List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters

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This is a list of live action made-for-television films that feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters. Non-binary, pansexual, and asexual characters are also included. The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned.

1950s[]

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Year Title Network Character(s) Actor(s) Notes
1959 South ITV Jan Wicziewsky Peter Wyngarde Wicziewsky is a Polish army officer living in exile in the antebellum South. He is torn by his feelings for fellow officer Eric MacClure (Graydon Gould). South is believed to be the earliest television film dealing with homosexual themes.[1][2]

1970s[]

Year Title Network Character(s) Actor(s) Notes
1971 Vanished NBC Arnold Greer Arthur Hill A presidential adviser goes missing, and the FBI investigation into his disappearance reveals that he is secretly gay and has been having secret weekly meetings with another man in a rented apartment. Loosely inspired by the scandal that forced President Johnson's aid Walter Jenkins to resign in 1964.[3][4]
1972 That Certain Summer ABC Doug Salter Hal Holbrook Doug is gay and divorced and living with his partner Gary McClain. While his ex-wife knows he is gay, his teen-aged son Nick (Scott Jacoby) doesn't. When Nick goes to visit his father for the weekend, Doug comes out to him. Nick is upset and confused, and packs his bags and goes home to his mother, without even saying good-bye to his father.[5]
Gary McClain Martin Sheen
1974 Born Innocent NBC Moco Nora Heflin A 14-year-old runaway, Christine Parker (Linda Blair), is sentenced to do time in a girls' juvenile detention center. In a controversial scene, Christine is raped with a plunger handle by a gang led by Moco. The film also made several negative references to lesbianism, with one version of the script containing a character description of Moco, implying that her lesbianism was a result of her surroundings, and what prompts her abuse of Christine and others.[6][7][8]
1975 The Naked Civil Servant ITV Quentin Crisp John Hurt A biographical film about the life and times of openly gay and flamboyant Quentin Crisp. The film depicts his life from coming of age to growing old in conservative England. Based on the 1968 book of the same name.[9][10]
1975 Cage Without a Key NBC Tommy Jonelle Allen Tommy is a black lesbian teenager in a juvenile detention center. She sacrifices her life for a wrongly imprisoned white girl, Valerie Smith (Susan Dey).[11][12]
1976 James Dean NBC James Dean Stephen McHattie Biopic about Dean based on the biography by Bast, Dean's good friend and roommate during the 1950s. The movie featured several homoerotic scenes between Dean and Bast. In one scene, Dean talks with Bast about being open to gay encounters. In the films final scene, Bast tells his therapist that he never got the chance to tell Dean how much he loved him.[13][14][15][16]
William Bast Michael Brandon
1976 Song of Myself CBS Walt Whitman Rip Torn The story begins with Whitman, a gay poet, in his 70's, sitting for photographs being taken by Thomas Eakins. His life is then depicted in flashbacks, with Whitman reading passages from his poetry on a voice-over soundtrack. It was broadcast as part of CBS‐TV's "American Parade" series.[17][18]
Peter Doyle Brad Davis Peter Doyle is a young streetcar operator, who becomes Whitman's lover for 10 years.[17]
1976 The War Widow PBS Amy Pamela Bellwood Set during World War I, Amy is married to a man that enlisted early. On a trip to New York City, she meets Jenny, a photographer. Their friendship blossoms into romance and they eventually become lovers.[19][20]
Jenny Frances Lee McCain
1977 Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn ABC Alexander Duncan Leigh McCloskey Alexander is a street hustler, only in it for the money, he sleeps with both men and women. At one point in the film he is a houseboy for a closeted gay pro football player. In the end, he reunites with his girlfriend Dawn (Eve Plumb), and they leave California and head up north. Sequel to the TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway.[21]
1977 NBC Ellen Lange Barbara Hershey Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey, who is accused of murder. Daisy is lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian. She was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim.[22][13]
Casey Walker Diana Scarwid
Daisy Dolon Carole Cook
Ricky
Grace Mayo Tisha Sterling
Kendis Winslow Salome Jens
1977 NBC Dr. Roger Cabe Lloyd Bochner A married doctor has an affair with Alex, an openly gay actor. When Roger breaks it off for the sake of his wife and family, Alex has a hard time accepting the break up and swallows a bottle of pills. Roger suspects that Alex may have attempted suicide, so he and some other tenants of the building where they live, break in his apartment and find him unconscious. Roger forces Alex to drink coffee until he wakes up, and in the end, Roger moves in with Alex.[23][24]
Alex Bengston James Phipps
1978 A Question of Love ABC Linda Ray Guettner Gena Rowlands Linda Ray is a lesbian, and a divorced nurse, with two kids. She moves in with Barbara, also a lesbian, and they are in a relationship. Linda's teenage son tells his father about his mother and Barbara's relationship. The ex-husband then sues for custody of the younger boy, because the teen-aged boy had already moved back in with his dad. When they go to trial, Linda loses custody of her young son. Based on the true story of Mary Jo Risher, who in 1975 lost custody of her 9‐year‐old son because she was in a lesbian relationship.[25][26][27]
Barbara Moreland Jane Alexander

1980s[]

