History Main / QueerEstablishingMoment

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Laenor Velaryon is established as gay after a scene with him alone with his lover in a field.

** After being seen first leaving Markas, her lover in the city, Tasia returns to her handmaid Mylla... who it turns out she's also involved with (they soon have sex).

* ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather is shown as a lesbian from the beginning with her fairly masculine personal style, having posters of female bodybuilders and masturbating while watching Glorious Ladies of Wrestling. It's soon further confirmed by how much interest she shows when looking at Jonny, and having a {{homoerotic dream}} of her. Jonny turns out to share her feelings (despite dating a man at first) after their DanceOfRomance, with the two having sex.

* ''Literature/AdachiAndShimamura'': Adachi quickly establishes herself as a lesbian when she has a HomoeroticDream of her and Shimamura. Shimmamura becomes more attached to Adachi as the series goes on [[spoiler:and accepts Adachi’s feelings in Volume 6, and she becomes Adachi’s girlfriend followed by a love epiphany in Volume 8 which solidifies it.]]

** After being seen first leaving Markas, her lover in the city, Tasia returns to her handmaid Mylla... who it turns out she's sleeping with (they soon have sex).
** Joslyn relates that her {{first love}} was a girl, establishing herself as a lesbian even prior to getting together with Tasia later.

* ''Series/TheSpencerSisters'': Darby's friend Zane quickly is shown as married to another man and has an adopted daughter with him when they speak on the phone, as she asks about how they're doing.

* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': Within the first 5 minutes of the movie, Ambrosius eases Ballister's worries about not being accepted by the people of their Kingdom as their first knight not of common blood with the words "They're going to love you. Like I do." Ballister then leans his head against Ambrosius' shoulder, just to establish that their feelings for each other are, in fact, mutual.

* ''WesternAnimation/Nimona2023'': Within the first 5 minutes of the movie, Ambrosius eases Ballister's worries about not being accepted by the people of their Kingdom as their first knight not of common blood with the words "They're going to love you. Like I do." Ballister then leans his head against Ambrosius' shoulder, just to establish that their feelings for each other are, in fact, mutual.

** After years of HomoeroticSubtext and internal conflicts among Riot management, Twisted Fate and Graves received pretty blatant confirmation of being a male-loving-male couple as the two headline 2022's batch of Pride cosmetics. One of the items is an emote that bares a direct reference to ''Film/BrokebackMountain'', a gay romantic drama about two cowboys. The start of Pride Month also saw the release of the short story "The Boys and Bombolini", which explicitly confirms that Graves is gay when his relationships with past male lovers is discussed. When it becomes Twisted Fates turn, the subject becomes gender neutral. And although they don't technically become a couple in the story, it's thick with blatant subtext that they have romantic feelings for each other that they won't act on, to the point that EveryoneCanSeeIt.
--->''"I knew they’d end up with each other. Graves always had the worst taste in men, and Fate is the worst man I've ever met. It all makes sense!"''

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'':
** This continuity's version of Tefé Holland is [[AdaptationalGenderIdentity non-binary rather than female]], with their gender identity first made apparent when James Gordon refers to them, Volcana, and Terra as "women" and Tefé indignantly replies that they aren't ''all'' women.
** Clayface was established as at the very least bisexual in the Valentines Special, when he goes on a date with another man without it being a part of some plot to distract or trick anybody.

** After years of HomoeroticSubtext and internal conflicts among Riot management, Twisted Fate and Graves received pretty blatant confirmation of being a male-loving-male couple as the two headline 2022's batch of Pride cosmetics. One of the items is an emote that bares a direct reference to ''Film/BrokebackMountain'', a gay romantic drama about two cowboys. The start of Pride Month also saw the release of the short story "The Boys and Bombolini", which explicitly confirms in text that they're in a gay, romantic partnership.
--->''"I knew they’d end up with each other. Graves always had the worst taste in men, and Fate is the worst man I've ever met. It all makes sense!"'' [[note]]It should be noted that Twisted Fate and Graves overhear this line and, rather than take it seriously or confirm anything, argue how to play along and fake it. The general consensus between all their stories and lore is that they do in fact have romantic feelings for each other, but neither of them actually realizes it.[[/note]]

* ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather is shown as a lesbian from the beginning with her fairly masculine personal style, having posters of female bodybuilders and masturbating while watching Glorious Ladies of Wrestling. It's soon further confirmed by how much interest she shows when looking at Jonny, and having a {{homoerotic dream}} of her. Jonny turns out to share her feelings, despite dating a man at first, after their DanceOfRomance, with the two having sex.