Sandbox / LGBT Representation in Media

Media with a prominent focus on LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual) characters and people. The subject/theme of these works may or may not be about LGBT culture and identities and can be highly varied. To be listed here, the work must contain either a main or recurring LGBT+ character, or there must be a high frequency of LGBT+ figures appearing rather than limiting it to one or two offhanded/one-off appearances. Word of Gay examples do not go here: the character's identity must be established within the work itself. See LGBT Fanbase for works that do not have unambiguous LGBT subject matter, but attract a significant LGBT fandom.

Some of these works have characters coming out or being shown to be LGBT as reveals, beware of spoilers.

Superindex to:

• Queer Media: works that focus on LGBT people along with a primary focus on queer subjects and themes
• Queer Romance: works that focus on romantic relationships between same-sex or transgender characters as the main plot

See also LGBT+ Creators for a list of artists/media creators who are LGBT+.

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Works:

Advertising

• Long Long Man: In the finale, Long Long Man is revealed to be gay and attracted to Tooru, who seems to reciprocate.

Anime & Manga

• Asteroid in Love: Moe "Suzu" Suzuya is a lesbian. The series has a side storyline of her crush towards Misa, her Childhood Friend's older sister, which cumulated in am Love Confession. Her love confession also effectively makes her openly lesbian from the eleventh-grade on.
• Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall: Supporting characters Monica and Isana are two lesbians in a relationship, with Monica having sexual interest in Empress before reuniting with Isana. Major character Dead Master also expresses sexual and romantic interest in Empress, though it's not reciprocated and later toned down after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Bocchi the Rock!: Ikuyo Kita, one of the main characters, is a lesbian with a crush on her bandmate, Ryō Yamada.
• Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!: The Official Couple of the manga consists of a bisexual woman, protagonist Haebaru Misora, and her lesbian girlfriend Hara Akira. Several other significant characters are also bi or lesbian, and Nekomiya Miya, introduced as part of the second generation of gravure idol trio Japan KGB, is a trans woman.
• Cardcaptor Sakura has plenty of LGBT characters, including the title character. While the series focuses on love in general, one of the most important romance plots of the series is that of Touya and Yukito's, which is achillean.
• Carole & Tuesday: The anime has several genderfluid/transgender/non-binary supporting and minor characters, and a recurring subplot/theme of gender dysphoria/gender-fluidity due to a fantastic plot element.
• Day Break Illusion: Major character Luna Tsukuyomi is stated to have a crush on another girl, Akari Taiyou; much of Luna's subplot revolves around her insecurity and jealousy towards Akari's strengthening friendship with other girls. Supporting character Hanayume is a transgender woman, confirmed in old photographs that show her with a visibly masculine presentation.
• Doki Doki School Hours has Rio Kitagawa, the statuesque girl of the class, who is openly and unashamedly Hot for Teacher, to the consternation of Mika-sensei, the diminutive teacher in question. In addition, there is the openly gay Kudo, who is crushing on Dumb Jock Suitake, who is utterly oblivious of Kudo's crush.
• Fairy Ranmaru: The anime leans hard on man on man fanservice for the Female Gaze. The main character, the titular Ranmaru is revealed in the final episode to be in love with Big Bad Sirius. Meanwhile, the ending also implies that Uruu and Homura end the story in a relationship with each other after heavy Ship Tease during the last part of the anime.
• Fire Punch Primary character Togata is a closested trans man.
• Great Pretender: Main character Laurent Thierry is a bisexual man.
• Helter Skelter: The manga follows Lilico, a model obsessed with beauty and maintaining her fame. While Lilico's sexuality is a bit hazy, she does coerce into and maintains an abusive relationship with her female assistant, Michiko, and Michiko's boyfriend. Michiko herself seems to be genuinely bisexual and attracted to Lilico sexually up until it turns out Lilico is a terrible person who forces her into doing terrible things.
• Hunter × Hunter: Killua's younger sister, Alluka, is transgender. — doesn't state if they are main/major characters
• Interspecies Reviewers: Main character Crim is an intersex angel who usually presents as male.
• Kiznaiver: "The High-and-Mighty" Honoka is revealed to be bisexual in an arc focused on her, having been holding a candle for a woman in her past for years.
• Life with an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout: Supporting character Shen is gay with a crush on protagonist Jinguuji. The protagonists Jinguuji and Tachibana are involved in an Ambiguously Bi Gender Bender romcom in which Tachibana is stuck on the body of a girl, and they are falling for each other, despite still identifying as a man.
  • Later on, Lightning, another summoned hero is introduced. In the real world, he was a girl who had a crush on her female classmate but was turned down, and asked to have her gender changed to pick up girls in another world. It's unclear what his gender indentity ends up being, as well as the sexuality of Nazuna, another girl who is interested in him, but knows he is a girl in the real world.
• Lycoris Recoil: Team Dad Mika is a gay man who was in some sort of relationship with the villainous Yoshimatsu.
• Magical Girl Site: Recurring character Kiyoharu Suirenji is a trans girl; the transphobic bullying she faces from her peers plays a major role in her character arc.
• MARRIAGETOXIN: Kinosuke, one half of the main duo, is a cross dressing marriage swindler that seduces both men and women. Protagonist Gero's sister is a lesbian and her almost being forced to marry a man kickstarts the plot.
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: The titular Dragon Maid, Tohru, is openly in love with Ms. Kobayashi, with their relationship forming the crux of the series. Additionally, the series' supporting cast includes Rika Saikawa, who's best friends with and has a huge crush on tritagonist Kanna Kamui.
• Moriarty the Patriot features a trans man James Bond as one of Professor Moriarty's core crew.
• MW: Protagonist Michio Yuki is bisexual, other protagonist Father Garai is either gay or bisexual. Not Queer Romance because their relationship is far too fucked up to be considered genuine love.
• My-HiME: Shizuru and Natsuki are lesbians. Other characters are more ambiguous.
• Nabari no Ou: Yoite is intersex.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The manga version of Shinji Ikari is explicitly bisexual, as opposed to the heavily implied bisexuality of his anime version. Kaworu is also pansexual, as his romantic attachment to Shinji clearly transcends gender.
• Noir: Chloe has openly stated that she loves Kirika, and given that she kisses her while they're bathing together, it's not a platonic declaration. Kirika also left a letter for Mirielle, telling her she loved her, with phrases like "my heart sang". Mirielle and Kirika have also been shown sharing a bed, though both were fully clothed at the time.
• One Piece features a number of openly queer characters; a recurring ally of the Straw Hats, Bentham/Bon Clay, comes from a culture of people all assigned-male-at-birth but who unanimously adopt feminine traits. Their "Queen", Emporio Ivankov, can also freely change his and other people's sexes at will, and is accompanied by many trans or non-conforming allies. As for individual characters, the Wano Arc introduces Yamato, the son of Pirate Emperor Kaido who was assigned-female-at-birth, and Kiku, a transfeminine samurai (also introduced long before her was her brother Izo who's a male crossdresser).
• Princess Resurrection: Vampire Reiri Kamura is bisexual, stating that she likes virgin girls and cute boys. She is forever flirting with Hime and Hiro, has foe-mance out the yin-yang with half-werewolf Liza Wildman, and once sucked blood from Sawawa's finger after the latter cut herself in the kitchen, intimating that Sawawa was a virgin from the taste of her blood.
• Psycho-Pass: Enforcer Yayoi Kunizuka and Mission Control Shion Karanomori are two women who are in a casual sexual relationship with each other. A later movie implies they are in a genuine relationship, having moved in together.
• Revolutionary Girl Utena: Protagonists Utena and Anthy are made unambiguously bisexual in Adolescence of Utena. Primary villain Akio Ohtori is also bisexual.
• Sarazanmai: All of the three male protagonists have plenty of ship tease with each other, but their sexuality is mostly unclear. That said, Enta is confirmed to be in love with Kazuki. Other major character, Reo and Mabu were once in love with each other.
• Sailor Moon: The anime and manga include lesbian supporting characters, genderfluid supporting characters and gay antagonists.
• Samurai Flamenco: The series ends with protagonist Masayoshi proposing to his male best friend Goto and it's heavily implied that Goto accepts, leading to a Maybe Ever After. While Word of God claims the proposal wasn't romantic in nature, the text overtly treats it as such. Two of the supporting cast are a bisexual woman Mari who has a crush on Goto and her bandmate Moe who is a lesbian in love with Mari. Towards the end of the series Mari learns to drop her crush on Goto and gets back with Moe and is shown kissing her onscreen.
• Squid Girl: Sanae Nagatsuki is obsessed with the eponymous Squid Girl, frequently asking her out on dates or trying to glom onto her.
• Tiger & Bunny: Nathan Seymour is a self-described "okama" and is nonbinary.
• Tokyo Godfathers: One of the three leads is Hana, a transgender woman.
• Wasteful Days of High School Girls: Lily Someya is introduced in episode 5, and features in most episodes after that. Lily is openly lesbian, and is literally allergic to men. She tries to flirt frequently with "Majime" and "Loli", though she makes a conscious effort not to do anything that would alienate her to the girls around her.
• Wonder Egg Priority: Two of the "Captured Maidens" are queer. One of them is trans boy Kaoru Kurita, whom Momoe has to protect, the other is Haruka, who was in love with Momoe and whom she is trying to rescue.
• The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting: Protagonist Kirishima's childhood friend is Rei is a Camp Gay man who acted as his conscience in high school.
• You're Under Arrest!: Recurring character Aoi Futaba is a trans woman, with much of her role being focused on Trans Tribulations in Japanese society.
• Yuri!!! on Ice: The two main characters are gay and enter a relationship with each other.
• YuruYuri: All of the main characters are lesbians.
• Zombie Land Saga: Lily Hoshikawa, one of the main characters, is a transgender girl.

