, a nervous BBC first avoids showing Two of Us (part of BBC Schools TV series) at all, then does so, but only at 23.30. |
| 1987 | Two of Us | BBC | Phil | Lee Whitlock | Matthew is gay and has a sexual relationship with Phil. In the end, Phil and Matthew decide to run off together to the coastal resort of Seaford on the Sussex coast. In the hostile atmosphere of Section 28, a nervous BBC first avoids showing Two of Us (part of BBC Schools TV series) at all, then does so, but only at 23.30. |
| 1988 | Liberace: Behind the Music | CBS | Liberace | Victor Garber | One of two biopics released in 1988 depicting the performer's life. |
| 1988 | Liberace | ABC | Liberace | Andrew Robinson | One of two biopics released in 1988 depicting the performer's life. |
| 1988 | Tidy Endings | HBO | Arthur | Harvey Fierstein | Arthur, whose companion dies of A.I.D.S., confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath of the death. |

## 1990s
### 1990–1994

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1990 | Andre's Mother | PBS | Cal Porter | Richard Thomas | Cal was Andre's lover. He and Andre's mother reconcile at Andre's memorial service. | |
| 1990 | Rock Hudson | ABC | Rock Hudson | Thomas Ian Griffith | The film depicts the life of the closeted gay film star. | |
| 1991 | 102 Boulevard Haussmann | BBC | Marcel Proust | Alan Bates | Set in 1916 during World War I, Proust lives a nocturnal, closeted life in Paris, obsessed with his writing and looked after by his devoted housekeeper. On a rare visit to a concert, he becomes fascinated by the music of a string quartet, which includes a young war veteran viola player whom he befriends. He invites the musicians to play in his apartment, where they perform César Franck's Quartet in D. Proust invites the young musician on numerous occasions to play for him, but he is unaware of the true nature of Proust's feelings. | |
| 1991 | The Greening of Ian Elliot | CBC | Ian Elliot | Anthony Bekenn | Ian is gay, and a newly ordained minister from Toronto assigned to a small Saskatchewan community. The residents are opposed to a dam that will destroy their river valley. He joins the opposition, but the residents also question the ordination of a gay minister to the church. | |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | BBC PBS | Philip Benjamin | Angus MacFadyen | Philip is gay and works in publishing. He decides to come out to his parents. British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt. Owen is Philip's dad and secretly gay. He makes clandestine visits to gay bars and gay adult cinemas. Elliot is gay and Philip's boyfriend. He breaks up with him and moves to Paris. Geoffrey and Derek are the gay couple who raised Elliot. Robin is a gay middle-aged man who hooks up with Owen in a hotel. | |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | BBC PBS | Owen Benjamin | Brian Cox | Philip is gay and works in publishing. He decides to come out to his parents. British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt. Owen is Philip's dad and secretly gay. He makes clandestine visits to gay bars and gay adult cinemas. Elliot is gay and Philip's boyfriend. He breaks up with him and moves to Paris. Geoffrey and Derek are the gay couple who raised Elliot. Robin is a gay middle-aged man who hooks up with Owen in a hotel. | |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | BBC PBS | Elliot Abrahams | Corey Parker | Philip is gay and works in publishing. He decides to come out to his parents. British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt. Owen is Philip's dad and secretly gay. He makes clandestine visits to gay bars and gay adult cinemas. Elliot is gay and Philip's boyfriend. He breaks up with him and moves to Paris. Geoffrey and Derek are the gay couple who raised Elliot. Robin is a gay middle-aged man who hooks up with Owen in a hotel. | |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | BBC PBS | Geoffrey Lane | René Auberjonois | Philip is gay and works in publishing. He decides to come out to his parents. British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt. Owen is Philip's dad and secretly gay. He makes clandestine visits to gay bars and gay adult cinemas. Elliot is gay and Philip's boyfriend. He breaks up with him and moves to Paris. Geoffrey and Derek are the gay couple who raised Elliot. Robin is a gay middle-aged man who hooks up with Owen in a hotel. | |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | BBC PBS | Derek Moulthorpe | John Schlesinger | Philip is gay and works in publishing. He decides to come out to his parents. British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt. Owen is Philip's dad and secretly gay. He makes clandestine visits to gay bars and gay adult cinemas. Elliot is gay and Philip's boyfriend. He breaks up with him and moves to Paris. Geoffrey and Derek are the gay couple who raised Elliot. Robin is a gay middle-aged man who hooks up with Owen in a hotel. | |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | BBC PBS | Robin Bradley | Ben Daniels | Philip is gay and works in publishing. He decides to come out to his parents. British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt. Owen is Philip's dad and secretly gay. He makes clandestine visits to gay bars and gay adult cinemas. Elliot is gay and Philip's boyfriend. He breaks up with him and moves to Paris. Geoffrey and Derek are the gay couple who raised Elliot. Robin is a gay middle-aged man who hooks up with Owen in a hotel. | |
| 1991 | Our Sons | ABC | Donald Barnes | Željko Ivanek | Donald is a young gay man dying of AIDS. His lover, James, asks his mother to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas and tell Donald's mother, who has been estranged from her son for years. Inspired by Micki Dickoff's 1987 documentary, Too Little, Too Late. | |
| 1991 | Our Sons | ABC | James Grant | Hugh Grant | Donald is a young gay man dying of AIDS. His lover, James, asks his mother to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas and tell Donald's mother, who has been estranged from her son for years. Inspired by Micki Dickoff's 1987 documentary, Too Little, Too Late. | |
| 1991 | A Question of Attribution | PBS | Anthony Blunt | James Fox | The film focuses on the British art expert and former Soviet agent. | |
| 1992 | Citizen Cohn | HBO | Roy Cohn | James Woods | Biopic about Cohn, a closeted gay man, who was Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel and played a significant role in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings. Cohn died from AIDS in 1986. | |
| 1992 | Doing Time on Maple Drive | Fox | Matt Carter | William McNamara | Matt is secretly gay and engaged to a woman. After breaking off the engagement, he comes out to his family. Kyle has been his secret lover for the last three years. | |
| 1992 | Doing Time on Maple Drive | Fox | Kyle | Bennett Cale | Matt is secretly gay and engaged to a woman. After breaking off the engagement, he comes out to his family. Kyle has been his secret lover for the last three years. | |
| 1992 | Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story | CBS | Aileen Wuornos | Jean Smart | The film depicts the story of the lesbian street prostitute who was executed for the murders of some of her johns. | |
| 1992 | Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story | ABC | Peter | Peter Spears | Peter, who is gay and also dying of AIDS, is a friend of Alison Gertz. | |
| 1992 | Tru | PBS | Truman Capote | Robert Morse | Two days in the life of Capote in 1975 during the time of publication in Esquire magazine of chapters from his novel-in-progress Answered Prayers. (The controversial novel was published posthumously.) | |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | HBO | Don Francis | Matthew Modine | In 1981, American epidemiologist Francis learns of an increased death rate among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to investigate the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Bill is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco. Kico is a gay San Francisco artist and Bill's lover. Gaëtan is a gay Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as Patient Zero in a study on transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. Eddie is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. He threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down. The Choreographer is an unnamed gay choreographer who is dying from the disease. Brandy is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease. | [72][73][74] [75][76][77] [78] |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | HBO | Bill Kraus | Ian McKellen | In 1981, American epidemiologist Francis learns of an increased death rate among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to investigate the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Bill is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco. Kico is a gay San Francisco artist and Bill's lover. Gaëtan is a gay Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as Patient Zero in a study on transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. Eddie is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. He threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down. The Choreographer is an unnamed gay choreographer who is dying from the disease. Brandy is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease. | [72][73][74] [75][76][77] [78] |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | HBO | Kico Govantes | B. D. Wong | In 1981, American epidemiologist Francis learns of an increased death rate among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to investigate the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Bill is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco. Kico is a gay San Francisco artist and Bill's lover. Gaëtan is a gay Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as Patient Zero in a study on transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. Eddie is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. He threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down. The Choreographer is an unnamed gay choreographer who is dying from the disease. Brandy is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease. | [72][73][74] [75][76][77] [78] |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | HBO | Gaëtan Dugas | Jeffrey Nordling | In 1981, American epidemiologist Francis learns of an increased death rate among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to investigate the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Bill is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco. Kico is a gay San Francisco artist and Bill's lover. Gaëtan is a gay Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as Patient Zero in a study on transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. Eddie is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. He threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down. The Choreographer is an unnamed gay choreographer who is dying from the disease. Brandy is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease. | [72][73][74] [75][76][77] [78] |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | HBO | Eddie Papasano | Phil Collins | In 1981, American epidemiologist Francis learns of an increased death rate among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to investigate the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Bill is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco. Kico is a gay San Francisco artist and Bill's lover. Gaëtan is a gay Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as Patient Zero in a study on transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. Eddie is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. He threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down. The Choreographer is an unnamed gay choreographer who is dying from the disease. Brandy is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease. | [72][73][74] [75][76][77] [78] |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | HBO | The Choreographer | Richard Gere | In 1981, American epidemiologist Francis learns of an increased death rate among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to investigate the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Bill is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco. Kico is a gay San Francisco artist and Bill's lover. Gaëtan is a gay Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as Patient Zero in a study on transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. Eddie is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. He threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down. The Choreographer is an unnamed gay choreographer who is dying from the disease. Brandy is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease. | [72][73][74] [75][76][77] [78] |