Year Title Network Character(s) Actor(s) Notes
1981 The Running Man CBC Ben Garfield Chuck Shamata Ben Garfield is married with two kids, a teacher, and is secretly gay. Michael is his openly gay best friend.[28]
Michael Don Scanlon
1981 Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend NBC Sidney Shorr Tony Randall Sidney Shorr is a gay reclusive illustrator. He meets and befriends Laurie Morgan (Lorna Patterson), a cheerful, forthright woman who spends the night in his apartment. Sidney's sexuality is clear to Laurie from his wistful gaze toward a man's photo, positioned on the mantle. Since Sidney can no longer afford his apartment alone, Laurie moves in, she eventually gets pregnant, and they raise the child together. TV movie that was the pilot for the series Love, Sidney.[29][30]
1982 Showtime Kenneth Talley Jr. Richard Thomas Kenneth Talley Jr. is a gay paraplegic Vietnam veteran living in his childhood home in Lebanon, Missouri. Jed Jenkins is a gardener and Kenneth's boyfriend. Ken hosts a reunion of his old UC Berkeley college friends, and reminisce about days gone by, and what the future holds for them. Based on the play of the same name.[31][32]
Jed Jenkins Jeff Daniels
1983 Making of a Male Model ABC Chuck Lanyard Jeff Conaway Chuck Lanyard is gay and a washed out model. He can't even land a gig standing next to a car at an auto show, because he's too old. He eventually dies from a drug overdose.[33][34]
1983 An Englishman Abroad BBC Guy Burgess Alan Bates Story of the chance encounter between a gay Cambridge spy, Guy Burgess, and actress Coral Browne. The film is based on real life events; The Cambridge Spy Ring.[35]
1985 An Early Frost NBC Michael Pierson Aidan Quinn Michael Pierson is a successful lawyer who returns to his parents home to reveal he has AIDS and is gay. His father refuses to accept that reality, until Michael has seizures and an ambulance is called, which refuses to transport him. After Michael gets out of the hospital, his ex-lover, Peter Hilton, who gave him the disease, arrives and talks Michael out of suicide. One of the first mainstream treatments of AIDS on American television.[36][37]
Peter Hilton D. W. Moffett
1985 Consenting Adult ABC Jeff Lynd Barry Tubb TV movie about Jeff, a gay college student, and his family's struggle to accept their son's homosexuality. When his parents refuse to accept his sexuality, Jeff cuts them out of his life. Stuart is his boyfriend, who he lives with, after getting kicked out of his college dorm by his roommate. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name; also starring Marlo Thomas and Martin Sheen as the parents.[38][39]
Stuart Joseph Adams
1986 As Is Showtime Rich Robert Carradine Rich is a gay writer dying of AIDS. His former lover Saul, returns to care for him. Colleen Dewhurst also stars as a friendly hospice worker. Based on the play of the same title. In 1986, Showtime's senior vice president said, "As Is is probably the frankest treatment of the homosexual life style ever seen on television".[40][41][42]
Saul Jonathan Hadary
1986 Second Serve CBS Renée Richards Vanessa Redgrave Biopic of transgender surgeon turned professional tennis player, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was transgender. A New York State Superior Court judge ruled in Richard's favor, because her weight, height, and physique were comparable to a biological female, despite her high male chromosome count.[43][44]
1986 Welcome Home, Bobby CBS Bobby Cavalero Timothy Williams Bobby is a 16 year old gay high school student, who is arrested during a drug raid, while in the company of Mark Reed, an older gay man. After being released from jail, he struggles with rejection and bullying from his school friends and his father when his sexuality becomes known. Bobby finds a friend and support from Mr. Geffin, a gay teacher.[45][46]
Mark Reed Stephen James
Mr. Geffin John Karlen
1986 The Truth About Alex HBO Alex Prager Peter Spence Alex is gay and a gifted pianist. He is also on the football team, and comes out to his best friend Brad (Scott Baio), the quarterback, who tells him that it doesn't make any difference. When the word gets out that Alex is gay, both Brad and Alex face problems with their homophobic coach and teammates. In the end, they both defy the bigotry, and remain best friends. Adapted from the novel Counterplay.[47][48]
1986 My Two Loves ABC Gail Springer Mariette Hartley After her husband dies, Gail finds a job as a chef for a company, where she meets Marjorie, an executive who is open about her being a lesbian. Their friendship becomes a love affair. The script was co-written by Rita Mae Brown.[49][25]
Marjorie Lynn Redgrave
1987 Two of Us BBC Matthew Jason Rush Matthew is gay and has a sexual relationship with Phil. In the end, Phil and Matthew decide to run off together to the coastal resort of Seaford on the Sussex coast. In the hostile atmosphere of Section 28, a nervous BBC first avoids showing Two of Us (part of BBC Schools TV series) at all, then does so, but only at 23.30.[50]
Phil Lee Whitlock

1990s[]