Comic Books

• Alters: The main character is a transgender woman.
• America (2017): The main character America Chavez is a lesbian. Most of the supporting characters are lesbians too, along with one bisexual man.
• Astonishing Ant-Man: This comic introduces supporting character Raz Malhotra, a gay Indian-American man who takes up the mantle of Giant-Man.
• "Apocalyptic Trilogy":
  • Memetic
  • Eugenic: The main antagonist is a self-hating gay man who creates a race which, among other things, cannot be gay or trans. The short lived because this is a Downer Ending resistance has several LGBT characters, arguing for the validity of their existence.
• Aquaman: The Becoming: Limited series focusing on the new Aquaman Jackson Hyde, who is a gay Black young adult. Jackson dates another gay Atlantean, Ha'Wea; subject matter includes queer male romance.
• The Authority: Two members of the titular team are a gay couple.
• The Avant-Guards: LGBT sports series about an all female college basketball team; the ensemble cast is queer, containing several lesbian/bisexual women, nonbinary, and transgender main characters.
• Avengers Academy: Series about young superheroes being trained by the Avengers to keep them from becoming the next supervillains; the ensemble cast includes Striker, a teenaged gay main character and Julie Power/Lightspeed, a young adult bisexual woman; subject matter includes queer female romance, LGBT awakening, LGBT youth and coming out.
• Avengers Arena: Battle Royale/The Hunger Games-esque series where teen Marvel superheroes are kidnapped and forced to fight against each other; the cast includes Nico Minoru (bisexual girl) and Cullen Bloodstone (gay boy), there is a prominent (unrequited) Love Triangle storyline involving Cullen.
  • Avengers Undercover: The sequel series to Avengers Arena still includes Nico and Cullen; Cullen has a prominent storyline regararding unrequited love towards a straight character.
• Avengers: No Surrender: Lightning (Miguel Santos) is gay and a main character.
• The Backstagers: LGBT youth-oriented series about school play techs and the magical backstage area; most of the all male ensemble cast is queer including a bisexual character, a gay character, and a transgender character; there are several queer male supporting characters, subject matter includes queer male romance and LGBT youth.
• Batman (James Tynion IV): Bisexual comic writer James Tynion IV's run on this iteration of Batman introduces Ghost-Marker, a psychopathic Anti-Hero counterpart to Batman, who is also bisexual.
• Batwoman (Rebirth): The main character Kate Kate/Batwoman is a lesbian, and there are several supporting lesbian/queer characters.
• Beetle & the Hollowbones
• Black Magick: The protagonist is bisexual and ends the story with a female love interest after becoming sexually involved with her ex-partner, a man.
• Bomb Queen: The title character is a Depraved Bisexual woman.
• Catwoman: The character of Catwoman is a bisexual woman. In volume 5, a new Catwoman (Catwoman III) Eiko Hasigawa is introduced and she is queer. In the same volume, new character Dario Tamasso, the gay son of a mob boss becomes a sidekick to Catwoman named Tomcat.
• Chefs Kiss: The comic follows Ben Cook, a gay writer who gets a job at a restaurant, falling for his handsome coworker.
• DC Comics Bombshells
• The Dead Lucky: A comic book set in Image Comics' Massive-Verse which stars Mexican-Chinese American Bibiana "Bibi" Lopez-Yang, an Afghanistan War vet battling PTSD and dealing with her new electric superpowers while defending her hometown of San Francisco. Bibi is also bisexual, and her current romantic interest is a woman.
• Deadpool: The character Deadpool is pansexual.
• Dolltopia
• Drama: A middle school girl works as a designer on a school play and deals with budget issues, in-fighting, and two cute twin brothers she likes. There is one gay supporting character, along with his twin brother who is also gay, subject matter includes coming out, LGBT youth.
• Drain: The female protagonist and one of the antagonists are bisexual and former lovers.
• Elfquest: All elves are bisexuals, though most prefer the opposite sex from what's depicted. However, no one is ever shown to care or even notice if some elf gets it on with the same sex. Polyamory is common among them to different degrees, with many close friends also strongly implied to have sex as well, including if they're same-sex.
• Ekho: The main character is a bisexual woman.
• Falka: The main character is a transgender woman.
• Far Sector: The main character is a bisexual woman.
• Fine Print: The protagonist, Lauren Thomas, appears to be pansexual, having relationships and trysts with people regardless of gender with no clear preference. All of the Cubi and Cupids are the same, along with being able to change sex at will, lacking any set genders. Some however choose to appear in one sex most of the time, and two that appear in same-sex pairings get more focus.
• Future Foundation: Rikki Barnes and Julie Powers are both bisexual women who eventually get together.
• Gen¹³: One of the main characters is a lesbian.
• The Girl from the Sea: The main character is a closeted teenage lesbian who has an identity-affirming relationship with a selkie girl.
• Goldie Vance: The title character is a lesbian in a relationship with another girl.
• Great Lakes Avengers: Main cast member Flatman comes out as gay in GLA #4, having been inspired by Living Lightning (Miguel Santos) coming out as gay two issues prior.
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2020): The ensemble cast of this volume is primarily queer, and the central character Star-Lord is revealed to be queer/bisexual.
• Hack/Slash: The protagonist is a bisexual women.
• Harley Quinn: The character of Harley Quinn is a bisexual woman.
  • Harleen: While showing a straight attraction here a followup comic recontexualises scenes in the original graphic novel to show it was the beginning of Ivy and Harley's relationship.
  • Harley Quinn: The 2019 series focuses on Harley's bisexuality.
  • Harley & Ivy: The comic features two bisexual women and their romance.
• Heathen (2017)
• Heathen City
• Hellblazer: The main character John Constantine is a bisexual man.
• Hellina: The main character is a bisexual woman.
• I Am Not Starfire: One of the prominent things advertised for the book was that the protagonist, Mandy, in addition to being a chubby goth, is also a lesbian and crushes on a girl she knew through childhood.
• The Invisibles: One of the main characters is a transgender woman.
• Jem and the Holograms (IDW)
• Kerry Kross: Kerry is a lesbian detective, there are several lesbians or bisexual supporting characters, subject matter includes homophobia, lesbian romance.
• Lady Baltimore: The title character is bisexual. She used to be married to a man, but now widowed, she starts a relationship with a female witch.
• Lady Death: The title character is bisexual.
• The Legend of Bold Riley
• The Legend of Korra: The main character Korra is a bisexual woman; there is a queer female romance subplot in the books between her and supporting character Asami, who is also a bisexual woman.
  • The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars
  • The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire
• Lumberjanes: The queer ensemble cast includes a young trans girl and two young lesbian main characters, there is a non-binary supporting character, subject matter includes LGBT Youth, LGBT acceptance, gender dysphoria, gender euphoria, queer female romance.
  • Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy
• Love and Rockets: several characters have queer relationships and romances.
• Masquerade: The main character is a bisexual woman.
• Money Shot: Sci-fi comic series about a group of scientists that fund their research by filming adult films with aliens; the plot centers around a bisexual woman, who later gets into a romance with another bisexual woman cast member; the cast of the cast is sexually fluid, as in they had sex with each other to test boundaries and have no major hang ups about their identity.
• Monstress: The main character and two of the main antagonists are lesbians.
• Morning Glories: (gay male main characters, lesbian minor characters, queer romance)
