webseries

Vivek Shraya

webseries

tv reviews

Vivek Shraya’s “How to Fail as a Popstar” Makes Failure Look Good

How to Fail as a Popstar embraces the limitations of its length and budget. Vivek Shraya and director Vanessa Matsui have crafted a work bursting with queer creativity, a story…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Feb 20, 2024

transgender

webseries

tv reviews

“Razor Tongue” Web Series Review: Rain Valdez is Here to Save the Romcom

Valdez is attempting to radically change the industry. She’s also making a compelling case that she should be to 2019 what Julia Roberts was to 1999.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Sep 30, 2019

lesbian webseries

webseries

tv reviews

“CLAIREvoyant” Is the Quirky, Queer Comedy You’ve Been Waiting For

CLAIREvoyant is a feministy, queer webseries about two best friends and their adventures in life, dating, and finding out your psychic powers kicked in on your 25th birthday.

Valerie Anne —

Jun 1, 2018

gay adoption

parenthood

parenting & family

Exploring the Messy, Imperfect Joy of Queer Foster-to-Adopt Parenting

“And then she told us there was another child — a baby — at a nearby hospital. Were we interested? We said yes even though we had a thousand questions…

Nicole —

Nov 16, 2017

lesbian webseries

Lists/Top 10s

tv feature

5 Steps for Making Your Gay Web Series Dream a Reality

Get that lesbian vampire space opera out of your head and onto the interwebs!

Chelsea —

Nov 7, 2017

carmilla

Elise Bauman

movie reviews

“The Carmilla Movie” Is Everything We Wanted it to Be (and So Much More)

Natasha Negovanlis and Elise Bauman bring the magic to our laptops one more time.

Karly —

Oct 26, 2017

because we got high

drugs

tv reviews

Putting the Her in Herb: “Queens of the Stoned Age” Talk Marijuana and Matriarchy

Merry Jane’s new series “Queens of the Stoned Age” brings us all things cannabis from an all-female cast. But which fires will it stoke?

Celia Gold —

Oct 16, 2017

brown girls

the speakeasy

tv reviews

“Brown Girls” Shows Women of Color Coming of Age in a Way We Never Get to See on TV

Hollywood’s reluctance to tell the stories of brown girls has always been rooted in — well, racism; but more precisely— the myth that white stories are neutral and, as such,…

Natalie —

Jun 29, 2017

lesbian webseries

qpoc

tv reviews

“Hello Cupid: Farrah” Is the Cutest Mini-Movie of All Time

When I heard there was a new mini-movie on Black&Sexy.TV about a group of queer women of color, I was excited to watch it, but honestly didn’t have really high…

Ari —

Apr 7, 2017

lesbian webseries

webseries

tv reviews

“How to Not” Is a Web Series For Queer Women Who Feel Like Everyone Else Has It Together

Hey, and spoiler alert: No gay women die!

Karly —

Jan 12, 2017

India

people of color

tv reviews

Indian Web Series “The Other Love Story” Gives Queer Women A Happy Ending

“The Other Love Story was such a breath of fresh air in many ways. Aadya and Aachal felt like any other regular person: they were not coded Butch or Femme,…

Creatrix Tiara —

Dec 14, 2016

qpoc

queer tv history

tv news & trailers

We Can’t Hardly Wait for “Brown Girls,” Already My Fave Web Series of 2017

2016 has seen the expansion of black storytelling on major TV networks with shows like Insecure and Atlanta, but Brown Girls’ DIY attitude and background opens up the possibilities of…

Ashley Ray-Harris —

Nov 4, 2016