A List of 34 Gay TV Shows

A Long List of 34 Gay TV Shows and Series

Look no further than our extensive list of 34 Gay TV Series, devised as part of our LGBTQI+ inclusive media lists. If you’re looking for a gay guy on guy fix from love stories to horrors and comedies, you’re guaranteed to find something that will suit you in the list below.

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Grab a bucket of popcorn, kick back and enjoy some of the best gay series available from present times to the past…

Looking

Three best friends living in San Francisco share the nuances and complexities of contemporary gay relationships as they explore a variety of options, both in love and in life. They are unified by their close bond, but their search for happiness and intimacy has taken them on separate paths.

Patrick is a 29-year-old video game designer who is dating again after his ex’s engagement; Agustin, 31, is apprehensive about choosing monogamy and domesticity instead of the excitement of city life; and longtime waiter Dom is at a crossroads, as middle age approaches and his romantic and professional goals remain unfulfilled. The trio’s lives unfold against the backdrop of San Francisco’s progressive, unpredictable, almost-anything-goes culture, and “Looking” makes full use of the city’s unique character — with filming taking place in more than 40 locations and in various neighborhoods throughout the Bay Area.

Watch the Trailer for Looking -the gay tv show- here.

Watch Season 1 on HBO Online.

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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.

Watch trailer on YouTube.

Watch the series on Netflix.

Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World

Based on Q. Allan Brocka’s short film of the same name, this stop motion animated sitcom follows the not always happy but proudly gay lives of couples Rick and Steve, Chuck and Evan, and Dana and Kirsten, who interact with one another and their other friends in the gay ghetto of West Lahunga Beach.

Don’t let the Lego-style look of the characters fool you: This cartoon, with its adult themes and politically-twisted humor, isn’t for kids.

Watch the intro on YouTube.

Élite

Élite is a Netflix series that follows the lives of three scholarship students enrolled at Spain’s elite Las Encinas school after their own school collapses, and they quickly clash with their wealthy, privileged classmates – two of whom just happen to be the children of their destroyed school’s developer…

Élite is already wagging tongues as it covers topics like sexual fluidity, open relationships, class, faith and living with HIV.

Omar (Omar Ayuso), the older brother of one of the three protagonists who are enrolled as students at Las Encinas, is struggling to keep his sexuality a secret from his conservative Islamic father. He’s also a drug dealer, which brings him into closer to Las Encinas student, Ander, who is also coming to terms with his own sexuality.

Watch the Elite trailer on YouTube here.

Watch on Netflix here.

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.

Watch Teaser on YouTube here.

Watch Tales of the City on Netflix.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Rescued after 15 years in a cult, Kimmy Schmidt decides to reclaim her life by venturing to New York, where she experiences everyday life with wide-eyed enthusiasm.

On a whim, she rents a room from Titus, a gay wannabe Broadway actor, who makes ends meet as a street performer in Times Square. The unlikely pair find they’re well-suited to help each other out, with Titus reintroducing Kimmy to modern life, and her providing him with the inspiration that you should never give up. Together they’ll make it through whatever life throws at them.

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Noah’s Arc

This drama series follows the lives and relationships of four gay men in Los Angeles. Noah is a struggling screenwriter who has started a relationship with Wade, who recently came out. Despite his friends’ warnings about being romantically involved with Wade, Noah intends to make it work, regardless of what it takes.

His friends include HIV educator Alex, who acts as the parental figure for the group and is in a long-term romantic union; promiscuous clothing store owner Ricky, who shuns traditional dating; and college professor Chance, who is beginning a domestic life with boyfriend Eddie and stepdaughter Kenya.

Watch on Amazon Prime.

Watch the trailer for Noah’s Arc on YouTube.

Cucumber

Openly gay writer, Russell T. Davies, writes this drama exploring the many facets of contemporary sex culture. “Cucumber” delves into 21st-century gay life through Henry and boyfriend Lance.

Though Henry and Lance live a comfortable life and are settled in their relationship, everything changes after a disastrous date night. The night — which ends in a death, a threesome, two police cars and Boney M — shatters 46-year-old Henry’s life, and he must move on to new pastures. Henry moves into a house-share with unexpected roommates, handsome Freddie and 19-year-old Dean. Whether these new companions become his friends or foes remains to be seen.

Watch the Trailer for Cucumber here.

Watch the full series of Cucumber on Amazon Prime.

Sense8

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.

Watch the trailer here.

Watch all of Sense8 on Netflix.

The Politician

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.

Watch the official trailer here.

Watch on Netflix.

