Character: Kit Porter Portrayed by: Pam Grier Sexual orientation: Straight First appearance: 1.01 Last appearance: Seasons active: 1-6 Relationships: Benjamin (season 2), Angus Occupation: Singer, owner of the Planet and the Hit Club Description: Kit is the only straight character who … She falls deeply in love with Dana at the end of season 1 and they date for almost all of season 2, but when Dana leaves Alice for Lara, Alice goes off the deep end. She becomes pregnant in Season 1 (1.05) by artificial insemination, but miscarries the baby in 1.10. I will be using male pronouns as Kit does in the show.] This website is intended for viewing solely in the United States and its territories and possessions. She is a very self-centered person and materialistic, as shown by her possessions and attempts to win Tina over by buying her things instead of showing how she cares through what she does/says. However as the show progresses she become successful with her recovery and even manages to buy the Planet (a cafe/club/music venue). Come backs for a short period of season 3 after getting divorced and sleeps with Shane again. © 2020 Showtime Networks Inc. and Showtime Digital Inc. SHOWTIME is a registered trademark of Showtime Networks Inc., a ViacomCBS Company. He is a successful doctor. Description: Tina and Bette's daughter. Grier's feature film credits include HOLY SMOKE, IN TOO DEEP, SNOW DAY, and the animation feature SCOOBY DOO III: THE CURSE OF CLEOPATRA, in which she was the voice of Cleopatra, and BACK IN THE DAY starring Ving Rhames, Joe Morton, and Ja Rule. But since her days playing Kit Porter on The L Word, the actress has moved on to take on roles in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, This Is Us, and most time-consumingly, ABC's Bless This Mess. Description: Joyce is a famous gay civil rights attorney. He helps her with some medical issues and diagnoses her with menopause and tries to generally support her. adult content, graphic language, nudity. Tina and Bette talk with lawyers about suing for custody but manage to work things out themselves. viewer discretion advised. Bette continues to be controlling and self-centered, which affects, Sexual orientation: Identifies as a lesbian but dates men, Relationships: Bette (off and on - season 1, beginning of season 3), Helena (season 2), Henry (season 3), Occupation: Chief Development Executive for Peabody-Shaolin Film Studios. After partnering with Helena on a new business venture, Kit finds love in the most unexpected place. Relationships: Tina (off and on - season 1, beginning of season 3), Occupation: Director of California Arts Center (1.01-2.13), Dean of the School of the Arts at California University (4.01-6.03), Co-owner and Partner of Wentworth-Porter Art Gallery (6.04-6.08), Description: When the show begins Bette has been in a relationship with Tina for 7 years. Tina and Bette get back together at the end of season 2 and they become mothers to Angelica. He asks Jenny and Shane if he can make a documentary about living with them, but in order to get videos of them having sex he sets up hidden cameras throughout the house. She starts to develop general anger towards men and becomes a very strong feminist character. The actress said that she would not be involved in Showtime’s revival of the influential 2000s series as a result of her commitment to ABC comedy Bless This Mess. Melvin has cancer and refuses treatment. In the beginning of season 2 Tim is moving to Ohio to be a swim coach for a different college, and is considering going back to school to get his teaching license. Sexual orientation: Straight at the beginning of the series, later on identifies as a lesbian, Relationships: Tim (season 1), Marina (season 1), Carmen (season 2), Occupation: Writer, Grocery clerk, Waitress, Movie Director. Bette is surprised and seemingly unhappy to see Kit in the first episode. Description: Lara is a professional chef who originally works at the club where Dana trains for tennis. All Rights reserved. She is the daughter of Peggy Peabody, and in season 2 she becomes the director of the Peabody Foundation. When she meets Carmen in season 2 she starts going downhill and having more sex and doing more drugs. Relationships: Cherie (season 1), Carmen (seasons 2-3). Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. However she quickly reveals herself to be selfish and manipulative when she cheats on Tim with Marina. Later on when his grandfather, Kit's father, passes away, he becomes somewhat close with Kit again. She loves to gossip and has to know what's going on at all times. She has a very close relationship with her sister Bette and supports here even when most other people turn their backs on Bette. Description: Jenny's boyfriend/husband in season 1, Jenny's reason for moving to California. In season 1 she openly comes out and reaches a significant level of fame, especially in the lesbian community, for being one of the first "out" tennis players. Description: Bette and Kit's father. He says that Bette and Tina's child will not be his grandchild, as that would be "biologically impossible". Description: Dana is self-conscious and awkward, but she is also very sweet and kind. He somewhat mends his relationship with Jenny and Shane, but in the season 3 premiere he has moved out of the house. We also find out she is an Italian countess married to a man. Grier stars alongside Lake Bell and Dax Shepard in comedy Bless This Mess, which debuts in April and follows newlyweds Rio (Bell) and Mike (Shepard) as they make the decision to move from big city New York to rural Nebraska. Although Mark clearly needs to move out, he continuously tries to apologize to Jenny and Shane and tells them that they have made him a better man. But by the end of season 2 she is starting to clean herself up and in season 3 has a successful and healthy relationship with Carmen and starts working for the hair studio WAX. He is homophobic to some degree and does not validate Bette's relationship with Tina, calling it a "friendship". Ivan is first seen as a performer at some type of drag night at the Planet. Alice is typically very outspoken and sometimes gets herself into trouble for not thinking before she speaks. Grier played Kate ‘Kit’ Porter for six seasons of the LGBT drama. Mark's friend/documentary partner Gomey accuses Mark of being in love with Shane, but Mark denies it. In season 2, although we're not sure of the "real" story due to all the gossip/rumors, Marina had some kind of suicide attempt/mental breakdown and left the United States. Relationships: Shane (seasons 2-3), Jenny (season 2), Occupation: Director of the Peabody Foundation, Owner of the Hit Club. At the end of season 2 Shane finds Jenny cutting herself and Jenny goes back to hometown of Illinois to seek help with her self-harm, where she meets Moira, her new "girlfriend". Bette Porter is a fictional character on the Showtime television network series The L Word and its sequel The L Word: Generation Q, played by Jennifer Beals. man. She is demanding, controlling, and a smooth-talker at first. Description: When the show begins Tina has been in a committed relationship with Bette for 7 years. Sexual orientation: Lesbian, transgender, transgender gay (bisexual?) After he finds out that Jenny cheated on him with Marina, he starts becoming increasingly homophobic. Kit starts to fall for Ivan too, but when she comes in to his apartment early and sees him as a woman, Ivan freaks out and doesn't want to see Kit anymore. Her personality is not deeply explored and her character development does not go very far, but overall she is nice and loving. Jenny finds out about the cameras and is furious, and when Shane finds out she slaps him twice. Create your own unique website with customizable templates. Description: Moira is a very butch lesbian living in Illinois, who meets Jenny when she comes home to seek treatment for self-harm. Tim is the swim coach for California University and Bette and Tina's next door neighbor. She was ranked No. She is the creator of "The Chart", a concept which she turns into a website that keeps track of how all lesbians can be connected through relationships with each other. Pam Grier has played down any involvement in the forthcoming reboot of The L Word. Her biological father is Marcus Allenwood and Tina carried her. In Season 2 Melvin returns to visit because he is sick, although he does not tell his children at first. Earlier this week, Showtime greenlit the follow-up series, which is aimed at reflecting how members of that community’s relationships, their lives, and experiences have evolved and what has changed (and what hasn’t) since the show’s inception. Description: [Although Ivan is biologically female, it's unclear if he prefers male or female pronouns, although in one episode he says "either is fine". On the show, Kit stars as Constance, the local sheriff who also owns a hardware store and is a … In between dating Lara, she becomes engaged to Tonya, who is also her manager, and then dates Alice during season 2. Description: Lisa is a "lesbian man" who is friends with Shane and dated Alice for a short time period during season one. Description: Cherie is a rich middle-aged woman who is married and has a lesbian daughter, Clea.