Sense8
- Show runtime: 1 season, 2015-current
- Shown on: Netflix
- Creators: Creator Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, Writer J. Michael Straczynski
- Queer characters: Nomi Marks (Jamie Clayton), Amanita (Freema Agyeman), Lito Rodriguez (Miguel Angel Silvestre), Hernando (Alfonso Herrera)
- Sexualities: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski are sisters and both are trans women are both currently married to women. Nomi is played by a trans woman.
- Show Description: (from IMDB) A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.
- Queer Summary: The first time Nomi is shown, she's taking a hormone shot. The second time, she and Amanita are having sex, and at the end Amanita throws a rainbow dildo on the floor. They go to pride, and Nomi reflects on a time earlier in their relationship when Amanita defended her from a transphobic pride-goer. Later, Nomi is hospitalized due to her sense abilities, and her family visits her and refers to her by her male name. Lito deflects female attention in the first few episodes until it is revealed that he is gay and dating Hernando. However, he is closeted due to his role as a action movie actor in conservative Mexico. In the Christmas episode, he comes out as gay, but is swiftly rejected by the country (however, not by his family)
- Creator Comments: It has been commented that all the "sensates" (main eight characters) are pansexual
- Analysis: The characters in same-sex relationships are shown to have the healthiest and most stable relationships of the whole series. Characters are shown in different cultures and circumstances (Lito is closeted due to his sexuality and the conservative culture of Mexico, while Nomi, although prone to transphobia from her family, is out and living in San Francisco) Queer characters explicitly given time to develop. One relationship is not only interracial but also features a trans woman. All characters engage in some sort of same-sex experimentation. Pride is shown. Sexualization and fetishization of queer couples and queer sex (Lito's roommate is frequently shown filming or pleasuring herself to Lito and Hernando having sex, which eventually outs them, there are frequent, long orgy scenes) Nomi is hospitalized and tortured at one point, her family refusing to them because of her gender identity
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