The following is a sortable listing of films made for television which include central LGBT themes or characters.
Year | Title | Network | Character name | Actor | Notes |
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2011 | Steven Niles' Remains | Chiller | Jensen | Miko Hughes | Adaptation of the comic series of the same name.[1] |
2010 | Christopher and His Kind | BBC Two | Christopher Isherwood Heinz Neddermayer W. H. Auden Gerald Hamilton |
Matt Smith Douglas Booth Pip Carter Toby Jones |
Based on the autobiography Christopher and His Kind by Isherwood |
2009 | Prayers for Bobby | Lifetime | Bobby Griffith Rev. Whitsell David |
Ryan Kelley Dan Butler Scott Bailey |
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2008 | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | HBO | |||
2008 | Ice Blues | here! | Donald Strachey Timothy Callahan Kenny Kwon |
Chad Allen Sebastian Spence Nelson Wong |
Part of a series of films based on the Donald Strachey books. |
2008 | Kiss Me Deadly | here! | Jacob "Jake" Keane Paulo Jillian |
Robert Gant | Jake Keane is an ex-spy drawn back into danger when his former partner turns up with her memory erased. Paulo is his lover and Jillian a friend with whom Jake has a daughter. |
2008 | Knight Rider | NBC | Carrie Ruvai | Sydney Tamiia Poitier | Pilot for the revival of the Knight Rider franchise. |
2007 | Battlestar Galactica: Razor | Sci Fi Channel | Helena Cain | Michelle Forbes | |
2006 | Trapped! | here! | Samantha Dana |
Alexandra Paul Michelle Wolff |
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2006 | Wedding Wars | A&E | Shel Grandy Ted Moore |
John Stamos Sean Maher |
Shel is a wedding planner and goes on strike for gay rights while planning his straight brother's wedding. Ted is his lover. |
2006 | Totally Awesome | VH1 | Yamagashi | James Hong | Parody of Miyagi from the Karate Kid films, Yamagashi is an elderly gay lecher. |
2006 | Loving Annabelle | Divine Light Pictures | Annabelle Simone Bradley |
Erin Kelly Diane Gaidry |
The rebel Annabelle arrives at boarding school and falls in love with her teacher Simone. They start an affair leading to serious consequences. |
2006 | A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story | Lifetime | Gwen Araujo | J. D. Pardo | |
2005 | Deadly Skies | here! | Donovan Mark |
Antonio Sabato, Jr. Michael Boisvert |
Film was released in multiple versions, with and without gay content. |
2005 | Tides of War | here! | Cmdr. Frank Habley Lt. Cmdr. Tom Palatonio |
Adrian Paul Mike Doyle |
Film was released in multiple versions, with and without gay content. |
2004 | Jack | Showtime | Paul | Ron Silver | |
2004 | Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story | CTV | Marc Hall Jason |
Aaron Ashmore Mak Fyfe |
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2003 | Normal | HBO | Roy | Tom Wilkinson | |
2003 | Soldier's Girl | Showtime | Calpernia Addams | Lee Pace | |
2002 | Bobbie's Girl | Showtime | Bailey Lewis Roberta Langham |
Bernadette Peters Rachel Ward |
Shows committed relationship between two lesbian woman |
2002 | The Matthew Shepard Story | Showtime | Matthew Shepard | Shane Meier | |
2002 | No Night is Too Long | BBC Two | Tim Cornish Ivo Steadman Thierry Massin |
Lee Williams Marc Warren Salvatore Antonio |
Tim is bisexual. |
2001 | What Makes a Family | Lifetime | Janine Neilssen Sandy Cataldi |
Brooke Shields Cherry Jones |
When Sandy dies suddenly, Janine must fight to keep the child Sandy bore through artificial insemination. |
2000 | Common Ground | Showtime | Dorothy Nelson Billy, McPherson Gil Roberts Tobias Amos Andy |
Brittany Murphy Jason Priestley Mimi Rogers Steven Weber Jonathan Taylor Thomas James LeGros Andrew Airlie |
Three short stories dealing with acceptance of gays and lesbians over three different decades. |
2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | HBO | Edith Tree Abby Hedley Linda Amy Fran Kal |
Vanessa Redgrave Marian Seldes Michelle Williams Chloë Sevigny Sharon Stone Ellen DeGeneres |
Three short stories dealing with lesbian women. |
2000 | The Truth About Jane | Lifetime | Jane Taylor Ms. Lynn Walcott Jimmy |
Ellen Muth Alicia Lagano Kelly Rowan RuPaul |
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2000 | Anatomy of a Hate Crime | MTV | Matthew Shepard | Cy Carter | First of three TV movies about Shepard's murder. |
1999 | Execution of Justice | Showtime | Harvey Milk | Peter Coyote | Adaptation of stage play about the assassination of Milk by Dan White. |
1998 | Gia | HBO | Gia Carangi | Angelina Jolie | Biopic about the bisexual supermodel. |
1997 | In the Gloaming | HBO | Danny | Robert Sean Leonard | |
1997 | The Twilight of the Golds | Showtime | David Gold | Brendan Fraser | |
1995 | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story |
NBC | Margarethe Cammermeyer Diane |
Glenn Close Judy Davis |