• Motor Crush: The main character is a lesbian, and she has a recurring romance plot with another lesbian woman.
• The Movement: (queer ensemble cast; asexual/aromantic main character, bisexual female main character, gay male main character, queer female main character)
• My Friend Dahmer: Graphic novel by John Backderf about attending high school with the infamous serial killer Jeffery Dahmer; the comic paints him as a tragic figure that could've been stopped with the right support, as well as touching on Dahmer's sexuality and self-hatred, as well as the rampant homophobia during that time.
• Nancy Drew (Dynamite Comics): Comic adaptation of the Nancy Drew novels, with a Setting Update to the present day. Nancy's friend George is reimagined as a lesbian, who is dating a supporting female character.
• New Avengers (2015): Gay couple Hulking and Wiccan are members of the team.
• The New Guardians: One of the main characters, Extraño, is gay and deals with HIV. The series was meant to delve more deeply into LGBT topics, but this being DC in the 80's the executives cut this into a borderline caricature.
• Patsy Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat!: A Denser and Wackier series starring the titular character, her friend and supporting character Tom (from the old Patsy Walker comics) is now a gay man, and he is in a romance with another supporting character, the bisexual Inhuman Ian Soo.
• Poison Ivy (2022): Poison Ivy is in a romantic relationship with Harley Quinn, to whom she sends love letters after leaving Gotham to enact her final Evil Plan.
• Power Pack (bisexual main character)
• Princeless – Raven: The Pirate Princess
• Purgatori: The main character is a lesbian and she had a harem with only women.
• Radiant Pink: A spin-off of Radiant Black and part of the Massive-Verse, which stars Eva, a queer young Latina girl who balances life as a superhero and video game streamer.
• Raptors: One of the main characters is bisexual.
• Rat Queens: several main characters and side characters have queer relationships, and main character Braga is a trans woman.
• Royals: The queer Marvel Boy/Noh-varr is a main member of the cast.
• Runaways: Superhero series about a group of teenagers that run away from home from their Super Villain parents; team member Karolina Dean is lesbian, and Xavin is a shape-shifting alien who also is genderfluid. Subject matter includes LGBT youth, gender dysphoria, queer romance and coming out.
  • Runaways (2015)
  • Runaways (Rainbow Rowell): The volume includes the aforementioned Karolina, along with confirming that Nico Minoru is bisexual. Both Karolina and Nico have a romantic arc in this series. Subject matter includes queer female romance.
• Saga: Two recurring characters, Doff and Upsher, are a gay couple, and supporting character Petrichor is a trans woman.
• Savage Dragon: The main character is a woman who can transform into a male superhero.
• Secret Six: The 2008 volume features Catman, a bisexual man. Later, the 2014 volume would introduce Porcelin, an assigned female at birth person who is genderfluid.
• Scott Pilgrim: Ramona reveals she experimented a bit back then as one of the seven evil exes, Roxie Richter, is a woman. Stephen Stills, one of Scott's friends and bandmates later realizes he's gay and starts dating a male supporting character. Scott's roommate Wallace is established as gay in his first scene.
• Shadoweyes
• Spider-Gwen: Recurring character Mary Jane Watson is bisexual and is in a relationship with Glory Grant, who is a lesbian.
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (lesbian main character, lesbian supporting character, queer female romance)
• Strikeforce: Gay superhero Wiccan is a part of the team.
• Superman: Son of Kal-El: Superman's teenage son Jonathan Kent becomes the new Superman; he realizes that he is bisexual and has a romance with a gay male teen character. Subject matter includes LGBT youth, coming out story, and queer male romance. Transgender superhero Nia Nal/Dreamer also makes her DCU debut in the comic.
• The Tea Dragon Festival
• Tim Drake: Robin: Comic series focusing on Tim Drake/Robin moving to Gotham Marina and balancing heroics and finding himself, this series continues to exploring Tim Drake's bisexuality (with was revealed in Batman: Urban Legends in 2021) and his relationship with his boyfriend Benard.
• Top 10: Some of the characters are bisexual or homosexual.
• The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Takes place in a de facto homonormative society, with several married gay couples and multiple transgender female characters (several of whom are also married).
• Union Jack: The title character is a gay man.
• The Unstoppable Wasp: Series starring the new incarnation of The Wasp, Nadia van Dyne; the ensemble cast includes two lesbian supporting characters, subject matter includes queer female romance, homophobia, LGBT youth, and coming out.
• Vampirella: The title character is bisexual in the most recent stories.
• The White Trees: A Blacksand Tale: The three male main characters of this comic are all queer.
• We Only Find Them When They're Dead
• West Coast Avengers (2018): 2018 volume of West Coast Avengers, an Avengers team working out of Los Angeles. The ensemble cast of this volume includes America Chavez, a lesbian and Fuse, who realizes that he is bisexual.
• Wet Moon
• The Wicked + The Divine
• Wonder Woman: The title character Wonder Woman is a bisexual woman.
  • Amazons Attack!
  • Wonder Woman (1942)
    • Wonder Woman #1
    • Judgment In Infinity
  • Wonder Woman (1987)
    • The Contest
    • Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia
  • Wonder Woman (2006)
  • Wonder Woman: Odyssey
  • Wonder Woman (2011)
  • Wonder Woman (Rebirth)
  • Wonder Woman (Infinite Frontier)
  • The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016)
  • Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman
  • Sensational Wonder Woman
  • Wonder Woman '77
  • Wonder Woman and the Star Riders
  • Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed
  • Wonder Woman: The True Amazon
  • Wonder Woman: Warbringer
• The Woods: A high school is suddenly transported to an alien world, the main ensemble cast is primarily queer, consisting of two gay teens, a lesbian girl, transgender boy, and an asexual/aromantic male teeanger; subject matter includes LGBT youth, coming out, and queer romance.
• Y: The Last Man: Post-apocalyptic series about the sudden extinction of all people/species with a Y chromosome, with the exception of one single man. Yorick, the man, is the main character, along with Agent 355 (a bisexual woman) and Dr. Alison Mann (a lesbian).
• Young Avengers: Superpowered young people step up after the Avengers disband and become the newest generation of Avengers; the team is primarily made up of queer characters, consisting of Hulking and Wiccan (two gay teens in a relationship) and America Chavez (a young lesbian). Other team members include Prodigy, Speed and Marvel Boy, all of whom are bisexual/queer males.
• X-Men: Depending on the team's formation, some members of the group are LGBT.
  • Children of the Atom: One of the main characters is a lesbian and one is asexual, book involves a queer romance.
  • Generation X (2017): Three members of the cast are queer (Bling!, Hindsight and Morph), a subplot is the budding romance between Hindsight and Morph.
  • Marauders: Kitty Pryde is confirmed as bisexual after years of speculation in the series, and this team also includes Iceman, who is gay.
  • Marauders (2022): Kitty Pryde is still leading the team, which now consists of the pansexual Dakken and Somnus, a gay mutant introduced in the 2021 anthology Marvel's Voices: Pride.
  • X-Factor (2020): Three members of the cast are queer; Northstar is gay along with his husband Kyle who is a minor character, additionally there is Daken and Prodigy, both of whom are bisexual/pansexual.
  • Excalibur (2019): Betsy Braddock AKA the new Captain Britain is a bisexual woman.
    • Knights of X: Sequel Series to Excalibur, Betsy hooks up with fellow bisexual woman Rachel Summers.
• Zodiac Starforce
• Zsazsa Zaturnnah: The main character is a young homosexual who can become a female amazon warrior.

