LGBTQ TV Series and movies were once as hard to find as a hair in a haystack, and gay series and TV scenes were often ‘softened’ or banned altogether, particularly during prime time airing.
Now with the boom of online streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, they are ever-increasing their LGBTQIA+ media offerings, audiences can even find whole sections dedicated to the rainbow community.
Away from Netflix, we also have a wide list of Gay TV series and Gay Movies as well as lots of shorter mini series in our list of Gay Web Series.
For avid readers, we also have an extensive list of Gay Fiction Books for you to indulge on.
Here is a list of 13 of the best gay series on Netflix. This list is always evolving as newer series are released, if you have any suggestions for gay series on Netflix, please let us know in the comments at the bottom of the page.
Innocence Bangkok Love Stories (2018)
From a teenage parkour enthusiast to a bawdy restaurateur, an eclectic group of characters finds romance in Bangkok’s glittering Silom district.
It’s a party every night in this corner of Bangkok. But if you’re looking for love, you might be in the wrong place.
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Hollywood (2020)
In post-World War II Hollywood, aspiring actors and filmmakers will do almost anything to make their showbiz dreams come true.
Starring Queen Latifah, Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory), and Jake Picking.
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Special (2019)
Actor-writer Ryan O’Connell stars in this semi-autobiographical series based on his memoir. He plays Ryan, a gay man with cerebral palsy who decides to do away with his identity as an accident victim and go after the life that he wants.
After years of dead-end internships, blogging in his pajamas and mainly communicating through text, Ryan figures out how to take his life from bleak to chic as he gets ready to start limping toward adulthood. O’Connell serves as an executive producer on the comedy series, along with “The Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons.
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Please Like Me (2013)
Twentysomething Josh is going through a number of big changes as he navigates his first decade of adulthood. After being dumped by his girlfriend, he comes to the realization that he is gay.
After that shocker, he moves back into the family home to help care for his mother, who has previously attempted suicide. He later moves out and into a house with his best friend Tom.
With his life in disarray, big challenges await Josh in his immediate future, which are especially hard for someone like him, who with a natural aversion to drama and emotion. So he deals with it all — only in his own awkward, self-centered way.
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Bonding (2019)
Tiff is a grad student in New York City who is moonlighting as a dominatrix. For Tiff, her sexually explicit job is a business, not a pleasure.
When she reconnects with former high school BFF Pete, a recently out gay man, she recruits the cash-strapped man to be her assistant — performing such tasks as cleaning up after her clients and serving as her bodyguard.
This dark comedy follows the unlikely pair as Tiff and Peter’s new professional relationship redefines their friendship. More importantly, though, it helps them find themselves.
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Eastsiders (2017)
In Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Cal (Kit Williamson) learns that Thom (Van Hansis), his boyfriend of four years, has been cheating on him with Jeremy (Matthew McKelligon). Though upset, Cal decides that he does not want to end the relationship.
However, Cal also cheats with Jeremy. Though he intends to tell Thom about the affair, he does not. At the same time, Cal’s best friend Kathy (Constance Wu) and her boyfriend Ian (John Halbach) reach their six-month anniversary, marking the relationship as Kathy’s longest but Ian’s shortest.
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No Time for Shame (2019)
The story of Argentinian fashion designer Santiago Artemis. Extravagant and unique, how he became who he is.
See how the Buenos Aires fashion dynamo made his dreams come true while grappling with his love life, his therapist, and his clients.
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Tales of the City (2019)
A middle-aged Mary Ann returns to San Francisco and reunites with the eccentric friends she left behind. “Tales of the City” focuses primarily on the people who live in a boardinghouse turned apartment complex owned by Anna Madrigal at 28 Barbary Lane, all of whom quickly become part of what Maupin coined a “logical family”.
It’s no longer a secret that Mrs. Madrigal is transgender. Instead, she is haunted by something from her past that has long been too painful to share.
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The Politician (2017)
The first season of the Politician is set at the fictional Saint Sebastian High School in Santa Barbara, California. Payton Hobart is running for student body president against the popular and athletic River Barkley.
Payton, under the direction of his ambitious friends McAfee Westbrook, James Sullivan, and Alice Charles, chooses Infinity Jackson, a cancer patient and victim of Munchausen by Proxy disorder, to be his vice-president. Meanwhile, River, under the direction of his girlfriend Astrid Sloan, chooses Skye Leighton, a gender-nonconforming black classmate, to be his vice-president.
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Sense8 (2018)
From the creators of The Matrix Trilogy, Sense8 centers on Eight strangers around the globe find themselves connected — first by a violent vision, then by their shared ability to connect with one another’s thoughts and actions, and finally by the urgent need to find out what happened and why. Their need to know goes beyond simple curiosity — as they pursue answers, a mysterious organization hunts them down, intent on destroying them.
The intense thriller is the first foray into television (or, more accurately, Netflix) for renowned filmmakers Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski (“The Matrix Reloaded”), who created the series with J. Michael Straczynski (“Thor”). The international cast includes veteran actors known to U.S. audiences, like Daryl Hannah (“Kill Bill”) and Naveen Andrews (“Lost”), and others well-known in their home countries, like German actor Max Riemelt and Doona Bae of South Korea. In keeping with the global premise of the series, shooting takes place all over the world, including London, Reykjavik, Nairobi, and Mumbai.
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House Of Flowers (2020)
The House of Flowers (La Casa de las Flores) is a Mexican black comedy-drama television series created by Manolo Caro for Netflix.
It depicts a dysfunctional upper-class Mexican family that owns a prestigious floristry shop and a struggling cabaret, both called ‘The House of Flowers’.
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Queer Eye (2018)
More than a decade after the original series went off the air, Netflix reboots the “Queer Eye” franchise with a new Fab Five and a new setting, trading in the concrete jungle of New York City for communities in and around Atlanta.
The style experts forge relationships with men and women who often have different beliefs from them, leading to moments of social commentary interspersed with style advice. Advising people in need of lifestyle makeovers are food and wine specialist Antoni Porowski, interior designer Bobby Berk, grooming consultant Jonathan Van Ness, fashion designer Tan France and culture expert Karamo Brown, who reality TV fans may recognize as one of the housemates on “The Real World: Philadelphia.” David Collins, who created the original show, is on board as an executive producer.
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Schitt’s Creek (2015)
Schitt’s Creek (stylized as Schitt$ Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan and Eugene Levy that aired on CBC Television from January 13, 2015, to April 7, 2020. It consists of 80 episodes spread over six seasons. Produced by Not a Real Company Productions, the series follows the trials and tribulations of the formerly wealthy Rose family when they are forced to relocate to Schitt’s Creek, a small town they once purchased as a joke.
Now living in a motel, Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) and Moira Rose (Catherine O’Hara)—along with their adult children, David (Dan Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy)—must adjust to life without money and with each other.
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