| 1993 | And the Band Played On | HBO | Brandy Alexander | Stephen Spinella | In 1981, American epidemiologist Francis learns of an increased death rate among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to investigate the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Bill is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. He was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco. Kico is a gay San Francisco artist and Bill's lover. Gaëtan is a gay Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as Patient Zero in a study on transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections. Eddie is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. He threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down. The Choreographer is an unnamed gay choreographer who is dying from the disease. Brandy is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease. | [72][73][74] [75][76][77] [78] |
| 1993 | Chantilly Lace | Showtime | Elizabeth | Ally Sheedy | Elizabeth is a closeted lesbian in love with Anne. | |
| 1994 | Roommates | NBC | Bill Thomas | Eric Stoltz | Bill is gay and has to share an apartment in a Seattle AIDS hospice with a homophobic roommate who contracted the disease through a blood transfusion. | |
| 1994 | X-Rated | CBC | Nathan Jones | Billy Merasty | Nathan is a gay Native North American ex-bicycle courier. He also appeared in the TV series that was renamed for the CBC drama series Liberty Street. | |

### 1995–1999

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 1995 | The Price of Love | Fox | Bret | Peter Facinelli | 16-year-old Bret is thrown out of his house. He runs away to Los Angeles, where he meets a hustler named Beau and becomes a hustler himself. Beau is gay, but Bret is gay-for-pay. All Bret wants is a normal and stable life, so he turns himself over to Child Protective Services and becomes a ward of the state. | |
| 1995 | The Price of Love | Fox | Beau | Jay R. Ferguson | 16-year-old Bret is thrown out of his house. He runs away to Los Angeles, where he meets a hustler named Beau and becomes a hustler himself. Beau is gay, but Bret is gay-for-pay. All Bret wants is a normal and stable life, so he turns himself over to Child Protective Services and becomes a ward of the state. | |
| 1995 | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | NBC | Margarethe Cammermeyer | Glenn Close | Cammermeyer served in the United States Army for 26 years as a military nurse. When she admitted she was a lesbian during a security clearance interview, she was involuntary discharged. Margarethe then sued the Department of Defense in civil court. A U.S. District judge rescinded her removal, ruling that the military's policy on gays was unconstitutional and based only on prejudice. She was reinstated at her former rank, and served another 7 years before retiring. Diane is an artist and her life partner. Based on a true story. | |
| 1995 | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | NBC | Diane | Judy Davis | Cammermeyer served in the United States Army for 26 years as a military nurse. When she admitted she was a lesbian during a security clearance interview, she was involuntary discharged. Margarethe then sued the Department of Defense in civil court. A U.S. District judge rescinded her removal, ruling that the military's policy on gays was unconstitutional and based only on prejudice. She was reinstated at her former rank, and served another 7 years before retiring. Diane is an artist and her life partner. Based on a true story. | |
| 1995 | A Village Affair | ITV | Clodagh Unwin | Kerry Fox | Alice moves to the village of Pitcombe with her husband and their two daughters. There she meets Clodagh, a lesbian, and finds herself romantically and sexually attracted to her. The two have an affair. Based on the 1989 novel of the same name. | |
| 1995 | A Village Affair | ITV | Alice Jordan | Sophie Ward | Alice moves to the village of Pitcombe with her husband and their two daughters. There she meets Clodagh, a lesbian, and finds herself romantically and sexually attracted to her. The two have an affair. Based on the 1989 novel of the same name. | |
| 1996 | Bastard Out of Carolina | Showtime | Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright | Jena Malone | Ruth is physically and sexually abused on a regular basis by her stepfather. Aunt Raylene, who is a lesbian, finds whip marks on Ruth's legs and has the other men in the family beat the stepfather unconscious for what he did to her. In the end, Ruth's mother abandons her and stays with her abusive husband, while Ruth goes to live with her Aunt Raylene. The film is a semi-autobiographical story based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Dorothy Allison. | |
| 1996 | Bastard Out of Carolina | Showtime | Aunt Raylene | Diana Scarwid | Ruth is physically and sexually abused on a regular basis by her stepfather. Aunt Raylene, who is a lesbian, finds whip marks on Ruth's legs and has the other men in the family beat the stepfather unconscious for what he did to her. In the end, Ruth's mother abandons her and stays with her abusive husband, while Ruth goes to live with her Aunt Raylene. The film is a semi-autobiographical story based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Dorothy Allison. | |
| 1996 | Breaking the Code | BBC | Alan Turing | Derek Jacobi | Based on the true story of Turing, a homosexual at a time when it was illegal in Britain. He was a mathematician who helped crack the Enigma code used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Considered the father of artificial intelligence, Turing was also one of the key contributors to the development of the digital computer. | |
| 1996 | Chasing the Dragon | Lifetime | Louis | Peter Frechette | Luke is the best friend of Gwen, who is addicted to heroin. | |
| 1996 | Losing Chase | Showtime | Chase Phillips | Helen Mirren | Chase is in an unhappy marriage. After a nervous breakdown, Elizabeth is hired to assist her. A friendship grows between them. Chase eventually confesses to Elizabeth that she is in love with her and kisses her, but Elizabeth cannot reciprocate the same feelings. Afterwards, Chase leaves her husband. The film was also released in theaters. | |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary | ABC | Jody Ann Shaffell | Valerie Bertinelli | Once Jody Ann and Maggie become lovers, Jody Ann's homophobic parents file for custody of Jody Ann's son. It is a true story adaptation of the Bottoms v. Bottoms family custody battle. Bertinelli had previously learned of the Bottoms case years earlier when she appeared on the same edition of Larry King Live with Sharon Bottoms. Bottoms was appearing with her lawyer and argued her case against a Christian leader. Instead of concentrating on what she was intending to promote, Bertinelli became engaged in the previous debate and criticized the views of the religious representative. | |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary | ABC | Maggie Fergus | Colleen Flynn | Once Jody Ann and Maggie become lovers, Jody Ann's homophobic parents file for custody of Jody Ann's son. It is a true story adaptation of the Bottoms v. Bottoms family custody battle. Bertinelli had previously learned of the Bottoms case years earlier when she appeared on the same edition of Larry King Live with Sharon Bottoms. Bottoms was appearing with her lawyer and argued her case against a Christian leader. Instead of concentrating on what she was intending to promote, Bertinelli became engaged in the previous debate and criticized the views of the religious representative. | |
| 1997 | Any Mother's Son | Lifetime | Allen R. Schindler, Jr. | Paul Popowich | Based on the true hate crime, the murder of Allen R. Schindler Jr. Schindler was gay and in the Navy. He was stomped to death in a public restroom in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan. The medical examiner said his injuries were similar to what might be sustained in a high-speed car crash or a low-speed aircraft accident. Schindler's mother Dorothy Hajdys became a gay rights activist after his murder. | |
| 1997 | Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story | USA | Greg Louganis | Mario Lopez | The movie is based on the true story of gay diver Louganis, who won two gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Tom was his lover, who hit him, cheated him out of money, and later died of AIDS. Adapted from the 1996 book Breaking the Surface. | |
| 1997 | Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story | USA | Tom Barrett | Jeffrey Meek | The movie is based on the true story of gay diver Louganis, who won two gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Tom was his lover, who hit him, cheated him out of money, and later died of AIDS. Adapted from the 1996 book Breaking the Surface. | |
| 1997 | In the Gloaming | HBO | Danny | Robert Sean Leonard | Danny is gay and dying of AIDS. He returns to his parents' home in the New York suburbs to spend his final days. His father finds it difficult to accept his son's sexuality, his sister avoids the issue, and his mother forges a deeper and more honest relationship with her dying son. Based on the short story by Alice Elliott Dark. | |
| 1997 | The Investigator | Channel 4 | Sgt. Caroline Meagher | Helen Baxendale | True story of staff sergeant Meagher, who joined the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police and was charged with rooting out homosexual females in the ranks, but was herself coming to terms with her own lesbian orientation. Meagher was investigated and court-martialed. The real Caroline Meagher appears at the end of the film. | [101][102] [103][104] |
| 1997 | The Twilight of the Golds | Showtime | David Gold | Brendan Fraser | The film deals with the issue of fictional genetic testing, and asks the question: if testing could reveal the sexual orientation of your unborn child, and you knew he or she would be gay, would you abort? David, who has never been fully accepted by his conservative family, is gay and the brother of Suzanne, who undergoes the testing, discovers her unborn son is destined to be gay, and considers abortion, much to the alarm of David. Based on the play of the same title. | |
| 1998 | Blind Faith | Showtime | Charles Williams Jr. | Garland Whitt | In 1957, Charles, a young gay black man, kills a young white man. The white man, one of seven white men, murdered his boyfriend David during a hate crime. Charles is arrested, charged, and put on trial, because he confessed. However, during the trial the circumstances of how it really happened are not revealed due to his homophobic father, a police officer who does not want his fellow white officers to find out his son is gay. In the end, Charlie sits on death row, awaiting the electric chair. Having lost appeal after appeal, he hangs himself to make his father proud. | |
| 1998 | Blind Faith | Showtime | David Mercer | Joel Gordon | In 1957, Charles, a young gay black man, kills a young white man. The white man, one of seven white men, murdered his boyfriend David during a hate crime. Charles is arrested, charged, and put on trial, because he confessed. However, during the trial the circumstances of how it really happened are not revealed due to his homophobic father, a police officer who does not want his fellow white officers to find out his son is gay. In the end, Charlie sits on death row, awaiting the electric chair. Having lost appeal after appeal, he hangs himself to make his father proud. | |
| 1998 | Change Of Heart | Lifetime | Dr. Jim Marshall | John Terry | Jim leaves his wife for another man. | |
| 1998 | Final Justice | Lifetime | George Saticoy | Duffy Epstein | George is gay and is murdered by his business partner when he discovers him committing arson on the business they co-own. His sister kidnaps the lawyer who gets the murderer acquitted. | |
| 1998 | Gia | HBO | Gia Carangi | Angelina Jolie | Biopic about supermodel Carangi, who was lesbian and a heroin addict . She died from an AIDS-related illness in 1986. The character of Linda, whom Gia was in love with, is an amalgam of a couple of different women. | |
| 1998 | Gia | HBO | Linda | Elizabeth Mitchell | Biopic about supermodel Carangi, who was lesbian and a heroin addict . She died from an AIDS-related illness in 1986. The character of Linda, whom Gia was in love with, is an amalgam of a couple of different women. | |
| 1998 | Labor of Love | Lifetime | Mickey Wister | David Marshall Grant | Mickey is single and gay, and always wanted a child. His best friend Annie Pines is single and always wanted a child. So, they figure, why not have a baby together? | |
| 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | BBC | Francis Bacon | Derek Jacobi | The movie is based on the real life of the British artist. Bacon had a relationship with George, a small-time thief. Craig's performance was well received by critics, acknowledging it as his breakthrough role. | |
| 1998 | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | BBC | George Dyer | Daniel Craig | The movie is based on the real life of the British artist. Bacon had a relationship with George, a small-time thief. Craig's performance was well received by critics, acknowledging it as his breakthrough role. | |
| 1999 | Execution of Justice | Showtime | Harvey Milk | Peter Coyote | The true story of the assassination of San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Milk was openly gay. Adaptation of the stage play of the same name. | |