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1995 | The Price of Love | Fox | Bo | Jay R. Ferguson | 16-year-old Bret (Peter Facinelli) is thrown out of his house. He runs away to Los Angeles, where he meets a hustler named Bo and becomes a hustler himself. Bo is gay but Bret is strictly gay-for-pay. |
1994 | Family Album | NBC | Lionel Thayer Paul Steel John |
Joe Flanigan Paul Satterfield Joel Gretsch |
Based on Danielle Steel's novel |
1994 | Roommates | NBC | Bill Thomas | Eric Stoltz | |
1992 | Doing Time on Maple Drive | Fox | Matt Carter Kyle |
William McNamara Bennett Cale |
Family drama |
1992 | Citizen Cohn | HBO | Roy Cohn | James Woods | Story of the life of Joseph McCarthy's controversial chief counsel Roy Cohn. |
1991 | Our Sons | ABC | James Grant Donald Barnes |
Hugh Grant Željko Ivanek |
Drama about two mothers (Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret) whose sons are in a relationship, but one of them is terminally ill. |
1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | BBC PBS |
Owen Benjamin Philip Benjamin Elliot Abrahams Geoffrey Lane Derek Moulthorpe Robin Bradley |
Brian Cox Angus MacFadyen Corey Parker Rene Auberjonois John Schlesinger Ben Daniels |
British production based upon the novel by American writer David Leavitt about a young man who comes out to his family which leads his middle-aged father to face his own hidden sexuality. |
1990 | 102 Boulevard Haussmann | BBC | Marcel Proust Amable Massis |
Alan Bates Paul Rhys |
a 1990 film in the BBC series Screen Two written by Alan Bennett; love story about Marcel Proust and violist Amable Massis |
1987 | Two of Us | BBC | Matthew Phil |
Jason Rush Lee Whitlock |
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1986 | Second Serve | CBS | Renée Richards | Vanessa Redgrave | Biopic of transsexual surgeon turned professional tennis player. |
1986 | Welcome Home, Bobby | CBS | Bobby Cavalero | Timothy Williams | TV movie about a gay teenager who struggles with rejection from his school friends and his father when his sexuality becomes known. |
1986 | The Truth About Alex | HBO | Alex Prager | Peter Spence | After school special-style drama. |
1985 | An Early Frost | NBC | Michael Pierson Peter Hilton |
Aidan Quinn D. W. Moffett |
One of the first mainstream treatments of AIDS on American television. |
1985 | Consenting Adult | ABC | Jeff Lynd | Barry Tubb | TV movie about a family's struggle to accept their son's homosexuality. Based on a novel by Laura Z. Hobson, and also starring Marlo Thomas and Martin Sheen as the parents. |
1983 | Making of a Male Model | ABC | Chuck Lanyard | Jeff Conaway | |
1983 | An Englishman Abroad | BBC | Guy Burgess | Alan Bates | Story of the chance encounter between gay "Cambridge spy" Burgess and actress Coral Browne. |
1981 | Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend | NBC | Sidney Shorr | Tony Randall | Pilot film for the series Love, Sidney. |
1978 | A Question of Love | ABC | Linda Ray Guettner Barbara Moreland |
Gena Rowlands Jane Alexander |
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1977 | Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn | ABC | Alexander Duncan | Leigh McCloskey | Sequel to the telefilm Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. Alexander becomes a hustler in Los Angeles. |
1977 | In the Glitter Palace | NBC | Ellen Lange Casey Walker Daisy Dolon Ricky Grace Mayo Kendis Winslow |
Barbara Hershey Diana Scarwid Carole Cook Lynn Marta Tisha Sterling Salome Jens |
Ellen hires her ex-boyfriend Chad Everett to defend her lover Casey from a charge that she murdered Norma Addison (Gloria LeRoy). Daisy is a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace was hired by Norma to seduce women so Norma can blackmail them. Kendis is a judge and another blackmail victim. |
1977 | Terraces | NBC | Dr. Roger Cabe Alex Bengston |
Lloyd Bochner James Phipps |
A married doctor has a sweet, heartfelt affair with a younger man. When the doctor breaks it off for the sake of his wife and family, his young lover cannot cope and takes drastic measures. |
1976 | Song of Myself | CBS | Walt Whitman Peter Doyle |
Rip Torn Brad Davis |
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1975 | The Naked Civil Servant | ITV (Thames) | Quentin Crisp | John Hurt | |
1975 | Cage Without a Key | NBC | Tommy | Jonelle Allen | Tommy has been described by gay media researcher Steven Capsuto as probably the earliest well-developed gay teen character on television as well as the first well-developed non-white gay character. |
1974 | Born Innocent | NBC | Moco | Nora Heflin | In a controversial scene, Christine Parker (Linda Blair) is raped with a mop handle by a girl gang led by Moco in a juvenile detention center. |
1972 | That Certain Summer | ABC | Doug Salter Gary McClain |
Hal Holbrook Martin Sheen |
A teenager deals with the knowledge that his divorced father is gay. |