Year Title Network Character(s) Actor(s) Notes
1991 102 Boulevard Haussmann BBC Marcel Proust Alan Bates Set in 1916 during World War I, Marcel Proust lives a nocturnal, closeted life in Paris, obsessed by his writing and looked after by his devoted housekeeper. On a rare visit to a concert, he becomes fascinated by the music of a string quartet, which includes a young war veteran viola player, Amable Massis (Paul Rhys) whom he befriends. He invites the musicians to play in his apartment, where they perform Cesar Franck's Quartet in D. Proust invites the young musician on numerous occasions to play for him, but Massis is unaware of the true nature of Proust's feelings.[51][52]
1991 The Greening of Ian Elliot CBC Ian Elliot Anthony Bekenn Ian Elliot is gay, and a newly ordained minister from Toronto assigned to a small Saskatchewan community. The residents are opposed to a dam that will destroy their river valley. Elliot joins the opposition, but the residents also question the ordination of a gay minister to the church.[53][54][55]
1991 Our Sons ABC Donald Barnes Željko Ivanek Donald is a young gay man dying of AIDS. His lover, James, asks his mother to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas and tell Donald's mother, who has been estranged from her son for years. Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret are the mothers. It was inspired by Micki Dickoff's 1987 documentary, Too Little, Too Late.[56][57]
James Grant Hugh Grant
1991 The Lost Language of Cranes BBC
PBS		 Philip Benjamin Angus MacFadyen Philip Benjamin is gay and works in publishing. He decides to come out to his parents. British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt.[58][59]
Owen Benjamin Brian Cox Owen Benjamin is Philip's dad and secretly gay. He makes clandestine visits to gay bars and gay adult cinemas.[58][59]
Elliot Abrahams Corey Parker Elliot Abrahams is gay and Philip's boyfriend. He breaks up with him and moves to Paris.[58][59]
Geoffrey Lane René Auberjonois Geoffrey Lane and Derek Moulthorpe are the gay couple who raised Elliot.[58][59]
Derek Moulthorpe John Schlesinger
Robin Bradley Ben Daniels Robin Bradley is a gay middle-aged man who hooks up with Owen Benjamin in a hotel.[58][59]
1992 Doing Time on Maple Drive Fox Matt Carter William McNamara The film takes place over the course of a week, in which the family gathers to celebrate Matt's engagement, who is secretly gay. After breaking off the engagement, he comes out to his family. Kyle has been his secret lover for the last three years.[60][61]
Kyle Bennett Cale
1992 Citizen Cohn HBO Roy Cohn James Woods Story of the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn, who played a significant role in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings. Cohn was a closeted gay, and died from AIDS in 1986.[62][63]
1993 And the Band Played On HBO Don Francis Matthew Modine Synopsis: In 1981, American epidemiologist Don Francis learns of an increased rate of death among gay men in urban areas. The startling information leads him to begin investigating the outbreak, which is ultimately identified as AIDS. Based on the 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts.[64]
Bill Kraus Ian McKellen Bill Kraus is a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide. He also served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and its two successive US Representatives in the early 1980s. Kraus was diagnosed with the disease in October 1984, and died in January 1986 in San Francisco.[65][64]
Kico Govantes B. D. Wong Kico Govantes is gay and a San Francisco artist and Bill Kraus' lover.[64][66]
Gaëtan Dugas Jeffrey Nordling Gaëtan Dugas is gay and a Canadian flight attendant. He was an early AIDS patient who was mistakenly identified as patient zero in a study of transmissibility. He claimed to have had over 2,500 sexual partners since becoming sexually active in 1972. He died in March 1984 as a result of kidney failure caused by AIDS-related infections.[67][68][64]
Eddie Papasano Phil Collins Eddie Papasano is a gay Greek and San Francisco bathhouse owner. Papasano threatened to sue if the government or anyone else tried to shut his bathhouse down.[69][64]
The Choreographer Richard Gere Gere portrays an unnamed gay choreographer, who is dying from the disease.[70]
Brandy Alexander Stephen Spinella Brandy Alexander is a flamboyant transvestite also dying from the disease.[70]
1994 Roommates NBC Bill Thomas Eric Stoltz Bill Thomas is gay, and has to share an apartment in a Seattle AIDS hospice, with a homophobic roommate who contracted the disease through a blood transfusion.[71]
1994 X-Rated CBC Nathan Jones Billy Merasty Nathan Jones is a gay Native North-American ex-bicycle courier. He also appeared in the TV series that was re-named for the CBC drama series Liberty Street.[72]
1995 The Price of Love Fox Bret Peter Facinelli 16-year-old Bret is thrown out of his house. He runs away to Los Angeles, where he meets a hustler named Beau and becomes a hustler himself. Beau is gay, but Bret is gay-for-pay. All Bret wants is a normal and stable life, so he turns himself over to child protective services and becomes a ward of the state.[73][74][75]
Beau Jay R. Ferguson
1995 Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story NBC Margarethe Cammermeyer Glenn Close Margarethe Cammermeyer served in the army for 26 years as a military nurse. When she admitted she was a lesbian during a security clearance interview, she was involuntary discharged. Margarethe then sued the Department of Defense in civil court. A U.S. District judge rescinded her removal, ruling that the military's policy on gays was unconstitutional and based only on prejudice. She was reinstated at her former rank, and served another 7 years before retiring. Diane is an artist and her life partner. Based on a true story.[76][77]
Diane Judy Davis
1995 A Village Affair ITV Clodagh Unwin Kerry Fox Alice moves to the village of Pitcombe with her husband and their two daughters. There she meets Clodagh, a lesbian, and finds herself romantically and sexually attracted to her. The two have an affair. Based on the 1989 novel with the same name.[78][79]
Alice Jordan Sophie Ward
1996 Bastard Out of Carolina Showtime Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright Jena Malone TV movie about Bone, who is physically and sexually abused on a regular basis by her stepfather. Aunt Raylene, who is a lesbian, finds whip marks on Bones' legs, and has the other men in the family beat the stepfather unconscious for what he did to her. In the end, Bone's mother abandons her and stays with her abusive husband, while Bone goes to live with her Aunt Raylene. The film is a semi-autobiographical story based on the 1992 novel by lesbian author Dorothy Allison.[42][80]
Aunt Raylene Diana Scarwid
1996 Breaking the Code BBC Alan Turing Derek Jacobi Based on the true story of Alan Turing, a homosexual in Britain at a time when it was illegal. He was a mathematician who helped decode the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. He also was one of the key contributors to the development of the digital computer.[31][81]
1997 Any Mother's Son Lifetime Allen R. Schindler, Jr. Paul Popowich Based on a true story of a hate crime, the murder of Allen R. Schindler Jr. Schindler was in the Navy and was murdered for being gay. He was stomped to death in a public restroom in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan. The medical examiner said his injuries were similar to what might be sustained in a high-speed car crash or a low-speed aircraft accident. Schindler’s mother Dorothy Hajdys became a gay rights activist after his murder.[82][83][84]
1997 Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story USA Greg Louganis Mario Lopez The movie is based on the true story of gay diver Greg Louganis who won two gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Tom Barrett was his lover, who hit him and cheated him out of money and later died of AIDS. Adapted from the 1996 book Breaking the Surface.[31][85]
Tom Barrett Jeffrey Meek
1997 In the Gloaming HBO Danny Robert Sean Leonard Danny is gay and dying of Aids. He returns to his parents' home in the New York suburbs to spend his final days. His father finds it difficult to accept his son's sexuality, his sister avoids the issue, and his mother forges a deeper and more honest relationship with her dying son. Whoopi Goldberg portrays the nurse who attends to him in his final days. Based on the short story by Alice Elliott Dark.[86][87]
1997 The Twilight of the Golds Showtime David Gold Brendan Fraser The film deals with the issue of fictional genetic testing, and asks the question – if testing could reveal the sexual orientation of your unborn child, and you knew he or she would be gay, would you abort? When Suzanne (Jennifer Beals) undergoes the testing and discovers her son is destined to be gay, she considers abortion, much to the alarm of her gay brother David, who has never been fully accepted by his conservative family, due to him being gay. Suzanne chooses to have the baby, but this leads to a break-up with her husband, who doesn't wish to raise a gay son. Based on the play with the same title.[88][89][90]
1998 Blind Faith Showtime Charles Williams Jr. Garland Whitt In 1957, Charlie, a young gay black man, kills a young white man. The white man, one of seven white men, murdered his boyfriend David, during a hate crime. Charlie is arrested, charged and put on trial, because he confessed. However, during the trial, the circumstances of how it really happened are not revealed due to his homophobic father, who is a police officer, not wanting his fellow white officers to find out his son is gay. In the end, Charlie sitting on death row, waiting for the electric chair, having lost appeal after appeal, hangs himself to make his father proud.[91][42][92]
David Mercer Joel Gordon
1998 Final Justice Lifetime George Saticoy Duffy Epstein George Saticoy is gay and is murdered by his business partner when he discovers him committing arson on the business they own together. His sister kidnaps the lawyer who gets the murderer acquitted.[13][93]
1998 Gia HBO Gia Carangi Angelina Jolie Biopic about the lesbian supermodel Gia Carangi, a heroin addict who died from an AIDS-related illness in 1986. The character of Linda, the girl whom Gia was in love with, is an amalgam of a couple of different women.[94][95]
Linda Elizabeth Mitchell
1998 Labor of Love Lifetime Mickey Wister David Marshall Grant Mickey Wister is single and gay, and always wanted a child. His best friend Annie Pines (Marcia Gay Harden), is single and always wanted a child. So, they figure, why not have a baby together?[13][96]
1999 Execution of Justice Showtime Harvey Milk Peter Coyote The true story of the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was openly gay. The case of assassin Dan White came to be known as the "Twinkie defense", after his sentence was reduced from first-degree murder to voluntary manslaughter. Adaptation of the stage play.[97][98]

