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Our independent study of over 350 TV shows found that queer-inclusive series are canceled at a disproportionate rate. Our campaign calls for diverse stories and LGBTQ+ representation. Read the data and learn more on our carrd! savequeerstories.carrd.co

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · Dec 31

🏳️‍🌈 Did you know that queer TV shows are canceled 2x as often? If you care about queer representation, please consider giving this study a look!

And please pass it on! 😊
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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · 4d

They will continue to make lists like these and they will continue to be dominated by shows with prominent queer representation.

Our shows deserve proper endings. #SaveQueerStories

Brain Glitches @cinemajules.bsky.social · 4d

7 Cancelled Netflix Shows That Are Worth Watching"

Lockwood & Co
Shadow and Bone
Archive 81
I Am Not Okay With This
Sense 8
The OA
Mindhunter
collider.com/cancelled-ne...

7 Cancelled Netflix Shows That Are Worth Watching

Some canceled Netflix shows are still worth checking out for their thrills and entertainment value, from Sense8 to The OA.

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Deadline @deadline.com · 5d

The upcoming fourth season of Showtime's Yellowjackets will be its last.

‘Yellowjackets’ To End With Season 4 On Showtime

The upcoming fourth season of Showtime's Yellowjackets will be its last.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 8d

Creator of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous responds to backlash over queer kiss scene
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/cancel-netflix-jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous-responds-to-backlash-elon-musk/?utm_content=1759886400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Creator of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous responds to queer kiss backlash

The creator of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous has responded to backlash from Elon Musk and others over the cartoon’s same-sex kiss.

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you @bjcolangelo.bsky.social for this article! Queer-inclusive shows like Dead End were already struggling for support, lacking promotion and getting canceled early and more often. We need these narratives and should be supporting them now!

SlashFilm @slashfilm.bsky.social · 11d

With folks rediscovering the canceled Dead End: Paranormal Park, let's discuss what makes Netflix's animated family show a streaming series worth embracing.

Dead End: Paranormal Park Is The Kind Of Family Show Netflix Should Embrace - SlashFilm

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · 13d

We’ve been researching these attacks on queer-inclusive TV shows for about the last year or so. The data is really something. Queer-inclusive shows were 2x more likely to be canceled or “ended” in 2024, despite performing as well as other shows.

Queer representation is life-saving. This is grim.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · 13d

Our review of cancellations and renewals for 2025 will begin next month!

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Out Magazine @out.com · 13d

Netflix is saying goodbye to the queer edition of The Ultimatum, which encouraged cast members to try out other relationships before committing to their own.

'The Ultimatum: Queer Love' canceled after two chaotic seasons

Netflix is saying goodbye to the queer edition of The Ultimatum, which encouraged cast members to try out other relationships before committing to their own.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13d

The grim aspect of this retroactive outrage is that the fascists already won on this front. These people are getting mad about shows from the '10s and early '20s because there's vanishingly few now. They've already been purged. But fascism can never "win", it always looks backward for more enemies.

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 14d

This is proof that conservative parents don't spend actual time with their kids (well, we know Graham doesn't). If they did, they'd know that there have been queer characters on Netflix (and Disney, Nickelodeon etc.) for decades. Like, they're only just discovering Dead End Paranormal Park.

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Ed’s Rose Tattoo @edsrosetattoo.bsky.social · 18d

They’re talking about Lisa Kudrow’s show The Comeback which is getting a third season a decade later—this could be us, never give up!

The comeback is being revived by hbo max

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🎃👻🐈‍⬛ Grim Pierce 🪦⚰️☠️ @unchi.org · 27d

Screenshot of a Facebook post by Dan Satterfield:

Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel.
The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact?
See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area.
2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week.
3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts.
4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company.

Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact. Nothing.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · Sep 15

Netflix renews sapphic murder mystery The Hunting Wives for a second season
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/15/netflix-renews-sapphic-murder-mystery-the-hunting-wives-season-2/?utm_content=1757956804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Netflix renews sapphic murder mystery The Hunting Wives for a second season

Netflix has renewed The Hunting Wives, the murder mystery drama about gun-toting, MAGA-coded lesbians for a second season.

www.thepinknews.com

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · Sep 11

"The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, the people said." www.wsj.com/business/med...

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.

www.wsj.com

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Attitude Magazine @attitudemag.bsky.social · Sep 11

The queer college comedy follows Benny, a closeted queer freshman, as he navigates the ups and downs of university life at Yates University
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/film...

Benito Skinner's Overcompensating is officially returning - with Prime Video renewing show for Season 2

The queer college comedy follows Benny, a closeted queer freshman, as he navigates the ups and downs of university life at Yates University.

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Adopt Our Crew | #AdoptOurCrew @adoptourcrew.bsky.social · Aug 19

Feels like a good time to drop this again…

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · Aug 17

FIVE of the shows on this list are represented in our partnering fandoms.

Our Flag Means Death, The Wheel of Time, The Acolyte, My Lady Jane, and Shadow and Bone.

There seems to be a pattern.

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Adopt Our Crew | #AdoptOurCrew @adoptourcrew.bsky.social · Aug 17

“…it's no surprise the romantic pirate comedy accumulated a cult following during its two-season run. Not only did #OFMD take viewers on entertaining swashbuckling adventures, but it featured an LGBTQ+ love story that will go down as one of television's greatest.”

screenrant.com/most-disappo...

10 Most Disappointing TV Cancellations Of The 2020s (So Far)

These cancellations were especially sad.

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Out Magazine @out.com · Aug 11

Goosebumps is the third show with queer storylines that's been canceled by Disney as of late.

Disney just canceled yet another LGBTQ-inclusive series

Goosebumps is the third show with queer storylines that's been canceled by Disney as of late.

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · Aug 10

Power speaks about media representation the same way it speaks about education, and that's because both have a similar capability of making a more connected, informed, diverse, and empathetic citizenry.

All progress is decried as going too far + being too much, even though it never goes far enough.

#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · Aug 10

I think this conversation often misses that Hollywood has never actually achieved diverse storytelling. We've never had a time when representation for marginalized people was anywhere near prevalent or nuanced enough. We're simply losing the little we had - even though data shows viewers want more.

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · Aug 7

Isn’t annoying when petty stuff like “real life” gets in the way of the important things like “doing math about gay TV shows”?

#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · Aug 4

I would love to see this essay! The topic is evergreen, but especially relevant right now.

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Konner Knudsen @penzerker.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hate is built on fear. The cure to fear is knowledge, experience, and empathy. So the backbone of any censorship movement is their ability to convince people that those three things are actually bad.

We have a very easy argument to make if you think about it... We just need to be louder about it.

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Out Magazine @out.com · Jul 30

A second season of Overcompensating? Sign us up!

Is 'Overcompensating' season 2 happening? Latest updates

A second season of Overcompensating? Sign us up!

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Micah @rincewind.run · Jul 24

“banning pornography” is bad on its own but it is imperative that everyone understand that these people consider the very existence of queer people to be pornographic

they consider the most chaste depiction of a queer relationship, or an openly trans person, to be porn and they want it banned

Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · Jul 24

You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone

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#SaveQueerStories @savequeerstories.bsky.social · Jul 25

All forms of anti-LGBTQ+ censorship are connected by the explicit goal of isolating queer people from others in society. I'm glad Amy chose to speak up.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Jul 24

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

www.nytimes.com

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