Fan Works

• A beacon in the dark: The protagonist Midoriya has (reciprocated) romantic interest in his male friend Todoroki.
• A Magical Evening revolves around the relationship between two Adaptational Sexuality lesbians Princess Sofia and Lucinda. There is also the side lesbian couple Princess Hildegard and Princess Clio. In the new timeline, Sofia and Lucinda get two gay partners in a Marriage of Convenience Brock and Doyle.
• Angel of the Bat: Cassandra Cain is stated by the writer to be pansexual, and has a girlfriend by the end of the first story. After a break up she briefly dates a man (Green Arrow Connor Hawke) in the sequel, though she and her girlfriend ultimately reconcile. The struggle to be happy in both her same-sex relationship and her Catholic faith is a recurring feature.
• Another Day in Misterland: Two of members of the ensemble cast are Mr. Small and Mr. Nosy, a gay married couple.
• The Codotverse: Edward Nygma, the main character, is bisexual and his father's homophobia is one of many things that contributes to their terrible relationship.
• The Hot Topic Krew: The majority of characters in the story are LGBT, including the protagonist Dark Pit, who is pansexual.
• Infinity Train: Blossomverse: The main trilogy showcases male couples, one of the heroes is non-binary, and the side-stories also has female/female romance. Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus has more LGBT representation with Specter revealed to be gay and crushing on Ryoken (later confirmed as demiromantic), Marchosias married to Wepwawet but had a reltionship with non-binary Inari (being both bisexual and androsexual), a trans man passenger in Tres and Ryan and Min-Gi being a couple, turning Ryan from straight (as he was shown dating three girls in the originaly Infinity Train) to bi and Min-Gi is gay.
• Junior Officers: Most of the Octonauts themselves are queer^note Kwazii being aroace (aromantic and asexual) and trans, Peso being gay, Shellington being bisexual, Tweak being a lesbian, Deborah being generally queer, and Sarabi being a trans lesbian, and there are lesbian supporting characters.
• Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami: Many major characters are gay or bisexual, including Light, L, Sayu, and Misa (but definitely not Dark).
• In Ma Fille, and by extension its Sequel Series Shining and Sweet, the majority of the WVBA boxers are homosexual (one chapter even has a joke about Super Macho Man being the "token cishet"), there are two gay weddings (one between Bear Hugger and Cy Camore in a chapter titled "Big Gay Bear Wedding", and the other between Glass Joe and Von Kaiser), Don Flamenco is explicitly trans and taking testosterone, King Hippo is implicitly trans through her use of "she/her" pronouns, several supporting characters (ex. Lizzie and Marlowe, Annie and Reese) are in queer relationships, and minor characters Reese and Mx. Ferdinand are non-binary and use "they/them" pronouns.
• My Immortal: Most of the male characters in the story are bisexual (Ebony/Tara finds sensitive bi guys to be hot). Draco claims Ebony is bi, yet she only shows interest in men.
• The Panda Chronicles: Tae-young, a major character, is transgender. He was thrown out of his home because of it, and at least one chapter shows him struggling with getting his period because of the horrible cramps that come with it.
• Pokémon Crossing: All three protagonists are bisexual, one of them is a transgender girl, and two major supporting characters are gay.
• Pokémon Reborn: One of the villains (Ace) is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, two of the gym leaders (Titania and Amaria) are in a lesbian relationship, and another gym leader (Adrienn) is also non-binary and uses xe/xem pronouns. It's also possible to play as a non-binary character in the game.
• Rise of the Save-Ums: Has a very openly lesbian main character.
• The Sacred and the Profane: Gay main characters, though despite the mutual attraction, they are in a very toxic relationship.
• Supper Smash Bros: Mishonh From God: Sara, the main character, is a homophobic lesbian who represses her sexuality. Many of the other characters are also gay.
• The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon in Unova: In the sequel, The Glaceon and the Shadow, main character Larissa eventually gets together with her female friend Sofia.
• VS Sunday: The opponent of the mod, Sunday, is bisexual and nonbinary, which is directly referenced in the name of and preceding cutscene for "BI-NB".
  Sunday: it's a pride song lol.
• YuyaVision: The Synchro Dimension hosts a lot of LGBT characters: the main couple is gay — with Placido turned from straight to gay and considers themselves non-binary and Kiryu considers himself genderfluid — Carly is bisexual and Grady is a trans female asexual.

Films — Animated

• Lightyear: Supporting character Alisha Hawthorne is married to a woman, they share a kiss and raise children together.
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines: The main character Katie says that she's always felt "a little different than everyone else" as a rainbow appears behind her, and we see her wearing a rainbow pride pin. The end of the film confirms she is seeing another girl.
• ParaNorman: Supporting character Mitch mentions having a boyfriend at the end.
• Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling: Ralph Bighead comes out as a trans woman now named Rachel. Her subplot in the special deals with her father, overwhelmed by change, coming to accept her transition.
• Strange World: Ethan Clade, one of the main characters of the film, is openly gay with an attraction to another male character.
• Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! marks the first official piece of Scooby-Doo media where, after years of efforts by creators, Velma Dinkley is portrayed as a lesbian, shown to have a crush on another female character, Coco Diablo.
• Wendell & Wild: One major character, Raul, is a trans boy attending a Catholic school for girls.

