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13->'''Dennis Hensley:''' The book is extremely explicit and in some places very homoerotic. Has that been toned down?\
14'''Creator/DanaDelany:''' Yeah, it's very much a heterosexual island. It's too bad because Creator/AnneRice has a great homosexual following, but I think Creator/GarryMarshall is aiming for a Middle-American audience. There are two things I think about this: in movies, I think, people only want one lover--they want the hero and they want the heroine. They get confused otherwise, even though that's reality.
15-->-- '''''Movieline''''' [[http://movieline.com/1994/08/01/dana-matrix/ interview]] for ''Literature/ExitToEden''
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17Elements of a character changing when a work is adapted from one medium to another is an extremely common occurrence. {{Nice Guy}}s might turn into {{Jerkass}}es, platonic friends might become [[PromotedToLoveInterest love interests]], an ally might become an enemy, etc.
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19This includes altering their sexuality -- whether making a UsefulNotes/{{homosexual}} character straight, giving a sex life to someone described as UsefulNotes/{{asexual|ity}}, putting UsefulNotes/{{aromantic}} characters into romantic relationships, making a straight person gay or bisexual, or any combination or variation of the above. It's debatable whether establishing a gay orientation for a character with a previously unknown sexuality counts -- presumably, "I'll just tell the missus I'll be home late tonight" would slide right by for a minor male character whose marriage wasn't established in the source material, but [[StraightGay would raise eyebrows]] for a woman.
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21Sometimes a form of {{Bowdleri|se}}zation, when the change is made to appease MoralGuardians or to avoid controversy. Compare HideYourLesbians and PromotedToLoveInterest. Not to be confused with SituationalSexuality. This can be made clear through a QueerEstablishingMoment. Sub-trope to AdaptationalDiversity. Compare AdaptationalGenderIdentity for when a character's ''gender'' identity is changed in an adaptation.
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23See HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul for when this happens to real people.
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25[[AC:Note:]] If a character (most importantly if they're based on a RealLife person) is merely ''speculated'' to have a certain sexuality and a depiction does not follow that, it does not count as this trope, even if said speculation has been generally accepted as fact through PopCulturalOsmosis.
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29[[index]]
30* AdaptationalSexuality/FanWorks
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33!!Other examples:
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36[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
37* ''Manga/Area88'': In the original manga, [[TheLancer Mickey Simon]] is attracted to women and has two [[TheOneThatGotAway significant]] [[SecondLove relationships]] with them, [[spoiler: with him even sharing a tragic LastKiss with the latter of the two before they both die]]. In the anime adaptation, these relationships (and the women he was in them with) are not present, and he is shown at one point to be reading ''Playgirl'', [[AmbiguouslyGay suggesting an interest in men]].
38* ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'': Kureha, in the subs, was obsessed with bodybuilding. Kureha in the anime dub, however, is obsessed with bodybuilding and beautiful men. The dub also changes the scene Kureha has with Baki after Doppo's loss from Kureha talking about how life and death are natural for a doctor to Kureha going on about how cute Baki is, and gives every line out of his mouth huge amounts of innuendo from then onward.
39* The title character of ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'' is a {{Celibate Hero}}ine, rejecting the feelings of someone she knew from childhood because she feels romance would get in the way of her job. In ''Decode'', [[spoiler:she returns the feelings of another childhood friend]].
40* ''Manga/Classi9'': In real life, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's homosexuality is a known fact. It has been considered one of the reasons behind his semi-permanent depressive disorder, and his brother, who was also gay, discussed it in his biography. In the manga, he is bisexual, or possibly pansexual, as he doesn't care about someone's gender so long as they are weak enough to be attractive to him.
41* Netflix's live action adaptation of ''Manga/DeathNote'' cuts out the HomoeroticSubtext entirely and makes AmbiguouslyGay Light Yagami into the very straight Light Turner. L, who was AmbiguouslyBi originally, has no such implications either.
42* ''{{Anime/Gankutsuou}}'' is a rare example that takes this trope in both directions. In [[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo the novel]], Eugénie Danglars is a lesbian who runs away with her piano instructor while Franz is simply a good friend of Albert. In the anime, both characters are in love with Albert.
43* While ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' is legendary for the HomoeroticSubtext between Nanoha and Fate and the two are confirmed to be a couple via WordOfGay, Nanoha was originally in a relationship with Chrono back in the Lyrical Toy Box fandisc for ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever''.
44* ''Anime/MyHime''. In the anime, Natsuki repeatedly states that she has no interest in or time or romance, and her close friend Shizuru believes that her feelings for Natsuki are unrequited. That said, Shizuru is Natsuki's most important person, and there are some indications that Natsuki may return her feelings. In the manga, however, Natsuki's most important person is Yuuichi, thereby creating a LoveTriangle with Mai and suggesting that Natsuki is heterosexual in this continuity.
45* ''VisualNovel/PrinceOfStrideAlternative'': Takeru Fujiwara was a straight bachelor in the visual novel the anime is based on. In the anime, he has been changed to gay, with no romantic interest in the heroine, and is instead heavily implied to have feelings for Riku... As well as any man with attractive and muscular legs.
46* Juri Arisugawa of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has a different sexuality in every continuity:
47** In the anime series, she's a closeted lesbian who is secretly in love with her childhood frenemy Shiori Takatsuki.
48** In the manga, she's straight and in love with [[StudentCouncilPresident Touga Kiryuu]] [[spoiler:except in that version, she actually has a torch for Ruka and just sees Touga as a stand-in in Ruka's absence; incidentally, Shiori doesn't even exist in the manga]]. Part of the reason for this seems to be that Juri in the manga is [[CompositeCharacter a combination]] of Juri from the anime and Nanami (who is in love with Touga and a ClingyJealousGirl much like manga!Juri). In interviews, Creator/ChihoSaito said that since the manga was shorter, she wanted to keep the story as focused on Utena as possible, so she decided Juri's love triangle couldn't be as separate from the main character as it was in the anime. The ''After the Revolution'' manga epilogue Saito did 20 years later reversed this decision to an extent, showing a now-adult Juri in a relationship with Shiori.
49** In ''Anime/AdolescenceOfUtena'', Juri is once again in love with Shiori, but also appears to be hitting on Miki at one point.
50** In the movie-manga and LightNovels, Juri's sexuality has never been specified.
51* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
52** In the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], Kunzite and Zoisite's sexuality was never addressed but there is a piece of artwork Creator/NaokoTakeuchi made [[WhatCouldHaveBeen whilst hashing out plot points that were eventually dropped]] that shows Zoisite and Sailor Mercury and Kunzite and Sailor Venus embracing. ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' establishes that Queen Beryl's four generals were lovers of the Inner Senshi in their past lives. In the [[Anime/SailorMoon 90s anime]] however, Kunzite and Zoisite are a couple (and in the Creator/DiC dub [[ShesAManInJapan "Zoycite" is a woman]]). Also Fisheye was never into guys in the manga, again showing romantic interest in Sailor Mercury, but chased men in the anime and once more became female in TheNineties English dub.
53** The Cloverway English dub of the original anime did this to Haruka (Amara) and Michiru (Michelle). In the Japanese version and later dubs they are unrelated and an OfficialCouple. The dub [[HideYourLesbians changed them]] so that they're [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHzjXrEiQqQ cousins]]. In combination with that, the dub edited a scene so Michelle mentions her first kiss was with a boy named Brad and Amara also mentions being attracted to boys. Michuru is AmbiguouslyBi but her kissing a boy was nowhere in the Japanese version. The dub, however, accidentally made the cousins come off as gay or bisexual anyway (though with a KissingCousins slant) because their scenes together are still heavily romantic even with dialogue changes.
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55* ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'':
56** Unlike in the [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim source material]], no mention is made of Ramona and Roxy being "a phase" according to Ramona, so for all intents and purposes Ramona is genuinely bisexual in this version. Similarly, Kim being AmbiguouslyBi in the comic is less ambiguous here (as in the video game), willingly kissing Roxie while sober, rather than making out with Knives while both are blackout drunk.
57** In this adaptation, [[spoiler:Todd becomes really attracted to Wallace, who entertains his repeated requests for sex (er, "[[UnusualEuphemism run lines in your trailer]]"), but does not reciprocate his feelings. Justified, as it was stated in the comic that Wallace had the power to turn straight people]].
58* ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'': Pretty much all major characters in the story are AmbiguouslyBi[=/=]AmbiguouslyGay and have near-textual same-sex attraction towards one or more members of the cast. In the original Japanese dub Joe is the most low-key about it. The English dub (helped by the English VA seeing Joe as bisexual) changes the dialogue in such a way that this interpretation of his sexuality is much more evident and he can be seen as having changed from "possibly bisexual" to "most likely bisexual".
59* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'''s Minto was clearly into Zakuro, but she also showed attraction to a couple of guys. When making ''Mew Mew Power'', the translators for Creator/FourKidsEntertainment realized that there was no way they could write around the lesbian subtext between the two characters, and apparently decided that having [[DubNameChange Corina]] be gay would raise fewer eyebrows than having her be bisexual. So while they [[HideYourLesbians toned down Corina's romantic feelings toward Renee where they could]], they excised any hint that she might have feelings for anyone ''else'', most notably in a scene where the Mew Mews were imagining their ideal man; Mint's imaginary boyfriend was replaced with an image of ''[[HomoeroticSubtext Renee]]''. The attraction is further amplified in the [[Anime/TokyoMewMewNew 2022 reboot]], with the added implication that it may be reciprocated.
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63* The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': ''AudioPlay/JagoAndLitefoot'' line heavily implies that Litefoot is gay (they had no real sexuality in the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang original serial]] featuring them).
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66[[folder:Comic Books]]
67* ''Creator/ArchieComics'':
68** In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', WordOfGay from Creator/KenPenders stated that Rotor Walrus was supposed to have been gay, falling in love with a former member of the Dark Legion in the "Mobius: 25 Years Later" storyline. Granted, he revealed this after he left the title and Creator/IanFlynn killed off the latter when he revisited the story.
69** In the main ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' Nancy has a boyfriend. In ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'' she is using her boyfriend [[TheBeard as a Beard]] and is really in love with (and dating) Ginger.
70** The [[ComicBook/ArchieComics2015 reboot]] of ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' makes Melody bisexual. The reboot also changed Jughead from heterosexual to aromantic asexual.
71* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
72** The all-new version of Alan Scott (the original Golden Age ComicBook/GreenLantern and very much Married With Children in the old continuity) revealed as being in a same-sex relationship on the all-new ComicBook/Earth2. WordOfGod says that this was to make up for the fact that his son Obsidian, who was homosexual, was erased from continuity due to the age-down making Scott too young to have adult children. When the original Golden Age version of Alan Scott returned to the DC Universe (alongside his children Jade and Obsidian) following ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' and ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', a {{Flashback}} story set in the 1940s implied that Alan was a closeted gay man. This was eventually confirmed in ''[[ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier Infinite Frontier]]'' #0. Jimmy, Alan's friend who died back in his origin story, was {{retcon}}ned into having been his secret lover.