2000s[]

Year Title Network Character(s) Actor(s) Notes
2000 Common Ground Showtime Dorothy Nelson Brittany Murphy An anthology film featuring three different stories written by three gay and lesbian playwrights, Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and Harvey Fierstein. The film focuses on three generations of gays and lesbians in the fictional town of Homer, Connecticut, and their efforts to find "common ground" with the rest of the townfolk.[99][100][101]
"A Friend of Dorothy's" – Set in the 1950s, Dorothy Nelson joins the Navy where she meets a group of gay and lesbian sailors, nicknamed the friends of Dorothy. She meets Billy who takes her to a gay nightclub. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service raids the nightclub, and Nelson is busted and receives a blue discharge for sexual perversion. After returning to Homer, she tries to get a job as a school teacher, but is denied because of her Section 8 discharge. When she is outed to the town, her mother kicks her out, and she becomes homeless. A woman at the local diner suggests to Dorothy that she go to Greenwich Village, a more tolerant place for gays and lesbians.[100][101]
Billy Jason Priestley
Toby Anderson Jonathan Taylor Thomas "Mr. Roberts" – Set in the 1970s, Toby is a closeted gay high school student. Mr. Roberts is a closeted gay high school teacher, and Gus is his live in boyfriend. Toby visits a prostitute on the premise that she can help him become a man, but she tells him to just be himself. After Toby is brutally beaten and raped by his homophobic classmates, Mr. Roberts is the one who finds him. The teacher then decides to come out to his students and lectures them about bigotry and hatred. In the end, Toby graduates from high school and leaves Homer to attend college.[101][100]
Gil Roberts Steven Weber
Gus Scott McCord
Andy Andrew Airlie "Andy and Amos" – Set in the year 2000, Andy and Amos are preparing for their wedding ceremony. Amos' father, and the townfolk are planning a march to protest against the wedding. Amos’ father has to choose between prejudice and his love for his son. In the end, father and son reunite and the wedding takes place as scheduled.[101][100]
Amos James LeGros
2000 Holiday Heart Showtime Holiday Heart Ving Rhames Holiday Heart is a gay African American drag queen at a nightclub in Chicago. After his boyfriend dies, he befriends a down on her luck, drug addicted, single mother and her young daughter. Holiday offers them a stable home and becomes a much-needed father figure for the daughter. Eventually the mother is run over and killed by a former boyfriend/drug dealer, and the daughter ends up living with Holiday.[102][103]
2000 If These Walls Could Talk 2 HBO Edith Tree Vanessa Redgrave The film is three short stories dealing with lesbian couples, in three different time periods, with all the stories set in the same house.
1961 – Edith and Abby are an elderly couple living in the house. Abby suffers a stroke, and at the hospital, Edith asks to see her, but is denied because she is not a family member. Abby dies alone during the night, and none of the hospital workers informed her after it had happened. The house is in Abby's name, and Edith legally owns no part of it. Abby's nephew, her only living relative, decides to sell the house, and Edith has to move out.[104][105]
Abby Hedley Marian Seldes
Linda Michelle Williams 1972 – Linda is a young student, who now shares the house with her three lesbian friends. Amy is a young butch lesbian who meets Linda in a bar. Linda's friends don't like Amy and question how they can be taken seriously as feminists if they associate with people like Amy. The two eventually sleep together and have a relationship.[104][105]
Amy Chloë Sevigny
Fran Sharon Stone 2000 – The house is now inhabited by Fran and Kal, a couple hoping to have a baby together. They plan to get a sperm donation from a gay couple, but the men are reluctant to agree to stay out of the baby's life, so Fran and Kal back out. They eventually settle on an anonymous donor, and after three attempts to get pregnant, they are successful when Fran is revealed to be pregnant.[104][105]
Kal Ellen DeGeneres
2000 The Truth About Jane Lifetime Jane Ellen Muth Jane is questioning her sexuality, until Taylor, the new girl arrives at her school. The two become friends and eventually kiss, and Jane finally realizes she is a lesbian. They end up having a sexual relationship, but later break up. Meanwhile, Jane's mother disapproves and wants Jane to get help, but in the end, after talking with Jane's guidance counselor and Jimmy, she reluctantly comes around and accepts her daughter's sexual identity.[106][107]
Taylor Alicia Lagano
Lynn Walcott Kelly Rowan Lynn Walcott is the guidance counselor at school, and a lesbian. She comes out to Jane to help her better understand her own identity. She talks with Jane's mother and helps her to understand and accept her daughter.[106][107]
Jimmy RuPaul Jimmy is a gay friend of the mother, who helps her accept her daughter for who she is.[106][107]
2001 A Girl Thing Showtime Lauren Travis Elle Macpherson The film consists of four separate stories. In the first part, Lauren goes on a blind double date, rejects the man she is set up with, and instead, falls for the other woman in the foursome, Casey. A romance blossoms between the pair, but Lauren has intimacy issues and is seeing a therapist. She is also scared of being identified as a lesbian, due to her homophobic best friend and law firm partner.[108][109][88]
Casey Montgomery Kate Capshaw
