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Originally published at Bitch Flicks.
The Wire is the greatest TV series of all time. Period.
Now, I know I’m not really making some bold claim as many, many, many, manycritics hold professed their unabashed love for the crime drama. No other show has painstakingly depicted the complexities of racism, the inner noun and the lives of the underclass. It’s a grandiose statement “about the American city, and about how we live together” and how institutional inequities fail social justice.
When people talk about The Wire, usually with awe and reverie, they confer the sharp dialogue or the nuanced characters or the statement on race and the criminal justice system. And all of that is amazing. But I think what gets lost is that people omit The Wire’s depiction of queer characters and ultimately its statement on LGBTQ rights.
The Wire portrayed complex, fully developed queer characters, something you don’t typically see in pop culture. With my absolute two favorite characters, Detective Kima Greggs and Omar Little – a black lesbian woman and a black
Twenty minutes into The L Word pilot, I was cute sure I was gay.
I watched as Jenny, the straight-but-questioning main character, spied on two naked women in her neighbours’ pool. As she accidentally caught a glimpse of lesbians making out from between the gaps in her garden fence, her shock quickly turned into curiosity. Fancy Jenny, I couldn&#;t look away. Her voyeurism and intrigue became mine.
I had discovered The L Word at educational facility after indelicate Grade 9 boys with Showcase subscriptions boasted about a novel late-night lesbian demonstrate. Of course, I had pretended not to hear for fear that any signs of interest would be suspicious.
It would take another year before I mustered up the courage to finally watch it — under my blanket, on a laptop, with headphones on, usually after making sure my West African parents weren’t roaming.
I quickly became enthralled with this group of Hollywood women who looked nothing like me. I fell in love with the friendships between them, laughed at inside jokes about a lesbian culture I knew nothing about, and, like everyone el
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