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64 Unmissable Lesbian TV Shows

64 Lesbian TV Shows

After extensive research and lots of popcorn, we’re bringing you the ultimate list of the best lesbian TV shows, web series, and mini-series available online and on DVD today.

If you’re looking for something a little longer, take a look through our list of lesbian movies. For avid readers, we have a long list of recommended lesbian fiction and lesbian non-fiction books.

For something a little more raw and shorter, take a peek at our full list of lesbian web series.

Lesbian TV Series

Long-running TV series with predominantly lesbian characters, scenes and themes, here’s a list of our favorite lesbian TV series in no particular order:

Exes and Ohs (2007)

Meet Jennifer (Michelle Paradise), a documentary filmmaker with a vivid fantasy life (which we see) and a floundering career (which we also see). Jennifer wants to find Ms. Right. but first, she must navigate the rules of lesbian life, most of which she learns the hard way.

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Fortunately, her friends are there to help: Sam, a commitment-phobe who flips women faster than real estate; Chris and Kris, a lesbian couple expanding both their pet accessory business and their family; and Crutch, a young musician who wants to be taken seriously but still has some growing up to do. Surviving singlehood, couplehood – and each other – has never looked quite like this. As far as lesbian TV shows go, this is one of our all time favorites, it’s funny and light-hearted with a happy ending.

Watch the Trailer on Daily Motion

Rent on Netflix DVD

Watch on Amazon

The L Word

This long-running Showtime series ran for 6 seasons and it features intertwined stories about the lives and loves of a group of LGBTQIA+ women in Los Angeles.

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The characters date, get into committed relationships, consider having families, hook up, break up, question their sexuality, stay in the closet, come out or sleep around — sometimes all of the above.

Season 8 of the L Word (this time called Generation Q) was officially released on December 8th 2019 and Season 2 has just been confirmed!

Watch the new trailer for the L Word: Generation Q 2019

Rent Season 1 on Netflix DVD

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Box Set on Amazon

Stream Season 1, Episode 1 on Amazon Prime

Black Lightning (2018)

Jefferson Pierce, a vigilante with the power to harness electricity, is forced to come out of retirement and fight the increasing crime in his neighbourhood.

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The show is famous for including the first ever black lesbian superhero, Anissa Pierce / Thunder / Blackbird. Anissa has the ability to manipulate her density with her breathing, endowing herself with superhuman strength and durability. She can also create powerful shockwaves and has an accelerated healing factor.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Netflix

Call My Agent!

Call my Agent, or ‘Dix Pour Cent’, is a french comedy drama TV series that was first shown in France in 2015. The show is available to stream on Netflix. The plot focuses on the life of a prestigious artistic agency and the death of its founder.

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Lesbian leads, Andréa (Camille Cottin) and Colette (Ophélia Kolb) share interactions in Season 1 as they work collide through art and business. The series also shows us the other side of the celebrity world with lots of laughter and a play on emotions.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Watch on Netflix

Wentworth (Australia)

Remember old school women’s prison drama ‘Prisoner Cell Block H’, where the cell walls shook as a door was slammed? Wentworth prison TV series is based on just that but with a modern, graphic and drama-filled twist and lots of lesbian characters.

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Remember Bea Smith as gutsy and fearless, ruling Wentworth Correctional Centre with an iron fist. But who was Bea Smith before prison? How did a housewife and mother from the suburbs become Top Dog without rival? Having taken Australia by storm and now on Season Five, Australia’s most famous correctional center opens its gates for the first time in 27 years in an edgy, and graphic re-imagining of the popular drama series, Prisoner: Cell Block H.
Featuring both new and original characters, this no-holds-barred drama charts their struggle to survive in the violent, pressure cooker environment of a contemporary women’s prison. It’s drama with conviction.

Watch the Season 1 Trailer on YouTube

Watch on Netflix

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Season 7 on Amazon

Or Buy the Box Set on Amazon.

