The Ultimatum Queer Love Cancelled After a Successful Two Season Run

Well this is a crappy way to start the last quarter of the year. Multiple media outlets have reported that Netflix’s hit series The Ultimatum: Queer Love has been cancelled after only two seasons.

The news comes as a surprise with the show doing very well by data analytics standards. Tiff Der from season one and Marita Prodger from season two both took to their Instagram accounts to share their thoughts on the shows cancellation.

For us, the question is why are shows like Love Island, Love is Blind, and The Ultimatum given so much free reign to continue to air season after season while the one queer reality show we all enjoy watching is being taken away? Especially shows like Love is Blind where contestants are everything from homophobic and emotionally immature, to uninterested in completing the full season of the show.

Throughout the history of media and television, there has always been a limited amount of representation for LGBTQ people and fictional queer characters. The amount of pushback the queer community receives for simply being visible in a mainstream capacity is tiring and outside of The L Word franchise, we haven’t been given the platform needed to tell our stories. Where do we go from here?

We will continue to share our stories of love, happiness and hardship with or without the help of major studio networks. Let’s keep supporting queer film and television, and let the networks know we want to see more stories that look like ours!