Television gets a little more lesbian

It's like Real World meets The L Word, it's… The Real L Word. This Showtime series was created by the executive producer who brought us The L Word, the racy drama series revolving around lesbian relationships and LGBT issues. This new series premiered on June 20th of this summer and ended mid August, with nine steamy episodes.

Similar to its predecessor, The Real L Word follows six gay women in Los Angeles as they manage their careers, relationships and family. However, unlike The L Word, this show is unscripted, making this the first popular lesbian-fused reality show (watch out The Bachelorette: Lesbian Edition). The characters are real people and all the relationships are, surprisingly enough, real. However, similar to shows like Real World, each cast member fits the mold of a reality-star character, ensuring massive amounts of entertainment and alas, drama.

The Slutty One: Whitney is the show's womanizer and the only single character on the series. Throughout the entire series, this tattooed, dreadlocked badass is juggling at least three women at a time (including her hot trainer that she forwardly hits on). Although her dating tactics are not very appealing, she is definitely the most entertaining.

The Bitchy One: Rose is a sassy Hispanic broad who is dating a meek little gal named Natalie, whose harmless mannerisms resemble that of a timid small animal. Their constant fights show the disastrous dynamic of having a control freak and a passive-aggressive lesbian neophyte together in a relationship. As expected, their downward spiral of a relationship ends in the season finale.

The Newbie: Tracy is a newcomer to the lesbian world, although she is thirty years old. Tracy is dating Stamie, a stand-up comedian who has three kids. Throughout the series, Tracy struggles with making her family comfortable with her sexuality. For anyone who has ever had to come out, the pain that Tracy goes through with her family's disapproval is very relatable and touching.

The Workaholic: Mikey is a hardcore fashion contender, although she strongly resembles Rod Stewart. She doesn't even become all too likable until the night that she proposes to her surprisingly gorgeous girlfriend in front of a massive crowd at her fashion show. Her lack of fashion had me wondering the whole series how she stumbled along that career path but nonetheless, her girlfriend is hot so she must be doing something right.

The "It" Couple: Jill and Nikki are the series' engaged couple, showing the world how wedding planning is just as hard if you are two women. In each episode, more progress of their wedding is tackled: finding a wedding planner, deciding who will walk them down the aisle, buying dresses, locating a venue and finally reaching the big day.

The show explores the lesbian lifestyle all across the spectrum; from lipstick lesbians to chapstick lesbians to lesbians that could pass as a male frontman of an 80's hair band. With all the predominately heterosexual reality shows on television, it's a breath of fresh air for the LGBT community to have a series that highlights how much homosexual lifestyles are no different than heterosexual ones (just add hotter sex scenes).