It's so nice that we're beginning to see variety and diversity in the lesbian/wlw entertainment offerings of the year.
On the diversity front, The Prom is about an interracial lesbian couple and The Half of it focused on a POC lesbian with a white love interest. Same with Summerland, Get Even and Never have I ever. The owl house had a latina bisexual lead. In Deaf U we got to see a deaf bi woman date a deaf lesbian and in New Mutants a native American lead with a white girlfriend.
Variety was also more obvious than ever. We got the usual oscar bait period dramas with Ammonite, Summerland and The World to come (3 of them!) but we also got a musical (The Prom), a Christmas movie (Happiest season), a superhero movie (New Mutants) and a teen dramedy (The half of It). Over on the TV side we had some variety left over from other years: crime dramedy killing Eve, animated Shera and the princesses of power and new episodes of Adventure Time on hbomax, superheroes on The boys and legends of tomorrow, a bi badass detective in Brooklyn 99 and teen puppy love in Atypical. 2020 added to that with the Harley Quinn animated series giving Harley and Ivy the awesome, hilarious romance storyline they deserve, The haunting of Bly Manor giving us a ghost story with lesbians (the Halloween story we deserve), The Wilds over on Amazon Prime giving us the fantasy, survivalist adventure we didn't know we needed and The Owl House giving us the animated bi witch show we always wanted. We had fantasy shows like Warrior Nun and Wynonna Earp, mystery solving teen shows like Nancy Drew and Get even and more realistic offerings like Hightown and Never Have I Ever. Plus whatever Motherland fort salem and Ratched are 🤣
We definitely experienced some loss along the way (goodbye One day at a time, Teenage Bounty Hunters and I am not okay with this) but overall 2020 was a very good year. The things we were given were far from perfect but, in a rare turn of events, they were about us, they were ours. And I really can't emphasize enough how important it is to go out of your way to watch these movies and shows and to watch them in a way that matters to those who make them. The future depends on it. There's still a lot more ground to cover and more options are desperately needed. Let's do our best to make sure 2021 will provide!
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