Black Mirror

Black Mirror is a US/British anthology series that revolves around a group of people’s personal lives and how technology manipulates their behaviour.
Most episodes are set in futuristic worlds where electronic pollenating bees exist among robotic policing dogs! But there’s an episode in particular with a heartwarming lesbian storyline and that is Season 3 Episode 4, San Junipero!

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The episode is set in a beach resort town named ‘San Junipero’, where the introverted Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis) meets the more outgoing Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw). The town is part of a simulated reality the elderly can inhabit, even after death. It’s a wonderful love story between two women with an added bonus of funky 1980s music and setting!

Watch the San Junipero trailer on Vimeo

Stream on Netflix

Curl Girls (2008)

Curl Girls is a six-part American reality television series that premiered on Logo on June 18, 2007. Curl Girls is the first lesbian reality show on a major television channel.

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It chronicles the friendships and careers of Gingi, Michele, Melissa, Erin, Vanessa, and Jessica—six young lesbian women.

Despite their differences, all the women enjoy surfing. They compete to win a trip to Hawaii, but the competition strains their relationships.

Stream on Amazon Prime Video

Bad Girls (UK)

Lots of lesbian action in another women’s prison Tv Series, the UK’s Bad Girls was a popular mainstream series in the late 1990s. Bad Girls has been described as a hard-hitting ITV drama series depicting the trials and triumphs of prison inmates and officers in the notorious women’s prison of HMP Larkhall.

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The initial inhabitants of Larkhall’s ‘G’ Wing, overseen by Wing Governor (and eventual lesbian) Helen Stewart (Simone Lahbib), inmate lesbian Nikki Wade (Mandana Jones), a woman serving time for murdering a policeman who assaulted her girlfriend. The unusual relationship that develops between Helen and Nikki highlights the complexities of prison life and the unique and intense environment of Larkhall.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Buy the Box Set on Amazon

One Mississippi

This Amazon original series is a dark comedy inspired by events in lesbian comic Tig Notaro’s life. Starring as a Los Angeles-based radio host of the same name, Tig is still dealing with serious health issues, including recovering from a double mastectomy.

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When her mother becomes gravely ill, Tig returns to her hometown in Mississippi, where she is forced on a painful (and at times, hilarious) journey that unearths uncomfortable truths about herself and her family. In order to heal, both physically and emotionally, Tig must reconnect with her roots before moving forward.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Amazon Prime Video

Trinkets (2019)

A grieving teenager finds an unexpected connection with two classmates at her new high school when they all land in the same Shoplifters Anonymous group.

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Keep an eye out for Elodie who is the show’s resident lesbian. We see her first kiss with a girl and how awkwardly lovable she is when flirting. We see her on her journey into girls and dating. The show has been critically acclaimed for LGTQIA+ coverage among teenage girls.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Watch on Netflix

The Fosters

Stef, a dedicated police officer, is in a relationship with Lena. The two have built a close-knit family with Stef’s biological son, Brandon, and adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. When Lena meets Callie — hardened from being in and out of foster homes — the couple welcome her into their home, thinking it is temporary.

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Callie’s blunt commentary about the atypical family hits a nerve with the twins, who struggle with their own identities. Then the girl discovers a secret that could land Mariana in trouble. Brandon helps Callie navigate the social scene at high school, but she skips school to meet up with an old friend. Her behavior makes Stef and Lena second-guess their decision to help her.

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Watch the Season 1 Trailer on YouTube

Watch on Netflix

Watch Season 1 Episode 1 for free on Daily Motion.

Stream on Amazon

Gypsy (2017)

Academy Award-nominee Naomi Watts stars in this Netflix-original psychological thriller as Jean, a therapist in New York with a successful practice and a life that seems picturesque.

