LGBTQ+ Youth & Adult Resources: TV Shows

Optimistic high school teacher Will Schuester tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing McKinley High's Glee Club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential. Going up against McKinley's cruel high school caste system and facing harsh criticism from everyone around him, Will becomes determined to prove them all wrong. Features an openly gay character, Kurt Hummel, and in later seasons, a lesbian, bisexual girl, and a transgender character.
Rating: TV-PG

For as long as they can recall, Grace and Frankie have been rivals. Their one-upmanship comes crashing to a halt, however, when they learn that their husbands have fallen in love with each other and want to get married. As everything around the ladies is coming apart, the only thing they can really rely on is each other.
Rating: TV-MA

Modern Family takes a refreshing and funny view of what it means to raise a family in this hectic day and age. Multicultural relationships, adoption, and same-sex marriage are just a few of the timely issues faced by the show's three wildly-diverse broods. No matter the size or shape, family always comes first in this hilariously 'modern' look at life, love, and laughter.
Rating: TV-PG

California couple Bryan and David have everything a fabulous gay couple could want--except a child. Luckily, they've found the perfect surrogate, Goldie, a gorgeous single mom. There's just one problem. Okay, maybe two. Goldie's slacker ex is fighting for custody of their precocious daughter, and her grandmother is a wise-cracking bigot.
Rating: TV-14

Will and Grace live together in an apartment in New York. Will is a gay lawyer, Grace is a straight interior designer, and every day is full of laughs.
Rating: TV-14

Yumi is a first year student at the Lillian School For Girls, an exclusive all girl's catholic school. The school has a tradition that older girls take a younger girl as their little sister or "soeur" in order to instruct and look out for them. Though Yumi admires Sachiko, a reserved second year student who is a member of the student council, she has no hopes of being chosen as her soeur. When an innocent encounter leads Sachiko to impulsively ask Yumi to be her soeur, Yumi is brought into the inner circle of the Roses, who are the members of the student council. With Sachiko at her side, Yumi begins to unravel and understand the relationships between the Roses and their soeurs and figure out her own feelings for Sachiko. Complete series available.

In a near future world after the last great war, most of mankind now lives in a handful of city states. There, for the privileged elite, life should be perfect. But for young Shion, the only thing perfect has been the nightmare his life has become since letting a strange boy called Rat spend the night in his apartment. Banished to the outskirts of the city and stripped of all privileges for helping the mysterious stranger who has since disappeared, Shion now finds himself in even worse danger. Complete series available.

Mireille makes a living out of killing as an international assassin. Kirika is an amnesiac with uncanny speed and stealth. Under the codename Noir, these two young mistresses of semi-automatics and improvised weapons track and execute criminal syndicates across the globe as they hunt for clues to their connected pasts -- but they are the ones who are actually being hunted. Complete series available.

Strawberry Panic tells the story of Nagisa Aoi, a transfer student at St. Miator's Academy, a prestigious all-girls Catholic high school. While getting totally lost on her first day, she meets Shizuma, a mysterious beautiful girl with long silver hair. Nagisa is immediately smitten with the girl otherwise known as the |toile. When Shizuma takes a mutual liking to the new transfer student, the secrets of Shizuma's complicated past are slowly revealed over the course of the school year. Season 1 available.

Tears have always come easily to Fumi, but as a child, she could count on her best friend, Akira, to cheer her up. After a decade apart, Fumi and Akira find themselves reunited by chance. But even as the two girls rediscover their friendship, with the start of the new school year, Fumi becomes romantically involved with a tall, charismatic girl named Sugimoto. Fumi soon finds herself playing a balancing act between friendship and love. Includes bonus features. Complete series available.