From Bad Girls and Brookside to Sugar Rush and Skins, UK contributors Sarah and Lee review the television shows and characters that have mattered most to British lesbians.
From bisexual teens to butch African American lesbians to more lesbians on reality shows, we look back at the highs and lows of the year's representation of queer women on TV.
Among the 14 contestants vying for a cash prize on the sixth installment of the CBS reality show is a 25-year-old openly gay Latina waitress with a live-in girlfriend and a plan to infiltrate the "house of hotties."
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