73** The National Comics (''ComicBook/New52''-era outside continuity books) version of Rose & Thorn is AmbiguouslyBi (it's hinted that Rose's SuperpoweredAlterEgo tried to seduce her best friend, Mel).
74** ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
75*** On Earth-36, ComicBook/TheFlash and ComicBook/GreenLantern are a gay couple known as Red Racer and Flashlight.
76*** ComicBook/TheRay of Earth-10 is gay, in keeping with the theme of each of Earth-10's ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DCComics}} representing different groups who were persecuted by the Nazis.
77*** The ''Teen Justice'' miniseries establishes that the Earth-11 (GenderFlip universe) counterparts to Donna Troy and Raven are a gay couple, when the standard versions of the characters are straight.
78*** On Earth-32 (consisting of interpretations of DC characters who are [[CompositeCharacter mash-ups of each other]]), it is heavily implied (and explicitly confirmed by writer Jason Latour) in ''[[ComicBook/DCYearOfTheVillain Lex Luthor: Year of the Villain]]'' that Super-Martian (an amalgam of Superman and Martian Manhunter) and this world's Lex Luthor (who operates as a Batman similar to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]]) are lovers, when Superman, Martian Manhunter and Lex Luthor are traditionally straight, the first one usually being a couple with Lois Lane and the second having a wife and a daughter he outlived when he became [[LastOfHisKind the last surviving Martian]].
79** Originally, Maxima was an adult StalkerWithACrush [[StalkerWithATestTube And Test Tube]] who was obsessed with [[AllAmazonsWantHercules bedding Superman and other powerful men]]. ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2011 Post-Flashpoint]]'' story ''ComicBook/{{Crucible}}'' turns her into a closeted teenage lesbian with a schoolgirl crush on Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}.
80** In Pre-''Flashpoint'' comics, the last time we saw DEO Agent Cameron Chase, she was in a relationship with a guy called Dylan and expecting his child. In ''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'' she's dating Dr. Shay Vertitas.
81** Pre-Flashpoint Captain Stingaree was a closeted gay man in a relationship with the Cavalier. His closeted status was even used to blackmail him into acting as an informant and implied to be part of why he's the family's "black sheep", a core component of his character. In the New 52, he's straight and married with children.
82** In ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', a number of characters who are either straight or AmbiguouslyBi in the mainstream DC universe are depicted as unambiguously lesbian or bi. For example, Big Barda and Kimiyo Hoshi are lovers, Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} is unambiguously bisexual, [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] is dating Supergirl, and Mera is strongly implied to have had a past sexual thing with Diana.
83** In the ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' relaunch, Aqualad II (Jackson Hyde/Kaldur'ahm) is gay. At the time ''Rebirth'' started, he had a girlfriend and there was some ShipTease with Lorena Marquez/Aquagirl II. The 2019 revival of ''Young Justice'' would indeed see Kaldur with a boyfriend, and WordOfGod is that he's polysexual.
84** Natasha Irons, the niece of ''ComicBook/{{Steel}}'', exclusively had male love interests in the pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' continuity. When she finally made her post-reboot debut in the ComicBook/DCRebirth ''ComicBook/{{Superwoman}}'' series, she's established as having had a girlfriend in the past, and later shown to be in a relationship with Traci 13.
85*** Traci herself went from dating [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Jaime Reyes]] pre-''Flashpoint'' to dating Natasha afterward. The ''ComicBook/DawnOfDC'' ''Blue Beetle'' title establishes them as AmicableExes.
86** The ''DC Rebirth'' relaunch of ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'' establishes that Jericho from the ComicBook/TeenTitans is pansexual, and has a rather fluid view on sexuality in general. In fact, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen he was originally planned to be gay when Marv Wolfman and George Perez was developing the character]].
87** Ray Terrill, aka ComicBook/{{the Ray}}, is gay in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', as compared to his pre-''Flashpoint'' counterpart, who used to have a thing with Characters/BlackCanary.
88** ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' had ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' Canon Immigrant Renee Montoya come out as a lesbian. However, the SeriesBible for ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries B: TAS]]'' had her join the GCPD after her husband died. (Though the bible's canonicity is debatable, as Renee's entry also states that she opposed Batman's vigilante activities, while in the series she supported them, in contrast to her partner Harvey Bullock).
89** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'':
90*** [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Barbara Anne Minerva]], post-Crisis, was attracted to men and most recently had shown an attraction to Hunter Zolomon (Zoom, the second Reverse-Flash). Here, she's attracted to women, although it's not clear what her sexuality is.
91*** Wonder Woman's friend Etta Candy is also strongly implied to be a lesbian, complete with some light {{Ship Teasing}} with the aforementioned Barbara. Etta was exclusively depicted as straight prior to this and even ended up marrying [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] in the post-Crisis continuity. This also seems to be true of the alternate universe version of Etta from Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne'' graphic novels, who is ''very'' intrigued to learn about Themyscira.
92---->'''Etta:''' So let me get this straight. You're from a paradise island of science fiction lesbians? With a side of bondage? Honey, I'll drink to that! Woo woo!
93** In the pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] continuity, the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' supporting character Dale Gunn was {{Ship Tease}}d with both ComicBook/{{Vixen}} and Characters/{{Zatanna}}, and was even briefly in a LoveTriangle with them. In the ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''ComicBook/{{Vibe}}'' series, Dale is instead shown to have a husband named Casey.
94** In his original appearance, Mikaal Tomas, the ''ComicBook/{{Starman|DCComics}}'' of 1976, was portrayed as motivated by his lost love Lyssa Jurndaal, and not shown to have any other romantic interests. When he reappeared in James Robinson's ''Starman'', he was bisexual.
95** The pre-Flashpoint version of ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' villain Stallion had an ex-wife and objectified women. The post-Flashpoint version is reformed and works in a gay bar. However, it's also suggested that when he was a villain, he was ''extremely'' closeted, so the above characterisation may still stand as HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday.
96** In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed'' Steve Trevor (traditionally a straight man) is here Steve ''and'' Trevor, a married gay couple.
97** In ''Harley Quinn: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour'' (set in the continuity of [[WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019 the animated series]]), ComicBook/{{Vixen}} is a lesbian and has a girlfriend named Elle. Harley and Ivy themselves are also examples since both were originally depicted as entirely straight - see Western Animation, where the character of Harley originated. Ivy is first seen in Batman #181 as an alluring femme fatale and is often depicted as being in love with Batman in various media.
98** In the ''Series/WonderWoman1975'' episode "Knockout", Carolyn Hamilton's backstory is that she fell in love with the male leader of the radical group she infiltrated, calling him "a genuinely brave and honorable man". ''ComicBook/WonderWoman77'' (which makes her a CompositeCharacter with Nubia) has her married to Fausta Grables from the episode "Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman" (whose sexuality wasn't specified in the series or her [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 original comic appearance]]).
99** Nubia in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' didn't have any romantic relationships. In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'', Nu'Bia was motivated by her love for the god Ahura-Mazda. In the ''ComicBook/InfiniteFrontier'' era book ''Nubia and the Amazons'', she's in a relationship with an Amazon named Io. ''ComicBook/WonderWomanEarthOne'' makes her Hippolyta's partner, a CompositeCharacter with Phillipus.
100* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
101** [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]] of ''ComicBook/XMen'' fame is straight in the 616 universe, but gay in the [[ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001 Ultimate Universe]] and in a relationship with [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Northstar]], who's gay in both continuities.
102** ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' traveled through many of Marvel's multiversal realities, picking up an alternate-timeline Mariko Yashida (Sunfire), who entered into a lesbian relationship with the [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] (ComicBook/SpiderWoman) of another reality. In the mainstream timeline both characters were or are straight (Mariko one of the most important of [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]'s deceased love interests, Mary Jane [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]]'s wife). A later version of the team would include an alternate reality [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]], who was the lover of ComicBook/WonderMan.
103** In ''ComicBook/XTremeXMen2012'' an alternate universe Wolverine, here known by his birth name of James Howlett, is bisexual and in a relationship with [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]], whose 616-universe incarnation was AmbiguouslyBi at the time but has since been confirmed as bisexual.
104** In the ''ComicBook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}'' relaunch of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways|2015}}'', Pixie and [[Characters/MarvelComicsJubilee Jubilee]] are stated to have been a couple at one point. Pixie also hits on Characters/{{Cloak|AndDaggerMarvelComics}} and clarifies that she's bisexual ("Anyway, I date boys too!"), but Jubilee's orientation hasn't been stated. The final issue has Jubilee kissing Frostbite, one of her female teammates. On that note, ''Secret Wars'''s ''Siege'' comic had [[Characters/TheMightyThorGiants Leah of Hel]] and Characters/{{Magik}} in a sapphic relationship.
105** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] regarding the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate]] version of [[Characters/SpiderWomanTitleCharacter Jessica Drew]] being a lesbian. She's actually an OppositeSexClone of Peter Parker and by her own admission has the [[HasAType exact same preferences as Peter]]: women, especially natural redheads like [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane]] and [[GentileJewChaser Jewish girls]] such as [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Kitty Pryde]].
106** Characters/{{Elektra}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]]'s wife, Vanessa Fisk, are a lesbian couple in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX''.
107** In ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'', Angel's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] attraction to Jean is referenced, with the twist that Werner is entirely unaware she's a SweetPollyOliver and is in love with "John Grey".
108** In ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'', the version of [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] in Gwen's home universe is explicitly bi, and eventually ends up in a relationship with Glory Grant (who also fits this trope).
109** An unusual example in ''ComicBook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'', which reintroduces Tom Hale as gay, when the original non-canon ''ComicBook/PatsyWalker'' teen humor book had him dating a girl called Nan Brown ... but because that book is officially fictional within the Marvel Universe, from his perspective he was written as being straight when he wasn't.
110** [[IncredibleHercules Hercules]] as written in Marvel had always been heterosexual. In the 2005 series he refused what he believed was an offer of sex with a man and said he’d told Alexander the Great the same thing. Axel Alonso went on record stating that he was straight. In more recent years he’s been written as a bisexual character.
111** ''ComicBook/SupremePower'', a DarkerAndEdgier reboot of Marvel's AlternateCompanyEquivalent of the Justice League ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' that was published under their MAX imprint, depicts Inertia as a lesbian when the Mark Gruenwald-penned comics had her in a relationship with the male Haywire.
