It would be six more years before the Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, but Bravo, Top Chef's home network, had been cultivating a slate of LGBTQ-forward programming for the better part of a decade. But the Emmy Award-winning series has cast between one and three queer women on nearly every season of its year history. And it wasn't just family-friendly battles for same-sex marriage the show depicted, either — Top Chef was in conversation with queer sexual liberation, too, from its very first season in San Francisco. In the second episode, which aired in , guest judge Elizabeth Falkner sports a chest harness, a leather vest, and a not insignificant amount of butch eyeliner for an elimination challenge staged in a fetish shop. Contestant Tiffani Faison, who goes on to become the season one runner-up, mentions being familiar with Falkner because they were both featured in the same magazine article about queer women in the kitchen. She designed for her dessert a handmade fortune cookie strung onto choker necklaces, intended to function as a cruising aide for party guests.

This is a list of characters in anime who either self-identify as lesbian or have been identified by outside parties to be lesbian. Listed characters are either recurring characters , cameos , guest stars , or one-off characters. For the purpose of this article, anime are considered to be any animations created in Japan and do not include any anime-influenced animation from the United States, Europe, other parts of Asia, and elsewhere in the world. Also see the corresponding lists of bisexual and gay anime characters. See the lists of gay , trans , bisexual , non-binary , pansexual , asexual , and intersex characters for information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community. The names are organized alphabetically by surname i.

Being a Real Housewives fan means striking a tricky balance. The surface-level stuff may seem asinine to nonviewers, but real Bravoheads know that underneath all the pettiness is a fascinating and even profound exploration of what it means to love, forgive, and belong. These women attempting to perform their own idealized version of themselves — rich, successful, ageless, perfect wives and mothers — might be doing it all with more money and power than we are, but their anxieties and even delusions are really just fun house mirror reflections of our own. Still, there is a dark side to the Housewives universe, which, of course, centers on wealthy or apparently wealthy women, their obscene spending, and their frequently retrograde ideas about sex and marriage not to mention politics and human rights. Sometimes it feels like Housewives really boils down to Divorce Watch, and none more so than the original, Real Housewives of Orange County.

She has a supporting role in the series, commonly assisting the young Lisa in several of her plots, though more often in assisting in her brother's plots. Kosame's main role is her love for Kirie. Kosame is a professional hitwoman who is trained in several forms of martial arts as well as in marksmanship. Kosame is a strict and professional woman who aside from very few occasions always wears her uniform and is always stoic and alert.