We love queer TV! There’s nothing better than tuning in every week (or binging an entire season all in one day) to see what our favorite LGBTQ+ characters are doing. And 2022 is going to be an even better year for queer TV than this one was.
Some of our favorite shows (like The L Word: Generation Q and Q-Force) are waiting to hear if they’ll be renewed, and others were canceled, but a lot of the queer shows we love are definitely coming back in the new year. Meanwhile, other favorites like The Other Two, Gossip Girl, and Love, Victor have all been renewed, but we don’t know yet when their new seasons are coming. So hopefully, we’ll see more of those shows in 2022 as well.
There are also plenty of new queer shows to sate your appetite, including some that could be real groundbreakers in the genre (Queer as Folk and A League of Their Own, I’m looking at you). Here are 13 of the upcoming LGBTQ+ shows we’re most excited for in 2022!
Peacock’s New Orleans-based reboot of the popular series about a group of queer friends stars Jesse James Keitel, Candace Grace, Devin Way, Fin Argus, Johnny Sibilly, and Ryan O’Connell, among other talented queer performers.
Premiere date: TBA
Created by and starring Abbi Jacobson, this TV reboot of the classic movie about the American Girls Professional Baseball League will “explore race and sexuality” in ways the original film did not. It also stars Roberta Colindrez, Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Molly Ephraim, Kate Berlant, and Melanie Field.
Premiere date: TBA
After two years, HBO’s acclaimed, dark teen drama Euphoria is coming back on January 9. Check it out to see what Rue, Jules, and the rest of the crew are up to.
Premiere date: January 9
Season three of the hit Fox drama starring the sexy Brian Michael Smith, Ronen Rubinstein, and Rafael Silva premieres right after the new year!
Premiere date: January 3
This Dan Levy-hosted reality cooking competition show will see the Schitt’s Creek creator judging brunch dishes from chefs around the country and will debut sometime in 2022 on HBO Max!
Premiere date: TBA
The new, gay Chucky TV series ended it’s explosive and entertaining first season recently, and then was renewed. The first season is currently streaming on Peacock, and the second season is coming in 2022.
Premiere date: TBA
Kate McKinnon plays Carole Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell plays Joe Exotic in this upcoming series that fictionalizes the events in Netflix’s documentary Tiger King, and is based on the Wondery podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King.
Premiere date: TBA
Queer actress Taylor Schilling plays queer porn star Erica Gauthier in this incredible-looking miniseries from Hulu. We can't wait to watch Lily James as Pamela Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee! Pam & Tommy is coming to Hulu on February 2.
Premiere date: February 2
The new queer-inclusive cartoon reboot (featuring queer characters played by EJ Johnson, Billy Porter, and Zachary Quinto) will debut in February on Disney+.
Premiere date: February 2022
The fourth season of this vampire mockumentary just finished filming, and fans are hoping the next season will explore more of Nandor and his bodyguard (not familiar!) Guillermo’s budding romance.
Premiere date: TBA
Based on his podcast of the same name, Van Ness says that, "In each episode I take on a different question, going out into the world with multiple experts to get the answers we’re all (or at least I am) hungry for!" Getting Curious With Jonathan Van Ness premieres on Netflix in late January!
Premiere date: January 28
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez's next big TV role after her Emmy-nominated performance in Pose is on this upcoming Apple TV+ show alongside Maya Rudolph! In it, she plays the executive director for a non-profit owned by Rudolph’s character.
Premiere date: TBA
The gay-as-hell musical series about a high school drama department starring Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Larry Saperstein, Frankie A. Rodriguez, and Joe Serafini is coming back for a third, summer-vacation-themed season. After doing High School Musical and Beauty and the Beast the first two seasons, this year the Wildcats will be performing Frozen.
Premiere date: TBA