112* Creator/{{IDW|Publishing}}:
113** Franchise/{{Transformers}} have historically tended to be straight. IDW generally has not bought into this, with multiple characters who lacked any romantic partners in Generation 1 material developing romantic entanglements, often with a robot of the same gender: Cyclonus with Tailgate, Chromedome with Rewind (and, apparently, Prowl), Blast Off with Onslaught, you get the idea.
114*** Arcee had a relationship with Springer in the Legends comic and the third season of the cartoon, an explicit crush on Hot Rod in the movie, and dated Chromedome in ''The Headmasters''; in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', she hooks up with fellow female Transformer Aileron, while in the 2019 series, she's in a relationship with Greenlight.
115*** Knock Out was AmbiguouslyGay in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', but it's never stated explicitly, or indeed implied by more than a quick sequence of Knock Out checking out Optimus Prime's altmode. ''ComicBook/TheTransformersWindblade'' and ''ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne'' had no, [[{{Pun}} aheh, truck]] with the word "ambiguously", and a 'bot with the same design as his best war buddy in ''Prime'' is explicitly his husband.
116*** Ratchet is unattached in the G1 cartoon, mentions a girlfriend in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', and gets robo-married to fellow male robot Drift in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. Although to be fair, he could ''hypothetically'' be bi in all three.
117*** The 2019 series Valentine's Day special pairs Blast Off with Cosmos.
118** ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'':
119*** The IDW reboot makes Kimber and Stormer from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' a couple. Kimber in the cartoons was known for having ''many'' male love interests. Stormer's sexuality was never hinted at, though. The two were heavy on the LesYay in "The Bands Break Up" episode but nothing was ever confirmed.
120*** Aja is bisexual. In the original cartoon, her [[SingleTargetSexuality only shown love interest]] was her boyfriend.
121* Other
122** George Fayne was straight and had at least two male love interests in the original ''Literature/NancyDrew'' novels. In the [[ComicBook/NancyDrewDynamiteComics 2018 comic book series]], George is instead an out lesbian and in a relationship with a girl named Danica.
123** In the Creator/KieronGillen version of ''ComicBook/PeterCannonThunderbolt'', Cannon is AmicableExes with Tabu Singh. Neither character was shown to be interested in men in previous incarnations.
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126[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
127* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula,'' Main/{{Dracula}} is trying to resurrect his dead wife, named [[Literature/{{Carmilla}} Carmilla Karnstein]]. There aren't a lot of well-known vampiresses to use for a MythologyGag, but given what Carmilla [[LesbianVampire is best known for]]...
128* ''[[WebAnimation/QueerDuck Queer Duck: The Movie]]'' does this to the unnamed MockyMouse mascot of gay-friendly theme park Fairyland from the original web series episode "The Gayest Place on Earth". While the original web series depicted the character as gay due to being in a relationship with a male turkey named Gobble the Salty Seaman and [[CrazyJealousGuy getting confrontational over Queer Duck flirting with Gobble]], the character in the movie is reinterpreted as the mascot of a theme park called Happyland and is supposedly straight, since he doesn't show attraction to men, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain denies the gay men Queer Duck assembled admittance to Happyland]] and at the end of the film is told "Beat it, hetero" when Queer Duck kicks him out of the theme park after buying out the place and changing it to Fairyland.
129* In the comic ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'', Wonder Woman is attracted to Superman. In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon'' film, she turns him down because she's a lesbian. Funnily enough Wondy is bisexual in the comics, but seems to be strictly same sex here.
130* In ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines'', Etta Candy is an out lesbian.
131-->'''Etta:''' Next stop: Themyscira. And hopefully an Amazon who likes 'em thick.\
132'''Wonder Woman:''' [[IfWeGetThroughThis If we survive this]], I can make a few introductions.
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136* In the original graphic novel for ''ComicBook/{{Alena}}'', the title character is bisexual; she has a romantic encounter with Josefin but later falls for Fabian, a boy. In the movie, Fabian is now Fabienne and Alena falls for her instead. There is no indication of any interest in boys in the film.
137* ''Film/AtomicBlonde'': The protagonist's heterosexual affair with a male French agent in the graphic novel is turned into a same-sex romance in the film.
138* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': The Black Queen in the comic books is a PsychoLesbian who only shows interest in getting it on with Barbarella and ignores Pygar. She was changed to a DepravedBisexual for the movie, still showing interest in Barbarella but also Pygar, even having dreams about him, which suggests she prefers him to Barbarella. Barbarella is not averse to female attention herself in the comics, but she's clearly not interested in the Black Queen in the film. She's also [[FreeLoveFuture openly promiscuous]], but in the film has to be coaxed into sex (though is quite eager once she experiences it for the first time). This is PlayedForLaughs, however.
139* Confirmed for Gaston's comic relief sidekick [=LeFou=] by WordOfSaintPaul in ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017''. Creator/JoshGad even admitted to being proud of playing the first openly gay Disney character. How "open" he comes across is up to viewer interpretation in the actual movie.
140* The unnamed gay protagonist of Truman Capote's novella ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' (whom Holly calls by her brother's name, 'Fred') becomes [[Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys the film]]'s straight love interest Paul. They also eliminated all signs of Holly's bisexuality. Famously referenced in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', when George's attempt to bluff through a book club meeting, having only seen the film, fails spectacularly when his girlfriend has to tell him, "George... Fred's gay."
141* In the novel ''Literature/BridgetJones: The Edge of Reason'', Rebecca Gillies was a passive-aggressive AlphaBitch who was setting her claws on Mark Darcy. In the film version, she was changed to a nice BrainyBrunette with [[IncompatibleOrientation a crush on Bridget]].
142* ''Film/{{Cabaret}}'': Christopher Isherwood's autobiographical collection of short stories ''Goodbye to Berlin'' never hides the fact that the protagonist was gay, but when they adapted it into the film they turned the main character bisexual, had him hook up with the cabaret singer Sally, and had them being the official couple for the majority of the play, with a token mention of his attraction to men at the beginning and the end of their relationship. This apparently pissed off Isherwood to the point that he wrote ''Christopher and his Kind'' in an effort to (pardon the pun) set the record straight. This book was given a movie adaptation in 2011, starring Creator/MattSmith. Watching the two movies back-to-back is actually a really good case study of the LGBT movement's progress in the last forty years.
143* In Creator/TennesseeWilliams' 1955 play ''Theatre/CatOnAHotTinRoof'', Brick's friend Skipper killed himself after drunkenly confessing his love, and Brick's own feelings are rather violently conflicted and ambiguous. The 1958 film strips out this aspect, which some critics have suggested leaves the central conflict of Brick's character somewhat muddled.
144* The documentary ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'' was supposed to feature a sequence detailing {{Biopic}}s where the subject was known to be gay or bisexual but was nevertheless portrayed as straight. It was cut due to rights issues. Some of the films meant to be featured were:
145** ''Film/TheAgonyAndTheEcstasy'': Charlton Heston denied the film rights because he insisted that his portrayal of the famous sculptor Michelangelo as straight was historically accurate.
146** ''Film/AlexanderTheGreat1956'', starring Richard Burton. Despite popular belief, no ancient sources state Alexander had homosexual relationships or that his relationship with Hephaestion was sexual. The only person specifically mentioned as Alex's ''eromenos'' was Bagoas, a eunuch who had been Darius' courtesan and "was afterwards loved by Alexander" according to historian Quintus Curtius.[[note]]Historian Plutarch says Bagoas did, in fact, win a dance contest and the Macedonian troops urged Alex to kiss him, which he did. Make of it what you will.[[/note]] It is possible he was bisexual as he seems to have married Roxana out of love but other than Greek culture at the time there is nothing to say he was. Due to this, the documentary would have been operating on popular belief.
147** ''Hans Christian Andersen'', starring Danny Kaye (the filmmakers were denied the rights to this because the studio mistakenly thought the documentary would claim that ''Kaye'' was gay, rather than Andersen).
148** ''Film/{{Night and Day|1946}}'', starring Cary Grant as a straight Music/ColePorter.
149* The first film adaptation of the play ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'', ''These Three'', changed the story of two teachers having their lives ruined due to rumors that they are having a lesbian affair to rumors that one of them slept with the other's fiance. This is because MediaNotes/TheHaysCode outlawed even the slightest hint of homosexuality. Even the ''title'' had to be changed (to ''These Three'') because the stage play was so well known as a work that dealt with lesbianism. There were other changes as well such as [[spoiler:Martha not being DrivenToSuicide]].
150* ''Film/TheColorPurple1985'' did not include the lesbian relationships detailed in the book. In the book, Celie explicitly has a crush on Shug and they eventually have a (brief) relationship, however, in the movie, this is mostly reduced to [[HomoeroticSubtext subtext]].
151* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Eugenie Danglars is a lesbian who runs away with her lover Louise d'Armilly. In the Soviet film adaptation ''The Prisoner of Château d'If'', she is straight and elopes with [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys bandit chief Luigi Vampa]] instead.
152* Ron Woodroof, the straight homophobic protagonist of ''Film/DallasBuyersClub'', was likely bisexual in real life.
153* In the movie version of Film/DearEvanHansen the character of Jared is stated to be gay, changing a line about hooking up with a girl at band camp to one about hooking up with a guy at said band camp.
154* In the Creator/KennethBranagh version of ''Film/{{Death on the Nile|2022}}'', Miss Bowers turns out to be Marie Van Schuyler's secret lesbian lover rather than simply her nurse.
155* ''Film/{{Emmanuelle}}'' portrays the titular character's mentor, Mario, as ostensibly straight. In the original novel, upon which the movie was based, Mario was bisexual, with a strong inclination towards other men.
156* ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' depicts Phastos as a gay man with a husband, in contrast to [[ComicBook/TheEternals the comics]], where he had a human wife.
157* ''Film/FriedGreenTomatoes'' portrayed the relationship between Ruth and Idgie (which is quite clearly a lesbian union in the book) as friends, with strong implications of romance.
158* ''Film/{{Get Carter|1971}}'': Peter the Dutchman is a misogynistic homosexual in the book.
159* Truman Capote's unmade script for the ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' would've had Nick as a closeted homosexual and Jordan as a vindictive lesbian.
160* ''Film/TheGreenKnight'': In the original legend, Gawain kisses the unnamed lord in repayment for kissing his beautiful wife. In the film, the lord himself is the one who kisses Gawain.
161* ''Film/TheHandmaiden'': In the ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'' novel Gentleman was gay, and his interest in Maud was entirely monetary. His movie equivalent Fujiwara has an overwhelming desire for Hideko.
162* The Robert Wise version of ''Film/TheHaunting1963'' has an AmbiguouslyGay[=/=]AmbiguouslyBi female character. ''Film/TheHaunting1999'' makes the same character openly bisexual. In the 2018 Creator/{{Netflix}} series ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018'' the same character is introduced as checking out a girl at a bar, her utterly ignoring the guys who check her out, and her and the girl ending up in bed. So full circle one guesses.
163* ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' reveals that Richie is gay, and has been in love with Eddie since they were children.
164* This shows up from time to time in the Film/JamesBond franchise:
165** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' eliminates Rosa Klebb's scene from [[Literature/FromRussiaWithLove the book]] of outright trying to seduce Tatiana. In the movie Klebb plays uncomfortably with Tatiana's hair while talking of "a labor of love".
166** Pussy Galore's lesbianism is downplayed in the film version of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', where she merely tells Bond she is "immune" to his charms. Tilly was also a lesbian in [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} the book]] and in love with Pussy, but is depicted as purely heterosexual in the film.
167** Bond himself is of course a dedicated heterosexual in the books, but ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' reveals Bond while he mainly prefers women has indeed slept with men in the past, as he’s completely unfazed by DepravedBisexual Sliva coming onto him. Given Bond [[JustifiedTrope is an international spy]], him having to go under cover as a homosexual man at some point is hardly surprising.
168** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' implies that Creator/BenWhishaw's incarnation of Q is gay or bisexual when he mentions that he was having a date with another man as Bond and Moneypenny come to him.
169* The biopic ''Killer Nurse'' depicted serial killer Charles Cullen as a necrophiliac, despite there being absolutely no evidence he was one in real life.
170* ''Film/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'': Molina is gay here, not straight like the book had it.
171* The film adaptation of David Gerrold's autobiographical novel ''Film/MartianChild'' had the openly gay Gerrold played as straight by John Cusack, giving him Amanda Peet to flirt with.
172* ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak:'' Berger is a suspected homosexual, while his book counterpart is an accused defeatist and enemy sympathizer.
173* ''Film/MeanGirls2024'':
174** In the [[Film/MeanGirls original film]], Janis was, at most, AmbiguouslyGay and seemed to end up with Kevin; this film portrays her as explicitly queer, and even has her attend the Spring Fling with an unnamed girlfriend.
175** In the original film Karen seemed to be straight, or at least only demonstrated onscreen interest in boys. In this film while we never see her in a romantic situation onscreen, there are frequent references to her sleeping with "11 people" of undefined gender. This can arguably be taken as [[AmbiguouslyBi implying that she is bisexual]].
176** Regina is also AmbiguouslyGay or perhaps AmbiguouslyBi in this film. She sings the line "Can a gay girl get an amen?" and [[WordOfSaintPaul her actress Renee Rapp]] [[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mean-girls-2024-renee-rapp-b2477522.html confirmed that she explicitly played the character as a lesbian who has no genuine interest in either Aaron or Shane]] [[https://betches.com/mean-girls-regina-george-is-a-lesbian-and-i-can-prove-it/ and that Regina was flirting with Cady in the "get in, loser" scene]].
177* ''Film/MySummerOfLove'': In the book any possible attraction between the two beyond just-friends affection is only distantly implied, if present at all. The movie, however, unambiguously plays their relationship out as a romantic affair that is explicitly sexual too.
178* Willy Rumson, the antagonist of ''Literature/OneFatSummer'' was shown to have two girls in his gang he would readily hit on, as well as making a pass at Michelle Mark's (mostly to get under Pete Marino's skin). In the movie adaptation ''Measure Of A Man'', however, while he still makes passes at a few of the female characters, the climax of the movie has Bobby discover Willy on a secluded section of beach having a quiet moment with his boyfriend.
179* In the novel ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', Harding was as heavily implied to be gay as was possible in 1960s literature, depicted as effeminate and forced into the asylum for unnamed sexual acts, and getting a long speech about the ridiculousness of the society that condemned him. In [[Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest the movie]], however, he's reduced to a background character who gets at most three lines, which might not count as this trope if not for the fact that his appearance is totally different--and far more masculine--as well. Book readers usually don't even recognize him until the nurse uses his name.
180* ''Literature/TheOtherBoleynGirl'' (both the film and the book) portray George Boleyn as gay. In real life, he was a notorious womanizer due to his shrew of a wife. In the book, he is having an affair with a male courtier while in the film it is mostly subtext, his wife challenging him about why he never sleeps with her.
181* In ''Film/PowerRangers2017'', [[spoiler:Trini the Yellow Ranger]] is hinted to have been in a relationship with another girl, and the movie's creators have said that she's at a point where she's [[AmbiguouslyGay questioning]] her [[AmbiguouslyBi sexuality]]. It is confirmed that she's not straight, at least.
182* Supposedly, the producers wanted to remove all homosexual allusions from the film adaptation of ''Literature/QueenOfTheDamned'', so Louis (Lestat's long-suffering fledgling) wasn't included in the movie despite playing a fairly pivotal role in the book, and Lestat was given a female love interest in Jesse (who showed absolutely no interest in him in the book).
183* In ''Film/{{Rope}}'' (the original play) Brandon, Philip, and Rupert were explicitly gay. In Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation (which was made in 1948) it was reduced to subtext between Brandon and Rupert with Brandon also referring to a past relationship with Janet implying he's possibly bisexual.
184* ''Film/{{Rosaline}}'': Count Paris, Juliet's earnest suitor in the original ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', is gay here, and only courts Juliet to get his father off his back and help Rosaline. He's pleased that Juliet's age means the wedding won't have to take place for a couple of years.
185* ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' makes no mention of P.L. Travers's girlfriend even though the two were living together when Travers wrote the first ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' book.
186* ''Film/ShallWeDance2004'': Chic is an ArmouredClosetGay ladies man, while his counterpart in the Japanese movie, Tōkichi, is HappilyMarried to a woman.
187* In ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', Sulu is shown as a gay man in homage to Sulu's original actor Creator/GeorgeTakei, who is openly gay in real life. However, some people, including Takei himself, thought it would've been better if they'd created a brand new character who was LGBTQ.[[note]]Takei has elaborated on other occasions that he'd always portrayed Sulu as straight.[[/note]]
188* In ''Film/AStreetcarNamedDesire'', Blanche's story about her ex-husband's suicide changes from homosexuality (as in the play by Tennessee Williams) to "weakness".
189* ''Film/ThirteenWomen'': In the film, Hazel Cousins is a married woman who kills her husband and goes to prison. In the original book, Hazel is a virgin who remains so simply because she is considered too beautiful; men are either too intimidated to approach her, assume she is married or engaged, or believe that she will break their heart. Hazel eventually becomes a lesbian after she is seduced by the wife of the doctor treating her for tuberculosis. Hazel starves herself to death in a sanitarium while suffering the heartache of having been abandoned by her lover Martha.
190* In ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'', [[spoiler:Peter Gulliam]] is portrayed as gay, and though he was never said to be explicitly straight in the novel it's never elaborated on. Not that it makes much of a difference in either since his sexuality is relevant for all of six seconds. WordOfGod for the movie is that they made him gay because the idea of him being closeted fit in well with the themes of secrecy and concealment throughout the entire story.
191* The ''Manga/{{Tomie}}'' films portray the title villain as a DepravedBisexual who has several schoolgirl lesbian lovers. This is in sharp contrast to the manga, where Tomie outright ''hated'' other girls, and was very contemptuous and territorial around them.
192* Director, Creator/DannyBoyle and actor, Creator/RobertCarlyle both [[WordOfGay say they consider]] Begbie from ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' to be an ArmouredClosetGay. Something Creator/IrvineWelsh didn't intend when writing the book.
193* ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'': Juliet has a girlfriend, Ness, before Tromeo in this version.
194* ''Film/VForVendetta'': In the book, Gordon is straight and he has a relationship with Evey. Here, he's gay and hides himself through [[TheBeard having pretty young women]] like her over to his house, as the regime persecutes gays. Possibly this was done to match up with Creator/StephenFry's orientation, along with lending more drama.
195* ''Film/WithAKissIDie'': Juliet is portrayed as heterosexual in the [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet original play]]. Here, she's bisexual.
196* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
197** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] has been bisexual in the comics from her earliest appearances, with Creator/ChrisClaremont intending the mutant Destiny to be Mystique‘s lover from the get-go, but due to the comics code at the time had to make them [[HideYourLesbians just partners instead]]. In the Fox films, Mystique is straight in both timelines showing no interest in other women.
198** In ''Film/TheNewMutants'' Dani Moonstar and Rahne Sinclair aka Wolfsbane fall for each other and kiss. In [[ComicBook/NewMutants the comics]], they’re both attracted to guys and only see each other as friends.
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202* ''Literature/DearEvanHansen'': Connor states that he considers himself "fluid," being attracted to both girls and guys, which is not in the musical.
203* ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]:
204** Some of the [[Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures Missing Adventures]] portray the Doctor (mainly shown as asexual in the classic series) as bisexual or omnisexual. For instance, the First Doctor Missing Adventure "The Plotters" involves a sequence where the First Doctor gripes about the outrageously gay King James I's interest in his [[SweetPollyOliver crossdressed female companion]] over him, acting jealous and complaining that on his home planet "[[IWasQuiteALooker I had been considered quite a looker]]". The "Shada" novelization also gives the Fourth Doctor a few lines that allude to him having an interest in men, such as saying the villain is trying to kill "[Clare and] all the other lovely girls. And all the lovely boys".
205** The original pitch for [[MissingEpisode rejected book]] ''Campaign'' would have made Ian bisexual through placing him in a romance with [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Alexander the Great]]--the pitch document even specifies that "his feelings about bisexuality [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory could provide a good forum for modern viewpoints]], seen through a Sixties mentality". The book that eventually got written is [[MindScrew so far removed from the original pitch]] that these elements were excised except as backstory, with the only remaining parts being Alexander calling Ian 'my beloved', and a scene where Ian talks to Susan about how beautiful he found Alexander, saying that he got drunk with him and 'gave him my all'. Both of these happen fairly early on in the story when it's still possible it could be purely historical and are soon abandoned once it goes into a metafictional JigsawPuzzlePlot--possibly even subverting this trope as it turns out the more important relationship Ian had on Alexander's campaign was with a Persian Queen who seduced him, while the Alexander relationship is firmly restricted to innuendo and Susan being ShipperOnDeck. (Ian ''does'' get involved in a [[ScrewYourself married relationship with another version of himself]] in the Great Fire of London, though this is influenced by TheoryOfNarrativeCausality and it probably isn't gay if it's with yourself.)
206** The [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations Target novelisation]] of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Power of the Daleks]]" goes out of its way to give Lesterson, who in the serial was MarriedToTheJob and [[AdmiringTheAbomination seems to display a mild sexual fascination with the Daleks if anything]], a crush on Janley that he tries to ignore. It seems to be mostly there so Janley's beauty can be described through Lesterson's internal monologue.
