Loving ‘Heated Rivalry’? Watch these 5 gay sports shows next.
These TV shows are big on sports and have gay characters and storylines. If you like 'Heated Rivalry,' they could score for you. The post Loving ‘Heated Rivalry’? Watch these 5 gay sports shows next. appeared first on Outsports.
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The gays can’t seem to stop talking about “Heated Rivalry,” the steamy gay hockey show on HBO Max and Crave. Based on a novel by Rachel Reid, the show’s intense intimate energy is set against the frigid cold temperatures of the ice.
It’s great to get LGBTQ sports representation on the small screen, as gay dramas or comedies don’t usually center on athletes. If you’re engaged with “Heated Rivalry” and already looking forward to season 2, here are some TV series to watch next that have sports themes and also have plenty of gay sprinkled in.
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“Love, Victor” is more than a little corny sometimes, but this LGBTQ teen romance spinoff of the movie, “Love, Simon” is groundbreaking all the same. Starring Michael Cimino as a basketball star who has a crush on a musical classmate, the series has great Latinx representation and shows the intersection between race, gender norms, and orientation in a palatable way. When it comes to queer coming of age shows, this is one of the iconic ones from the last five years.
Yellowjackets
“Yellowjackets” is one of the messiest, most disorienting dramas on TV. A high school girls’ soccer team goes missing in the wilderness after their plane crashes on the way to a big match and the show spends time jumping back and forth between the crash site and 25 years later when the survivors are trying to piece their lives back together in society.
Pyschological horror elements, supernatural undertones, and plenty of formative lesbian love in the woods makes this a must-watch. There are so many LGBTQ characters in this show that people are starting to wonder if any of these ladies are straight!
Ted Lasso
“Ted Lasso” is probably the most mainstream show on this list, which makes its representation all the more important.
A happy-go-lucky American football coach tries his hand at coaching European soccer in one of the funniest comedies of the decade. The show finally embraced LGBTQ storytelling in its third season and confirmed the suspected orientations of several LGBTQ characters.
A League of Their Own
Many sports fans have watched the Tom Hanks movie this series is based upon, but very few gave this show a chance. Cancelled after only one season, “A League of Their Own” shows the journey of an all-women’s baseball team in the 1940s. The show uses its LGBTQ characters and their personal lives to advance the story in ways the film from the 1990s was always hesitant to.
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Yuri on Ice
Anime isn’t for everyone, but “Yuri on Ice” is a groundbreaking show that puts a figure skater and his same-sex relationship with his coach at the front of the plot.
Some people found the way the show represents gay love as too ambiguous, but this palatability allowed the series to reach audiences it wouldn’t normally otherwise.
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