Co-founders Mika and Tracy are available for podcasts, interviews, and media appearances about LezWatch.TV, queer representation on television, and building this website from the ground up. You can reach us as contact@lezwatchtv.com or use our contact form.
We are firm believers in Open Source software and data. Our data and code are available for all to use, per our Terms of Use. We have also made public all the resources we’ve used to generate the content for this site.
Resources Available From This Site
The following resources are freely available for your use:
- Slack Hub: Sign up to join
- Amazon Echo Skill: LezWatch.TV News
- Open Rest API (includes access to statistics data)
- LezWatch Github repository (access to all code used to build this site)
Resources Used to Create This Site
Software
LezWatch.TV is powered by WordPress. We built custom plugins and a custom themes, in conjunction with the following plugins:
Design
The site was designed by Tracy Levesque and Mika Epstein. The following libraries have been used:
Content
The following websites and books have been used to help populate the database for this site. In addition to these resources, information was found from people’s personal listicles on their blogs/tumblr/tweetstorms. We keep a running list of all ‘rare’ or hard to find resources on our Amazon Wish List page. Your support is well appreciated!
- “The Prime Time Closet” by Stephen Tropiano
- “Internet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996-2014” by Vincent Terrace
- Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Television Characters by David A. Wyatt – Copyright ©2008 David Wyatt
- Is There Gay In It?
- Lesbian Interest
- LGBT Fans Deserve Better TV Database
- Queerialized
- Web Series Wikia
- The Yuri Nation’s Yuri Anime List
- Wikipedia
- Autostraddle
Media
Images used on this site are copyright their respective owners, and are reproduced here in fair use. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed for criticism, commentary, news reporting, and research. No infringement is intended.
Other Queer Media Resources
There are other projects dedicated to collecting information on queer media, including books and movies which we do not include in the LezWatch.TV database. Check them out!
- Lav and Noir – Celebrating black queer women in popular media.
- Lesbian Interest – Lesbian films list, webseries and TV shows.
- Queer Comics Database – Discover your next queer read.
Special Thanks
A special thanks goes to the following people for their donations of resources: C. Lema, M. Jay, A. Jorbin, and D. Smith.