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As Jean starts to develop intimate and illicit relationships with the people in her patients’ lives, the borders of her professional life and personal fantasies become blurred. Jean descends into a world where reality and the forces of her desires are disastrously at odds, which impacts her life and the lives of those around her.

Jean becomes involved with female character Sidney, who is a patient’s ex-girlfriend. Jean’s method of investigation as part of her work is to be romantically involved with her patient’s peers in order to help heal them.

Watch the Trailer here.

Watch on Netflix

Gimme Sugar

This reality series follows a group of five lesbian friends as they struggle to become the youngest female promoters in Los Angeles by trying to open and promote their own night club.

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It’s harder than they thought, and along the way the women face both the fruits and failures of personal relationships as they strive to make their collective dream a reality.

Buy the DVD on Amazon

Stream on Amazon Prime Video

I Love D**k (2017)

Jill Solloway’s TV series based on the feminist novel by Chris Kraus and starring Kevin Bacon. The story focuses on a married couple who each fall for the same professor named Dick. Set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas. Lesbian character Devon (Roberta Colindrez) shares her story about her first love in the series.

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‘I Love D**k’ tells the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of points of view, this TV series charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the deification of a reluctant messiah.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Amazon

Lip Service

‘The British L Word’. Lip Service is a bold lesbian drama created by Harriet Braun and follows the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something friends living in Glasgow. Meet Cat, a self-assured architect, whose life is spun upside down when her former lover Frankie, a talented but emotionally reckless photographer, reappears in Glasgow unannounced after disappearing two years earlier.

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Tess, Cat’s best friend and flatmate, has a proven track record of falling for the wrong sorts of women, including sultry Lou. Starring a hot young British cast, including Emun Elliott, James Anthony Pearson, Heather Peace, Natasha O’Keefe and Tom Mannion, Lip Service takes a fresh look at modern day relationships – in and outside of the bedroom.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Amazon Prime Video

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 | Box Set on Amazon

Sugar Rush

Two Seasons worth of British lesbian TV show, Sugar Rush, is available to buy and stream online. Sugar Rush is a comedy-drama series developed by Shine Limited, based on the Julie Burchill’s novel of the same name. The TV series is centered on the life of a 15-year-old lesbian, Kim Daniels, who moves from London to Brighton on the south coast of England.

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Kim feels an intense lust for her best friend, the beautiful Maria Sweet (otherwise known as Sugar) and the series follows experiences of forbidden love, and Kim’s attempts to come to grips with a rather dysfunctional family.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 | Box Set on Amazon

Transparent

Transparent is an Amazon original TV series created by Jill Soloway (who is currently in a relationship with American poet Eileen Myles). Transparent is Emmy and Golden Globe-winning TV series. It is simply brilliant. The story follows a complex family’s relationship and how they are dealing with father’s transition to become a woman. There are lesbian and bi characters throughout the series.

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We see humor, lots of glitzy Los Angeles, family drama and lesbian relationships all over the place. Now in its 4th Season, there’s no sign of it stopping!

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Amazon

Ellen (1994 – 1998)

Ellen works in a Los Angeles bookstore called Buy the Book and hangs around with her friends discussing lovers, work and family.

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The show came under controversy during the fourth season when the title character came out as a lesbian, shortly after Ellen DeGeneres did the same in real life.

Watch the trailer for the original Ellen series.

Buy the DVD on Amazon

Take My Wife

Follows real life queer couple Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher as they share their lives as stand up comics who are balancing work, relationships, and the breaking down of gender barriers.

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Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Watch on Amazon Prime Video

South Of Nowhere (2005-2008)

When the Carlin family moves from a small town in Ohio to Los Angeles because of mom Paula getting a new job, it takes them a while to adjust to the lifestyle shift. Complicating the adjustment for teenage daughter Spencer is her struggle with her orientation.

