I can relate to your frustrations and it honestly makes for a difficult watch precisely because you'd think the richest story-telling available for gay characters in 2016 wouldn't still be about homophobia and self-loathing. At the same time, what happened with Eric is not only something that isn't far fetched but is…

An intense episode as always. I'm generally wary of how shows handle storylines involving gay characters, because the only ever resolution they seem to get is unending victimhood or one where they lash out violently.The school shooting angle, though well executed here, feels a bit too obvious for a show that's been…

Who is the "we"? Why are you using "LGBT"? This was a show about cisgendered gay men, mostly white. There were no trans, bi, or lesbian characters who mattered on this show and thus were enriched by it. Many of us are no worse off in terms of network representation without this show than we were with it. So why…

Where to even begin?

I'm sorry but this is ridiculous. None of these matters were given any serious or nuanced looks. The trans homeless kids even got thrown around as a passive aggressive joke in the last episode. They might as well have not been there. One of the plot points in that episode is that Patrick and Kevin are headed out to an…

Well the thing is that TV is deliberate. Setting a show in a city full of Asian folks and then having a some total of one Asian person in the cast as a side character who gets maybe a paragraph of dialogue across two seasons is not an accident. It's something that speaks to deliberate choices made in casting and…

Looking: mostly white gay men