15 Most Important LGBT TV Moments of 2017

While Donald Trump and his administration worked to roll back rights and protections for LGBT people in 2017, artists and creators broke barriers with new representation for queer people. Freeform's freshmen series introduced a relationship between a biracial bisexual woman and a lesbian Muslim, the Disney Channel kicked off its first gay storyline, TV got its first openly asexual character, and Kristen Stewart declared, "I'm like, so gay, dude" while talking about Trump in a moment of pure abandon on live television, and that's just the beginning of ways LGBT people shook up the status quo on the small screen.