2001 A Glimpse of Hell FX Clay Hartwig Dashiell Eaves This movie is a fact based story about how the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the U.S.S. Iowa on an alleged gay affair between two sailors, Clay Hartwig and Kendall Truitt. The Navy's theory was that Clay Hartwig sabotaged a gun turret to get revenge on Kendall Truitt, who allegedly had broken off a relationship. Forty-seven sailors were killed, either incinerated or blown to pieces. After the investigation was heavily criticized, the Navy re-opened the investigation and in 1991, they announced that the Navy could not determine who or what had caused the tragedy. The Navy also apologized to Hartwig's family. The film is based on the book A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up.[13][110][111]
Kendall Truitt Jamie Harrold
2001 Anatomy of a Hate Crime MTV Matthew Shepard Based on a true crime; the murder of openly gay college student Matthew Shepard, who was brutally beaten to death by two men he met in a bar. Both men received consecutive life sentences for the murder.[112] The film was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series.[113]
2001 What Makes a Family Lifetime Janine Neilssen Brooke Shields When Sandy dies, Janine must fight to keep the child Sandy bore through artificial insemination. The teleplay is based on the true story of Janine Ratcliffe, who in 1989 won custody of the daughter of her deceased lesbian partner, Joan Pearlman.[114]
Sandy Cataldi Cherry Jones
2002 Bobbie's Girl Showtime Bailey Lewis Bernadette Peters Bailey and Roberta are a middle-aged lesbian couple who own and operate a bar in Ireland. When Roberta's brother and his wife are killed in a car accident, Roberta's 10 year old nephew, Alan (Thomas Sangster), comes to live with them.[115][116]
Roberta "Bobbie" Langham Rachel Ward
2002 The Matthew Shepard Story Showtime Matthew Shepard Shane Meier Based on a true story, about the murder of openly gay college student Matthew Shepard, who was brutally beaten to death by two men he met in a bar. Both men received consecutive life sentences for the murder.[117]
2002 No Night Is Too Long BBC Two Tim Cornish Lee Williams Tim Cornish is bisexual and in his last year at college. Ivo Steadman is gay and a paleontology lecturer at the same college. The two meet and begin a relationship. The two travel to Alaska on a cruise. When the cruise stops at an island, Tim and Ivo get into an argument, and Tim slams Ivo against the mountainside, believing he is dead. Tim flees to Vancouver, where he has a sexual relationship with Thierry. A year later, Thierry shows up at Tim's house and wants money. In the end, Ivo is not dead, but Thierry kills him believing it is Tim, because Ivo is wearing Tim's coat.[118][119] Based on the 1994 novel of the same name
Ivo Steadman Marc Warren
Thierry Massin Salvatore Antonio
2003 Murad Indus TV Saima Sohail Asghar Murad a.k.a. Eunuch's Motherhood is a part of the Maa Aur Mamta TV series of films based on Mothers.[citation needed]
Bobo Qazi Wajid
Naddo Nabeel Zafar
2003 Normal HBO Ruth Tom Wilkinson After a 25-year marriage to Irma (Jessica Lange), Roy Applewood reveals to her family that she has a gender identity disorder. When Ruth decides to have a sex change operation, her co-workers are shocked, Ruth's church rejects her, and her son struggles with the humiliation of having a father who now goes by the name Ruth.[120][121]
2003 Soldier's Girl Showtime Calpernia Addams Lee Pace Based on the true story of the murder of Barry Winchell. Barry is gay and a private in the Army, while Calpernia is a performer at a transgender revue in Nashville, Tennessee. Barry's roommate brings him to the club where Calpernia performs, and Barry and Calpernia start dating. Barry is harassed and called names for dating Calpernia. During a Fourth of July weekend, Barry easily beats a fellow soldier named Calvin Glover in a fight, who Barry has called out as being a fraud. Barry's roommate harasses Glover about being beaten by "a fucking faggot" like Winchell. Glover is enraged and beats Barry to death in his sleep with a baseball bat. Glover was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.[122][123]
Barry Winchell Troy Garity
2003 An Unexpected Love Lifetime Kate Mayer Leslie Hope Kate's tepid marriage to Jack has made both of them unhappy for a long time and she asks for a separation. She has been a housewife and mother, and with no work experience encounters difficulty in finding a job, until she is hired by Mac as a receptionist in her real estate office. A friendship begins to grow between them and Kate finds out that Mac is an out lesbian. As time passes, Kate develops an attraction for Mac, which is reciprocated, and they fall in love.[124][125][126]
McNally 'Mac' Hays Wendy Crewson
2004 Jack Showtime Paul Ron Silver Paul comes out to his family after getting a divorce, and informs them he is now living with his boyfriend Bob. The film is told from the point of view of his son, 15 year old Jack (Anton Yelchin), and how it affects his life. After finding out that his friends at school also have families that aren't perfect, he comes to accept his dad for who he is.[127][128]
Bob Paul McGillion
2004 Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story CTV Marc Hall Aaron Ashmore Based on a true story. Marc Hall is an openly gay high school senior and attends St. Jude, a Catholic school. When the school asked students attending the prom to submit the names of the guests they intended to bring, Hall submitted the name of his boyfriend Jason. His request to attend prom with Jason was denied on the grounds that homosexuality is incompatible with Roman Catholic teaching. Hall then took the school board to court, where the court granted an interlocutory injunction ordering that Hall be allowed to attend the prom with Jason and also that the school not cancel the prom. Hall attended the prom with Jason.[129][130]
