Lists of American television episodes with LGBT themes are organized by period and contain articles about episodes on

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List of pre–Stonewall riots American television episodes with LGBT themes A list is a Set (mathematics), set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of t ...

* List of 1970s American television episodes with LGBT themes * List of 1980s American television episodes with LGBT themes *

List of 1990s American television episodes with LGBT themes A list of 1990s American television episodes with LGBT themes includes a number that engendered controversies relating to LGBT representation. With the exception of what would come to be known as "Lesbian kiss episodes", in which a straight-ident ...

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