The problem with imagining a sapphic Heated Rivalry
LGBTQIA+ folk and straight people alike are falling for our hockey hunks, but would a WLW storyline be possible given the fetishised sexualisation of sapphic couples? Katie Baskerville explores.
Design by Yosef Phelan
The mainstreamifcation of LGBTQIA+ media is often a one-step forward, two-step back sort of deal. On the one hand, shows like Heated Rivalry that have put sex, romantic tension and same-sex intimacy upfront are lauded. But would it be as successful and popular with audiences if the show centred on two women, instead of two men?