Jason Mak Fyfe
2005 Deadly Skies here! Donovan Antonio Sabato, Jr. Donovan and Mark are a gay couple recruited to help with a plan to stop a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. The film was released in the United States with gay content, while in other regions it was not.[131][132]
Mark Michael Boisvert
2006 here! Samantha Alexandra Paul Samantha and Dana are a lesbian couple. Samantha and her daughter are kidnapped in a plot to uncover a woman hidden in the Witness Protection Program. Samantha is an Internet security expert, so the kidnappers want her to use her skills to help reveal the location of the woman.[133][134][135][136][137]
Dana Michelle Wolff
2006 Wedding Wars A&E Shel Grandy John Stamos Shel is a gay wedding planner and planning his straight brother's wedding. But when his brother's boss, the governor of the state, makes a speech against same-sex marriage, Shel goes on strike for equal rights. His strike eventually spreads nationwide. Ted is his partner.[138]
Ted Moore Sean Maher
2006 Totally Awesome VH1 Yamagashi James Hong The film parodies a number of 1980s movies, including the Karate Kid films. Yamagashi is gay and constantly naked in front of Charlie (Mikey Day), and coming on to him.[139]
2006 A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story Lifetime Gwen Araujo J. D. Pardo Based on the true story of the murder of Gwen Araujo. Gwen knew as early as seven years old she was a girl, and came out as transgender at fourteen. She was killed by four men, two of whom she had been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering that she was transgender.[140][141]
2007 Battlestar Galactica: Razor Sci Fi Channel Helena Cain Michelle Forbes Helena Cain and Gina Inviere are a lesbian couple.[142]
Gina Inviere Tricia Helfer
2007 Clapham Junction Channel 4 Robin Rupert Graves The movie is about the experiences of several gay men during a 36-hour period in the Clapham area of London and the consequences when their lives collide. Five stories are told from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer's night.
Robin, a gay writer, has just finished a television script and is trying to sell it, but it's rejected by a television executive, who tells him, the whole gay thing has been done. Later, Robin goes cruising in the public toilets where he meets Julian. They try to hook up but are interrupted and Robin leaves, and Julian stays behind. Julian eventually finds a hook up in the toilet and has sex with him.[143][144]
Julian James Wilby
Theo Luke Treadaway 14 year old Theo is gay and has a crush on his 29 year old gay neighbor Tim. Theo frequently spies on him through Tim's bedroom window and masturbates. Theo turns up one night at Tim's, to return a pen he left behind at the library, and manages to talk his way into Tim's apartment. At first they awkwardly talk, but Theo eventually seduces a willingly Tim and they have sex.[145][144]
Tim Joseph Mawle
Will Richard Lintern Will and Gavin are a gay couple getting ready for their civil commitment ceremony. Alfie is gay and is working as a waiter at the ceremony. Will, who has no intention on remaining faithful to Gavin, makes a move on Alfie as they snort cocaine in the pantry. Will tries to talk Alfie into having sex, but Alfie refuses. Later, Alfie finds Will's ring in his pocket along with a note containing his phone number. Later, Alfie is killed in a gay bashing incident in the park.[146][144]
Gavin Stuart Bunce
Alfie David Leon
2007 Daphne BBC Daphne du Maurier Geraldine Somerville Author Daphne du Maurier attempts to pursue her friend, Ellen Doubleday (Elizabeth McGovern), in a case of unrequited love, and has a secret love affair with Gertrude Lawrence. Based on the controversial chapters in Margaret Forster's 1993 authorized biography.[147]
Gertrude Lawrence Janet McTeer
2008 Ice Blues here! Donald Strachey Chad Allen Donald Strachey is a gay private investigator, and his husband, Tim Callahan is a New York State Senate staffer. Tim asks Donald to uncover the source of an anonymous and generous donation of three million dollars in stolen money to a youth-counseling center that leads to a young man's death. Kenny Kwon is Strachey's gay assistant, who's taking a course in private investigation. Adaptation of the novel Ice Blues by Richard Stevenson.[148][149]
Timothy Callahan Sebastian Spence
Kenny Kwon Nelson Wong
2008 Kiss Me Deadly here! Jake Keane Robert Gant Jake Keane is a gay retired spy. He's now a photographer in Milan, Italy, and Paulo is his partner. When his former spy partner (Shannen Doherty ), reappears after seventeen years, with her memory erased, and on the run from a pair of psychopathic assassins, he agrees to help her find out why. Kyra is a lesbian, and the mother of his child.[150][151]
Paulo Nathan Whitaker
Kyra Katherine Kennard
2008 Knight Rider NBC Carrie Ruvai Sydney Tamiia Poitier Carrie Ruvai is a bisexual FBI Special Agent. Pilot for the revival of the Knight Rider franchise.[152][153]
2009 Prayers for Bobby Lifetime Bobby Griffith Ryan Kelley Based on the true story of the life and legacy of Bobby Griffith, a gay teen who killed himself in 1983 due to his mother's homophobia. After his mother, a devout Christian, constantly berates and criticizes her son for being gay, Bobby free falls off a bridge on a highway into the path of an oncoming eighteen-wheeler truck, which kills him instantly. David is gay, and was a boyfriend of Bobby. Adapted from the book of the same name by Leroy F. Aarons.[154][155][156]
David Scott Bailey