207** The Target novelisation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" makes Professor Whitaker into a giggling SissyVillain implied very heavily to be gay (such as gushing over how when he masters time travel he will collect Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward from history to keep to himself, and saying admiring things about the physique of the tied-up Doctor). His on-screen portrayal was not at all like this.
208** The novelization of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" also gives NamedByTheAdaptation VictimOfTheWeek David an internal monologue where he thinks about going to a gay club and worries that being a Cilla Black fan is a bit stereotypical. Part of the reason he gives the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]] a lift is because he finds him attractive.
209* In-universe in the ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' novel ''Literature/MrsMcGintysDead'': Ariadne Oliver says her fictional detective Sven Hjerson "never cared for women", while the writer of the stage adaptation has given him {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST with a female character, insisting "But you can't have him a ''pansy'', darling. Not for ''this'' sort of play."
210* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'':
211** ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfView'': Ackmena, TK-421 and [[AmbiguouslyGay possibly]] [[spoiler: Tarkin]] are confirmed to be gay/lesbians in this collection of stories. There was no indication of the former two's sexual orientation in ''Legends'', and the latter was originally depicted as being straight (and having a widow) in his ''Legends'' stories.
212** In the prequel novel ''Padawan'', Obi-Wan is revealed as a biromantic asexual in the canon, whereas he was straight in ''Legends''.
213** In ''Legends'' there was never any indication that Wes Janson was interested in anything but women, while in a couple of stories from ''Literature/FromACertainPointOfViewReturnOfTheJedi'' he flirts with Lando prior to the Battle of Endor.
214* In the ''Literature/TomoeGozenSaga'' Jessica Amanda Salmonson re-imagines the title character as a lesbian.
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218* In ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'', Tony, Ryan, Courtney, and [[spoiler: Alex]] are all gay[[note]]The latter isn't revealed to be gay until the final season, whereas the other three are shown to be gay in Season 1[[/note]]. The AdaptationExpansion of the series caused this since in [[Literature/ThirteenReasonsWhy the book]] very few details were provided about them, whereas the TV series gives all of them backstories.
219* ''Series/{{The 100}}'':
220** Clarke Griffin is straight in the books, but bisexual in the TV series.
221** Octavia Blake gets a girlfriend in the books but is only explicitly interested in boys in the TV series. Though it can be argued she is AmbiguouslyBi.
222* The [[Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015 2015 BBC miniseries adaptation]] of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' added heavy implications that Emily Brent was attracted to her maid Beatrice which gave her additional incentive to spurn Beatrice when she became pregnant and also made William Blore's victim a gay man with some subtext that Blore himself might be an ArmouredClosetGay.
223* ''Series/AnneWithAnE'''s version of Aunt Josephine is a lesbian who was in a longtime relationship with a woman named Gertrude.
224* Series/{{Arrowverse}}:
225** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
226*** Nyssa al Ghul ([[AdaptationNameChange Nyssa Raatko in the original comics]]) is a lesbian. More significantly, she was in a relationship with Sara, the first Characters/BlackCanary. This would indicate that Canary is likely either bi or pansexual in the show, though [[WordOfGod the creators]] avoided putting an exact label on her sexual orientation. In the original comics, Black Canary is generally depicted as heterosexual and the longtime lover of Green Arrow, though longtime writer Creator/GailSimone has stated [[WordOfGay she considers Canary to be bisexual]], even if it's never been made canon. (Although, strictly, the Canary who was in a relationship with Nyssa isn't the series's version of Black Canary from the comics, but her sister.)
227*** Curtis Holt (Michael Holt/Mr. Terrific in the comics) is gay, with a husband. In the comics, Michael's primary motivation as a hero was the death of his wife and their unborn child.
228*** Played with by Adrian Chase, who is still straight, but [[spoiler: is made a CompositeCharacter with Prometheus, who seduced a male superhero]].
229** In the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode "Camelot/3000", Queen Guinevere regards King Arthur as a good friend and has TheBigDamnKiss with Sara Lance.
230** During the crossover event ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' the Earth-X version of Leonard Snart is in a relationship with Ray Terrill. In the comics, Leonard Snart has been shown to be heterosexual.
231* ''Series/TheBabySittersClub2020'':
232** Dawn's father only dates and marries women in the book series, while he's gay in the adaptation and has a male partner after his divorce. Apparently he and Sharon knew for a while but were too co-dependent on each other to do anything about it at first.
233** Alex, who along with his cousin Toby befriends Mary Anne and Stacey in Sea City, is not explicitly assigned a sexuality in the books (although he was very likely straight or bi, seeing as how he has a brief summer romance with Mary Anne and mentions having a girlfriend back home). In the series, he is openly gay (or possibly bi) and talks about his crush on a boy at theater camp.
234** Charlotte Johanssen has a mother and father in the books, making them a heterosexual married couple. In the Netflix series, Charlotte has two moms, making the original Dr. Johanssen at least no longer straight.
235** Janine, who had a boyfriend named Jerry in the original books, has a girlfriend named Ashley Wyeth in this version.
236** Dawn shows exclusive attraction toward boys in the books. She doesn't date anyone in the TV series but mentions that whoever she falls in love with could be anywhere on the gender spectrum, indicating that she's pansexual (though she doesn't use any labels while describing herself).
237* In ''Series/BadSisters'', Bibi is a lesbian, despite having a husband in the original Belgian series ''Series/{{Clan}}''.
238* In order to illustrate how good Blackadder's lawyer is, ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'' makes a spirited attempt at convincing us Creator/OscarWilde was the most heterosexual man in Britain.
239* ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'':
240** At first it's left unclear if Queen Maeve is a closeted lesbian or bisexual as she dated Homelander (in terms of him, it was to keep her public image acceptable) and dated a civilian woman before, even though she is only involved with men in the comic. [[spoiler:Homelander outs her as a lesbian in Season 2, on national TV no less (she's actually bisexual, but Vought's PR team just sticks with "lesbian" as it's "[[NoBisexuals easier]]").]]
241** Popclaw is a closeted lesbian in the comics, but straight (or at least only shown having sex with men) in the show.
242* ''Series/BraveNewWorld'': The series implies most if not all New Londoners are bisexuals, given their orgies show people pairing up without regard to genders, plus Lenina's interactions with her friend Frannie and Bernard's comments, while the book has them as strictly heterosexual libertines. [[spoiler: As he begins to enjoy himself more and more in New London, John is shown hooking up with a few men despite being heterosexual in the book, although admittedly some of them have masks on their face, implying a level of discomfort.]]
243* ''Series/{{Cowboy Bebop|2021}}'' does this with Faye Valentine. In [[Anime/CowboyBebop the original anime]], Faye was clearly into men with her using her feminine whiles to tease and manipulate multiple men, having previously loved conman Whitney Haggis Matsumoto (before he betrayed her) and showing interest in Cowboy Andy (until finding out he's a narcissistic bore), Gren (expressing disappointment when he clarifies he's not interested in women) and Spike (all but stated to have fallen in love with him by the end of the series). Her being fairly captivated by Julia and describing her mysterious beauty to Jet with awe could suggest an [[EvenGirlsWantHer attraction to women as well]], but could also be chalked up to jealousy (her voice actress Creator/MegumiHayashibara has [[WordOfSaintPaul indicated]] she was going for the latter). In the 2021 show however, Faye is unmistakably attracted to women with CanonForeigner Mel being the first (as far as Faye can remember) woman she’s slept with and never showing any overt attraction to men.
244* ''Series/{{Cursed|2020}}'': Morgana is portrayed as only having relationships with men in other stories. Here, her only portrayed relationship was with another woman.
245* ''Series/DaisyJonesAndTheSix'': Simone's exact sexuality in the book is unknown, and she eventually marries and has a daughter. In the show she has an explicit lesbian romance with a woman named Bernie.
246* ''Series/{{Doom Patrol|2019}}'':
247** Prior to becoming Negative Man, Larry Trainor was a closeted gay man, and was having an extramarital affair with one of his fellow airmen at the military base where he was stationed. In the [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol comics]], he was straight, as he and Cliff Steele/Robotman frequently fought for Rita Farr/Elasti-Girl's love before Steve Dayton/Mento came along and married her, plus he flirted with a female nurse in Creator/GrantMorrison's run shortly before he and Eleanor Poole were merged into Rebis.
248** For the reverse, in the comics, The Brain was most notable for being in a gay relationship with Monsieur Mallah. In the series they appear to just be close partners, with Brain even going after old women when he gets Cliff's body. Monsieur Mallah himself has not been explored enough to showcase any sexuality or attraction one way or the other, though based on one of his interactions with Madam Rouge he at least appears to not be a fan of women.
249** Edwin Paine of ComicBook/TheDeadBoyDetectives is indicated to be gay and harboring a crush on his partner Charles Rowland, when the comics indicated Edwin to like girls in the ''Dead Boy Detectives'' story shown in issue 3 of ''Vertigo: Winter's Edge'' as well as the 2014 series by Toby Litt.
250** Casey Brinke and Jane are strictly lesbians in this continuity and become a couple by the end of the series, when in the comics, the former was bisexual (sleeping with both the male Lotion the Cat and Mr. Nobody's daughter Terry None) and the latter's relationship with Cliff Steele was more than just platonic.
251* The 2013 ''Series/{{Dracula|2013}}'' TV show reimagined Lucy as a lesbian with a secret crush on her best friend Mina. [[OlderThanTheyThink Although]] at least [[Film/BramStokersDracula one adaptation]] has had Lucy and Mina make out before.
252* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': [[Literature/FellowTravelers In the novel]], Mary Johnson is straight, but her TV counterpart is a lesbian.
253* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
254** In the books, Jon has some clear erotic undertones with Satin, a former male prostitute serving at the Wall, leading some people to speculate Jon [[Main/AmbiguouslyBi might be bisexual]]. None of this is present in the show.
255** In the books, Daenerys occasionally has sex with her handmaid Irri as a kind of stress relief (indicating that she's bisexual since she also enjoyed having sex with Daario), but in the show, she's discomforted when she gets a little ''too'' into Doreah's tutoring on lovemaking in "The Kingsroad".
256*** It is actually pretty hard to confirm whether Dany is bi or straight. She doesn't desire women, and she had no intentions to have sex with Irri the first time, and the second time she still feels uncomfortable, and sees Irri as more of a sex toy than a lover. It's much more probable for her to be straight.
257** In the novels, Xaro Xhoan Daxos is noted to only have eyes for his pretty slave boys, even when Daenerys is around. He even confirms his sexuality to Dany when she confronts him about it once. In the show, he has no such preference, was caught with Doreah, and a deleted scene shows him with a female lover.
258** The Tyrells are much more liberal about sexuality in the show. In the books, the Reach is the heartland of both chivalry and the Faith, both of which put a premium on chastity and heterosexuality.