## 2000s
### 2000–2004

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Dorothy Nelson | Brittany Murphy | An anthology focusing on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townsfolk. The film features three different stories written by gay and lesbian playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein: A Friend of Dorothy's: Set in the 1950s, Dorothy joins the Navy, where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy, who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, Dorothy is busted, and she receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians. Mr. Roberts: Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Gil is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live-in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become "a man", but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Gil is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college. Andy and Amos: Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father and the townsfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled. |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Billy | Jason Priestley | An anthology focusing on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townsfolk. The film features three different stories written by gay and lesbian playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein: A Friend of Dorothy's: Set in the 1950s, Dorothy joins the Navy, where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy, who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, Dorothy is busted, and she receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians. Mr. Roberts: Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Gil is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live-in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become "a man", but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Gil is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college. Andy and Amos: Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father and the townsfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled. |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Toby Anderson | Jonathan Taylor Thomas | An anthology focusing on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townsfolk. The film features three different stories written by gay and lesbian playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein: A Friend of Dorothy's: Set in the 1950s, Dorothy joins the Navy, where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy, who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, Dorothy is busted, and she receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians. Mr. Roberts: Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Gil is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live-in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become "a man", but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Gil is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college. Andy and Amos: Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father and the townsfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled. |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Gil Roberts | Steven Weber | An anthology focusing on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townsfolk. The film features three different stories written by gay and lesbian playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein: A Friend of Dorothy's: Set in the 1950s, Dorothy joins the Navy, where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy, who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, Dorothy is busted, and she receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians. Mr. Roberts: Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Gil is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live-in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become "a man", but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Gil is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college. Andy and Amos: Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father and the townsfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled. |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Gus | Scott McCord | An anthology focusing on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townsfolk. The film features three different stories written by gay and lesbian playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein: A Friend of Dorothy's: Set in the 1950s, Dorothy joins the Navy, where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy, who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, Dorothy is busted, and she receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians. Mr. Roberts: Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Gil is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live-in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become "a man", but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Gil is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college. Andy and Amos: Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father and the townsfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled. |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Andy | Andrew Airlie | An anthology focusing on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townsfolk. The film features three different stories written by gay and lesbian playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein: A Friend of Dorothy's: Set in the 1950s, Dorothy joins the Navy, where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy, who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, Dorothy is busted, and she receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians. Mr. Roberts: Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Gil is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live-in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become "a man", but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Gil is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college. Andy and Amos: Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father and the townsfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled. |
| 2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Amos | James LeGros | An anthology focusing on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townsfolk. The film features three different stories written by gay and lesbian playwrights Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein: A Friend of Dorothy's: Set in the 1950s, Dorothy joins the Navy, where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy, who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, Dorothy is busted, and she receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians. Mr. Roberts: Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Gil is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live-in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become "a man", but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Gil is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college. Andy and Amos: Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father and the townsfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled. |
| 2000 | Holiday Heart | Showtime | Holiday Heart | Ving Rhames | Holiday is a gay African American drag queen at a nightclub in Chicago. After his boyfriend dies, he befriends a down-on-her-luck, drug-addicted single mother and her young daughter. He offers them a stable home and becomes a much-needed father figure for the daughter. Eventually the mother is run over and killed by a former boyfriend/drug dealer, and the daughter ends up living with Holiday. |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | HBO | Edith Tree | Vanessa Redgrave | Three stories dealing with lesbian couples, in three different time periods, with all the stories set in the same house: 1961: Edith and Abby are an elderly couple living in the house. Abby suffers a stroke, and Edith asks to see her at the hospital, but is denied because she is not a family member. Abby dies alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her afterwards. The house is in Abby's name, and Edith legally owns no part of it. Abby's nephew, her only living relative, decides to sell the house, and Edith has to move out. 1972: Linda is a young student who now shares the house with her three lesbian friends. Amy is a young butch lesbian who meets Linda in a bar. Linda's friends don't like Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. The two eventually sleep together and have a relationship. 2000: The house is now inhabited by Fran and Kal, a couple hoping to have a baby together. They plan to get a sperm donation from a gay couple, but the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of the baby's life, so Fran and Kal back out. They eventually settle on an anonymous donor, and after three attempts to get pregnant, they are successful when Fran is revealed to be pregnant. |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | HBO | Abby Hedley | Marian Seldes | Three stories dealing with lesbian couples, in three different time periods, with all the stories set in the same house: 1961: Edith and Abby are an elderly couple living in the house. Abby suffers a stroke, and Edith asks to see her at the hospital, but is denied because she is not a family member. Abby dies alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her afterwards. The house is in Abby's name, and Edith legally owns no part of it. Abby's nephew, her only living relative, decides to sell the house, and Edith has to move out. 1972: Linda is a young student who now shares the house with her three lesbian friends. Amy is a young butch lesbian who meets Linda in a bar. Linda's friends don't like Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. The two eventually sleep together and have a relationship. 2000: The house is now inhabited by Fran and Kal, a couple hoping to have a baby together. They plan to get a sperm donation from a gay couple, but the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of the baby's life, so Fran and Kal back out. They eventually settle on an anonymous donor, and after three attempts to get pregnant, they are successful when Fran is revealed to be pregnant. |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | HBO | Linda | Michelle Williams | Three stories dealing with lesbian couples, in three different time periods, with all the stories set in the same house: 1961: Edith and Abby are an elderly couple living in the house. Abby suffers a stroke, and Edith asks to see her at the hospital, but is denied because she is not a family member. Abby dies alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her afterwards. The house is in Abby's name, and Edith legally owns no part of it. Abby's nephew, her only living relative, decides to sell the house, and Edith has to move out. 1972: Linda is a young student who now shares the house with her three lesbian friends. Amy is a young butch lesbian who meets Linda in a bar. Linda's friends don't like Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. The two eventually sleep together and have a relationship. 2000: The house is now inhabited by Fran and Kal, a couple hoping to have a baby together. They plan to get a sperm donation from a gay couple, but the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of the baby's life, so Fran and Kal back out. They eventually settle on an anonymous donor, and after three attempts to get pregnant, they are successful when Fran is revealed to be pregnant. |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | HBO | Amy | Chloë Sevigny | Three stories dealing with lesbian couples, in three different time periods, with all the stories set in the same house: 1961: Edith and Abby are an elderly couple living in the house. Abby suffers a stroke, and Edith asks to see her at the hospital, but is denied because she is not a family member. Abby dies alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her afterwards. The house is in Abby's name, and Edith legally owns no part of it. Abby's nephew, her only living relative, decides to sell the house, and Edith has to move out. 1972: Linda is a young student who now shares the house with her three lesbian friends. Amy is a young butch lesbian who meets Linda in a bar. Linda's friends don't like Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. The two eventually sleep together and have a relationship. 2000: The house is now inhabited by Fran and Kal, a couple hoping to have a baby together. They plan to get a sperm donation from a gay couple, but the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of the baby's life, so Fran and Kal back out. They eventually settle on an anonymous donor, and after three attempts to get pregnant, they are successful when Fran is revealed to be pregnant. |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | HBO | Fran | Sharon Stone | Three stories dealing with lesbian couples, in three different time periods, with all the stories set in the same house: 1961: Edith and Abby are an elderly couple living in the house. Abby suffers a stroke, and Edith asks to see her at the hospital, but is denied because she is not a family member. Abby dies alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her afterwards. The house is in Abby's name, and Edith legally owns no part of it. Abby's nephew, her only living relative, decides to sell the house, and Edith has to move out. 1972: Linda is a young student who now shares the house with her three lesbian friends. Amy is a young butch lesbian who meets Linda in a bar. Linda's friends don't like Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. The two eventually sleep together and have a relationship. 