Pride Month
11 Best Queer TV Couples of 2025 (So Far)
During Pride Month, it’s easy to reflect on the representation of the past. Movies and TV that moved the needle on tolerance and acceptance. The couples that audiences shipped from day one, and the ones they still long for through exceptional fan edits on TikTok.
But this Pride Month, let’s celebrate the TV couples we have right now. The funny and heartwarming ones. The complicated and tragic ones. The ones that still haven’t figured out what they are to each other yet, even though fans are already writing their story five seasons in the future.
From new comedies like Prime Video’s Overcompensating and FX’s Adults, to stalwart dramas like HBO’s The Last of Us and FOX’s 9-1-1: Lone Star, Swooon is celebrating the TV’s best queer couples of 2025 (as of now), the ones we can’t get enough of this Pride Month.
Let us know if we missed any in the comments below!
Anton & Paul, Adults
Rarely does a couple, especially one that barely earns the title, take the internet by storm so quickly. But almost immediately after FX dropped all the episodes of Adults on Hulu, fans were already shipping Paul Baker (Jack Innanen) and Anton Evans (Owen Thiele). In Season 1, Paul is dating Issa (Amita Rao) but grows closer to Anton. A lingering admiration for Paul’s mustache, a once-in-a-lifetime kiss after they marry in the finale to keep Paul from being deported back to Canada. All of it works, making the prospect of this unexpected but completely adorable couple one of the many reasons Adults deserves a second (and third and fourth) season.
Charley & Yuri, School Spirits
Dying doesn’t heal the scars of life, and Charley (Nick Pugliese) knows that all too well. So when he starts to fall for Yuri (Miles Elliot), the formerly mute, Russian-by-way-of-Virginia ghost in the art room in Season 2 of Paramount+’s School Spirits, it is not an easy path for the new couple. Charley isn’t sure how to love when he’s spent decades watching others get to do what he couldn’t. But thanks to sweet Yuri, a pep talk from his other (platonic) boyfriend Wally (Milo Manheim) and an incredibly effective nod to Ghost’s pottery wheel scene, these crazy kids kiss at the dance and give Charley the first real love of his life—and death.
Ellie and Dina, The Last of Us
It was Rihanna who reassured us that love can be found in a hopeless place, and few places are as hopeless as the zombie wasteland in HBO’s The Last of Us. In Season 2, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) grows closer to Dina (Isabela Merced) in the wake of the death of her father figure, Joel (Pedro Pascal), and the two eventually consummate their relationship on Ellie’s path to vengeance. It is unexpected for both of them, in different ways. But it becomes the grounding pole for them as they embark on an otherwise chaotic journey through Seattle, revenge, and destiny as they figure out if love and loss can coexist.
Benny & Sammy, Overcompensating
You’re probably wondering why this couple isn’t Benny (Benito Skinner) and Miles (Rish Shah), and frankly. it probably should be considering how much time the first season of Prime Video’s Overcompensating comedy spent on their relationship. Plus, that fantasy summer camp horror sequence was hot until it was bloody. But they didn’t get together in reality, at least not yet. The real heat was with Benny and Lukas Gage’s Sammy, who fulfilled what they started in high school by making out over Thanksgiving break to My Chemical Romance in a dive bar bathroom. Miles is who Benny felt himself falling for, but for now, he is straight. Sammy is real, he’s gay, and he understands Benny. Give them a Season 2 to explore if that can mean more than just a hot makeout session over the holidays.
Almost Everybody (XO, Kitty)
Seriously, it seems like everyone at the Korean Independent School of Seoul (KISS) exists on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and XO, Kitty is better for it. In Season 2, Kitty Song-Covey (Anna Cathcart) fully embraces her bisexuality when she leans into her crush on Yuri (Gia Kim), even sharing a kiss that completely cracks open Kitty’s world. Then there is her best friend Q (Anthony Keyvan), who after busting up with his boyfriend, falls hard for the athletic and totally adorable Jin (Joshua Lee). Throwing labels to the wind has given this To All The Boys I Loved Before spinoff some serious ground to cover and drama to indulge.
Danny & Claude (The Four Seasons)
While most TV series depict new romances tumbling into the honeymoon phase, Netflix’s The Four Seasons picks up with its three central couples at crossroads in their long-term relationships. Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani) are the lively, funny, and stylish pair who bring dramatic flourishes, honesty, and wit to the group dynamic—a cross the queer community has had to bear with their straight friends for a millennia. But the show wisely muddies up their relationship with a health scare and some stubborn tendencies, giving each the chance to really voice why they are together and whether they should be. They may be a modern gay couple of a certain age, but they prove love is timeless.
Mrs. & Mrs. Guidry, The Better Sister
Admittedly, we don’t know much about the marriage between Detective Guidry (Kim Dickens) and her unseen wife at home in Prime Video’s The Better Sister. But for fans of the 2014 David Fincher film Gone Girl, in which Dickens played a queer-coded detective who never got to live in that truth, The Better Sister fulfilled a prophecy first started a decade ago. Based on the tidbits we get, it doesn’t seem like Guidry has the best relationship at home. Her nonstop work schedule probably doesn’t help matters. Nevertheless, we are just thrilled to see Dickens get to carry through the excellent work she started in Gone Girl to a more fully realized character—just in time for Pride month!
Bunny, Jerry & Arthur, Mid-Century Modern
This may stretch the definition of couple to its limits, but the central relationship in Hulu’s Mid-Century Modern between Bunny (Nathan Lane), Jerry (Matt Bomer) and Arthur (Nathan Lee Graham) is deeper than most romantic partners. The trio’s first foray into living together Golden Girls-style in Palm Springs is fraught with hilarious hijinks, playful jealousy, and genuine heartbreak. (But what lasting relationship isn’t?) After a steady stream of flamed-out love interests in Season 1, these three have proven all they need is each other. Well, almost as much as they want men. Lots of men.
Sandy & Charlie, Running Point
Truly, how can anyone resist a grand profession of love in front of a basketball stadium of people to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “Love Story?” Running Point‘s Sandy (Drew Tarver) isn’t the best boyfriend. He hides Charlie (Scott Evans) from his family because he isn’t as cool or famous as the rest of them. But Sandy realizes his dog-grooming better half grounds him more than his family could, and by the time he is standing on the Los Angeles Waves court with a spotlight, a guitar, and a vulnerable plan to win Charlie back, we were head over heels for them. Thankfully, Charlie doesn’t run for the hills, so Season 2 promises to have more of these two lovebirds.
Edward & Adam, Prime Target
This may not have ended all that happy, but for a brief moment before Edward Brooks (Leo Woodall) waged war with numbers as his weapons, he has a sweet thing going with Adam (Fra Fee) in Apple TV+’s Prime Target. Edward has trouble opening up to, well, anyone, so his instant connection with Adam is a romantic and tender escape in his world of binary code. Of course, Adam turns out to be a spy for those hunting Edward, but we are going to choose to believe that he became conflicted about his job and grew to care about his math nerd charge. Just let us have this one!
TK & Carlos, 9-1-1: Lone Star
TK (Ronen Rubinstein) and Carlos (Rafael L. Silva) are not the newest couple on this list, but they did get their happy ending in 2025 and that is worth celebrating. After five seasons of 9-1-1: Lone Star, one wedding, endless insane medical emergencies and a literal asteroid, the happy couple managed to close out this chapter of their lives by adopting Jonah. Carlos works for the Texas Rangers, and TK focuses on raising the newest member of the family. It was a (very) long road to get to this place, with Carlos and TK not making it easy on each other or the audience. But who doesn’t love a happy ending?
