*SOME NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED AT THE WRITER’S REQUEST
There’s a general consensus that the big moment in representation for queer teenagers in the late 90s was when we all snuck into our parents’ bedrooms to watch Nathan’s irst dizzying trip down Canal Street in Queer As Folk.
Rather tragically, this is true for girls, too. We were maybe too young to appreciate the ground breaking beneath our feet when Beth from Brookside snogged her mate, though I often fondly (and guiltily) reminisced on that remarkable creature: the entirely unapologetic young lesbian.