2000: The house is now inhabited by Fran and Kal, a couple hoping to have a baby together. They plan to get a sperm donation from a gay couple, but the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of the baby's life, so Fran and Kal back out. They eventually settle on an anonymous donor, and after three attempts to get pregnant, they are successful when Fran is revealed to be pregnant. |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | HBO | Kal | Ellen DeGeneres | Three stories dealing with lesbian couples, in three different time periods, with all the stories set in the same house: 1961: Edith and Abby are an elderly couple living in the house. Abby suffers a stroke, and Edith asks to see her at the hospital, but is denied because she is not a family member. Abby dies alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her afterwards. The house is in Abby's name, and Edith legally owns no part of it. Abby's nephew, her only living relative, decides to sell the house, and Edith has to move out. 1972: Linda is a young student who now shares the house with her three lesbian friends. Amy is a young butch lesbian who meets Linda in a bar. Linda's friends don't like Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. The two eventually sleep together and have a relationship. 2000: The house is now inhabited by Fran and Kal, a couple hoping to have a baby together. They plan to get a sperm donation from a gay couple, but the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of the baby's life, so Fran and Kal back out. They eventually settle on an anonymous donor, and after three attempts to get pregnant, they are successful when Fran is revealed to be pregnant. |
| 2000 | The Truth About Jane | Lifetime | Jane | Ellen Muth | Jane is questioning her sexuality when the new girl Taylor arrives at her school. The two become friends and eventually kiss, and Jane finally realizes she is a lesbian. They end up having a sexual relationship, but later break up. Meanwhile, Jane's mother disapproves and wants Jane to get help, but in the end, after talking with Jane's guidance counselor and Jimmy, she reluctantly comes around and accepts her daughter's orientation. Lynn is the guidance counselor at school and a lesbian. She comes out to Jane to help her better understand her own identity. She talks with Jane's mother and helps her to understand and accept her daughter. Jimmy is a gay friend of the mother, who helps her accept her daughter for who she is. |
| 2000 | The Truth About Jane | Lifetime | Taylor | Alicia Lagano | Jane is questioning her sexuality when the new girl Taylor arrives at her school. The two become friends and eventually kiss, and Jane finally realizes she is a lesbian. They end up having a sexual relationship, but later break up. Meanwhile, Jane's mother disapproves and wants Jane to get help, but in the end, after talking with Jane's guidance counselor and Jimmy, she reluctantly comes around and accepts her daughter's orientation. Lynn is the guidance counselor at school and a lesbian. She comes out to Jane to help her better understand her own identity. She talks with Jane's mother and helps her to understand and accept her daughter. Jimmy is a gay friend of the mother, who helps her accept her daughter for who she is. |
| 2000 | The Truth About Jane | Lifetime | Lynn Walcott | Kelly Rowan | Jane is questioning her sexuality when the new girl Taylor arrives at her school. The two become friends and eventually kiss, and Jane finally realizes she is a lesbian. They end up having a sexual relationship, but later break up. Meanwhile, Jane's mother disapproves and wants Jane to get help, but in the end, after talking with Jane's guidance counselor and Jimmy, she reluctantly comes around and accepts her daughter's orientation. Lynn is the guidance counselor at school and a lesbian. She comes out to Jane to help her better understand her own identity. She talks with Jane's mother and helps her to understand and accept her daughter. Jimmy is a gay friend of the mother, who helps her accept her daughter for who she is. |
| 2000 | The Truth About Jane | Lifetime | Jimmy | RuPaul | Jane is questioning her sexuality when the new girl Taylor arrives at her school. The two become friends and eventually kiss, and Jane finally realizes she is a lesbian. They end up having a sexual relationship, but later break up. Meanwhile, Jane's mother disapproves and wants Jane to get help, but in the end, after talking with Jane's guidance counselor and Jimmy, she reluctantly comes around and accepts her daughter's orientation. Lynn is the guidance counselor at school and a lesbian. She comes out to Jane to help her better understand her own identity. She talks with Jane's mother and helps her to understand and accept her daughter. Jimmy is a gay friend of the mother, who helps her accept her daughter for who she is. |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing | Showtime | Lauren Travis | Elle Macpherson | The film consists of four separate stories. In the first part, Lauren goes on a blind double date, rejects the man she is set up with, and instead falls for the other woman in the foursome, Casey. A romance blossoms between the pair, but Lauren has intimacy issues and is seeing a therapist. She is also scared of being identified as a lesbian, due to her homophobic best friend and law firm partner. |
| 2001 | A Girl Thing | Showtime | Casey Montgomery | Kate Capshaw | The film consists of four separate stories. In the first part, Lauren goes on a blind double date, rejects the man she is set up with, and instead falls for the other woman in the foursome, Casey. A romance blossoms between the pair, but Lauren has intimacy issues and is seeing a therapist. She is also scared of being identified as a lesbian, due to her homophobic best friend and law firm partner. |
| 2001 | A Glimpse of Hell | FX | Clay Hartwig | Dashiell Eaves | A fact-based story about how the U.S. Navy blamed a 1989 explosion aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on an alleged gay affair between sailors Hartwig and Truitt. The Navy's theory was that Clay sabotaged a gun turret to get revenge on Kendall, who allegedly had broken off a relationship. Forty-seven sailors were killed, either incinerated or blown to pieces. After the investigation was heavily criticized, the Navy re-opened the investigation and in 1991 announced that the Navy could not determine who or what had caused the tragedy. The Navy also apologized to Hartwig's family. The film is based on the book A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up. |
| 2001 | A Glimpse of Hell | FX | Kendall Truitt | Jamie Harrold | A fact-based story about how the U.S. Navy blamed a 1989 explosion aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on an alleged gay affair between sailors Hartwig and Truitt. The Navy's theory was that Clay sabotaged a gun turret to get revenge on Kendall, who allegedly had broken off a relationship. Forty-seven sailors were killed, either incinerated or blown to pieces. After the investigation was heavily criticized, the Navy re-opened the investigation and in 1991 announced that the Navy could not determine who or what had caused the tragedy. The Navy also apologized to Hartwig's family. The film is based on the book A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up. |
| 2001 | Anatomy of a Hate Crime | MTV | Matthew Shepard | Cy Carter | Based on a true crime; the murder of openly gay college student Shepard, who was brutally beaten to death by two men he met in a bar. Both men received consecutive life sentences for the murder. The film was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. |
| 2001 | What Makes a Family | Lifetime | Janine Neilssen | Brooke Shields | When Sandy dies, Janine must fight to keep the child Sandy bore through artificial insemination. The teleplay is based on the true story of Janine Ratcliffe, who in 1989 won custody of the daughter of her deceased lesbian partner, Joan Pearlman. |
| 2001 | What Makes a Family | Lifetime | Sandy Cataldi | Cherry Jones | When Sandy dies, Janine must fight to keep the child Sandy bore through artificial insemination. The teleplay is based on the true story of Janine Ratcliffe, who in 1989 won custody of the daughter of her deceased lesbian partner, Joan Pearlman. |
| 2002 | Bobbie's Girl | Showtime | Bailey Lewis | Bernadette Peters | Bailey and Roberta are a middle-aged lesbian couple who own and operate a bar in Ireland. When Roberta's brother and his wife are killed in a car accident their 10-year-old son, Roberta's nephew, comes to live with them. |
| 2002 | Bobbie's Girl | Showtime | Roberta "Bobbie" Langham | Rachel Ward | Bailey and Roberta are a middle-aged lesbian couple who own and operate a bar in Ireland. When Roberta's brother and his wife are killed in a car accident their 10-year-old son, Roberta's nephew, comes to live with them. |
| 2002 | The Laramie Project | HBO | Matthew Shepard | (No actor) | |
| 2002 | The Laramie Project | HBO | Cathy Connolly | Janeane Garofalo | |
| 2002 | The Matthew Shepard Story | Showtime | Matthew Shepard | Shane Meier | Based on the true story about the murder of openly gay college student Shepard who was brutally beaten to death by two men he met in a bar. Both men received consecutive life sentences for the murder. |
| 2002 | No Night Is Too Long | BBC Two | Tim Cornish | Lee Williams | Tim is bisexual and in his last year at college. Ivo is gay and a paleontology lecturer at the same college. The two meet and begin a relationship. They travel to Alaska on a cruise. When the cruise stops at an island, Tim and Ivo get into an argument, and Tim slams Ivo against the mountainside. Believing he is dead, Tim flees to Vancouver, where he has a sexual relationship with Thierry. A year later, Thierry shows up at Tim's house and wants money. In the end, Ivo is not dead, but Thierry kills him believing he is Tim, because Ivo is wearing Tim's coat. Based on the 1994 novel of the same name |
| 2002 | No Night Is Too Long | BBC Two | Ivo Steadman | Marc Warren | Tim is bisexual and in his last year at college. Ivo is gay and a paleontology lecturer at the same college. The two meet and begin a relationship. They travel to Alaska on a cruise. When the cruise stops at an island, Tim and Ivo get into an argument, and Tim slams Ivo against the mountainside. Believing he is dead, Tim flees to Vancouver, where he has a sexual relationship with Thierry. A year later, Thierry shows up at Tim's house and wants money. In the end, Ivo is not dead, but Thierry kills him believing he is Tim, because Ivo is wearing Tim's coat. Based on the 1994 novel of the same name |
| 2002 | No Night Is Too Long | BBC Two | Thierry Massin | Salvatore Antonio | Tim is bisexual and in his last year at college. Ivo is gay and a paleontology lecturer at the same college. The two meet and begin a relationship. They travel to Alaska on a cruise. When the cruise stops at an island, Tim and Ivo get into an argument, and Tim slams Ivo against the mountainside. Believing he is dead, Tim flees to Vancouver, where he has a sexual relationship with Thierry. A year later, Thierry shows up at Tim's house and wants money. In the end, Ivo is not dead, but Thierry kills him believing he is Tim, because Ivo is wearing Tim's coat. Based on the 1994 novel of the same name |
| 2003 | The Lion in Winter | Showtime | King Philip II | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Philip and Richard were once lovers. |
| 2003 | The Lion in Winter | Showtime | Richard the Lionheart | Andrew Howard | Philip and Richard were once lovers. |
| 2003 | Murad | Indus TV | Saima | Sohail Asghar | Murad (a.k.a. Eunuch's Motherhood) is a part of the Maa Aur Mamta TV series of films based on Mothers. |
| 2003 | Murad | Indus TV | Bobo | Qazi Wajid | Murad (a.k.a. Eunuch's Motherhood) is a part of the Maa Aur Mamta TV series of films based on Mothers. |
| 2003 | Murad | Indus TV | Naddo | Nabeel Zafar | Murad (a.k.a. Eunuch's Motherhood) is a part of the Maa Aur Mamta TV series of films based on Mothers. |
| 2003 | Normal | HBO | Roy/Ruth Applewood | Tom Wilkinson | After a 25-year marriage to Irma, Roy reveals to his family that he is trans woman and is now Ruth. When Ruth decides to have a sex change operation, her co-workers are shocked. Ruth's church rejects her and her son struggles with the humiliation of having a father who now goes by the name Ruth. |
