This year has been about Netflix’s Heartstopper, a reboot of the US Queer As Folk, and Hulu’s Conversations With Friends giving us authentic and original LGBTQ+ characters and narratives. But 2022 has also seen a purge of queer TV, with streaming platforms such as Netflix, The CW, and HBO unceremoniously canceling many LGBTQ shows, breaking the hearts of their most ardent devotees. Two of the latest examples of these painful cancellations are BBC/HBO co-production Gentleman Jack and Netflix’s First Kill. In July, HBO announced that the lesbian period drama was canceled. The next month, the supernatural, sapphic love story First Kill was canceled by Netflix.
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