Just stay down there for a minute, Spock Baby. I'm almost done.
Ever since I was a kid, 99% of my television viewing has consisted of either comedies or science fiction/fantasy. Because if there's no ghosts, zombies, curses, vampires, werewolves, spaceships, or strange new worlds, just people having conversations and shooting at each other, why bother?
Here are the top gay-positive science fiction/fantasy shows that I've reviewed here, with prominent gay characters or gay subtexts. Usually there are pecs and penises, too.
1. Khemjira: Thai guy falls in love with his shaman. With demons, reincarnation, spirits, several gay couples, and real Thai culture. Everything I like in one intriguing package.
2. Surreal Estate: A real estate agent and his scoobies clear houses of cursed, vituperative spirits. With a gay male couple.
3. True Blood: Vampires come "out of the coffin" in rural Lousiana, along with shapeshifters, werewolves (Joe Manganiello, left), and other paranormals. Many of whom are naked. With several prominent gay characters.
4. Dead Boy Detectives: Dead teenagers, one gay and the other bi, solve afterlife mysteries.
5. Ghosts (American version; I didn't like the British): The mansion is haunted by a gaggle of wacky ghosts, including a very muscular Viking, a hippie, a pantsless 1990s stock broker, and a gay Revolutionary War soldier.
6. School Spirits. This time the ghosts are trapped in the high school, where the gay guy's romance is treated as the exact equal of the hetero-romance.
7. Doctor Who. The 2010-2022 series had a lot of LGBT representation, with gay walk ons and guest stars. including John Barrowman (left) as a pansexual rogue. But I didn't like the 2023-25 series, where they made the Doctor gay, even gave him a momentary boyfriend, only to turn him straight.
8. Solar Opposites. In spite of fans saying "They can't be gay! They're aliens!", the space explorers shipwrecked on Earth developed into a loving couple And check out the strong gay subtext episode with Skyler Gisondo and Kieran Culkin.
9. Ghost Island: An "Are You Afraid of the Dark" miniseries with a gay romance and a lot of fan disputes about "was it a date?"
More after the break. Caution: Explicit.