| 2003 | Soldier's Girl | Showtime | Barry Winchell | Troy Garity | Based on the true story of the murder of Barry Winchell. Barry is gay and a private in the Army, while Calpernia is a performer at a transgender revue in Nashville, Tennessee. Barry's roommate brings him to the club where Calpernia performs, and Barry and Calpernia start dating. Barry is harassed and called names for dating Calpernia. During a Fourth of July weekend, Barry easily beats a fellow soldier in a fight, who Barry has called out as being a fraud. The soldier beats Barry to death in his sleep with a baseball bat after becoming enraged when Barry's roommate harassed him about being beaten by "a fucking faggot". (The soldier, Calvin Glover, was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.) |
| 2003 | Soldier's Girl | Showtime | Calpernia Addams | Lee Pace | Based on the true story of the murder of Barry Winchell. Barry is gay and a private in the Army, while Calpernia is a performer at a transgender revue in Nashville, Tennessee. Barry's roommate brings him to the club where Calpernia performs, and Barry and Calpernia start dating. Barry is harassed and called names for dating Calpernia. During a Fourth of July weekend, Barry easily beats a fellow soldier in a fight, who Barry has called out as being a fraud. The soldier beats Barry to death in his sleep with a baseball bat after becoming enraged when Barry's roommate harassed him about being beaten by "a fucking faggot". (The soldier, Calvin Glover, was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.) |
| 2003 | An Unexpected Love | Lifetime | Kate Mayer | Leslie Hope | Kate's tepid marriage has made both her and her husband unhappy for a long time, and she asks for a separation. After years as a housewife and mother, and with no work experience, she encounters difficulty in finding a job until Mac hires her as a receptionist in her real estate office. A friendship grows between them and Kate finds out that Mac is an out lesbian. As time passes, Kate develops an attraction to Mac, which is reciprocated, and they fall in love. |
| 2003 | An Unexpected Love | Lifetime | McNally 'Mac' Hays | Wendy Crewson | Kate's tepid marriage has made both her and her husband unhappy for a long time, and she asks for a separation. After years as a housewife and mother, and with no work experience, she encounters difficulty in finding a job until Mac hires her as a receptionist in her real estate office. A friendship grows between them and Kate finds out that Mac is an out lesbian. As time passes, Kate develops an attraction to Mac, which is reciprocated, and they fall in love. |
| 2004 | The Blackwater Lightship | CBS | Declan Breen | Keith McErlean | Declan is a gay man dying from AIDS. |
| 2004 | Jack | Showtime | Paul | Ron Silver | Paul comes out to his family after getting a divorce, and informs them he is now living with his boyfriend Bob. The film is told from the point of view of his15-year-old son and how it affects his life. After finding out that his friends at school also have families that aren't perfect, he comes to accept his dad for who he is. |
| 2004 | Jack | Showtime | Bob | Paul McGillion | Paul comes out to his family after getting a divorce, and informs them he is now living with his boyfriend Bob. The film is told from the point of view of his15-year-old son and how it affects his life. After finding out that his friends at school also have families that aren't perfect, he comes to accept his dad for who he is. |
| 2004 | Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story | CTV | Marc Hall | Aaron Ashmore | Based on a true story. Marc is an openly gay high school senior and attends St. Jude, a Catholic school. When the school asked students attending the prom to submit the names of the guests they intended to bring, he submitted the name of his boyfriend Jason. His request to attend prom with Jason was denied on the grounds that homosexuality is incompatible with Roman Catholic teaching. Marc then took the school board to court, where the court granted an interlocutory injunction ordering that he be allowed to attend the prom with Jason and also that the school not cancel the prom. Marc attended the prom with Jason. |
| 2004 | Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story | CTV | Jason | Mak Fyfe | Based on a true story. Marc is an openly gay high school senior and attends St. Jude, a Catholic school. When the school asked students attending the prom to submit the names of the guests they intended to bring, he submitted the name of his boyfriend Jason. His request to attend prom with Jason was denied on the grounds that homosexuality is incompatible with Roman Catholic teaching. Marc then took the school board to court, where the court granted an interlocutory injunction ordering that he be allowed to attend the prom with Jason and also that the school not cancel the prom. Marc attended the prom with Jason. |

### 2005–2009

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 2005 | Deadly Skies | here! | Donovan | Antonio Sabato, Jr. | Donovan and Mark are a gay couple recruited to help with a plan to stop a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. The film was released in the United States with gay content, while in other regions it was not. | |
| 2005 | Deadly Skies | here! | Mark | Michael Boisvert | Donovan and Mark are a gay couple recruited to help with a plan to stop a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. The film was released in the United States with gay content, while in other regions it was not. | |
| 2006 | Trapped! | here! | Samantha | Alexandra Paul | Samantha and Dana are a lesbian couple. Samantha and her daughter are kidnapped in a plot to uncover a woman hidden in the Witness Protection Program. Samantha is an Internet security expert, so the kidnappers want her to use her skills to help reveal the location of the woman. | [153][154][155] [156][157] |
| 2006 | Trapped! | here! | Dana | Michelle Wolff | Samantha and Dana are a lesbian couple. Samantha and her daughter are kidnapped in a plot to uncover a woman hidden in the Witness Protection Program. Samantha is an Internet security expert, so the kidnappers want her to use her skills to help reveal the location of the woman. | [153][154][155] [156][157] |
| 2006 | Wedding Wars | A&E | Shel Grandy | John Stamos | Shel is a gay wedding planner and planning his straight brother's wedding. But when his brother's boss, the state governor, makes a speech against same-sex marriage, Shel goes on strike for equal rights. His strike eventually spreads nationwide. Ted is his partner. | |
| 2006 | Wedding Wars | A&E | Ted Moore | Sean Maher | Shel is a gay wedding planner and planning his straight brother's wedding. But when his brother's boss, the state governor, makes a speech against same-sex marriage, Shel goes on strike for equal rights. His strike eventually spreads nationwide. Ted is his partner. | |
| 2006 | Totally Awesome | VH1 | Yamagashi | James Hong | The film parodies a number of 1980s movies, including the Karate Kid films. Yamagashi is gay and constantly naked in front of a boyishly handsome senior student at school, and coming on to him. | |
| 2006 | A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story | Lifetime | Gwen Araujo | J. D. Pardo | Based on the true story of the murder of Gwen Araujo. Gwen knew as early as seven-years-old that she was a girl, and came out as transgender at fourteen. She was killed by four men, two of whom she had been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering that she was transgender. | |
| 2006 | Surrender, Dorothy | CBS | Shawn Best | Chris Pine | Shawn is a gay man. | |
| 2007 | Battlestar Galactica: Razor | Sci Fi Channel | Helena Cain | Michelle Forbes | Helena and Gina are a lesbian couple. | |
| 2007 | Battlestar Galactica: Razor | Sci Fi Channel | Gina Inviere | Tricia Helfer | Helena and Gina are a lesbian couple. | |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Channel 4 | Robin | Rupert Graves | The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night: Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets, where he meets Julian. They try to hook up, but are interrupted. Robin leaves and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook-up in the toilets and has sex with him. 14-year-old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29-year-old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex. Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention of remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay-bashing incident in the park. | [164][165] [166][167] |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Channel 4 | Julian | James Wilby | The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night: Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets, where he meets Julian. They try to hook up, but are interrupted. Robin leaves and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook-up in the toilets and has sex with him. 14-year-old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29-year-old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex. Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention of remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay-bashing incident in the park. | [164][165] [166][167] |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Channel 4 | Theo | Luke Treadaway | The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night: Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets, where he meets Julian. They try to hook up, but are interrupted. Robin leaves and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook-up in the toilets and has sex with him. 14-year-old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29-year-old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex. Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention of remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay-bashing incident in the park. | [164][165] [166][167] |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Channel 4 | Tim | Joseph Mawle | The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night: Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets, where he meets Julian. They try to hook up, but are interrupted. Robin leaves and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook-up in the toilets and has sex with him. 14-year-old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29-year-old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex. Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention of remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay-bashing incident in the park. | [164][165] [166][167] |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Channel 4 | Will | Richard Lintern | The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night: Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets, where he meets Julian. They try to hook up, but are interrupted. Robin leaves and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook-up in the toilets and has sex with him. 14-year-old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29-year-old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex. Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention of remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay-bashing incident in the park. | [164][165] [166][167] |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Channel 4 | Gavin | Stuart Bunce | The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night: Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets, where he meets Julian. They try to hook up, but are interrupted. Robin leaves and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook-up in the toilets and has sex with him. 14-year-old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29-year-old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex. Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention of remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay-bashing incident in the park. | [164][165] [166][167] |
| 2007 | Clapham Junction | Channel 4 | Alfie | David Leon | The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night: Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets, where he meets Julian. They try to hook up, but are interrupted. Robin leaves and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook-up in the toilets and has sex with him. 14-year-old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29-year-old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex. Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention of remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay-bashing incident in the park. | [164][165] [166][167] |
| 2007 | Daphne | BBC | Daphne du Maurier | Geraldine Somerville | In a case of unrequited love, du Maurier attempts to pursue her friend Doubleday, and has a secret love affair with Lawrence. Based on the controversial chapters in Margaret Forster's 1993 authorized biography. | |
| 2007 | Daphne | BBC | Ellen Doubleday | Elizabeth McGovern | In a case of unrequited love, du Maurier attempts to pursue her friend Doubleday, and has a secret love affair with Lawrence. Based on the controversial chapters in Margaret Forster's 1993 authorized biography. | |