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Her older brother, Glen, was once a budding basketball star, but an injury derails his sporting dreams and leads to erratic behavior. Dad Arthur also has difficulty adapting to big-city life after being a “hero” social worker in Ohio. As with many teen-oriented shows, “South of Nowhere” deals with real-world issues, including racism, drugs, underage drinking, teen pregnancy and domestic violence. This is one of the lesbian TV shows aimed at a younger adult audience.

Watch on YouTube.

Stream on Amazon Prime Video

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 on Amazon




Orange is the New Black

Convicted of a decade old crime of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend, normally law-abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to a year and a half behind bars to face the reality of how life-changing prison can really be. Lots of lesbian characters grace the cells of Litchfield prison in this long-running serial comedy.

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Watch the Season 1 Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Netflix

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Box Set on Amazon

Vida

“Vida” is a drama series about two Mexican-American siblings from East Los Angeles. Party girl Lyn lives a carefree life in the Bay Area. She couldn’t be more different than, or distanced from, her sister Emma (who is queer), with whom she has no relationship.

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A death in their family forces them to return to their old stomping grounds, where they confront long-repressed feelings and learn the surprising truth about their mother’s identity. Look out for Eddy whoo is a lesbian character as well as Cruz.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Amazon Prime

The Real L Word

A Reality TV Series. In this offshoot (sort of) of Showtime’s drama series “The L Word,” cameras follow lesbians in Los Angeles and New York as they go about their everyday lives.

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These ladies juggle their highly successful careers, social lives, relationships and families under the watchful eyes of viewers.

Watch the Season 1 Trailer on YouTube

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 on Amazon

Rent on Netflix DVD

Wynonna Earp

Wynonna Earp has been away from her hometown, Purgatory, for years but returns to reluctantly take on the role that Wyatt Earp’s heir is destined for — demon protector. Her task is to take out Revenants, the resurrected souls of the criminals who were taken down at one time by her great-grandfather.

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Wynonna teams up with sister Waverly, agent Xavier Dolls and Doc Holliday, the cursed-with-immortality best friend of Wyatt Earp, as they work to stop the Revenants from taking over Purgatory and escaping into the world. The show is based on the graphic novel series of the same name.

Watch Trailer on YouTube.

Buy Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 on Amazon

Watch on Netflix

Gentleman Jack (2019)

It’s 1832 in West Yorkshire, England — the cradle of the evolving Industrial Revolution — where landowner Anne Lister is determined to save her faded ancestral home, Shibden Hall, even if it means bucking society’s expectations.

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In addition to reopening the coal mines, a part of Lister’s plan to help her family is to marry well. But the charismatic, single-minded Lister — who dresses head-to-toe in black and charms her way into high society — has no intention of marrying a man. “Gentleman Jack” examines Lister’s relationships with her family, servants, tenants and industrial rivals, and would-be wife. The real-life Anne Lister’s story was recorded in her diaries, and the most intimate details of her life are revealed for the series.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Amazon Prime Video

Buy on Amazon

Tipping the Velvet

Based on Sarah Waters’s 1998 novel, Tipping the Velvet was made into a BBC television drama in 2002. Set in the Victorian England during 1890, the TV series tells a coming of age story about young women named Nan who falls in love with male impersonator.

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Sarah Waters was surprised that the BBC chose to produce and broadcast a television adaptation that faithfully followed the relish and explicit details of escapades in the book.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on Amazon Prime Video

Buy the DVD on Amazon

Jessica Jones

This Netflix original chronicles the life of one of the darker Marvel characters, the mysterious Jessica Jones. When a tragedy puts an end to her short-lived career as a superhero, Jessica settles in New York City and opens her own detective agency, called Alias Investigations, which seems to be called into cases involving people who have special abilities.

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Suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, Jessica wants to do good, but her primary interest isn’t in saving the world, it’s saving her apartment and getting through each day. Based on a graphic novel intended for adults, this is not a superhero story for the kids.
Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) plays Jessica’s lesbian lawyer in the series who is in a battle between her wife and her new secretary lover. Watch Jessica for an action packed lesbian storyline!

