If you've already found the perfect queer love song for your Valentine's Day, and the perfect queer movie to watch with your Valentine's date, we've got the final piece of your perfect pop culture Valentine's trifecta: the best romantic queer TV shows to watch!
These shows span several genres, but all feature heartfelt, moving queer romances at their center. If you're looking to laugh, cry, and cuddle with the one you love this Valentine's, these are the perfect shows for you.
'Schitt's Creek'
When you start watching the comedy series Schitt's Creek, gay romance may not be what you first notice. The hilarious and heartwarming series centers on a family (Eugene Levy, the late Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, and Annie Murphy) who loses all their money and has to move to a small town they bought as a joke. However, in season 3, the family's son, David (Dan Levy), starts a business with a local named Patrick (Noah Reid), and the two begin to slowly fall in love. By the end of the show, it's one of the sweetest romances you'll ever see.
Streaming on HBO Max and Prime Video
'Our Flag Means Death'
This historical pirate comedy might be another surprise contender for "most romantic TV show," but once you realize it's actually a love story between two pirate captains, the legendary Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) and Steve Bonnet (Rhys Darby), it all starts to get clear. Our Flag Means Death is a show about bucking tradition, challenging norms, and being true to yourself, and there's nothing more romantic than that.
Streaming on HBO Max
'Sense8'
This sprawling sci-fi series from J. Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis has several epic romances throughout its two seasons. Our favorites are the romances between Nomi (Jamie Clayton), a trans hacker, and her girlfriend Amanita (Freema Agyeman), and the one between Lito (Miguel Angel Silvestre), a closeted telenovela star, and his boyfriend, Hernando (Alfonso Herrera).
Streaming on Netflix
'Heartstopper'
This British coming-of-age series, based on the graphic novels and webcomic of the same name by Alice Oseman, stars Joe Locke as Charlie, a teen boy who falls in love with his new classmate Nick (Kit Connor). The series follows the boys and their friend group throughout school, and the two boys as they fall deeper in love.
Streaming on Netflix
'Young Royals'
This Swedish teen drama follows the fictional Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (Edvin Ryding), who is attending the prestigious boarding school Hillerska, where he meets another student, Simon (Omar Rudberg). Despite pressure from homophobia, being in the public eye, and different social classes, love wins out.
Streaming on Netflix
'Dickinson'
Hailee Steinfeld stars as real-life queer poet Emily Dickinson in this comedy-drama about love, social rules, and roles. Dickinson includes anachronisms, such as modern slang and music, to highlight the love story between Dickinson and her best friend/lover/sister-in-law, Sue Gilbert (Ella Hunt).
Streaming on Apple TV+
'Heated Rivalry'
This romance between pro hockey players Shane (Hudson Williams) and Ilya (Connor Storrie) may take place on the ice, but few shows are hotter! Based on the Game Changers novel series by Rachel Ried, it follows two hockey rivals over several years as they maintain a secret relationship while navigating what it means to be a queer professional athlete.
Streaming on HBO Max
'With Love'
This Amazon series from Gloria Calderón Kellett follows the Diaz family and the various people they love on holidays and nights of celebration like New Year's Eve, Nochebuena, a bachelor party, and a wedding. It stars Emeraude Toubia, Mark Indelicato, Isis King, Vincent Rodriguez III, and more.
Streaming on Prime Video
Black Mirror, 'San Junipero'
Most episodes of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror lean much more heavily on the horror than the heart. However, in this episode, an introverted young woman named Yorkie (Mackenzie Davis) meets a confident woman named Kelly (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) at a club in the town of San Junipero. As the couple's relationship grows, viewers learn more about the truth about where San Junipero really is. This is a classic of lesbian romance and sci-fi storytelling.
Streaming on Netflix
The Last of Us, 'Long, Long Time'
Yes, this is a bottle episode of a longer series, but it's so good you might want to watch it every year on Valentine's Day. In this third episode of the first season of the post-apocalyptic series The Last of Us, the focus shifts from Joel and Ellie to Bill (Nick Offerman), a survivalist who meets Frank (Murray Bartlett), a lone wanderer, and falls in love. It's a brilliant episode of TV, which won Offerman an acting Emmy.
Streaming on HBO Max
'Fellow Travelers'
Matt Bomer stars in this historical drama as Hawk Fuller, an ambitious career government worker who must keep his gay life, including his relationship with the young, optimistic Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), secret. As the show advances from the 1950s through the 1980s, it follows Hawk and Tim, as well as journalist Marcus Hooks (Jelani Alladin) and activist Frankie Hines (Noah J. Ricketts), as their love grows and adapts to the changing times.
Streaming on Paramount+
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