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Hey what are the best 90s shows with Important queer characters?

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[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Will and Grace. Late 90s but still counts

Megan Mullally was fantastic in that show.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scott is very important to me. He was one of the first people that I remember seeing not only being unabashedly gay on TV, but also being confident enough to have fun with and joke around about it.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same here. Dave was the first time I'd ever seen convincing crossdressing too.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dave was extremely hot when crossdressing.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which one? I know a lot of Daves.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, just making an oblique reference to this song

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some of them are Davids but most of them are Daves.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ellen, My So Called Life, Designing Women, Friends

Edit: Just noticed "best". Sorry. These might be debatable for that.

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Haha, thanks though. I'll watch anything

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I love buffy !!

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

I just finished all seasons of Party of Five. The final season had a prominent, supporting gay character. But all through the show, they were surprisingly inclusive in general, in their topic matter.