A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the best lesbian couples on the telly, asking you who were your favourite. You could’ve smacked me in the ass and called me Mary when the results came in. I know that The L Word was popular and, for some people, the only lezzers ever on television, but Bette and Tina ran away with the vote.

There has to be a caveat here, even though Tibette got 56% of the votes, it seems we were pinged on a fan forum so they spammed us mightily and voted like it was going out of fashion. Having said that, the next couple were at 20% of the vote so, even if you agree that 56% is weighted too heavily to be accurate, Tibette won fair and square. It begs the question, why?

Could it be that on our poll just four of the couples ended up happy, and Tibette were the pair most people knew, the others being Olivia & Natalia (Guiding Light), Helen & Nikki (Bad Girls) and Maca & Esther (Hospital Central). Is it the case that we all want happy endings?

In the mix was sex and friendship in the form of Alice & Dana (The L Word) and no sex but lots of friendship with Xena and Gabrielle and the other miserable couples who ended up either with one of them dead or straight.

One the one hand, this mixture shows how limited the representations of lesbians are, but let’s not harp on about that too much, so we could be here all day. Things seems to be getting better as the most recent couples aren’t dying but are alive and well. Don’t ask for much do we?

Here was I thinking lesbians loved a bit of drama in their lives and, by extension on television, but it seems all we want is to have a great job, settle down, have a baby, have an affair, break up and get back together again.

On the serious side, however, the results show that we want to see happy lesbians on television, characters who find love and who stick together through it all. The over-whelming vote for Tibette, with Olivia & Natalia from Guiding Light in second place, suggests that we’re not the miserable old moaners that the media think we are, but romantic, loving people who are living as full a life as our straight counterparts. Can we please see this more on television? All wrapped up in some drama of course.

Just as a footnote: Tibette lovers, please, please, please stop voting! We know you love them and many different languages.

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