Watch the Trailer on YouTube.

Buy Season 1 on Amazon

Stream on Amazon

Watch on Netflix

The Bisexual

A Hulu series focusing on New Yorker, Leila, who lives in London with her girlfriend of 10 years and business partner, Sadie, but Leila has a secret: she is bisexual.

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Realizing that she is living a lie, Leila breaks up with her girlfriend and tries to live life as a bisexual.

Watch the Trailer on YouTube

Stream on YouTube TV

Lesbian TV Mini Series

Not quite web series or TV series, these self-categorized lesbian miniseries will have you hooked.

Candy Bar Girls

A reality series centered on a group of London lesbians and their social expedition to ‘Candy Bar’ which was an iconic Soho drinking hole that has since closed down.

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Watch Episode 1 for free on YouTube

Girl/Girl Scene (2010)

Based on the lives and loves of a group of young lesbians, this series goes between the sheets and into the minds and hearts of unapologetically queer women living in Middle America.

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Refreshingly non-judgmental and atypical in its embrace of stereotype, with its funny, provocative and controversial storylines, Girl/Girl Scene is a vibrant, vital and honest reflection of today.

Watch Tucky’s favorite scene on YouTube

Girl/Girl Scene ORIGINS – Season 1, Episode 1 (Pilot) from Girl/Girl Scene on Vimeo.

Stream the Movie on Amazon

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, and was subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama of the same name.

It is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian girl who grows up in an English Pentecostal community.

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Key themes of the series focus on transition from youth to adulthood, complex family relationships, LGBTQ relationships, and religion.

Buy on Amazon

Starting From… Now!

An Australian television drama miniseries in its 5th season. Each season consists of six x 10 minutes episodes.

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The drama is described as a “lesbian love quadrangle” following the lives of Emily, Steph, Kristen, and Darcy as they search for happiness and love and experience life in Sydney’s inner western suburbs.

Watch Episode 1 for free on YouTube.

Nikki and Nora (2004)

Nora Delaney and Nikki Beaumont are partners in the NOPD Special Crimes Unit in New Orleans police department. However, they are also more than partners – they are lovers.

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Watch Episode 1 for free online.

When We Rise (2017)

An ABC American docudrama created by Dustin Lance Black. The TV series chronicles the personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBTQ people who helped pioneer an offshoot of the Civil Rights Movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.

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The period piece tells the history of the modern gay rights movement, starting with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Actors include Guy Pearce, Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg.

Watch Trailer on YouTube.

Stream on Amazon

Fingersmith

In amongst the dark twisting alleyways of Victorian London, the stories of two very different young women collide with terrifying consequences. Fingersmith tells the story of charming con-man Richard Rivers (Rupert Evans), who embarks upon the most ambitious scam of his life. His plan is to defraud wealthy young heiress Maud Lilly (Elaine Cassidy) by seducing her into eloping with him. To achieve his aim, Rivers enlists the help of Sue Trinder (Sally Hawkins).

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Since she was orphaned, Sue has been brought up amongst pickpockets and charlatans. She’s been protected and cared for by Mrs. Sucksby (Imelda Staunton), who believes Sue is too good a girl to get directly involved in such a world. But when Mrs. Sucksby’s old friend Rivers offers 20-year-old Sue £3000 to assist him in one of his scams, Mrs. Sucksby agrees to conspire.
Arriving at the estate where Maud lives with her wealthy Uncle Lilly (Charles Dance), Sue enters another world. Maud and Sue are of a similar age and appearance but their experience of life couldn’t be further apart. Maud’s existence is one of wealth and prosperity inside a grand house, where her duties are limited to nightly readings to her uncle and his friends.
The two young women become friends but Sue’s growing feelings for Maud cannot prevent her from going through with Rivers’s scam. On Sue’s advice, Maud accepts Rivers’ proposal of marriage. But not everyone is who they appear to be, and a series of plot twists leave viewers unsure of who can be trusted.