Queer Duck

Queer Duck is an American animated series produced by Icebox.com that originally appeared on Icebox.com and later moved to the American cable television channel Showtime in 2000, where it aired as a follow-up feature of the American version of Queer as Folk.

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Oh, Grow Up

An artist and a construction foreman/babe magnet live together in Brooklyn with an old high-school friend who’s just discovered he’s gay and is divorcing his wife.

Oh yeah, there’s a talking dog, too. The playboy also makes a discovery: turns out he’s a dad.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube.

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Will and Grace

In the original eight-season run of this groundbreaking sitcom, best friends Will, a meticulous corporate lawyer, and Grace, a neurotic interior decorator, share a New York apartment after Grace leaves her fiancé at the altar. Will and Grace, along with their pals Karen, an outspoken socialite, and Jack, a free-spirited actor, face the highs and lows of life in Manhattan together.

From relations, dating and divorce to cutting cultural commentary, nothing’s off limits — and all is fair game — in this Emmy-winning comedy.

Watch the Trailer here.

Watch Season 1 on Amazon Prime.

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London Spy

This crime drama, created by New York Times best-selling author Tom Rob Smith, follows the emotional journey of a young man as he tries to find the truth behind his lover’s death.

Ordinary man Danny begins a romance with MI6 code genius Alex, and they share a happy relationship before it is tragically cut short when the spy is mysteriously murdered. The suspicious death spurs Danny into investigating the circumstances that took place. Wise mentor Scottie guides the innocent soul through the shady world of espionage as Danny steps out of his comfort zone and into danger.

Watch the trailer on YouTube here.

Watch London Spy online with Amazon Prime.

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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (2003 – 2007)

Gay men give advice on fashion, grooming, interior design, food, wine and culture to straight men.

Each episode features a team of gay professionals in the fields of fashion, personal grooming, interior design, entertaining and culture collectively known as the “Fab Five” performing a makeover for a heterosexual man.

Watch the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy trailer.

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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.

Watch the Trailer for Queer Eye here.

Watch the full series of Queer Eye on Netflix.

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The New Normal

Los Angeles couple Bryan and David have successful careers and a loving relationship and are ready for a baby. Just as they start to worry that they will never be blessed with parenthood, they meet Goldie, a waitress who has just moved to California with her precocious eight-year-old daughter to escape from her closed-minded grandmother and a life without a future.

The guys quickly work out a deal with Goldie to become their surrogate, and in the process, the little group forms a unique family unit of its own.

Watch the trailer for The New Normal here.

Watch the Pilot Episode for free on Daily Motion.

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Please Like Me

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 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.

Watch the trailer on Youtube.

Watch the Pilot Episode for free on Daily Motion.

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Angels in America

Oscar(R) winners Al Pacino (‘Scent of a Woman’), Meryl Streep (‘Kramer vs. Kramer’) and Emma Thompson (‘Howards End’) star in this two-part film directed by Mike Nichols (‘The Graduate’) and written by Tony Kushner, based on his Pulitzer-winning play about social, sexual, religious and other issues facing 1980s America as the AIDS crisis gains momentum.

Watch the trailer on YouTube here.

Watch Season 1 on HBO Online.

Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves

The multi-award winning series, as broadcast on BBC Four, to mark World Aids Day 2013.

Rasmus arrives in Stockholm in September 1982, leaving his small town upbringing behind him forever. Young and beautiful, he throws himself into the lively city s gay scene. When, on Christmas Eve, Rasmus meets Benjamin, a deep love ensues between them and for a brief time their blissful happiness is uninterrupted. Around this time, inexplicably, young men start to get sick, then fade away and die. AIDS has come to Stockholm and suddenly nothing can ever be the same again, even for Rasmus and Benjamin.

Watch the official trailer on YouTube.

Watch online on SBS On Demand.

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Gimme Gimme Gimme

Gimme Gimme Gimme centres around loudmouthed Londoner Linda La Hughes (played by comedian and director Kathy Burke) and her gay flatmate, actor Tom Farrell (played by James Dreyfus).

A twist on the traditional “odd couple” format, much of Gimme Gimme Gimme’s humour springs from its lubricious innuendo subplot, which comes from the mouths of both Tom and Linda.

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Watch Season 1 Episode 1 on Daily Motion for free.

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Brothers

Two conservative men support their younger brother when he comes out as gay, and help him navigate being openly homosexual in 1980s Philadelphia.

Watch Episode 1 in Parts on Youtube here.

The Line of Beauty

A young man becomes attached to a family that’s not his own, and casts himself into the life of plentiful riches and gay love affairs for which he seems destined.

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Watch Episode 1 for free on Daily Motion.

