Over 85 women who've suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.
The history of lesbian representation on television is rocky — in the beginning, we seemed exclusively relegated to roles that saw us getting killed/attacked or doing the killing/attacking. And until the last five or so years, lesbian and bisexual characters seemed entirely unable to date an actual woman or stay alive for more than three episodes, let alone an entire run, of a show. Gay and lesbian characters are so often murdered on television that we have our very own trope: Bury Your Gays. We comprise such a teeny-tiny fraction of characters on television to begin with that killing us off so haphazardly feels especially cruel.
Reblog to say the list is up to 135 now, and Autostraddle has published a companion article: All 29 Lesbian and Bisexual Female TV Characters Who Got Happy Endings
150 now.