Buy on Amazon

Dagger Kiss

A fantasy adventure series created by and starring Girl/Girl Scene creator Tucky Williams. Dagger Kiss is a lesbian TV miniseries that premiered on the streaming website Tello.
Arden (Tucky Williams) travels to Earth after the death of her lover Mia (Stoya).

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Arden is attacked, and her life is saved by Katia, who is a stranger to Arden. Katia takes Arden under her wing as Arden is pursued by the sorcerer Zareth.

Watch Episode 1 on YouTube.

A Girl Thing (2001)

Written and directed by Lee Rose, ‘A Girl Thing’ is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house, and a psychaitrist’s office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour.

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Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationship. Hour Two is about sisters who hate each other, trying to get along one last time. Hour Three is about adultery. The cast includes Elle Macpherson, Lauren Travis, Kate Capshaw and Linda Hamilton.

Watch Episode 1 for free on YouTube.

Lesbian Web Series

Available online only and you can watch them for free, here’s a list of our favorite lesbian web series.
You can also find a complete list of lesbian web series on our site.

Lipstick The Series (2015)

Lipstick The Series follows four best friends living in Los Angeles who start a lipstick line while battling trust, sexuality, friendship, & relationship issues.

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Watch Episode 1 on YouTube.

Couple-ish

Dee, a non-binary freelance illustrator, is locked into a lease they can’t afford. Dee’s younger sister, Amy, enacts a plan to find the perfect roommate. Enter Rachel, a queer British bartender eager to fit in as a Canadian.

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Months later, things go from cool to not-so-cool when Rachel reveals a startling secret – she’s claimed Dee as a common-law partner to evade being deported. Amy prompts the pair to create a YouTube channel to prove they are madly in love, and definitely not faking it. Will Dee and Rachel make a convincing couple after all, or are they just couple-ish?

Watch online for free.

Entangled With You

After suffering breakups, a stoic lesbian moves in with a perky straight woman.

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With nothing in common beyond mutual heartache, the two form an unlikely bond as conflicts with their significant others force them closer.

Watch Episode 1 for free on YouTube

Girls Just Don’t Do That

Lesbian Web Series about girls, lesbians, fems and Studs at college. Based on the book Girls Just Don’t Do That.

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In this episode way touch on gay marriage as, Shavonne turns down Tracy’s marriage proposal and it really annoys her. Mark and Stacy are in relationship bliss – nothing can destroy their perfect bond. Delia and Kendall are worried about Shavonne’s volatile relationship with the Stud Tracy.

Watch Episode 1 for free on YouTube

Venice the Series (2009)

Co-Created by Crystal Chappell and Kim Turrisi. Venice focuses on the life of Gina Brogno – a single, gay, self-made interior designer – living and working in Venice Beach, California. The plot follows Gina’s human experience in connection with her various love interests, brother Owen, father The Colonel and myriad other characters that makeup Gina’s network of relationships.

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Gina is a strong, confident, and complex career woman who navigates her relations with people through an intense yet thoughtful prism. The convergence of Gina’s experiences with a progressive, bohemian, and urban backdrop; provides an electrifying plot journey. The storyline offers the best of traditional soap romance, love stories, tragic happenings, and hairpin turns. But it is done in a new, savvy, and edgy format with unique character development, diversity of character, and tantalizing plot portrayal.

Watch on YouTube for free.

Carmilla

A Canadian single-frame web series co-created by Jordan Hall, starring Elise Bauman and Natasha Negovanlis, loosely based on the novella of the same name by Sheridan Le Fanu.

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The series takes place at the fictional Silas University in Styria, Austria and is told through video journals (Vlogs) recorded by Laura, a first-year student. When Laura begins investigating the disappearance of her roommate, she is assigned a new roommate named Carmilla.

Watch on YouTube for free.

