In this essay I aim to challenge the essentialist paradigm which has so far dominated the representation of sexuality, and homosexuality in particular, on television. I focus on a corpus of narrative materials comprising Spanish and Catalan television series, although I also employ a comparative approach with British and American television narratives. This is a timely exercise because television has been largely disregarded in LGBT studies in Spanish and Catalan academia, especially as far as the analysis of characters and storylines is concerned. My essay aims to be a contribution to this field in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.