Films — Live Action

• Adam (2019): The plot is about a cisgender boy who pretends to be a trans boy in order to date a lesbian, who eventually comes to identify as bisexual instead. Nearly all of the cast besides him are somehow LGBT+ (queer women, nonbinary, trans men, trans women etc).
• Agnes and His Brothers: One of the main characters is Agnes, a transgender woman, and part of the plot revolves around her strained relationship with her dysfunctional family after transitioning.
• Alexander: The film is a fictionalized account of the life of Alexander the Great and depicts him as bisexual, being shown in romantic relationships with several men as well as the woman he eventually marries. This attracted significant controversy when the film was released in 2004.
• All About E: The lead and titular character E is a lesbian DJ who runs off with a bag of money alongside her Camp Gay best friend Matt as her angry boss pursues her to get it back. She takes refuge in her ex-girlfriend's home, where it's soon clear they still have a strong attraction for each other.
• All Cheerleaders Die: The lead character, Maddy, dated Leena before the events of the film and seduces Tracy early on (who says she's a far better lover to her than her Jerk Jock boyfriend, the antagonist).
• American Nightmare (1983): Eric's neighbor Dolly is a trans woman.
• Anna: The title character appears to be a bisexual woman, as she dates Maude but also gets involved with two different men. Maude is a main character and clearly a lesbian, while Anne's sexual orientation has some ambiguity as their relationship may only be part of her cover working for the KGB.
• Anna and the Apocalypse: One of the main characters is Steph, a teenage Butch Lesbian who gets established as such early on. She's among those who survive at the end.
• Anon (2018): The Girl, aka Anon, is a bisexual woman with two past female lovers shown. She's one of the two protagonists.
• The Archer: The lead character is a lesbian, and she and another girl at the juvenile reform camp she's sent to end up falling for each other while they plan their escape.
• Atomic Blonde: The main character is a bisexual woman, and enters a relationship with a female French agent.
• Basic Instinct: The Villain Protagonist Catherine is a bisexual woman who enjoys manipulating her lovers against each other for her amusement, with the plot being kick-started by her getting her boyfriend to kill her girlfriend.
• Battle of the Sexes: A subplot in the film is the protagonist, Billie, coming to terms with being a lesbian.
• Benedetta: The title character and Bartholomea, a novice, become secret lovers, which later gets them tried by the Church.
• Better Than Chocolate
• Bit: The main character is a transgender lesbian, who is drawn into a group of lesbian vampires who are being threatened by a ruthless group of Vampire Hunters.
• Bitter Moon: Mimi, the female lead, is a bisexual woman who is involved in a passionate Destructive Romance with her husband Oscar, and seduces Fiona to spite him.
• The Black Dahlia: Madeleine, a major character, hangs out in a lesbian nightclub and has been in relationships with both men and women. She previously dated Elizabeth, the woman whose murder that Bucky, the protagonist, is attempting to solve, and gets into a relationship with him.
• Blockers: One of the main characters is Sam, who's an initially closeted teenage lesbian, with her character arc being embracing her sexuality and coming out to her loved ones (they all accept her at once), before beginning to pursue a girl she likes.
• BloodRayne: The lead character is Rayne, a dhampyr who is shown as attracted to a female vampire early on, kissing and then feeding on her. Later on she also has sex with Sebastian.
• Bloodthirsty: The lead character is a lesbian in a committed relationship with her girlfriend, which gets a lot of focus.
• Bodies Bodies Bodies: Lesbian couple Sophie and Bee are the very first characters introduced (while making out actually), while later Jordan (another girl) turns out to be a lesbian or bi too. Though not the main theme, the two's relationship (and difficulties like Sophie having cheated on Bee with Jordan) is explored. Emma, who's involved with a guy, also kisses Sophie once, but it's left unclear whether she's a closeted lesbian, bi/pansexual or just Desperately Craves Affection.
• Bombshell (2019): A major subplot in the film surrounds Kayla, a Republican woman who works for Fox News Channel, being in denial over being a lesbian despite sleeping with and secretly dating women and having no interest in men.
• Booksmart: Amy, one of the two protagonists, is a lesbian who Cannot Spit It Out about her crush on her classmate Ryan, and spends much of the movie both unsure if Ryan is into girls and how to confess to her if she is.
• Boy Meets Girl: Ricky, a young trans woman living in a small town, ends up in some major Trans Relationship Troubles. Her new female friend Francesca falls for her and they end up having sex (and unbeknownst to Francesca, Ricky also had sex with her male fiancee). Ricky's best male friend also is in love with her. Refreshingly, there's little fretting over Gay Panic and much more mature discussion and passionate affection.
• Boys on the Side: The protagonist, Jane, is a lesbian who is in unrequited love with Robin, who is one of her best friends. At the end of the movie Robin confesses that she loves Jane too, though her diagnosis of HIV means that the two of them won't have much time together. Robin is herself bisexual.
• The Brides of Sodom: Everyone Is Bi, and the plot is kicked off by a male vampire falling in love with a man who is one of the last remaining humans.
• Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker: Tom Landers is a coach whose boyfriend's murder is dismissed by the bigoted detective in charge of the case as being the result of a gay lover's quarrel when his sexuality comes to light. He helps the protagonist find the actual culprit.
• Butter: As part of her plot to get revenge on Bob, Brooke seduces his daughter Kaitlen and breaks her heart the same way Bob broke hers.
• Catfight: Ashley, one of the two protagonists, is a lesbian whose marriage to her wife Lisa eventually dissolves due to their differing political views.
• Caveman: Two supporting characters, Ruck and Flok, are gay cavemen in a relationship. It's implied they were outcast by other cavepeople, and join protagonist Atouk's tribe that acts as a safe haven for rejects.
• Chloe (bisexual female main characters; subject matter includes queer female romance)
• Climax: The majority of the cast is bisexual.
• The Closet: The main character is a straight man who pretends to be gay; there is an Armoured Closet Gay supporting character.