BAES Welcome (2017)

BAES Welcome, a comedic single-cam web series, follows the lives of two struggling lesbian filmmakers, Mara and Mary.

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These two millennials juggle their dwindling careers and lack of romance, as they make their way through adulthood and overcome financial hardship.

It’s hard not to feel and relate with these two bruh’s who are just trying to survive LA.
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Watch Episode 1 on YouTube.

LSB

LSB is the first Italian web series dedicated to lesbian girls last generation. Rome, college, life between roommates, loves that begin to come to terms with society, prejudice and often with doubt about his identity.

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LSB then tells the story of a group of friends who from different points of view, often very distant, are confronted on the subject of homosexuality. For this series is geared to an audience including non-gay, but certainly curious and friendly.
The series of twelve episodes were entirely written and self-produced by Geraldine Ottier and Floriana Buonomo. The two young authors wanted to challenge the silence and the stereotypes that still pay into the gay world women with few resources and a lot of passion. Geraldine and Floriana offer the public the Italian web this their first job to try to draw one of the many contours of love and friendship between young women.

Watch Episode 1 here.

Into Girls

With a first season and already a growing success, the creators of ‘Into girls’ are two students from New York, and they hope to launch a second season with the aim of changing the image of queer women.

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‘Into Girls’ is a web series that shows lesbians in a variety of situations and who still have a lot of questions about their lives as lesbians.
Between experience and inexperience, “Into Girls” is both a very fresh and very funny series.

Watch online for free on YouTube.

Easy Abby

Abby likes women. A lot. She has no problem finding any to sleep with, but that’s the only thing that comes easy. Dealing with anxiety, family and money issues is another story. Abby does what she wants and says what she thinks. She’s not a great friend but she’s trying.

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Abby dreams of leaving Chicago to study coral reefs in Costa Rica but is always another job or failure away. With a little help from her friends, Abby starts to expand her idea of freedom.

Watch online for free.

Notas Aparte

Sara, an apathetic teenager, will be tutored on art history by Helena.

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What neither of them knows is that simple art lessons will become a more personal journey for Sara to accept herself.

Watch Episode 1 online for free.

Little Horribles

Written and created by Amy York Rubin, “Little Horribles” is a darkly comedic web series following the poor decisions of a self-indulgent lesbian.

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The series chronicles all those things that really aren’t that big of a deal and follows Amy as she navigates her thirties in Los Angeles. Little Horribles rips apart and laughs in the face of those painfully uncomfortable moments that no one wants to remember, but everyone does.

Watch online for free on YouTube.

Féminin/Féminin (2014)

A French-Canadian web series about the lives of six lesbians living in Montreal.

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The series was created by director Chloé Robichaud and Florence Gagnon (president of the LezSpreadTheWord website).

Watch Féminin/Féminin (2014) Episode 1 from Lez Spread The Word on Vimeo

Dyke Central

Dyke Central is an Oakland-based dramedy that centers around 30-something butch roommates Alex and Gin. The first season sees Alex attempting to sustain her dysfunctional relationship with girlfriend Jackie, in the face of new life options and the resurfacing of an old flame.

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Gin, on the other hand, is a chameleon whose identity changes with every new interest and tends to lose herself in others. Surrounded by a diverse group of friends who guide, challenge and support them, Alex and Gin struggle to adapt to change and create balance in their lives without losing themselves.

Watch Episode 1 free on YouTube.

The Peculiar Kind

The Peculiar Kind is a web series that candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color with eye-opening and unscripted conversations.

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Watch for free online.

Anyone But Me (2008)

An American web series. When 16-year-old Vivian McMillan has to move from New York City to the suburbs, her relationships, past and present, are tested. And her identity goes through seismic changes. The daughter of an NYC firefighter, Vivian has no choice but to leave the city with her dad after health problems he suffered trying to save people on September 11th forced him to retire.