2010s[]

Year Title Network Character(s) Actor(s) Notes
2010 The Counterfeiters
(Les Faux-monnayeurs)		 France 2 Olivier Maxime Berger Olivier is a young gay schoolboy who has sexual relations with his Uncle Edouard and lets himself be seduced by Comte de Passavant, a rich and trendy writer who is also cynical and manipulative. Based on the 1925 novel The Counterfeiters by André Gide.[157][158]
Uncle Edouard Melvil Poupaud
Comte de Passavant Patrick Mille
2010 Worried About the Boy BBC Two Boy George Douglas Booth Biographical film based on the life of English singer Boy George, who came out as gay in 1995. Jon Moss is his lover.[159]
Jon Moss Mathew Horne
2010 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister BBC Two
BBC HD		 Anne Lister Maxine Peake Anne Lister's first relationship is with Mariana Belcombe, until she breaks it off to get married. Anne then meets Ann Walker, another wealthy landowner, who she settles down with. Later, Mariana returns, saying she can leave her husband now, but Anne rejects her as she is already committed to Ann. Based on the deciphered diaries of Anne Lister. She kept diaries which chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships. The diaries contain more than four million words and those concerning the intimate details of her romantic and sexual relationships were written in a code. The diaries were deciphered in the 1930s.[160][161][162]
Mariana Belcombe Anna Madeley
Ann Walker Christine Bottomley
2011 Christopher and His Kind BBC Two Christopher Isherwood Matt Smith The film is told in flash backs, and begins in 1931 as Christopher Isherwood prepares to leave England for Germany. Upon arrival, he takes up residence in a boarding house. Heinz Neddermayer is a street sweeper that Christopher meets and they fall in love. Wystan Auden is Christopher's gay friend, who introduces him to a seedy gay club. Gerald Hamilton is gay, who Christopher meets on the train on his way to Berlin, and recommends the boarding house. Based on Isherwood's memoir of the same name.[163][164]
Heinz Neddermayer Douglas Booth
Wystan Auden Pip Carter
Gerald Hamilton Toby Jones
2011 Cinema Verite HBO Lance Loud Thomas Dekker Based on the early reality television series An American Family. The film dramatizes the making of the series that originally aired on PBS. Lance Loud was the oldest sibling of the family and was openly gay. He came out publicly during the series, making him the first person on American television to do so. He lived for a while in New York and took up residence at New York’s Chelsea Hotel. He was a frequent visitor to gay bars and drag queen revues, and became best friends with Candy Darling, a Warhol Superstar and transgender icon, and Jackie Curtis, also a Warhol Superstar, who performed as both a man and a woman throughout her career. Lance died of AIDS-related hepatitis in 2001.[165][166][167]
Candy Darling Willem Belli
Jackie Curtis Kyle Riabko
2011 À la recherche du temps perdu France 2 Baron de Charlus Didier Sandre Based on the seven-volume novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. The film is intertwined with stories involving homosexual and bisexual love stories. Baron de Charlus is a licentious gay man and a member of the influential Guermantes family. He has affairs with his tailor Jupien, who frequents male brothels, and Charles Morel, a gay violinist and protege of Robert de Saint-Loup, who is bisexual.[168][169][170][171][172]
Jupien Michel Fau
Robert de Saint-Loup Andy Gillet
Charles Morel Vincent Heden
2011 Steven Niles' Remains Chiller Jensen Miko Hughes The film takes place in the aftermath of a devastating zombie apocalypse, where a group of survivors have banded together in the ruins of a casino in Reno, Nevada. Jensen is gay and a magician's assistant who moved to Reno to live with his boyfriend. Adaptation of the comic series of the same name.[173][174]
2013 Behind the Candelabra HBO Liberace Michael Douglas Biographical film that tells the story of the last ten years in the life of gay pianist Liberace and the relationship that he had with his live in lover, Scott Thorson. Thorson moved in with Liberace when he was 18, and had plastic surgery at Liberace's insistence, so he would look more like him. When Thorson finally left Liberace, he sued him for palimony. Liberace died in February 1987 from AIDS. The film is based on Thorson's memoir, Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace.[175][176]
Scott Thorson Matt Damon
2014 The Normal Heart HBO Ned Weeks Mark Ruffalo Teleplay by Larry Kramer, based on his play of the same name. The film depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984.
Ned Weeks is an openly gay writer from New York City, and the founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Felix Turner is a gay New York Times reporter, who Ned contacts hoping that he can use his media connections to publish more stories about the health crisis. The two begin a romantic relationship. Felix eventually comes down with symptoms and dies.[177][178]
Felix Turner Matt Bomer
Craig Donner Jonathan Groff Craig and Bruce Niles are dating. At his birthday party, Craig becomes ill and collapses and begins to cough repeatedly. Later, Craig suddenly suffers violent convulsions and is rushed to the hospital where he is later pronounced dead. Later, Bruce begins dating Albert. When Albert contracts the disease, they travel to Phoenix, so Albert can see his mother one more time. When they get to Phoenix, Albert dies, and the hospital refuses to examine him and throws him out with the garbage. Bruce bribes a funeral home to cremate his body without a death certificate. In the end, Bruce dies as well.[179][180]
Bruce Niles Taylor Kitsch
Albert Finn Wittrock
2015 Bessie HBO Bessie Smith Queen Latifah Bessie is a bisexual woman known as "Empress of the Blues."[181]
2016 Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? Lifetime Leah Leila George Leah is in love with Pearl, a lesbian vampire. The film is a re-imagining of the similarly-titled 1996 television movie.[182]
Pearl Emily Meade
2018 Agatha and the Truth of Murder Channel 5 Mabel Rogers Pippa Haywood Rogers convinces Agatha Christie into helping her find out who killed her long-term partner, Florence Nightingale Shore. The film is an alternative history story about the real-life disappearance of Christie in 1926, and includes the real crime which remains unsolved.[183][184]
2018 I Am Jonas Arte Jonas Félix Maritaud The film switches between present and past. In present day, Jonas is a troubled gay man. In the past, a teen-aged Jonas meets Nathan, and they have a relationship together. One night they go to a gay bar but are refused entry as the minimum age is 18 years. A man notices and tells them to get in his car and he will take them to a gay bar where there is no age limit. They get in his car but soon Nathan gets suspicious as the ride takes too long. The driver punches Nathan and knocks him out, while Jonas is able to escape. Back in the present, Jonas runs into Nathan's family and admits that he lied on the evening Nathan got kidnapped. He didn't actually escape, but the kidnapper forced him to leave the car. Since then he's struggled with the guilt that he should have stayed in the car.[185][186]
Nathan Tommy-Lee Baïk
2019 Deadwood: The Movie HBO Calamity Jane Robin Weigert Calamity is lesbian and in love with Joanie. Joanie is lesbian and a hostess at a brothel. They rekindle their romance which first began in Deadwood, the television series the movie is based on.[187][188][189]
Joanie Stubbs Kim Dickens
2019 One Red Nose Day and a Wedding BBC One
BBC Two		 Miranda Lily James Miranda and Faith marry in this "25 years later" short film sequel to 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, produced for the 2019 Comic Relief telethon.[190]
Faith Alicia Vikander
2019 Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story Lifetime Alex Cooper Addison Holley The film is based on the 2016 memoir, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began.[191]
Alex is 15, and raised by conservative Mormon parents. She meets Frankie, an 18-year-old out lesbian, and they begin a relationship. When Alex comes out to her parents, they trick Alex and leave her in the custody of a Mormon couple in Utah to undergo anti-gay conversion therapy. She spends eight months under their cruel authority before she is finally able to escape and find help.[192][193]
Frankie Nicolette Pearse
Jason Stephen Joffe Jason is a gay classmate of Alex in a Utah high school. Together with a sympathetic teacher in charge of the local gay–straight alliance, he helps Alex find an attorney to extricate her.[194]

