MTV’s True Life: We Are Orlando

Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the highlights in LGBTQ on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBTQ-inclusive programming on TV.

All month, MTV is airing special programming to accompany their #ProudToBe campaign. On Sunday, they will be covering the D.C. Equality March and the L.A. Resist March. On Monday morning, MTV will air an updated version of their special from last year, “True Life: We Are Orlando,” on the one year mark of the mass shooting at Pulse Night Club which claimed the lives of 49 people on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, leaving 53 injured. You can find out more about MTV’s #ProudToBe campaign at pride.mtv.com. True Life: We Are Orlando: Monday, 8am on MTV.

The 71st Annual Tony Awards air this Sunday and promise to be an exciting show. Various LGBTQ artists and inclusive works have been nominated. Standouts include Indecent which is nominated for Best Play. Dear Evan Hansen from out composer Benj Pasek is nominated in several categories included Best Musical. Other nominees include David Hyde Pierce and Gavin Creel for Hello, Dolly!, Cynthia Nixon for Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, and Andrew Rannells and Brandon Uranowitz for Falsettos.  Out presenters include Sarah Paulson, Jonathan Groff and ten time Tony award winner Tommy Tune. The 71st Annual Tony Awards: Sunday, 8pm ET/5pm PT on CBS.

The penultimate episode of American Gods airs on Sunday. The episode, entitled “A Prayer for Mad Sweeney,” sees the return of Salim (Omid Abtahi) as he joins Laura Moon (Emily Browning) and Mad Sweeney (Pablo Schreiber) as they all drive across the country for their own purposes. Salim is in search of the Jinn he’d met in New York who he would like to re-connect with. American Gods: Sunday, 9pm on Starz.

The season finale of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale will be available to stream on Hulu on Wednesday. The finale will raise the stakes for everyone, and bring plots brewing all season to a head. This includes the fate of queer character Moira (Samira Wiley), who was last seen escaping and is on the run from the authorities. The Handmaid’s Tale: Wednesday, on Hulu. 

Sunday, June 11th: 71st Annual Tony Awards (8pm, CBS); Fear the Walking Dead (9pm, AMC); American Gods (9pm, Starz); Veep (10:30pm, HBO)

Monday: True Life: We Are Orlando (8am, MTV); Shadowhunters (8pm, Freeform); Stitchers (9pm, Freeform)

Tuesday: Famous in Love (9pm, Freeform); Animal Kingdom (9pm, TNT)

Wednesday: The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu); Kingdom (8pm, Audience Network)

Thursday: Nashville (9pm, CMT) 

Friday: The Originals (8pm, The CW); Wynonna Earp (10pm, SyFy)

Saturday: Doctor Who (9pm, BBC America); Orphan Black (10:00pm, BBC America)