10. Jocelyn Knight and Maggie Radcliff (Broadchurch)

Though their relationship is only featured in the second season of Broadchurch, Jocelyn and Maggie still definitely deserve a spot on this list. It's an older wlw couple, who have been friends forever, but just didn't quite make the leap to lovers until later on in their lives. It's a heartwarming and bittersweet with their final scenes together emphasizing both how they missed out on years that they could have had with each other, and that it's never too late to come out, start something new, and give yourself a chance at happiness.

9. Conner Walsh and Oliver Hampton. (How To Get Away With Murder)

This relationship isn't the happiest or the healthiest one on this list by far and they have plenty of stress in their lives. They deal with everything from commitment issues to an HIV diagnosis to framing people for murder. Nevertheless, the on again off again pair always seems to bring out the best (or at least the honest) parts of each other. How To Get Away With Murder is one to binge. Just maybe not on a day when you're feeling down.

8. Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson, Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez. (Glee)

So, admittedly, the show itself wasn't exactly a work of art. But it did feature two queer couples, and all parties involved were members of the main ensemble. We got to watch their relationships change and grow as they did. Plus, it features a double wedding that is the holy grail of disgustingly cute gay things.

7. Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker. (Modern Family)

This show simultaneously pokes fun at gay stereotypes while also refusing to shy away from them. And personally, I think it's sort of relieving to see a show featuring LGBT+ folks that doesn't go out of its way to make sure that their gay characters aren't 'too gay'. Sure, not all gay men are sassy, and not all gay women live at home depot, but some of us do, and there isn't anything wrong with that either. Also, the show is hilarious.

6.Piper Chapman and Alex Vause.(Orange Is The New Black)

A decidedly unconventional relationship (they break up and then meet again in prison years later) that still feels very genuine. Though they have tender moments, and a deep understanding of one another, there is never any motion to deny that relationships between people of the same gender can be just as complicated and frustrating as relationships that feature people of differentgenders.

5.Captain Raymond Holt and Kevin Cozner. (Brooklyn 99)

A comedy that makes gay jokes. Only they do the gay jokes for the gay people as opposed to at their expense. Captain Raymond Holt part of the main ensemble, and is an openly gay black cop that began his career in the sixties. The show acknowledges how hard that was, and how hard it still is, without ever making things tragic or traumatic for the characters. Light and feel good.

4. Margot Verger and Alana Bloom. (Hannibal)

Nothing about their relationship ever feels forced or like fan service. While it's nice to see our challenges reflected as well as our identities, I think it's also good to see a gay relationship that is accepted by everyone around them without question or complications. No figuring things out, no panicking, no coming out to parents. What's more, is that on a dark tv show filled with murder, cannibalism, and lies, these two get a near fairy-tale ending. Beautiful, though you should maybe watch it on an empty stomach.

3. Waverly Earp And Officer Nicole Haught. (Wynonna Earp)

Everything a girl could ask for. Hilarious one-liners, demons, well written badass women, and a happy lesbian relationship. The relationship came right at the height of the #LGBTQfansdeservebetter outrage sparked by, yet another, death of a queer person on a tv show, subsequently, the writers were very clear on their intention not to kill off either character. In fact, the show even pokes fun at the 'bury your gays' trope. Officer Haught gets shot while wearing a bulletproof vest. Instead of resulting in her death, it results in her girlfriend kissing her on the mouth immediately after she comes out to her sister.

2. Alex Danvers and Maggie Sawyer (Supergirl)

Tough, professional women who are tender with each other. Watching these two makes me feel like the TV gods are finally giving back to us after the sacrifice of the Olivia Benson/Alex Cabot pairing. We see Danvers take her time figuring out who she is. She's grown up, independent, strong, and completely unaware that she's gay. At least, until she meets Maggie and things start to fall into place. We get to see her realize who she is, let go of her denial, and we get to watch how the realization positively impacts her life.

1. Nomi Marks and Amanita Caplan, Lito Rodriguez and Hernando Fuentes. (Sense8)

I've heard sense8 described as a 'queer masterpiece' several times now, and I can't say that I disagree. The only relationship on tv that I have seen to feature a lesbian trans woman in a relationship with another woman. We see the challenges that different people within the queer community face, how Nomi's issues as trans woman are different from the issues of Lito, as a gay Mexican man. The show portrays human sexuality as fluid and it doesn't shy away from the sex scenes. It also does a better job of most everything I've seen in showing the way that queer people, regardless of our subdivisions in the community, help to build each other up.

Ideally, if I write this list again ten years from now, it won't be so hard to come up with a ten loving, sweet, neither-party-is-dead queer relationships on TV. Everyone deserves to see their lives and their experiences relfected, and we need much more than just this. Still. We had more representation this decade than in the one before, and more representation in the previous decade than the one before that. This is where we are today. Who knows where we'll be tomorrow.