| 2007 | Daphne | BBC | Gertrude Lawrence | Janet McTeer | In a case of unrequited love, du Maurier attempts to pursue her friend Doubleday, and has a secret love affair with Lawrence. Based on the controversial chapters in Margaret Forster's 1993 authorized biography. | |
| 2008 | Ice Blues | here! | Donald Strachey | Chad Allen | Donald is a gay private investigator, and his husband Tim is a New York State Senate staffer. Tim asks Donald to uncover the source of an anonymous and generous donation of three million dollars in stolen money to a youth-counseling center that leads to a young man's death. Kenny is Strachey's gay assistant who's taking a course in private investigation. Adaptation of the novel Ice Blues by Richard Stevenson. | |
| 2008 | Ice Blues | here! | Timothy Callahan | Sebastian Spence | Donald is a gay private investigator, and his husband Tim is a New York State Senate staffer. Tim asks Donald to uncover the source of an anonymous and generous donation of three million dollars in stolen money to a youth-counseling center that leads to a young man's death. Kenny is Strachey's gay assistant who's taking a course in private investigation. Adaptation of the novel Ice Blues by Richard Stevenson. | |
| 2008 | Ice Blues | here! | Kenny Kwon | Nelson Wong | Donald is a gay private investigator, and his husband Tim is a New York State Senate staffer. Tim asks Donald to uncover the source of an anonymous and generous donation of three million dollars in stolen money to a youth-counseling center that leads to a young man's death. Kenny is Strachey's gay assistant who's taking a course in private investigation. Adaptation of the novel Ice Blues by Richard Stevenson. | |
| 2008 | Kiss Me Deadly | here! | Jacob Keane | Robert Gant | Jacob is a gay retired spy. He's now a photographer in Milan, Italy, and Paulo is his partner. When his former spy partner reappears after seventeen years with her memory erased and on the run from a pair of psychopathic assassins, he agrees to help her find out why. Kyra is a lesbian, and the mother of Jacob's child. | |
| 2008 | Kiss Me Deadly | here! | Paulo | Nathan Whitaker | Jacob is a gay retired spy. He's now a photographer in Milan, Italy, and Paulo is his partner. When his former spy partner reappears after seventeen years with her memory erased and on the run from a pair of psychopathic assassins, he agrees to help her find out why. Kyra is a lesbian, and the mother of Jacob's child. | |
| 2008 | Kiss Me Deadly | here! | Kyra | Katherine Kennard | Jacob is a gay retired spy. He's now a photographer in Milan, Italy, and Paulo is his partner. When his former spy partner reappears after seventeen years with her memory erased and on the run from a pair of psychopathic assassins, he agrees to help her find out why. Kyra is a lesbian, and the mother of Jacob's child. | |
| 2008 | Knight Rider | NBC | Carrie Ruvai | Sydney Tamiia Poitier | Carrie Ruvai is a bisexual FBI Special Agent. Pilot for the revival of the Knight Rider franchise. | |
| 2009 | Prayers for Bobby | Lifetime | Bobby Griffith | Ryan Kelley | Based on the true story of the life and legacy of Bobby Griffith, a gay teen who killed himself in 1983 due to his mother's homophobia. After his mother, a devout Christian, constantly berates and criticizes her son for being gay, Bobby free falls off a bridge on a highway into the path of an oncoming eighteen-wheeler truck, which kills him instantly. David is gay and was Bobby's boyfriend. Adapted from the book of the same name by Leroy F. Aarons. | |
| 2009 | Prayers for Bobby | Lifetime | David | Scott Bailey | Based on the true story of the life and legacy of Bobby Griffith, a gay teen who killed himself in 1983 due to his mother's homophobia. After his mother, a devout Christian, constantly berates and criticizes her son for being gay, Bobby free falls off a bridge on a highway into the path of an oncoming eighteen-wheeler truck, which kills him instantly. David is gay and was Bobby's boyfriend. Adapted from the book of the same name by Leroy F. Aarons. | |

## 2010s
### 2010–2014

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 2010 | The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs) | France 2 | Olivier | Maxime Berger | Olivier is a young gay schoolboy who has sexual relations with his Uncle Edouard and lets himself be seduced by Comte de Passavant, a rich and trendy writer who is also cynical and manipulative. Based on the 1925 novel The Counterfeiters by André Gide. | |
| 2010 | The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs) | France 2 | Uncle Edouard | Melvil Poupaud | Olivier is a young gay schoolboy who has sexual relations with his Uncle Edouard and lets himself be seduced by Comte de Passavant, a rich and trendy writer who is also cynical and manipulative. Based on the 1925 novel The Counterfeiters by André Gide. | |
| 2010 | The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-monnayeurs) | France 2 | Comte de Passavant | Patrick Mille | Olivier is a young gay schoolboy who has sexual relations with his Uncle Edouard and lets himself be seduced by Comte de Passavant, a rich and trendy writer who is also cynical and manipulative. Based on the 1925 novel The Counterfeiters by André Gide. | |
| 2010 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | BBC Two BBC HD | Anne Lister | Maxine Peake | Lister's first relationship is with Mariana, until she breaks it off to get married. Lister then meets Ann, another wealthy landowner, and settles down with her. Later, Mariana returns, saying she can leave her husband now, but Anne rejects her as she is already committed to Ann. Based on the deciphered diaries of Anne Lister, who kept diaries that chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships. The diaries contain more than four million words, and those concerning the intimate details of her romantic and sexual relationships were written in a code. The diaries were deciphered in the 1930s. | |
| 2010 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | BBC Two BBC HD | Mariana Belcombe | Anna Madeley | Lister's first relationship is with Mariana, until she breaks it off to get married. Lister then meets Ann, another wealthy landowner, and settles down with her. Later, Mariana returns, saying she can leave her husband now, but Anne rejects her as she is already committed to Ann. Based on the deciphered diaries of Anne Lister, who kept diaries that chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships. The diaries contain more than four million words, and those concerning the intimate details of her romantic and sexual relationships were written in a code. The diaries were deciphered in the 1930s. | |
| 2010 | The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister | BBC Two BBC HD | Ann Walker | Christine Bottomley | Lister's first relationship is with Mariana, until she breaks it off to get married. Lister then meets Ann, another wealthy landowner, and settles down with her. Later, Mariana returns, saying she can leave her husband now, but Anne rejects her as she is already committed to Ann. Based on the deciphered diaries of Anne Lister, who kept diaries that chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships. The diaries contain more than four million words, and those concerning the intimate details of her romantic and sexual relationships were written in a code. The diaries were deciphered in the 1930s. | |
| 2010 | Toast | BBC One | Nigel Slater | Freddie Highmore | Biographical film based on the life of the English cookery writer and journalist. | |
| 2010 | Worried About the Boy | BBC Two | Boy George | Douglas Booth | Biographical film based on the life of the English singer, who came out as gay in 1995. Jon is his lover. | |
| 2010 | Worried About the Boy | BBC Two | Jon Moss | Mathew Horne | Biographical film based on the life of the English singer, who came out as gay in 1995. Jon is his lover. | |
| 2011 | Christopher and His Kind | BBC Two | Christopher Isherwood | Matt Smith | The film is told in flash backs, and begins in 1931 as Isherwood prepares to leave England for Germany. Upon arrival, he takes up residence in a boarding house. Heinz is a street sweeper that Christopher meets and they fall in love. Auden is Christopher's gay friend who introduces him to a seedy gay club. Hamilton is gay, who Christopher meets on the train on his way to Berlin and recommends the boarding house. Based on Isherwood's memoir of the same name. | |
| 2011 | Christopher and His Kind | BBC Two | Heinz Neddermayer | Douglas Booth | The film is told in flash backs, and begins in 1931 as Isherwood prepares to leave England for Germany. Upon arrival, he takes up residence in a boarding house. Heinz is a street sweeper that Christopher meets and they fall in love. Auden is Christopher's gay friend who introduces him to a seedy gay club. Hamilton is gay, who Christopher meets on the train on his way to Berlin and recommends the boarding house. Based on Isherwood's memoir of the same name. | |
| 2011 | Christopher and His Kind | BBC Two | Wystan Auden | Pip Carter | The film is told in flash backs, and begins in 1931 as Isherwood prepares to leave England for Germany. Upon arrival, he takes up residence in a boarding house. Heinz is a street sweeper that Christopher meets and they fall in love. Auden is Christopher's gay friend who introduces him to a seedy gay club. Hamilton is gay, who Christopher meets on the train on his way to Berlin and recommends the boarding house. Based on Isherwood's memoir of the same name. | |
| 2011 | Christopher and His Kind | BBC Two | Gerald Hamilton | Toby Jones | The film is told in flash backs, and begins in 1931 as Isherwood prepares to leave England for Germany. Upon arrival, he takes up residence in a boarding house. Heinz is a street sweeper that Christopher meets and they fall in love. Auden is Christopher's gay friend who introduces him to a seedy gay club. Hamilton is gay, who Christopher meets on the train on his way to Berlin and recommends the boarding house. Based on Isherwood's memoir of the same name. | |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite | HBO | Lance Loud | Thomas Dekker | Based on the early reality television series An American Family. The film dramatizes the making of the series that originally aired on PBS. Lance was the oldest sibling of the family and was openly gay. He came out publicly during the series, making him the first person on American television to do so. He lived for a while in New York and resided at New York's Chelsea Hotel. He was a frequent visitor to gay bars and drag queen revues, and became best friends with Candy, a Warhol superstar and transgender icon; and Jackie, also a Warhol superstar, who performed as both a man and a woman throughout her career. Lance died of AIDS-related hepatitis in 2001. | |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite | HBO | Candy Darling | Willem Belli | Based on the early reality television series An American Family. The film dramatizes the making of the series that originally aired on PBS. Lance was the oldest sibling of the family and was openly gay. He came out publicly during the series, making him the first person on American television to do so. He lived for a while in New York and resided at New York's Chelsea Hotel. He was a frequent visitor to gay bars and drag queen revues, and became best friends with Candy, a Warhol superstar and transgender icon; and Jackie, also a Warhol superstar, who performed as both a man and a woman throughout her career. Lance died of AIDS-related hepatitis in 2001. | |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite | HBO | Jackie Curtis | Kyle Riabko | Based on the early reality television series An American Family. The film dramatizes the making of the series that originally aired on PBS. Lance was the oldest sibling of the family and was openly gay. He came out publicly during the series, making him the first person on American television to do so. He lived for a while in New York and resided at New York's Chelsea Hotel. He was a frequent visitor to gay bars and drag queen revues, and became best friends with Candy, a Warhol superstar and transgender icon; and Jackie, also a Warhol superstar, who performed as both a man and a woman throughout her career. Lance died of AIDS-related hepatitis in 2001. | |
| 2011 | À la recherche du temps perdu | France 2 | Baron de Charlus | Didier Sandre | Based on the seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The film is intertwined with stories involving homosexual and bisexual love stories. Baron de Charlus is a licentious gay man and a member of the influential Guermantes family. He has affairs with his tailor Jupien, who frequents male brothels, and Charles, a gay violinist and protege of Robert, who is bisexual. | [190][191][192] [193][194] |
| 2011 | À la recherche du temps perdu | France 2 | Jupien | Michel Fau | Based on the seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The film is intertwined with stories involving homosexual and bisexual love stories. Baron de Charlus is a licentious gay man and a member of the influential Guermantes family. He has affairs with his tailor Jupien, who frequents male brothels, and Charles, a gay violinist and protege of Robert, who is bisexual. | [190][191][192] [193][194] |
