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Guides to Pride can be a complicated endeavor these days, as the annual celebration of LGBTQ+ identity now regularly involves the very forces — corporations, cops — it once stood against. And don’t even get us started on our mixed feelings about celebrating queer stories from Hollywood networks and studios…

Based on the writings of English diarist Anne Lister(1791-1840), Sally Wainwright’s immensely popular BBC television series Gentleman Jack has returned for a second season. In comparison to the first, the new episodes rely more heavily on the language of the diaries.

'This is my biggest fear but if it leads to season 3 I will endure it'

We’re keeping our fingers crossed

Gay women say in a new documentary that watching the hit BBC period drama Gentleman Jack, starring Suranne Jones and Sophie Rundle, has made it easier for them to be open about their sexuality

After three years of absence due to Covid-19, the second season of the highly anticipated period drama series Gentleman Jack finally premiered recently on HBO Go. The new season has eight episodes, released every Tuesday until June 9.

Suranne Jones plays Anne Lister in BBC's Gentleman Jack

Art imitates life in a probing Westminster thriller; more laughs with Lisa McGee’s Troubles comedy; Eve and Villanelle go out with a bang; and the dapper diarist is back

Anne's lesbian lifestyle is said to be one of the best kept secrets of her time