Yes, Chiana and Jool!  Chiana, who is introduced later in season 1, is explicitly not straight.  And for a while after Jool arrives (in season 3, so you have to wait a while), the two of them have a friendship/rivalry going with some suggestive tension.  But later on, there are a couple of scenes that make it fairly clear that this is not accidental and they are indeed having some form of romantic/sexual relationship.  (The exact nature of it is nebulous, probably partly because of Chiana’s nature and partly because it was basic cable in the late 90s.)  They never kiss on-screen, but at one point we do get a cutaway and reaction shot from the other crew members.

Worth noting, though, is that while the show was progressive on many levels for its time, it also had moments of casual transphobia (although it did also have at least one positively depicted trans character, which was fucking revolutionary for the time) and sometimes played homosexuality for laughs or titillation.  So while it was a shining beacon compared to most of basic cable in the late 90s, it wasn’t flawless on that front.

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