• Cloud Atlas: Robert, one of the protagonists, is a bisexual man in a relationship with Sixsmith, a man that he calls 'the sole love of [his] life'.
• Come Sunday: Reggie, an organist at a Tulsa megachurch, struggles with his internalized homophobia after realizing that he's gay.
• Compulsion (2013): The film's protagonists Amy and Saffron had sex prior to the latter being killed at her request, then eaten, after Amy's intense attraction toward her for some time.
• Compulsion (2016): American novelist Sadie becomes involved with Italian Francesca after leaving her boyfriend, with this being a driver of the plot although not the main focus..
• Concussion (2013): A lesbian housewife reevaluates her life after suffering a concussion and ends up becoming a sex worker serving other women to relieve her boredom.
• The Con is On: Irina, the main villain, is a Psycho Lesbian gangster who is still in love with Harry and wants to kill her current partner in crime so that she'll return to her.
• The Craft: Legacy: The main cast includes Lourdes, a transgender girl, and Timmy, a bisexual boy, is a supporting character whose struggles with homophobia and coming out are shown.
• Cthulhu: Russel is a gay man who rejects his close-minded small town and its lifestyle and values. In his case, the town's lifestyle includes membership in an apocalyptic sea cult, and its values oblige him to impregnate a local women, his sexuality nonwithstanding.
• Cursed (2005): Bo, Jimmy's bully, is an Armored Closet Gay, and at the start of the third act comes out to him, becoming an ally to the main characters.
• Cut to the Chase: The two main female characters turn out to both be bisexual women who were in a relationship, which is a key plot point.
• D.E.B.S.: College superspy Amy and the supervillainess Lucy are lesbians who end up falling for each other over the course of the film.
• Dear White People: Film focusing on the Black students attending a prestigous university and the racial micro- and marcoagressions they deal with; Lionel, one of the main characters, is gay and coming to terms with his sexuality while navigating his racial identity.
• The Disappearance of Alice Creed: Vic is gay and Danny is bi; the two of them are in a relationship, which is made complicated when the woman they kidnap turns out to be Danny's ex-girlfriend.
• Dog Day Afternoon: Sonny is a bisexual man whose motivation for robbing the bank is to get money so that his wife (a transgender woman) can have the GRS surgeries she needs. Based on a True Story.
• Dope: One of the main characters is Diggy, a teenage lesbian.
• Double Obsession: The antagonist is a Psycho Lesbian who kidnaps the main character because she's obsessively in love with her.
• The Dune: One of the main characters is Reuven, an elderly gay man who is drawn into one last case as a detective before he retires.
• Embrace of the Vampire (1995): Sarah, a photographer, attempts to seduce Charlotte during their photoshoot, though she's rebuffed.
• Embrace of the Vampire (2013): This remake has Charlotte kiss Sarah when drunk and possibly have sex with her too (though at first it seems like just a dream, it isn't clear how much they did). She isn't willing to explore things further with Sarah later though, and she's not shown as attracted to women again when sober. On the other hand, Sarah is attracted to her when sober, and also had sex with a man before, so she's probably bisexual.
• Eternals: Phastos, one of the Eternals, is gay and married to a man.
• Everything Everywhere All at Once: A film about Evelyn, a Chinese-American immigrant woman split in-between her humdrum life and defending The Multiverse with her alternate selves; a significiant subplot is Evelyn trying to find common ground with her daughter Joy who has come out and is dating a girl. Additionally, while Evelyn is hesitant to accept her daughter's sexuality at first, Evelyn is married to a woman in another universe.
• The Fallout: Two girls, Vada and Mia, bond over surviving a school shooting, eventually sleeping together (which is the first time for both). However, afterward Vada wants to just be friends, with Mia agreeing. It's left unclear what either of the girls' sexual orienation is.
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: The film confirms onscreen that Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald are both gay, having had a past relationship which heavily influences the two in the present as well since it's made clear they still love each other but have taken opposing sides in a violent conflict. Further, though it's set in 1932 no one among the wizarding world appears to care about them being gay (or at least none who's aware).
• Fear Street: A horror film trilogy based on the 1990s book series of the same name, the central figures of the trilogy are two lesbian teenagers. Each film centers around either a lesbian relationship (implied and explicit) or at least lesbian love; subject matter includes queer female romance, homophobia, LGBT acceptance, LGBT youth.
• Fellini Satyricon: The main character, Encolpius, has sex with both men and women, though the concept of LGBT or homosexuality didn't really exist in Ancient Rome.
• Fire 1996 is the first film in Deepa Mehta's "Element Trilogy", and it centers around two women in unhappy marriages who form a close bond, culminating in a relationship. It was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to be centered around an explicit, LGBT romance.
• Foxfire (1996): Legs, one of the main characters, is a Butch Lesbian. One of the other main characters is implied to be a lesbian as well.
• Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island: Jack is a closeted gay man who is trying to join a fraternity as well as find the courage to come out to his friends.
• Fresh (2022): Mollie, one of the main characters, is a bisexual woman. It's only mentioned though.
• Frida: A biopic of bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. She's married to Diego Rivera but (like him) cheats. Frida is seen explicitly going to bed with one woman. Later she goes to a hotel room with another.
• Future World (2018): The protagonist is a lesbian android and she becomes involved with a female mechanic in the film. Additionally one of the villains, a woman, lusts after her.
• Game Over, Man! (2018): Joel comes out as gay to his friends at the climax (though it turns out that he'd gotten drunk and told them ages ago).
• Gigli: Ricki is said to be a lesbian, with the main romance between her and Larry being said to turn her straight (the idea of her being bisexual isn't even mentioned).
• Glass Onion: The film reveals that lead character Benoit Blanc (who also led in the film Knives Out) is gay by showing him at home with his partner during lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• The Haunting (1999): Theo, one of the main characters, is a bisexual woman dating a man and woman at the same time.
