ok so i’m gonna add some things that people have added
Pride (2014): “ if people are looking for something happy/uplifting to watch. It’s actually a biopic about the group of gays and lesbians who supported the coal miners during the strike in the UK in the 80’s. There’s some sadness because aids and it’s 80’s so some queer bashing and stuff, but it really is an uplifting movie. Especially in terms of acceptance and hope for the future. Also, cool history stuff. :D“ (via @gladiatorofturtles)
Imagine Me and You: this is the one with Lena Headey and Piper Perabo with the “are you gay” “ecstatic” and they end up together and ride into the sunset
I Can’t Think Straight: ok I don’t know about much about this one but i know it ends happy and i want to watch it
Saving Face: “It’s amazing. It has like 95% POC cast and it has a happy ending. Not only that - but my personal favourite - it has family acceptance. Wil’s homophobic mother comes around in the end - it’s incredibly moving. It’s hopeful, you know?” i got this description on anon and i’m now adding it
Don’t quote me on this but I THINK Penny Dreadful might be ok? Same with Bomb Girls (except I don’t know for sure at all so more research is needed)
Son of Batman: ok this is a cartoon movie in a series of them (this is also part of the Young Justice world I’m like 90% sure) and there are canon queer women (yay batwoman!) and Netflix is thinking about renewing it for season 3 and if you know about Young Justice you’ll know that it was cancelled because so many girls watched it like the only tragedy is that it was cancelled (BUT hey if more people watch it might get renewed-also on Netflix)
I mean if you want to stop after like season 3 there’s The Good Wife but yes stop after season 3 (well. Kalinda does not Die. Is mistreated and mangled after like season 5 but she Does Not Die.)
There’s also How To Get Away With Murder: if you haven’t heard of Annalise and her Murder Ducklings it has several queer characters, including the lead character who’s a bisexual woman of color.
I mean if you want to go through kind of hell there’s Glee (too bad it ended after season 3 but at least they confirmed in the future brittany and santana would get married if it continued that was nice of them) and Lost Girl
also if you want to deal with subtext kind of there’s season 2 of Legend of the Seeker (seriously just watch the pilot and then ignore the rest of season 1) but Kahlan and Cara (played by Bridget Regan and Tabarett Bethell) have chemistry up the wazoo Cara is confirmed as bi. It was cancelled after season 2. No one dies (it only counts if it lasts longer than an episode)
there’s also the well known Xena on netflix if you want to watch that
Ok I’m gonna also add books i know because this is Safer since it’s already finished and you know the ending and all the kinds of queer media with happy endings are Good
The Gone series by Michael Grant is a YA book series (total guilty pleasure of mine) where all the gay/lesbian characters survive to the end despite the massive death toll of the series - spoilers: all the people who died were straight people. So if you like teenagers in apocalyptic situations and gay people not dying this one is a must! (via @marthagreyjoy)
The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer: this is your gay Persephone and Hades au that you’ve always wanted trust me it’s an A+ also 4.99
Beanstalk by E Jade Lomax: aka @ink-splotch on here (seriously read some of the things written over there about susan pevensie or harry potter you will feel things)first of all, there’s 2 out of 3 books currently out. Second, they’re all free. It’s one of the best series I’ve ever read I love it so fucking much it’s my favorite it’s fantasy/fiction and just written So Well here’s the description:
“Jack Farris doesn’t want to save the world, just every person he knows, encounters, or hears of.It’s a bit of an issue.S. Grey doesn’t want to save anyone but himself. He wants to know everything and majoring in sagework at the Academy is the best way to do that. Laney Jones left her home to avoid the constraints there, only to find different barriers holding her back at the Academy. Eager to learn, to excel, to escape, she has far from given up. Rupert Willington Jons Hammerfeld the Seventh would just like everything to be orderly, thank you very much, but it seems the only way to make monsters and myths (and malicious but mundane men) to stop rampaging through his world is to go out and do some hero-ing himself. They are put together as an unwilling study group, but they become something more.“ i love this series so much it’s so good AND it’s free trust me read this you wont be disappointed i swear
Tamora Pierce Books-not so much the first series, BUT there is very good representation in Circle of Magic series . Not so much in the first 4 books, because they’re like 11 and romance isn’t really talked about at all in those but yes like they’re pretty much all queer (2 lesbians, one pan, one ace, one aro, one poly, combined with having lots of POC trust me this is a Good Series. the first ones are more children’s books, with the latter becoming more young adult (kind of think how the 5th harry potter book is much darker than the 1st)
“There are four main characters, a white girl who has power to control and and bespell textiles, a black lesbian who can shape and enchant metal, a fat girl very easily interpreted as asexual who can control weather and cause natural disasters, and a possibly aromantic boy of color who can talk to plants. Their mentors include two queer women in a relationship and a black man. The entire series revolves around their friendship and supporting and drawing strength from each other. Along with this are very strong feminist themes, and not that exclusively white woman feminism, like real anti-racism, anti-classism, and sexual liberation stuff, along with storylines about honoring your culture while breaking away from what is traditionally accepted, anti-war sentiments and dealing with grief and PTSD.” (via @professorsparklepants)
Ash by Melinda Lo: this is the gay Cinderella story you’ve been waiting to read
Also she wrote Huntress, the prequel to Ash, and Adaptation, completely unrelated but i’ve heard good things
The Heralds by Mercedes Lackey: ok this is like an intensely long series of series like there’s so many books and it’s fantasy yes so the majority of them are about the Heralds-people who are chosen by creatures who pretty much look like horses, but are sentient and have different abilities, and when they choose their companion their companion gets abilities and then after going through training they have to deal with a bunch of Shit That Goes Down
Young Wizards: Ok you can buy all 9 books for $20 I haven’t read these in a long time but I want to reread them BUT I’ve heard very good things and there are Aliens and Magic and Wizards and this is the kind of alien books where there’s multiple genders and completely different cultures because hey that’s what happens when a different sentient species develops unrelated to the human race they’re gonna be different. Also I’ve heard there’s lots of queer characters and POC and autistic characters and they’ve been posted from the 80′s and are still being posted
The Posterchildren: ok this is another i want to read it’s about queer superheroes it’s 5$ and then each subsequent short story is 1$
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters: “No one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a “baby farmer.” Mrs. Sucksby’s household also hosts a transient family of petty thieves–fingersmiths–for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home. One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives–Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, they all will share in Maud’s vast inheritance. With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to regret her decision“
it’s also gay woohoo. I’ve never read it but I’ve heard good things.
The Price of Salt: Ok this is the book Carol is based off enjoy the gay
ok, for a longer list of lgbt books there’s a giant list here and if you want a place to buy these books in paperback, there’s a website called Thriftbooks that lets you buy a lot of used books for really really cheap and free shipping and i might add more later but for now here’s some
romaincrisis
areudirty
ellievsbear
dailybridgerton
