Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ To celebrate, Kris and Rian talk about their favourite and most memorable queer and LGBTQIA+ characters in TV shows over the years. This is part one of two-part series.

00:00 Intro

02:08 News 

04:12 Read Watch Play

18:06 Memorable queer characters in TV

1:15:18 Wrap-up

TV Shows with LGBTQIA+ characters mentioned

Murderbot https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/241554-murderbot

The L Word https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/3475-the-l-word

The L Word Generation Q https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/89630-the-l-word-generation-q 

Queer as Folk https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/2902-queer-as-folk-us

Queer as Folk (2022) https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/134967-queer-as-folk

Sense8 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/61664-sense8

Xena: Warrior Princess https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4616-xena-warrior-princess

The Fosters https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/46880-the-fosters

Shameless https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/34307-shameless

Grey's Anatomy https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1416-grey-s-anatomy 

Heartstopper https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/124834-heartstopper

Schitts Creek https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/61662-schitt-s-creek

Lost Girl https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/33852-lost-girl

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/117830-tomb-raider-the-legend-of-lara-croft

Devil May Cry https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/235930-devil-may-cry

Star Trek: Discovery https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/67198-star-trek-discovery

The Umbrella Academy https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/75006-umbrella-academy

Movies & Mini Series

mother! https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/381283-mother

Adolescence https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/249042-adolescence

Games

Fantasy Life https://store.steampowered.com/app/2993780/FANTASY_LIFE_i_The_Girl_Who_Steals_Time/

Death Stranding Director’s Cut https://store.steampowered.com/app/1850570/DEATH_STRANDING_DIRECTORS_CUT/

Mario Kart World (Switch 2) https://ec.nintendo.com/AU/en/titles/70010000096802

Books

The Crippled God https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/53c8340a-edd7-4e6c-8da6-09383f773978 

Tell Me What You Did https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b16d05bd-a4f4-4667-94d5-aabd820e142e  

So Gay for You https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1a15a788-557e-498e-840a-6f4bf1ee6331 

Humble Bundle: Power up Pride Deal (June 2025) 

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/power-up-pride 

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