Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-71.200.208.218-20160219212133/@comment-27121183-20160221180813

WC-83 wrote: Really, the lesbian ships may have been growing ever since Xena. Fixed your post. There were other lesbian ships before Xena, but it's the first time a show reacted to its lesbian fans, by changing their approach and shifting focus of the characters. We never got true canon, but the writers gave us enough heavy handed subtext to last the series. (It's a shame it didn't come out a few years later, or else they would have been canon.)

As such, lesbian ships have blown up. Partly out of necessity, partly out of hope that their support for x-ship will turn canon.