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The Real O’Neals

The close-knit, Chicago-based O’Neals seem to be the perfect Catholic family, but when surprising truths come to light when the youngest son tells his parents that he’s gay. Eileen, Pat, Kenny, Jimmy, Shannon and Jodi decide to let the honesty ring in a new, less tidy chapter of their story, where they all drop their carefully honed facades and discover the unexpected freedom that accompanies just acting real.

Instead of being torn apart, the O’Neals find that their newfound way of life actually brings them closer together.

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When We Rise

Academy-Award winner Dustin Lance Black executive produces this miniseries chronicling the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of diverse LGBT activists who played integral roles in pioneering their leg of the U.S. civil rights movement from its infancy.

The story focuses on AIDS and LGBT rights champion Cleve Jones, women’s rights leader Roma Guy and her wife, Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender activist Celia Chung, following them from the Stonewall riots in 1969 through the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s and beyond.

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Watch Episode 1 for free on Daily Motion.

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Sean Saves the World

When divorced gay dad Sean’s 14-year-old daughter, Ellie, moves in with him full time, he goes a little overboard in his eagerness to be the best father possible.

To Ellie’s relief, Sean’s demanding job has him working long hours, preventing him from following through on all his carefully constructed homemaking plans. As Sean works to balance his career with raising a well-balanced child — and dealing with his overbearing mother — he finds it’s a challenging experience, but he’s definitely up to the task.

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Banana

Through eight stand-alone stories, this series follows different aspects of LGBT life. Each episode focuses on the unique storyline of a diverse character dealing with life, loves and losses.

Scotty is a young lesbian dealing with unrequited love, while Dean harbors family secrets and has an affair with a mystery man from Newcastle. Sian is torn between her lover, Violet, and her overprotective mother, Vanessa. Helen has an ex who won’t leave her alone. This is a companion series to Russell T. Davies’ “Cucumber.”

Watch the trailer on YouTube here.

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Vicious

Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi head the cast of this studio sitcom, centered around aging partners Freddie and Stuart, who have lived together in a London flat for close to 50 years.

Having survived a time when being a gay couple was harshly frowned upon, they have learned to keep the outside world at bay, and their lives now consist of reading books, walking their dog and, most of all, bickering at each other.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube here.

Watch Episode 1 on YouTube for free.

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Some of My Best Friends

Warren is gay, although he’s managed to stay under the radar.

Needing a roommate, he puts out a newspaper ad. Responding is Frankie, who, after being chosen, freaks out when he finds out Warren’s sexual orientation. Starring Jason Bateman.

Watch the a clip on YouTube here.

Watch the pilot episode for free on YouTube.

Tofu

The sister series to Cucumber and Banana, Tofu is a documentary series that focuses on a range of sex attitudes in the twenty-first century from the viewpoint of everyday people.

Like Cucumber and Banana, the name of the series refers to the same urological scale of hardness of the male erection which starts at tofu, goes through peeled banana and ends at cucumber from a European study that inspired Davies.

Watch the Tofu Trailer on YouTube.

Watch Tofu on Channel 4’s 4OD here (May only be available in the UK or via a VPN)

Queer As Folk UK

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester’s gay village around the city’s famous LGBT area, ‘Canal Street’. It ran for 8 episodes and a two-part follow up called Queer as Folk 2 was shown in 2000.

Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by openly gay writer, Russell T Davies.

Watch the Queer As Folk UK Trailer on YouTube.

Watch on Channel 4’s On Demand service (may need to be in UK or access via VPN)

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Queer As Folk USA

Based on the UK series and also writer by Russel T. Davies, Queer as Folk USA is set in working-class Pittsburgh.

The drama revolves around a group of gay friends and their relationships, careers, loves and ambitions.

Watch the Queer As Folk USA Trailer.

Watch all seasons on Shotime online.

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Sinchronicity

Set in Manchester in the United Kingdom, the programme is narrated by Nathan (Paul Chequer) and focuses on the love triangle of him, Fi (Jemima Rooper), and Jase (Daniel Percival).

The programme is executive produced by Julian Murphy, who was an executive producer on Channel 4’s As If and Sugar Rush and Sky One’s Hex. Stylistically similar to As If, following a non-linear narrative, it also features ex-cast members Paul Chequer, Jemima Rooper and Mark Smith and, as such, can be seen as its spiritual successor.
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The Lair

The Lair is an American gay-themed vampire television series produced by here! in 2007. The first season consisted of six episodes and wrapped production in January 2007.

The first two episodes premiered on June 1, 2007. Season 2 consisted of nine episodes and debuted on September 5, 2008.

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