259*** In addition to playing TheVamp rather than the PrincessClassic, Margaery offers to let Loras help consummate her marriage, implies she's experimented widely herself, and strolls right into her brother's chambers during one of his trysts, none of which is even implied in the novels.
260*** Likewise, Olenna declares openly that Highgarden doesn't view "a discreet bit of buggery" as a scandal and even teases Tywin that he might just be ArmouredClosetGay.
261** In the books, Ramsay's relationship with the first Reek, and his subsequent torture of Theon to turn him into a ReplacementGoldfish for Reek, is full of homosexual undercurrents and Ramsay shows no interest in women and is thoroughly incapable of attracting any woman into a consensual relationship, with Ramsay and his men preferring to rape and torture with abandon. In the show, the homosexual undertones with Theon/Reek are downplayed (though still ''very much'' present) and he consensually attracts {{Monster Fangirl}}s who share in his sadism until he [[TheBluebeard tires of them]], and the only person he explicitly rapes is [[spoiler: Sansa Stark]] on her wedding night.
262** The show entirely side-steps the (unconfirmed) hints from the novels that Brynden Tully might be gay or asexual.
263** Although she is quite kinky, Asha Greyjoy takes only male lovers in the books and has a monogamous relationship with a man named Qarl. Her TV counterpart [[AdaptationNameChange Yara]] is only seen with female lovers, and is more or less confirmed to be bisexual when she states that she has "[[ReallyGetsAround a boy or girl in every port]]."
264* ''Series/GossipGirl'':
265** Chuck Bass is a DepravedBisexual in the books, but is straight TheCasanova in the TV series.
266** Eric Van Der Woodsen, is straight in the books and even has a short lived relationship with Blair, is gay in the TV series.
267* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'':
268** James Gordon's fiancee Barbara Kean is reimagined as a bisexual woman who used to date Renee Montoya.
269** The Penguin has romantic feelings for the Riddler and thus seems to be gay (as he isn't shown being into women) like his actor.
270* ''Series/{{Gotham Knights|2023}}'': Stephanie Brown, who is straight and Tim Drake's main love interest in the comics, is a lesbian and is Harper Row's love interest.
271* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': Ofglen is a lesbian here, and was in a same-sex marriage. Her sexuality is not mentioned in the book at all.
272* ''Series/{{Hanna}}'': [[Film/{{Hanna}} The movie]] hinted at Hanna being a lesbian, rejecting a boy but kissing Sophie later on. In the series, Hanna and Sophie are vying for a boy's attention.
273* ''Literature/HighFidelity'': Rob in the series, along with [[GenderFlip being female]], is bisexual, while both the previous incarnations were straight.
274* Francis Urquhart from the original ''Series/{{House of Cards|UK}}'' is heterosexual, while his TransAtlanticEquivalent, [[Series/HouseOfCardsUS Frank Underwood]], is bisexual.
275* ''Series/{{Interview with the Vampire|2022}}'': In the ''Interview with the Vampire'' novel, Louis de Pointe du Lac had feelings for a woman named [[AdaptedOut Babette Freniere]]. His TV counterpart is gay.
276* ''Series/TheIrregulars'', a show that is based on side characters from the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' book series, features a gay Dr Watson, who was originally a straight man in the novels.
277* Jeryn Hogarth is a straight male in the comics, but in the ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' live-action show, Hogarth is {{Gender Flip}}ped into a lesbian woman.
278* Amanda from ''Series/LostInAusten'' gets [[TrappedInTVLand Trapped in Book Land]], specifically in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''. Miss Caroline Bingley is a closeted lesbian in this version. (True, there are some LesYay moments in the book when Caroline gushes about how perfect Miss Darcy is, but it's done mostly for Mr. Darcy's benefit.) Her coming out to Amanda was triggered by Amanda's 'SorryImGay' gambit on Bingley who found her refreshing and was hitting on her, but she shipped Bingley/Jane which is consistent with Creator/JaneAusten's pairing. Amanda wonders what Miss Austen would have thought and whether she had any idea who she had created in Caroline Bingley.
279* The NBC sitcom ''Love, Sidney'' made waves when it was first announced, as it would be the first major television show to feature an openly gay main character. However, the show later faced criticism from the gay community because aside from some very subtle SubText, Sidney's sexuality was never mentioned outside of the pilot (a TV movie based on a short story by Marilyn Cantor Baker).
280* ''Literature/TheMagicians'' has main character Quentin Coldwater as mostly straight but AmbiguouslyBi. [[Series/TheMagicians2016 The 2016 TV series]] makes him unambiguously bisexual.
281%%* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Richard Hornberger complained at length about the TV version of Hawkeye being Anything That Moves.
282* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
283** The show reimagines WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} as a bisexual woman who is in love with [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Aurora]].
284** The show's vision of [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood Red Riding Hood]] was also revealed to be bisexual after she formed a relationship with [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Dorothy Gale]].
285** The spinoff ''Once Upon a Time in Wonderland'' featured [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice]], born in the world of Victorian England until she went to Wonderland, fell in love with the genie Cyrus, and eventually returned there to rescue him from Jafar. Season 7 introduces an alternate version of Alice, who was born in the New Enchanted Forest, spent time in the alternate New Wonderland, and eventually developed a relationship with Zelena's daughter Robin.
286* ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' depicts Stede Bonnett, Edward Teach, and Israel Hands as gay men, with Bonnett and Teach romantically involved with each other, while historically there is little evidence that shows any of them as anything but straight or Bonnett and Teachs' relationship as anything more than platonic. But they ''were'' pirates, so really, who knows for sure?
287* ''Series/PerryMason2020'': Della is portrayed as a closeted lesbian here, who secretly has a girlfriend. In the original books and later, she is shown having significant sexual tension with Perry.
288* Creator/{{ITV}}'s ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' (1989) and ''Series/{{Marple}}'' (2004) make some of the exclusively straight cast members gay, for example in ''Literature/FiveLittlePigs'', ''Literature/TheBodyInTheLibrary'' and ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'' (in the last one it was done to at least ''three'' characters). In ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', a subtle lesbian subtext in the original novel is made much more explicit.
289* ''Series/{{The Power|2023}}'': Roxy here likes women, with this not shown in the book (though her sexual orientation wasn't explored). It's later shown she also likes men.
290* ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}'' depicted [=DeBlanc=] and Fiore as a gay couple, when [[ComicBook/{{Preacher}} the original comic book]] had Jesse Custer interrupt [=DeBlanc=] while he was having sex with a woman near the end.
291* In ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'', Emily Fields went from bisexual in the books to a lesbian in the television series.
292* The ITV adaptation of Creator/ChristopherBrookmyre's ''Literature/QuiteUglyOneMorning'' turned gay police officer Jenny Dalziel into the (male) main character's love interest—an odd and unnecessary move, considering his ''actual'' love interest from the book wasn't even AdaptedOut (though her role was significantly reduced).
293* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'':
294** Moose in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' has never been presented as anything but straight. In ''Riverdale'', he is sleeping with Kevin behind his girlfriend's back and hiding his bisexuality due to being an athlete.
295** Cheryl Blossom and Toni Topaz have only ever been interested in boys in the comics-here they're interested in each other.
296** In the ''Archie'' comics, Archie's parents are HappilyMarried. In ''Riverdale'', after [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim his father's death]], his mother Mary comes out as bisexual and is now dating a woman named Brooke, despite the first three seasons implying she was going to be straight like in the comics.
297* In the books ''Literature/RoswellHigh'' and the first TV adaptation ''Series/{{Roswell}}'', everyone is straight. In the 2019 readaptation ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'', Michael and Isobel are bisexual and Alex is gay.
298* ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'': In "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E03DreamALittleDreamOfMe Dream a Little Dream of Me]]", Constantine undergoes a GenderFlip from the comics but his ex Rachael doesn't, meaning that Rachael's heterosexual relationship with John Constantine becomes a homosexual relationship with Johanna Constantine. (Both versions of Constantine are bisexual.)
299* ''Series/{{A Series of Unfortunate Events|2017}}'': "The Penultimate Peril" reveals that Jerome Squalor is bisexual and that Babs from Heimlich Hospital is in love with a woman (implied to be Mrs. Bass from Prufrock Prep). In the books, neither Jerome nor Mrs. Bass showed any evidence of same-sex attraction, and Babs's sexuality was never specified (not that it's important, as the books imply that she was killed by Count Olaf [[WeHardlyKnewYe without the Baudelaires even getting to meet her properly]]).
300* Eretria is bisexual in ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'', flirting with Amberle at one point and shown to have a past relationship with Zora, a CanonForeigner villainess. Later in Season 2 she is seeing Princess Lyria. She also had ([[BiggerIsBetterInBed satisfying]]) sex with Wil previously. In the books there was no hint of her being anything but straight.
301* [[FemmeFatale Irene Adler]], who is straight in the original ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' canon, is a self-professed lesbian in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', though she does suffer from IfItsYouItsOkay where Sherlock is concerned.
302* In the [[RecycledTheSeries TV]] [[Series/ShesGottaHaveIt adaptation]] of ''Film/ShesGottaHaveIt'', Nola Darling is changed from straight to pansexual, and one of her many lovers is a woman.
303* ''Series/TheSummerITurnedPretty'': Jeremiah is bi in the series. In the books, he's straight.
304* In the original ''Literature/TomSwift'' novels, Tom had a girlfriend who he eventually married. In [[Series/TomSwift2022 the 2022 series]], Tom is an openly-gay man.
305* ''Series/TheTunnel'': Unlike [[Series/TheBridge2011 Saga]] and [[Series/TheBridgeUS Sonya]], Elise has been established as a bisexual woman rather than straight, having shown attraction to men but also one women (while she mentions sleeping with a girl in the past as a teenager).
306* ''Series/{{The Umbrella Academy|2019}}'':
307** Vanya is interesting case of this, leaning towards with RealLifeWritesThePlot. In the comics she’s straight having {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST with Diego and the first season has her being in a (admittedly twisted) relationship with Leonard. However since Creator/ElliotPage came out as gay, Season 2 accordingly has Vanya in a lesbian relationship with newcomer Sissy. Season 3 goes even further with this, [[AdaptationalGenderIdentity transitioning]] "Vanya" to "Victor" lining the character up with the actor.
308** Klaus is a played with case, in the comics it’s not clear at all if he’s straight, gay, bi or pansexual. In ''Volume 2: Dallas'' Luther is taken aback seeing his brother father a Vietnamese baby, uttering a "I thought you were-" before being cut off with the implication Luther assumed his brother was gay. This only conflated by other moments that in the comics, where Klaus acts effeminate and seems interested in men. The show to its credit removes the ambiguity, with Klaus being [[ReallyGetsAround unmistakably]] pansexual.