| 2011 | À la recherche du temps perdu | France 2 | Robert de Saint-Loup | Andy Gillet | Based on the seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The film is intertwined with stories involving homosexual and bisexual love stories. Baron de Charlus is a licentious gay man and a member of the influential Guermantes family. He has affairs with his tailor Jupien, who frequents male brothels, and Charles, a gay violinist and protege of Robert, who is bisexual. | [190][191][192] [193][194] |
| 2011 | À la recherche du temps perdu | France 2 | Charles Morel | Vincent Heden | Based on the seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The film is intertwined with stories involving homosexual and bisexual love stories. Baron de Charlus is a licentious gay man and a member of the influential Guermantes family. He has affairs with his tailor Jupien, who frequents male brothels, and Charles, a gay violinist and protege of Robert, who is bisexual. | [190][191][192] [193][194] |
| 2011 | The Night Watch | BBC Two | Helen | Claire Foy | The film is based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Waters. Kay and Helen are girlfriends. Helen then left her for Julia, an accomplished author. | |
| 2011 | The Night Watch | BBC Two | Julia | Anna Wilson-Jones | The film is based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Waters. Kay and Helen are girlfriends. Helen then left her for Julia, an accomplished author. | |
| 2011 | The Night Watch | BBC Two | Kay | Anna Maxwell Martin | The film is based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Waters. Kay and Helen are girlfriends. Helen then left her for Julia, an accomplished author. | |
| 2011 | Steven Niles' Remains | Chiller | Jensen | Miko Hughes | The film takes place in the aftermath of a devastating zombie apocalypse, where a group of survivors have banded together in the ruins of a casino in Reno, Nevada. Jensen is a gay magician's assistant who moved to Reno to live with his boyfriend. Adaptation of the comic series of the same name. | |
| 2013 | Behind the Candelabra | HBO | Liberace | Michael Douglas | Biographical film that tells the story of the last ten years in the life of gay pianist Liberace and his relationship with his live-in lover, Thorson. Scott moved in with Liberace when he was 18, and had plastic surgery at Liberace's insistence, so he would look more like him. When Scott finally left Liberace, he sued him for palimony. Liberace died in February 1987 from AIDS. The film is based on the memoir Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace by Thorson. | |
| 2013 | Behind the Candelabra | HBO | Scott Thorson | Matt Damon | Biographical film that tells the story of the last ten years in the life of gay pianist Liberace and his relationship with his live-in lover, Thorson. Scott moved in with Liberace when he was 18, and had plastic surgery at Liberace's insistence, so he would look more like him. When Scott finally left Liberace, he sued him for palimony. Liberace died in February 1987 from AIDS. The film is based on the memoir Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace by Thorson. | |
| 2014 | Jongens | NPO Zapp | Marc | Ko Zandvliet | Along with his best friend (Stef), Sieger is a member of the local athletics team. They—and two other boys, Tom and Marc—are chosen to represent the team at the national championship relay race. | |
| 2014 | Jongens | NPO Zapp | Sieger | Gijs Blom | Along with his best friend (Stef), Sieger is a member of the local athletics team. They—and two other boys, Tom and Marc—are chosen to represent the team at the national championship relay race. | |
| 2014 | The Normal Heart | HBO | Ned Weeks | Mark Ruffalo | Teleplay by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984. Ned is an openly gay writer from New York City, and the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Felix is a gay New York Times reporter who Ned contacts hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the health crisis. The two begin a romantic relationship. Felix eventually comes down with symptoms and dies. Craig and Bruce are dating. At his birthday party, Craig becomes ill, collapses, and begins to cough repeatedly. Later, Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital where he is later pronounced dead. Later, Bruce begins dating Albert. When Albert contracts the disease, they travel to Phoenix so that Albert can see his mother one more time. When they get to Phoenix, Albert dies, but the hospital refuses to examine him and throws him out with the garbage. Bruce bribes a funeral home to cremate his body without a death certificate. In the end, Bruce dies as well. Dr. Brookner is lesbian. | [201][202][203] [204][205] |
| 2014 | The Normal Heart | HBO | Felix Turner | Matt Bomer | Teleplay by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984. Ned is an openly gay writer from New York City, and the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Felix is a gay New York Times reporter who Ned contacts hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the health crisis. The two begin a romantic relationship. Felix eventually comes down with symptoms and dies. Craig and Bruce are dating. At his birthday party, Craig becomes ill, collapses, and begins to cough repeatedly. Later, Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital where he is later pronounced dead. Later, Bruce begins dating Albert. When Albert contracts the disease, they travel to Phoenix so that Albert can see his mother one more time. When they get to Phoenix, Albert dies, but the hospital refuses to examine him and throws him out with the garbage. Bruce bribes a funeral home to cremate his body without a death certificate. In the end, Bruce dies as well. Dr. Brookner is lesbian. | [201][202][203] [204][205] |
| 2014 | The Normal Heart | HBO | Craig Donner | Jonathan Groff | Teleplay by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984. Ned is an openly gay writer from New York City, and the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Felix is a gay New York Times reporter who Ned contacts hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the health crisis. The two begin a romantic relationship. Felix eventually comes down with symptoms and dies. Craig and Bruce are dating. At his birthday party, Craig becomes ill, collapses, and begins to cough repeatedly. Later, Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital where he is later pronounced dead. Later, Bruce begins dating Albert. When Albert contracts the disease, they travel to Phoenix so that Albert can see his mother one more time. When they get to Phoenix, Albert dies, but the hospital refuses to examine him and throws him out with the garbage. Bruce bribes a funeral home to cremate his body without a death certificate. In the end, Bruce dies as well. Dr. Brookner is lesbian. | [201][202][203] [204][205] |
| 2014 | The Normal Heart | HBO | Bruce Niles | Taylor Kitsch | Teleplay by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984. Ned is an openly gay writer from New York City, and the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Felix is a gay New York Times reporter who Ned contacts hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the health crisis. The two begin a romantic relationship. Felix eventually comes down with symptoms and dies. Craig and Bruce are dating. At his birthday party, Craig becomes ill, collapses, and begins to cough repeatedly. Later, Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital where he is later pronounced dead. Later, Bruce begins dating Albert. When Albert contracts the disease, they travel to Phoenix so that Albert can see his mother one more time. When they get to Phoenix, Albert dies, but the hospital refuses to examine him and throws him out with the garbage. Bruce bribes a funeral home to cremate his body without a death certificate. In the end, Bruce dies as well. Dr. Brookner is lesbian. | [201][202][203] [204][205] |
| 2014 | The Normal Heart | HBO | Albert | Finn Wittrock | Teleplay by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984. Ned is an openly gay writer from New York City, and the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Felix is a gay New York Times reporter who Ned contacts hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the health crisis. The two begin a romantic relationship. Felix eventually comes down with symptoms and dies. Craig and Bruce are dating. At his birthday party, Craig becomes ill, collapses, and begins to cough repeatedly. Later, Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital where he is later pronounced dead. Later, Bruce begins dating Albert. When Albert contracts the disease, they travel to Phoenix so that Albert can see his mother one more time. When they get to Phoenix, Albert dies, but the hospital refuses to examine him and throws him out with the garbage. Bruce bribes a funeral home to cremate his body without a death certificate. In the end, Bruce dies as well. Dr. Brookner is lesbian. | [201][202][203] [204][205] |
| 2014 | The Normal Heart | HBO | Dr. Emma Brookner | Julia Roberts | Teleplay by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984. Ned is an openly gay writer from New York City, and the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Felix is a gay New York Times reporter who Ned contacts hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the health crisis. The two begin a romantic relationship. Felix eventually comes down with symptoms and dies. Craig and Bruce are dating. At his birthday party, Craig becomes ill, collapses, and begins to cough repeatedly. Later, Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital where he is later pronounced dead. Later, Bruce begins dating Albert. When Albert contracts the disease, they travel to Phoenix so that Albert can see his mother one more time. When they get to Phoenix, Albert dies, but the hospital refuses to examine him and throws him out with the garbage. Bruce bribes a funeral home to cremate his body without a death certificate. In the end, Bruce dies as well. Dr. Brookner is lesbian. | [201][202][203] [204][205] |

### 2015–2019

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
| 2015 | Bessie | HBO | Bessie Smith | Queen Latifah | Biopic about the popular Jazz Age singer known as the "Empress of the Blues." Bessie is bisexual. Rainey is the first woman with whom Smith has a sexual relationship. | |
| 2015 | Bessie | HBO | Ma Rainey | Mo'Nique | Biopic about the popular Jazz Age singer known as the "Empress of the Blues." Bessie is bisexual. Rainey is the first woman with whom Smith has a sexual relationship. | |
| 2016 | Sister Cities | Lifetime | Austin Baxter | Jess Weixler | Austin is lesbian. She is a writer who moved back home to take care of her mother. Her girlfriend is Sarah. | |
| 2016 | Sister Cities | Lifetime | Sarah | Aimee Garcia | Austin is lesbian. She is a writer who moved back home to take care of her mother. Her girlfriend is Sarah. | |
| 2016 | Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? | Lifetime | Leah | Leila George | Leah is in love with Pearl, a lesbian vampire. The film is a re-imagining of the similarly titled 1996 television movie. | |
| 2016 | Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? | Lifetime | Pearl | Emily Meade | Leah is in love with Pearl, a lesbian vampire. The film is a re-imagining of the similarly titled 1996 television movie. | |
| 2018 | Agatha and the Truth of Murder | Channel 5 | Mabel Rogers | Pippa Haywood | Mabel convinces Christie to help her find out who killed her long-term partner, Florence Nightingale Shore. The film is an alternative history story about the real-life disappearance of Christie in 1926, and includes the real crime against Shore which remains unsolved. | |
| 2018 | I Am Jonas | Arte | Jonas | Félix Maritaud | The film switches between present and past. In present day, Jonas is a troubled gay man. In the past, a teenaged Jonas meets Nathan, and they have a relationship. One night they go to a gay bar, but are refused entry as the minimum age is 18 years. A man notices and tells them to get in his car and he will take them to a gay bar where there is no age limit. They get in his car, but soon Nathan gets suspicious as the ride takes too long. The driver punches Nathan and knocks him out, while Jonas is able to escape. Back in the present, Jonas runs into Nathan's family and admits that he lied on the evening Nathan got kidnapped. He didn't actually escape, but the kidnapper forced him to leave the car. Since then he's struggled with the guilt that he should have stayed in the car. | |