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This moving, funny, and relevant drama follows the journey of six teenagers and the adults who try to understand them.

Watch Episode 1 on YouTube.

Between Women

‘Between Women’ is a web series full of drama and a vibrant storyline. It focuses on a circle of friends in the black lesbian community of Atlanta, GA.

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‘Between Women’ covers a range of topics and is sure to capture the attention of every viewer that cross its path.

Watch on YouTube for free.

Last Life

A fantasy drama about reincarnation, soul mates and the ancient battle between good and evil. Sloane, with whom Taylor has shared many lifetimes, sets out to rescue her soul mate from the snares of light-witch coven, The Alina.

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Sloane tries to help Taylor remember who she is, before dark-witch coven, The Blood Born, can use her to fulfill a dark destiny.

Watch Episode 1 for free on YouTube.

Sidetrack

Created by Celina Vicioso, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Kirsten Ariel Bledsoe, ‘Sidetrack’ follows eight queer women and people in NYC dealing with identity, dating, love and the occasional karaoke turf-war in 2015.

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Watch on YouTube.

I Hate Tommy Finch (2012)

‘I Hate Tommy Finch’ is a 2 woman show that follows the friendship/relationship of best friends from the age of 8 to 35. Each scene is a moment during a pivotal age in their life.

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The show will focus on their first meeting and the ups and downs of the friendship as they discover themselves and love.

Watch a free episode on YouTube

Pot Luck

Pot Luck is a fresh, fun lesbian web series that follows the lives of three Wellington friends as they negotiate friendship, family and finding love at their weekly pot luck dinners.

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Pull up a seat and enjoy the fun with Debs, Beth, and Mel in New Zealand’s first lesbian web series!

Watch online for free.

Red

Award-winning Brazilian web series ‘Red’ is one of the top lesbian TV shows and web series in our list and it’s available to watch for free on Vimeo with English subtitles!

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The story focuses on two actresses that become emotionally involved while filming together.

RED S01E01- Meia Verdade from RED Webseries on Vimeo.

Kiss Her, I’m Famous

‘Kiss Her I’m Famous’ follows two down-and-out best friends as they look for fame in all the wrong places.

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Their plan? An explicit celebrity ‘tape’ recording to catapult them into the limelight. What could possibly go wrong?

Watch Episode 1 on YouTube.

Out With Dad

Out With Dad is an award-winning web series and is one of the many online short-form narrative productions that proudly calls Toronto its home. Out With Dad is a quirky drama about a teenage girl and her single father, at a time when Rose is coming of age and coming out of the closet.

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Out With Dad tackles issues of coming out, homophobia, first loves & heartbreak, making mistakes and acceptance, learning and love.

Watch online for free.

The Chanticleer

A web novella inspired by 1950’s lesbian pulp fiction. One of our favorite lesbian TV shows!

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Cultures clash and high drama begins when a new bartender attracts bohemians and “odd girls” to the local bar.

Watch for free on YouTube.

Chica Busca Chica (Girl Seeks Girl) (2008)

One of the hot and hilarious lesbian TV Shows (a soap opera) takes you on a wild ride through the mixed up love lives of a group of Madrid lesbians including the unbelievably gorgeous Spanish TV star Celia Freijeiro.

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Think: The L Word meets Almodovar.

Watch Episode 1 for free online.

Plus One

‘Plus One’ follows a group of friends as they fall in love and fall out of sync. Alex, a walking lesbian stereotype, and Kate, a jokester looking for love exclusively online, help each other navigate through self created drama.

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Ben and Holly start a new relationship but it’s clear Holly is horny for another. They also lol throughout the process. Written by and starring Dannielle Owens-Reid and Mo Welch. Produced by tello.

Watch the trailer on YouTube.

Til Lease Do Us Part

This lesbian web series follows two roommates that are trying to get back into the dating world with one problem: they’re exes.

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Watch on YouTube for free.



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