309* [[spoiler:Hooded Justice]] was speculated to be gay in the original ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' comic. In [[Series/Watchmen2019 The HBO series]], about [[spoiler:the only thing Hollis Mason's InUniverse speculation got right was HJ being romantically involved with Captain Metropolis -- only that was an extramarital affair, as the HBO version of Hooded Justice, Will Reeves, was also married to a woman at the time who he seems to feel attraction for, indicating he's bi rather than gay]].
310* ''Series/{{The Wheel of Time|2021}}'':
311** In general, the Two Rivers characters are ''way'' more comfortable with having sex than they were so early in the books, where they all come from a much more conservative culture and don't have sex until much, much later in the books, especially Nynaeve and Egwene. The main female characters in the books spend quite a bit of time being shocked at revealing necklines on characters from other cultures, which doesn't seem like it would be the case here.
312** Here Alanna's two Warders are both in a relationship with her and each other, which isn't the case in the books.
313** [[spoiler:Moiraine and Siuan]]'s relationship in the books was SituationalSexuality, but here is based on their genuine attraction which endures over many years.
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317* Podcast/ButMakeItScary:
318** In ''Film/LoveActually'', Billy Mack and his manager Joe are depicted as lovers.
319** Their But Make it Christmas version of ''Film/Halloween1978'' features a version of Laurie Strode who is a lesbian.
320* Criss Angel and David Blaine are presumably straight in real life, but in the fiction of ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'' the two of them are ex-boyfriends. By the end, they're clarified as gay and bisexual respectively.
321** In the one-shot ''A Touch of Evil'', WesternAnimation/KimPossible and [[Series/{{Riverdale}} Betty Cooper]] are girlfriends.
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325* For the stage version of Film/NineToFive Roz is made bisexual. Her attraction to Franklin Hart becomes more explicitly romantic. However, in the epilogue, Ros ends up with his wife after his disappearance.
326* Uncle Fester is usually depicted as being straight but ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'' stage musical has him saying that he has no specific sexuality before declaring his love for the moon.
327* Mozart's first true opera, ''Apollo et Hyacinthus'' is based on a myth involving a gay love triangle (Apollo and Zephirus are both in love with Hyacinthus). Rufinus Widl, the librettist who adapted the myth for Mozart, didn't think this would go over well with an eighteenth-century audience, so in his adaptation Apollo and Zephirus are both in love with Melia, Hyacinthus' sister, while Apollo's just best friends with Hyacinthus.
328* Otho was implied to be gay in the original ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' and this was still the case in the ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' musical, but one scrapped song from an earlier draft, "I am Very Good at Running Cults" had Otho brag about bedding a lot of women. In addition, Beetlejuice showed no attraction towards anything but women in the original movie but appears to be ''very'' interested in both of the Maitlands in the musical, and the actor has stated that he plays the character as pansexual.
329* The writer of ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'' admits he removed any reference to Michael's girlfriend [[Literature/BeMoreChill from the book]] to make him AmbiguouslyGay for Jeremy. In addition, Rich is now bisexual and Brooke and Jenna end up together at the end. None of this happens in the book.
330* Some productions of ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'' make the Emcee bisexual, with one of the women he has a threesome with during the "Two Ladies" number being a man in drag instead. [[spoiler:Some go as far as implying he will eventually die in the concentration camps for his sexuality.]]
331* For the stage adaptation of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', Ryan was made gay. In the film he is AmbiguouslyBi at most, being very flamboyant and fitting many gay stereotypes yet falling for a female character.
332* Happens to Judas in ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperStar'', in [[Literature/TheBible the Gospel]] while he kisses Jesus as a signal for the Romans he still only sees Christ a teacher and leader. In the musical it’s pretty clear (especially by his suicide song) [[HoYay he loved Christ romantically]] and 2000s film version outright shows Judas’ jealousy of Mary Magdalene‘s closeness with Jesus, fuelled his betrayal.
333* Prince Herbert and Sir Lancelot from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' were AmbiguouslyGay at best whereas ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'' had all the ambiguity removed with the former even singing an entire musical disco number about the latter [[ComingOutStory coming out]] and the two [[HappilyMarried marrying]] in the WeddingFinale.
334* In the Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany's ''Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)'', which blends characters from all the Bard's works, Beatrice from ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' and Kate from ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' end up together. When Theatre/RichardIII has his hump temporarily cured by magic and becomes Theatre/RichardII, he becomes gay (a reference to claims about the earlier Richard by Thomas Walshingham) and starts a relationship with [[Theatre/HenryIV John Falstaff]].
335* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' has the Sorting Hat (which is a hat, but voiced by a man) in love with the Scarf of Sexual Preference (again: an object, but voiced as male). Scarfy declares Harry to be metrosexual and Ron to be bi-curious.
336* Glinda in the ''Literature/TheWickedYears'' books is AmbiguouslyGay. She's married to an older man but it was for the money and they have a SexlessMarriage. She doesn't show any particular interest in boys, instead having a SingleTargetSexuality towards Elphaba. The ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' musical changed her to AmbiguouslyBi as they kept the HomoeroticSubtext with Elphaba but added in a LoveTriangle with Fiyero.
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340* The [[VideoGame/DeadSpaceRemake 2023 remake]] of ''VideoGame/DeadSpace1'' makes [[TheMole Kendra Daniels]] and [[HeroOfAnotherStory Jacob Temple]] lesbian and bisexual respectively through some [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay off-hand dialogue]] related to their characters.
341* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Rin [[ComingOutStory discovers that she's bisexual]] in the Fate route. The anime that adapts that route doesn't include this, leaving Rin as heterosexual.
342* The bachelors and bachelorettes in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'', its GBA version ''Harvest Moon: Friends Of Mineral Town'', and their {{Distaff Counterpart}}s were all straight. In the remake ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsFriendsOfMineralTown'', you can marry them as the opposite gender and "[[HideYourLesbians best friend]]" them as the same gender.
343* In the French translation of ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', the Grey Mourner refers to her canonically female lover as male.
344* In ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', Benny was a homosexual scientist who AM robs of his identity by [[ForcedTransformation turning]] him into a [[BiggerIsBetterInBed well-endowed]], dumb, ape-man for [[ExtremeLibido Ellen]] to take advantage of. In the [[VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream video game adaptation]], he's an AdaptationalJerkass who's instead suffering a KarmicTransformation, as he was a [[ManlyMan stereotypically masculine]] ColonelKilgore. According to game designer [[WordOfGod David Sears]] they initially planned for a "gay angle" but it was dropped from the final script.
345* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
346** Tanya in the original timeline showed no attraction to anyone beyond some mild FoeRomanceSubtext with Liu Kang. In ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatX MKX]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat11 MK11]]'' it’s made clear she’s bisexual showing attraction to multiple male characters as well as Mileena.
347** Mileena gets this in the new timeline. In the original games she became Baraka’s queen in her ''[=MK2=]'' ending signifying she’s straight. In the new timeline Mileena DesperatelyCravesAffection so sleeps with a [[ReallyGetsAround multitude]] of people and flirts [[ExtremeOmnisexual everyone]] who isn’t related to her. Mileena‘s ''[=MK11=]'' ending has her start a family with Tanya.
348* While Kim Pines from ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' is merely AmbiguouslyBi in the original books, one of her primary moves in the [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorldTheGame video game]] is calling Knives out for a quick kiss. [[spoiler:Her ending also has her walk off into the sunset with her, implying a RelationshipUpgrade.]]
349* [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] has generally been straight, flirting with a few men in her previous games. In ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' however [[WhatCouldHaveBeen it was intended]] by the game’s writer Rhianna Pratchett for Lara be a lesbian and have a relationship with {{Deuteragonist}} Samantha, however, ExecutiveMeddling got involved and Samantha became TheNotLoveInterest instead. While nothing is concrete, given Lara’s aforementioned intimacy with Sam and kissing AmazonChaser Alex whom she calls “sweet”, she’s [[AmbiguouslyBi possibly bi]].
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353* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'':
354** Sir Kay (noted for his boorish behavior towards women in the original stories) is in a relationship with Bedivere in the contemporary and space arcs (in the baseline arc, he's still noted for his boorish behavior towards women, [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/2323.htm explaining]] in one [[BreakingTheFourthWall Fourth Wall Breaking]] strip "Yeah, like we're going to be openly gay in the Middle Ages. We probably don't even realize ourselves.").
355** Contemporary and space Tristram is still in the canonical relationship with Isolde... only [[GenderFlip Tristram's female]].
356** Sir Galehaut, in the legends, is initially introduced as an enemy of Arthur, but who gives this up due to his admiration of Lancelot's knightly virtues, becomes the knight's loyal companion on several adventures, and eventually dies of grief after wrongly being told Lancelot is dead. Unsurprisingly, Paul Gadzikowski is far from the only writer who's written Galehaut as bi (he also has a relationship with Lady Eglante). Lancelot, however [[IncompatibleOrientation is straight]], and doesn't pick up on Galehaut's feelings at all.
357** It's eventually revealed [[spoiler: that when Arthur says or implies that he loves Lancelot as much as Guenevere, there ''isn't'' an invisible footnote clarifying that [[TheFourLoves one is philia and the other eros]]. They're ''both'' eros. And agape, which is why he never pushes the issue]].
358* In ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', Sayori, Yuri, and Natsuki are in love with the male MC with no indication of them being interested in each other, and Monika is AmbiguouslyBi at most.[[labelnote:Spoilers]]she admits to not minding if the player is a girl, but she shows no interest in the girls in the visual novel proper and generally refers to the player with masculine pronouns, making it unclear if she is actually bisexual, or if she is just making [[IfItsYouItsOkay an exception for the player specifically]].[[/labelnote]] In ''WebComic/DokiDokiLiteratureGirls'', however, [[CastFullOfGay they're all explicitly lesbian/bisexual]] and are in romantic relationships with each other.
359* In ''Webcomic/{{Elwood|2015}}'', Mr. Ratburn is married to Paige Turner, which was shown before [[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} the show]] the comic is a FanSequel to [[QueerEstablishingMoment revealed he's canonically gay]],[[note]]Although since [[Recap/ArthurS22E1MrRatburnAndTheSpecialSomeoneTheFeud the episode]] where this is revealed never actually ''uses'' the word "gay" in reference to him, him being bisexual is [[AmbiguouslyBi also a possibility]].[[/note]] and the author decided not to make a {{retcon}} to make the comic's continuity match the show's.
360* ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'': Official materials for ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' state that Mash Kyrielight's feelings for the female protagonist/Gudako are meant to be platonic, compared to how she canonically has a crush on the male protagonist/Gudao. ''Learning with Manga'' instead has Mash and Gudako portrayed as sexually-involved girlfriends with [[PsychoLesbian Gudako]] molesting both Mash and Olga being the only thing keeping them from being an OfficialCouple, and even then Mash averts SingleTargetSexuality by getting aroused by Olga (while in a PaperThinDisguise of Gudako, but Mash later insists that she keep wearing it) and a [[ScrewYourself [=VR=] version of herself]].
