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is a very queer show—see Miranda’s softball era, Charlotte’s lesbian art exploits, Samantha’s whole situationship with Maria, and Charlotte’s drag king experiment—but the sequel series leans into queerness at a whole other level. Miranda, played by real-life queer woman Cynthia Nixon, finally leaves Steve (David Eigenberg) for a nonbinary comic (Sara Ramirez) and explores a whole new type of , eventually navigating the lesbian dating pool the way her much younger self arguably should have in the early aughts.
Two of the three main characters are straight but we’ll take 33% for this narrative arc. In the show, protagonist Kat (Aisha Dee) deals with the realization that she isn’t straight and perhaps isn’t a lesbian either. Her forays at fictional lesbian cocktail bars, dating and breaking up with a woman for the first time, and running for office are relatable, aspirational, and, most importantly, very binge-worthy.
Vampires are lesbian canon, so of course this girlie pop teenage vampire show is very gay. The premise: A vampire (Sarah Catherine Hook) and a vampire hunter (Imani Lewis) lust after each other in a forbidden romance supernatural scenario that ends in a cliffhanger. Sadly, like so many lesbian shows, First Kill only got one season.