| 2018 | I Am Jonas | Arte | Nathan | Tommy-Lee Baïk | The film switches between present and past. In present day, Jonas is a troubled gay man. In the past, a teenaged Jonas meets Nathan, and they have a relationship. One night they go to a gay bar, but are refused entry as the minimum age is 18 years. A man notices and tells them to get in his car and he will take them to a gay bar where there is no age limit. They get in his car, but soon Nathan gets suspicious as the ride takes too long. The driver punches Nathan and knocks him out, while Jonas is able to escape. Back in the present, Jonas runs into Nathan's family and admits that he lied on the evening Nathan got kidnapped. He didn't actually escape, but the kidnapper forced him to leave the car. Since then he's struggled with the guilt that he should have stayed in the car. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Lance Gowland | Damon Herriman | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Marg McMann | Kate Box | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Robyn Plaister | Jessica De Gouw | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Ron Austin | Josh Quong Tart | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Peter De Waal | Luke Mullins | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Peter "Bon" Bonsall-Boone | Eden Falk | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Sue Willis | Fern Sutherland | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Gabrielle Antolovich | Hanna Mangan-Lawrence | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2018 | Riot | ABC | Jim Walker | Xavier Samuel | Dramatization, based on true stories, of the gay rights movement in Australia in the 1970s and the 1978 street protest that gave birth to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
| 2019 | Bad Education | HBO | Frank Tassone | Hugh Jackman | Frank has an affair with his former student Kyle. | |
| 2019 | Bad Education | HBO | Kyle Contreras | Rafael Casal | Frank has an affair with his former student Kyle. | |
| 2019 | Deadwood: The Movie | HBO | Calamity Jane | Robin Weigert | Calamity is a lesbian and in love with Joanie. Joanie is a lesbian and a hostess at a brothel. They rekindle their romance that first began in Deadwood, the television series the movie is based on. | |
| 2019 | Deadwood: The Movie | HBO | Joanie Stubbs | Kim Dickens | Calamity is a lesbian and in love with Joanie. Joanie is a lesbian and a hostess at a brothel. They rekindle their romance that first began in Deadwood, the television series the movie is based on. | |
| 2019 | One Red Nose Day and a Wedding | BBC One BBC Two | Miranda | Lily James | Miranda and Faith marry in this "25 years later" short film sequel to 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, produced for the 2019 Comic Relief telethon. | |
| 2019 | One Red Nose Day and a Wedding | BBC One BBC Two | Faith | Alicia Vikander | Miranda and Faith marry in this "25 years later" short film sequel to 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, produced for the 2019 Comic Relief telethon. | |
| 2019 | Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story | Lifetime | Alex Cooper | Addison Holley | Alex is 15, and raised by conservative Mormon parents. She meets Frankie, an 18-year-old out lesbian, and they begin a relationship. When Alex comes out to her parents, they trick Alex and leave her in the custody of a Mormon couple in Utah to undergo gay conversion therapy. She spends eight months under their cruel authority before she is finally able to escape and find help.The film is based on the 2016 memoir, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began. Jason is a gay classmate of Alex in a Utah high school. Together with a sympathetic teacher in charge of the local gay–straight alliance, he helps Alex find an attorney to extricate her. | [223][224] [225][226] |
| 2019 | Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story | Lifetime | Frankie | Nicolette Pearse | Alex is 15, and raised by conservative Mormon parents. She meets Frankie, an 18-year-old out lesbian, and they begin a relationship. When Alex comes out to her parents, they trick Alex and leave her in the custody of a Mormon couple in Utah to undergo gay conversion therapy. She spends eight months under their cruel authority before she is finally able to escape and find help.The film is based on the 2016 memoir, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began. Jason is a gay classmate of Alex in a Utah high school. Together with a sympathetic teacher in charge of the local gay–straight alliance, he helps Alex find an attorney to extricate her. | [223][224] [225][226] |
| 2019 | Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story | Lifetime | Jason | Stephen Joffe | Alex is 15, and raised by conservative Mormon parents. She meets Frankie, an 18-year-old out lesbian, and they begin a relationship. When Alex comes out to her parents, they trick Alex and leave her in the custody of a Mormon couple in Utah to undergo gay conversion therapy. She spends eight months under their cruel authority before she is finally able to escape and find help.The film is based on the 2016 memoir, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began. Jason is a gay classmate of Alex in a Utah high school. Together with a sympathetic teacher in charge of the local gay–straight alliance, he helps Alex find an attorney to extricate her. | [223][224] [225][226] |

## 2020s
### 2020–2025

| Year | Title | Network | Character(s) | Actor(s) | Notes |
| 2020 | The Christmas House | Hallmark Channel | Brandon | Jonathan Bennett | Brandon is a gay baker and married to Jake. Brandon returns to his parents' home at Christmas for a family tradition. The entire home, inside and out, will be extensively decorated for Christmas. The film was the first Hallmark movie to prominently feature a same-sex couple. |
| 2020 | The Christmas House | Hallmark Channel | Jake | Brad Harder | Brandon is a gay baker and married to Jake. Brandon returns to his parents' home at Christmas for a family tradition. The entire home, inside and out, will be extensively decorated for Christmas. The film was the first Hallmark movie to prominently feature a same-sex couple. |
| 2020 | The Christmas Setup | Lifetime | Hugo | Ben Lewis | Hugo is gay and a New York City attorney who comes home to visit his mother for Christmas. He reconnects with his openly gay high school crush Patrick, and they fall in love. Hugo has been offered a promotion to his firm's office in London, so they must decide between Patrick moving, or Hugo staying. |
| 2020 | The Christmas Setup | Lifetime | Patrick | Blake Lee | Hugo is gay and a New York City attorney who comes home to visit his mother for Christmas. He reconnects with his openly gay high school crush Patrick, and they fall in love. Hugo has been offered a promotion to his firm's office in London, so they must decide between Patrick moving, or Hugo staying. |
| 2020 | Dashing in December | Paramount Network | Wyatt Burwall | Peter Porte | Wyatt returns home for the holidays in an effort to convince his mother to sell the family's Colorado ranch. After arriving, he meets ranch hand Heath, who doesn't want the ranch sold, and the two begin a romantic relationship. |
| 2020 | Dashing in December | Paramount Network | Heath Ramos | Juan Pablo Di Pace | Wyatt returns home for the holidays in an effort to convince his mother to sell the family's Colorado ranch. After arriving, he meets ranch hand Heath, who doesn't want the ranch sold, and the two begin a romantic relationship. |
| 2020 | Love Under the Olive Tree | Hallmark Channel | Adam Caulfield | Shawn Roberts | Adam is a farm worker and Billy owns the local bar. They have a subtle romantic relationship that begins with a date to a barn dance and eventually a dinner for two. |
| 2020 | Love Under the Olive Tree | Hallmark Channel | Billy Stevens | Andrew Dunbar | Adam is a farm worker and Billy owns the local bar. They have a subtle romantic relationship that begins with a date to a barn dance and eventually a dinner for two. |
| 2020 | The Thing About Harry | Freeform | Sam Baselli | Jake Borelli | Sam is a young gay man who's forced to share a car ride with Harry, a popular jock who was his enemy in high school. Harry comes out as pansexual during the ride. They sporadically meet throughout the following years, and spend the night together while attending a wedding. They eventually get married and are raising a child together. |
| 2020 | The Thing About Harry | Freeform | Harry Turpin | Niko Terho | Sam is a young gay man who's forced to share a car ride with Harry, a popular jock who was his enemy in high school. Harry comes out as pansexual during the ride. They sporadically meet throughout the following years, and spend the night together while attending a wedding. They eventually get married and are raising a child together. |
| 2021 | A Loud House Christmas | Nickelodeon | Howard McBride | Justin Michael Stevenson | Howard and Harold are Clyde's gay dads. Luna and Sam are dating. Based on the characters from the animated show. |
| 2021 | A Loud House Christmas | Nickelodeon | Harold McBride | Marcus Folmar | Howard and Harold are Clyde's gay dads. Luna and Sam are dating. Based on the characters from the animated show. |
| 2021 | A Loud House Christmas | Nickelodeon | Luna Loud | Sophia Woodward | Howard and Harold are Clyde's gay dads. Luna and Sam are dating. Based on the characters from the animated show. |
| 2021 | A Loud House Christmas | Nickelodeon | Sam Sharp | Zoë DuVall | Howard and Harold are Clyde's gay dads. Luna and Sam are dating. Based on the characters from the animated show. |
| 2021 | Under the Christmas Tree | Lifetime | Alma Beltran | Elise Bauman | Charlie is a lesbian searching for the perfect Christmas tree for the governor of Maine. She finds it on Alma's property. Alma, a lesbian, becomes flustered when she first meets Charlie. They fall in love. |
| 2021 | Under the Christmas Tree | Lifetime | Charlie Freemont | Tattiawna Jones | Charlie is a lesbian searching for the perfect Christmas tree for the governor of Maine. She finds it on Alma's property. Alma, a lesbian, becomes flustered when she first meets Charlie. They fall in love. |
| 2021 | An Unexpected Christmas | Hallmark Channel | Becca | Alison Wandzura | Becca is openly lesbian, a single mother, and the sister of Jamie. |
| 2022 | The Holiday Sitter | Hallmark Channel | Jason | George Krissa | Sam, a gay man, is babysitting his sister's kids when he meets her gay neighbour Jason. They begin a relationship. |
| 2022 | The Holiday Sitter | Hallmark Channel | Sam | Jonathan Bennett | Sam, a gay man, is babysitting his sister's kids when he meets her gay neighbour Jason. They begin a relationship. |
| 2022 | Love, Classified | Hallmark Channel | Francesca "Franki" Murray | Arienne Mandi | Franki, a lesbian, is a cardiologist who hasn't gone on a date in a long time. She posts a message under an anonymous name on the dating section of "Classify", an app for local classifieds, and takes a chance on a blind date with an anonymous person that seems to be compatible with her. Taylor, bisexual, owns a plant and flower shop, and is the daughter of a famous author. She has never engaged in online dating before, but on impulse responds to an anonymous post she likes and accepts to meet the person on a coffee date. She is surprised to discover that the person is a woman, and she has never before met a woman who interested her. Franki and Taylor like their mutual rapport, are attracted to each other, and begin dating. |
| 2022 | Love, Classified | Hallmark Channel | Taylor Bloom | Katherine McNamara | Franki, a lesbian, is a cardiologist who hasn't gone on a date in a long time. She posts a message under an anonymous name on the dating section of "Classify", an app for local classifieds, and takes a chance on a blind date with an anonymous person that seems to be compatible with her. Taylor, bisexual, owns a plant and flower shop, and is the daughter of a famous author. She has never engaged in online dating before, but on impulse responds to an anonymous post she likes and accepts to meet the person on a coffee date. She is surprised to discover that the person is a woman, and she has never before met a woman who interested her. Franki and Taylor like their mutual rapport, are attracted to each other, and begin dating. |
| 2023 | Friends & Family Christmas | Hallmark Channel | Daniella McCallan | Humberly González | Single lesbians Daniella and Amelia are set up on a blind date by their parents, and they fall in love. |
| 2023 | Friends & Family Christmas | Hallmark Channel | Amelia Kasmerec | Ali Liebert | Single lesbians Daniella and Amelia are set up on a blind date by their parents, and they fall in love. |
| 2023 | The Naughty Nine | Disney Channel | Jon Anthony Dizon | Deric McCabe | Jon is a flamboyant gay boy. |
| 2023 | You're Not Supposed to Be Here | Lifetime Movie Network | Zoe | Chrishell Stause | Before their baby is born, lesbian couple Zoe and Kennedy decide to spend a weekend getaway at a cabin in a remote mountain town, but the locals are not welcoming and begin to pose a threat to them and their baby. |
| 2023 | You're Not Supposed to Be Here | Lifetime Movie Network | Kennedy | Diora Baird | Before their baby is born, lesbian couple Zoe and Kennedy decide to spend a weekend getaway at a cabin in a remote mountain town, but the locals are not welcoming and begin to pose a threat to them and their baby. |
| 2025 | Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story | Lifetime Movie Network | Toni Ménage | Bre-Z | Toni joins Lisa's band as a backup singer, and the two become best friends. When their friendship becomes influential, her lesbian identity is used against her by Barry, record label producer, and Toni is fired behind Lisa's back. |