361* ''Webcomic/ALittleHintOfBlue'': While both Skara and Viney did have some hints towards being LGBTQ+ in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' proper (being AmbiguouslyBi and AmbiguouslyGay respectively), neither of them ever showed overt interest in girls. Here, they're slowly developing not just a friendship, but feelings for each other.
362* Whereas Rosalina's sexuality was never alluded to in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros games''. The sequel to ''WebComic/The3LittlePrincesses'' depicts her as being AmbiguouslyGay as she falls for Daisy's classic form and is shown to have [[spoiler:plastered several pictures of her on her wall]] at the end.
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366* ''WebVideo/TheAdventuresOfJamieWatsonAndSherlockHolmes'': Sherlock is explicitly identified as UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} and UsefulNotes/{{aromantic}}, as is Irene Adler. Jamie is bisexual.
367* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': In the Nifty version Graham is homosexual and that means it will be more difficult for him to obtain the guardianship for Jamie. In the newer ASSTR/PZA version, his sexual orientation is never mentioned.
368* ''WebAnimation/DarkSecretsOfGarrysMod'': [[WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel Vaggie]] (a canon lesbian) is shown thirsting after [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 Reptile]] (a male) in the ''Szerelmi háromszög'' (''Love triangle'') StoryArc.
369** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Reptile in part 6.
370--->'''Reptile''': Are you not supposed to be lesbian?
371* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
372** Zarbon is so camp that he can't seem to say three words without using some sort of DoubleEntendre [[spoiler:but it is later revealed that he has a steady girlfriend, making him simply CampStraight]]. That being said nobody believes it as talked about during Freeza's rant in Episode 21.
373--->'''Freeza''': ...the latter of whom spent 400 credits making long-distance calls to his [[spoiler:"girlfriend"]], WHO I AM CONVINCED IS NAMED "CHUCK"!
374** The entire Namekian race is implied to be aromantic-asexual in canon [[TrulySingleParent given how they reproduce]]. Here, they are at the very least familiar with the concept of a significant other, with Dende quite openly having a crush on Gohan.
375** Korin and Yajirobe are depicted as a same-sex couple (both being AmbiguouslyBi), and the ''Broly'' movie opens with their wedding reception.
376* In ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'', Don Corneo seeks out brides like in the original game but flirts with Cloud both before and after finding out that he was DisguisedInDrag.
377* ''Creator/TeamFourStar'' spinoff series ''WebAnimation/{{HFIL}}'' continues the Zarbon jokes, while implying Cell to be AmbiguouslyBi, and having Burtur outright state that he's "gay as springtime."
378* In the shift from ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'' to ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'', the series moves from HoYay subtext to text, making Marckus, Big D and Kitten canonically queer. In ''TTS'' Kitten was alluded to having sex with other Custodes, but it never went beyond jokes and he also was said to have been in a relationship with Shadowsun which he vehemently denied, while Magnus never expressed romantic affection to anyone (though he was disappointed to find out the non-Fabulous Custodes wore actual armor). In ''Hunter'', they're engaged. Big D is based on the Emperor, who only expressed interest in women, and the Fabulous Custodes, who were MachoCamp, so he's pansexual.
379* ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedComedyFandubSpoofSeriesShow'' gives Naruto a '''very''' unambiguous love for Sasuke.
380-->'''Naruto:''' Love me, you sexy ninja bastard!
381* LetsPlay/NicoB's Let's Play of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' ups sexuality of several characters.
382** Phoenix is (nominally) straight in the games, in the LP he and Egdeworth are referred to as gay lovers. His canon relationship with [[spoiler: Iris]] is present, although spiced up a bit, making him bi.
383** [[NoNameGiven The Judge]] is straight and HappilyMarried in the games. Here he's lover of SelfDemonstrating/NagitoKomaeda from ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' ([[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext don't ask]]).
384%%** Edgeworth is seemingly asexual in canon, bisexual in LP. In addition to being Phoenix's lover, he also refers to himself as "The only man hot enough to fuck [Iris]".
385* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' states or implies that ''[[CastFullOfGay many]]'' characters are either bi or gay. Yami Yugi has openly stated he goes both ways and Yami Bakura has openly stated he is gay. Meanwhile, Marik and Bakura have both denied being gay, which may be true for Bakura, [[note]]his interactions with Téa and Yugi imply bisexuality, so him denying that he is gay may be more on an ExactWords level.[[/note]] but [[TransparentCloset definitely not Marik]]. Duke Devlin, a ladies' man in the show, is ExtremeOmnisexual here. {{Averted|Trope}}, surprisingly, with [[CampStraight Pegasus]], played straight with [[StraightGay Croquet]]. Amusingly, the reveal of Pegasus's wife Cecelia is treated as a scandal, since he for some reason wants the world to believe he's gay even though he isn't. Also, Kaiba is [[{{Squick}} dragon-sexual]].
386-->'''Kaiba:''' A Blue-Eyes White Dragon-train? I have the weirdest boner right now...
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390* ''WebVideo/DubbedByStrangers'' dubs of ''WesternAnimation/AnimalMechanicals'' change Komodo and Sasquatch from friends to boyfriends.
391* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' is a SettingUpdate of ''Pride and Prejudice''. Colonel Fitzwilliam in the book likes Elizabeth a lot and flirts with her, which might make Mr. Darcy a bit jealous. Fitz Williams in this vlog version is gay, and he and Lizzie become great friends. The authors did lots of changes for this adaptation (set in the modern-day USA, they had a very diverse cast with {{Age Lift}}s and {{Race Lift}}s). WordOfGod claims that they didn't want to involve Fitz in any romantic plotlines and therefore decided to give him a boyfriend. It worked.
392* In ''WebVideo/LovelyLittleLosers'', a loose modernized adaptation of ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'', two of the main male characters are a gay man and a bisexual man, and theirs is the main romance of the story. It probably goes without saying that that was not the case in the 16th-century play.
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396* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Every male Clayface in the comics was either straight or had no indication made of their sexual orientation, while this continuity's Matt Hagen is indicated to be bisexual due to his male associate Teddy in his debut episode being heavily implied to be his lover (which was later confirmed by director Kevin Altieri) and being in love with a woman named Stella Bates in "Mudslide".
397** The character of Harley Quinn first appeared in this series and was depicted as straight and completely obsessed with the Joker - her whole character is being his nuttty sidekick. She does later form a friendship with Poison Ivy in the series and there are subtle hints that it could be more (the girls are lounging around without pants when Batman finds them) but it's pretty easy to read this as friendship. There are also plenty of appearances in which Ivy is straight and kind of a sexpot, attracted to Batman (as in other mediums, such as films and comics featuring Ivy). However, in later comics featuring Harley, and in a different cartoon drawing from those comics (''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019''), Harley and Ivy are explicitly in a sexual relationship, most likely both being bisexual.
398* In the original English version of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Tigatron and Airazor are pretty clearly boyfriend and girlfriend. [[ShesAManInJapan Airazor's a dude in the Japanese dub.]] The romantic relationship is still there, however.
399* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania|2017}}'':
400** Alucard is the original canon has only Maria as an ImpliedLoveInterest, which is made official in the questionably-canonical radio drama ''Nocturne of Reflection''. In the show it’s revealed in the third season Alucard is bisexual engaging in threesome with Japanese twins Sumi and Taka. [[spoiler: It goes horribly wrong though.]]
401** Carmilla, despite being based on the most famous LesbianVampire in literature and even [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment displaying]] at least bisexual interests in the games, in the show only sleeps with (multiple) men according to her allies. (At one point she snarks that she would only sleep with obnoxious viking vampire Godbrand if "all the men, most of the women and [[BestialityIsDepraved some of the animals]]" were dead.) Although there are actual lesbian vampires in the series: Striga and Morana.
402* In ''WesternAnimation/CleopatraInSpace'', Akila's parents are lesbians, unlike in the titular graphic novels, where they were heterosexual.
403* In ''WesternAnimation/FreedomFightersTheRay'', Ray Terrill is gay, drawing on the Ray of Earth-10 in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'' over his straight pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' version.
404* ''{{WesternAnimation/Jellystone}}'':
405** Mildew Wolf is gay and have a crush on Shazzan.
406** Jonny Quest and Hadji were friends in the original. Here, they're a married gay couple.
407* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Betty [=DeVille=] is a masculine feminist woman who is married to a submissive feminine man named Howard. In [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021 the 2021 reboot]], she's a lesbian who mentions having an ex-girlfriend in the first episode. This has the side-effect of making Howard {{adapted out}} of the reboot.
408* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': In most ''Scooby-Doo'' media, Velma Dinkley is either explicitly heterosexual or her sexuality isn't mentioned at all, with {{Fanon}} often suggesting that she's a lesbian. WordOfGay confirmed that Velma is homosexual in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', with Shaggy being her LastHetRomance which led to her being in a relationship with Marcie Fleach. The [[Film/ScoobyDoo2002 live-action film]] makes Velma AmbiguouslyBi, implying that she has crushes on both Fred and Daphne. In ''WesternAnimation/TrickOrTreatScoobyDoo'', she's unambiguously sexually attracted to Coco Diablo. ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'' would have her attracted to both Fred and Daphne again, though her attraction to Fred was PlayedForLaughs as far more shallow given status as the group's dedicated himbo. [[spoiler:It's later shown that Daphne reciprocates despite Velma having publicly insulted her, and Fred does as well after sensitivity training helps him understand that girls can be attractive in more ways than "runway model."]]
409* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Spinnerella and Netossa are HappilyMarried lesbians, unlike in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', which would not have been able to get canonical non-straight characters on the air in 1985. [[spoiler:The GrandFinale also confirms Adora and Catra are lesbians with the two of them becoming an OfficialCouple, while the 1985 series saw them both attracted to Sea Hawk.]]
410* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''. Richie/Gear is based on a character from the comics who was gay, though he didn't share that character's full name. He was portrayed as straight during the series but declared gay by a writer sometime after it ended.
411* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': In the original version, Sven ends up having a romance with Romelle. In this incarnation, Shiro is revealed to have had a boyfriend named Adam on Earth. It was confirmed in a convention that Shiro is gay.
412* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'', the canonical tie-in comic depicts Beast Boy's mother Marie Logan as attracted to women, [[spoiler:[[PsychicAssistedSuicide as she can fall under Queen Bee's thrall]]]]. WordOfGod is vague about whether she's also attracted to men. Interestingly, Beast Boy's father [[AmbiguouslyAbsentParent is never mentioned]], though [[AdaptedOut he and Marie were married in the source material]].
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