• Head in the Clouds: Mia and Gina, the two main female characters, are revealed to have dated previously and are heavily implied to still have feelings for each other.
• Hearts Beat Loud: Sam is a lesbian with a girlfriend named Rose; her father Frank is very supportive.
• Hellbent: The movie follows a group of gay friends out on a Halloween night. It's generally considered to be the first gay slasher movie.
• Higher Learning: A subplot in the film is Kristen realizing that she's developing feelings for her friend Taryn, though the film shows very little of their romance on-screen.
• Holly Slept Over: The two female lead characters, Audra and Holly, had once been involved while they were college roommates. At first Audra says this was just experimenting on her part, but later admits to her husband Noel that she loved Holly. The pair have a threesome with Noel, since Audra is still drawn to Holly.
• Holy Smoke!: Ruth sleeps with/makes out with other women in order to show the audience how 'wild' she is due to the New Age cult she'd joined.
• Horror In The High Desert: The movie is a mockumentary telling the investigation regarding a missing hiker named Gary. Midway through the investigation, it's revealed that Gary had a male lover.
• The Hunger: Miriam is a bisexual vampire who dooms her lovers to an eternity of Age Without Youth, with the protagonist Sarah being the latest woman she decides to seduce.
• Hunting Scenes from Bavaria: The main character Abram is either gay or bisexual and must deal with both discriminatory anti-gay laws and the homophobic residents of the town in which he lives.
• Hypochondriac: The main character of this movie is Will, a gay man that starts to lose his mind and his body while coming to terms with childhood trauma left by his mentally ill mother.
• I Shot Andy Warhol: Valerie, the protagonist, is a lesbian. That to support herself she needs to work as a sex worker and sleep with men doesn't help her mental state any.
• Inside Daisy Clover: Actor Wade Lewis turns out to be bisexual. One of the early depictions of a gay or bisexual character in American cinema who is neither ashamed of his sexuality nor wants to commit suicide.
• J. Edgar: The film portrays Hoover as having a complicated relationship with sexuality and significant sexual tension with a male friend that eventually leads to the two of them making out.
• Jailbait (2014): While in prison, the main character is sexually assaulted by several of the female inmates. This is portrayed as sexy instead of traumatizing, with copious lesbian sex scenes in the movie.
• Kaboom!: The main character, Smith, is uncertain about his sexuality and experiments with men and women during the film. His friend Stella, a lesbian, is also seeing a woman during the film, with a few more gay or bi men as supporting parts.
• Kajillionaire: Both of the main characters are lesbians who eventually fall for each other.
• Killer Unicorn: A horror-comedy slasher focused where a group of gay and drag queen friends are hunted down by a killer wearing nothing but sequin underwear and a unicorn mask.
• The Killing of Sister George: June is a lesbian in an abusive relationship with Alice, with much of the film revolving around their relationship drama as June's career as an actress disintegrates.
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Gay Perry, the secondary lead, is a gay Private Detective.
• Kiss of the Damned: Maia, one of the main characters, is a bisexual woman who's shown having a threesome with a man and woman.
• Knock at the Cabin: Film based on the novel about a gay couple and their children vacationing at a remote cabin where they are beset by a group of mysterious strangers who claim the apocalypse is coming.
• Let It Snow: One of the subplots of the film is the friction between Dorrie and her girlfriend Kerry over Kerry still being in the closet and wanting to hide their relationship from her friends.
• Life Partners: The film is about the friendship between two women over the years-one of them is a lesbian and the other is straight. Several lesbians are also supporting characters.
• Liquid Sky: Margaret is bisexual and in a relationship with a woman; Adrian is either lesbian or bisexual; Jimmy states that he prefers men but expresses some interest in women.
• Liz in September: The titular Liz, the lead character, is a lesbian as are all of her friends. Eva, the newcomer who befriends them, quickly gets involved with Liz while among the others several also have relationships. They make up most of the cast.
• Lizzie: A film about Lizzie Borden that posits a lesbian relationship between Borden and family housekeeper Bridget Sullivan.
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A biopic of blues singer Ma Rainey, a bisexual woman. While they aren't open about it due to it taking place in the 1920s, she is depicted as being in a relationship with another woman.
• Margarita: The main character is a lesbian who is pressured to get a Citizenship Marriage with someone after it is discovered that she is an undocumented immigrant. Her girlfriend and several lesbian friends of theirs are supporting characters.
• The Millennium Trilogy: One of the main characters is a Depraved Bisexual woman.
• Mishima A Life In Four Chapters: A biopic about Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, whose experiences as a gay man are touched on, but don't make up the main focus of the film.
• Mona Lisa: George forms a friendship and falls in (unrequited) love with Simone, a closeted lesbian call girl.
• Monster: Aileen is a lesbian serial killer who was forced into prostitution due to poverty and began her killing spree of men at first in self-defense when they abuse her. Her relationship with her girlfriend Shelby is portrayed as the only bright spot in her life.
• Monster High: The Movie: Musical film based on the Monster High toy franchise; Frankie Stein, who was previously a cisgender girl in previous iterations of the toys/media, had the Adaptational Gender Identity change to non-binary (they/them) and is played by trans/non-binary actor Ceci Balagot (he/they).
• Monstrous: Protagonists Alex and Sylvia are two lesbian girls who quickly start a fickle affair while looking investigating Bigfoot sightings.
• Monty Python's Life of Brian: Though it's somewhat Played for Laughs (like everything else the Pythons do), Loretta (formerly Stan) turns out to be a trans woman, which in spite of some initial incredulity by Reg over her desire to give birth is accepted by her comrades. More a joke than anything, but still remarkably progressive for 1979.
• Mulholland Dr.: Betty and Ria, the two main characters, are in a relationship.
