Neighbours

Neighbours

Overview

An Australian soap, it takes place on Ramsay Street, a residential cul-de-sac in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough.

They were really sketchy about a lesbian storyline for ages, and swept same-sex kisses under the rug as ‘not sexual’ and ‘just teenage romance.’ Which as we all know is never sexual.

Still, near the end of the series, they did make a notable change to more positive representations.

After the series was canceled in 2022, it was picked up by Amazon in 2023 for their Freevee network but was canceled again in 2025.

Queer Plotline Timeline

2004:

  • Lana Crawford arrives as the first lesbian character
  • Christine Rodd and Carol Sinclair kiss

2013:

  • Ellen Crabb and Victoria Lamb make their first appearance as a family

2019:

  • Mackenzie Hargreaves arrives as the first transgender character

2020:

  • Sky and Lana marry

2022:

  • Asher Nesmith arrives, first non-binary character
  • Series is canceled with Elly/Chloe and Kiri/Nicolette as endgame 

2023:

  • Series is revived
  • The Varga-Murphys were introduced and queer quality jumped, positively.

Characters

There are 27 queer characters listed for this show; none are dead.

Regulars (10)

Recurring (11)

Amira Devkar

Amira Devkar

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Asher Nesmith

Asher Nesmith

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Belinda Bell

Belinda Bell

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Cherie Reyner

Cherie Reyner

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Christine Rodd

Christine Rodd

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Ellen Crabb

Ellen Crabb

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Lana Crawford

Lana Crawford

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Maddy Murphy

Maddy Murphy

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Mel Lohan

Mel Lohan

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Victoria Lamb

Victoria Lamb

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Yasmine Shields

Yasmine Shields

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Guests (6)

This page was last edited on March 21st, 2025.