2020s[]

Year Title Network Character(s) Actor(s) Notes
2020 The Christmas House Hallmark Channel Brandon Jonathan Bennett Brandon is a baker and married to Jake. Brandon returns to his parents home at Christmas for a family tradition. The entire home, inside and out, will be extensively decorated for Christmas. The film was the first Hallmark movie to prominently feature a same-sex couple.[195][196]
Jake Brad Harder
2020 The Christmas Setup Lifetime Hugo Ben Lewis Hugo is gay and a New York City attorney who comes home to visit his mother for Christmas. He reconnects with his openly gay high school crush Patrick, and they fall in love. Hugo has been offered a promotion to his firm's office in London, so they must decide between Patrick moving, or Hugo staying. Lead actors Ben Lewis and Blake Lee are married in real life.[197][198]
Patrick Blake Lee
2020 Dashing in December Paramount Network Wyatt Burwall Peter Porte Wyatt Burwall returns home for the holidays in an effort to convince his mother to sell the family's Colorado ranch. After arriving, he meets ranch hand Heath Ramos, who doesn't want the ranch sold, and the two begin a romantic relationship.[199][200]
Heath Ramos Juan Pablo Di Pace
2020 Love Under the Olive Tree Hallmark Channel Adam Caulfield Shawn Roberts Adam Caulfield is a farm worker and Billy Stevens owns the local bar. They have a very subtle romantic relationship that begins with a date to a barn dance and eventually a dinner for two.[201][202]
Billy Stevens Andrew Dunbar
2020 The Thing About Harry Freeform Sam Baselli Jake Borelli Sam is a young gay man who's forced to share a car ride with Harry, a popular jock who was his enemy in high school. Harry comes out as pansexual during the ride. They sporadically meet throughout the following years, and spend the night together while attending a wedding. They eventually get married and are raising a child together.[203][204]
Harry Turpin Niko Terho

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