• The New Mutants: In the film adaptation, Rahne (Wolfsbane) and Dani (Mirage) are a lesbian couple.
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist: Both the book and movie prominently feature a queercore band called The Jerk-Offs, of which co-lead character Nick is the only straight member.
• Night School (2018): Carrie, the deutergonist, is a lesbian.
• Nope: Emerald, sister to Otis and deutergonist is a lesbian.
• The Old Guard: Joe and Nicky, two of the immortals, are a gay couple who have been together for centuries.
• Paradise Hills: Uma and Amarna slowly develop feelings for each other deeper than friendship while working together to survive their captivity, which causes problems when Uma's boyfriend tries to rescue her.
• Parking (1985): Orpheus has two great loves; Eurydice is a sculptress who designs his album covers, and Calais is his sound engineer. Both love him back, but Eurydice is unaware of Calais' romantic relationship with Orpheus.
• Party Monster: Michael Alig is depicted as being bisexual, being shown on screen in relationships with men and women.
• The Party (2017): Two of the dysfunctional cast of characters are Martha and Jinny, a lesbian couple. And the main character, Janet, is in a lesbian affair with her colleague.
• The Perfection: Charlotte and Lizzie, the main characters, are extremely talented musicians who fall in love over the course of the film.
• Pitch (2009): Jim struggles with his attraction to other guys.
• Pitchfork: Protagonist Hunter is gay, and brings his friends to his rural home to have support when trying to come out to his parents.
• Plan B (2021): The film's subplot is of Lupe trying to come out to her best friend and to her dad as queer.
• Poltergay: Comedy in which a straight couple settles in a house that's haunted by the ghosts of five gay disco party animals who perished in the explosion of the nightclub beneath the house in 1979.
• Princess Cyd: The lead character is a bisexual girl who enters a relationship with another girl, Katie, while visiting her aunt. A couple lesbian supporting characters are also in the film, and they discuss LGBT+ issues as well.
• A Reflection of Fear: Marguerite, the protagonist, is revealed at the end of the film to be a transgender girl.
• Riot Girls: The main characters, Nat and Scratch, are a lesbian couple who are trying to rescue Nat's brother after he's captured by a rival gang.
• The Rose: Rose, the main character, falls in love both with her childhood friend Sarah and a male fan of her music, Houston.
• Rough Night: Two of the main group of friends are Frankie and Blair, who had a thing together in college but have since grown apart. By the time the film ends, they've gotten back together.
• SheChotic: Maxine's spit personality, the film's Big Bad, is a Depraved Bisexual.
• Shiva Baby: The plot revolves around the protagonist, Danielle, having an excruciatingly awkward time when she finds out that both her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend are at the shiva (Jewish funeral) service she's attending, requiring her to try to keep them away from each other.
• A Simple Favor: There's a large amount of subtext between the two female leads, which culminates in the two of them sharing a kiss.
• The Skeleton Twins: Milo, one of the two protagonists, is a gay man.
• Sleepaway Camp: The villain is a boy who was forcibly Raised as the Opposite Gender after his sister died, and has a lot of confusion over his gender and sexuality as a result.
• Somebody I Used to Know: Cassidy, it turns out, is estranged from her parents, as they're opposed to her bisexuality, calling her engagement to Sean "a step in the right direction", and she'd refused to invite them for the wedding due to this before Ally did.
• Stonewall (1995): A fictional account of the Stonewall riots.
• Stonewall (2015): An account of the Stonewall riots that drew controversy due to focus on a White Male Lead.
• Stranger by the Lake: All of the main characters are gay men.
• Stranger Inside: Brownie is a lesbian and Treasure, the protagonist, is shown involved with another female prisoner.
• The Talented Mr. Ripley: Tom, the protagonist, is a bisexual man whose primary love interest is another man.
• Tár: The main character is a lesbian who is raising a daughter with her partner.
• Time to Leave: Romaine, the protagonist, is a gay man who finds out that he has a brain tumor that is going to kill him in a matter of months. The film focuses on how he handles this.
• Trap for Cinderella: Do, one of the two protagonists, turns out to have been in love with Micky, her female best friend.
• Unhinged (1982): The main villain of the movie is a transgender woman.
• Unpregnant: Bailey, the protagonist's former best friend who is going on the road trip with her, is a Butch Lesbian.
• Velvet Buzzsaw: Protagonist Morf is But Not Too Bi, having as a background in the early movie a relationship with another man.
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Cristina, one of the main characters, is a bisexual woman who is torn between her feelings for Juan and his ex-wife Maria.
• Walk on Water: One of the main characters is Axel, a gay man. The protagonist is initially bigoted towards him about it, but by the end of the film has grown out of it and considers Axel one of his closest friends.
• The Watermelon Woman: Cheryl, the main character, is a lesbian and the investigation she goes on through the film gradually puts more and more strain on her relationship with her girlfriend.
• We Are the Night: Louise is a Lesbian Vampire who turns women that she falls for in hopes of having an eternal companion in her 'life' as a vampire. Charlotte and Nora, two of the women she's already turned, appear to be bisexual too. The latest woman whom she turns, Lena, ends up in a Bisexual Love Triangle with her and Tom, a human cop (she later chooses him).
• The Whale: The main character Charlie is gay.
• What Keeps You Alive: The main characters are a lesbian couple who go to the woods to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Except that one of them is a serial killer who plans to murder the other there.
• White Frog: The film revolves around Nick trying to piece together his brother Chaz's life after he dies unexpectedly in a car accident, which includes his brother's boyfriend confiding in him that Chaz was gay and had planned to tell him shortly before he was killed.
• The White Orchid: The titular White Orchid is a murderer who seduces both men and women, then kills or robs them. Claire, the investigator trying to track her down, is shown to be very attracted to her and also hooks up with a woman.
• Wild Things: Suzie and Kelly are both bisexual, being in a relationship with each other as well as their boyfriends.
• Young & Wild: The lead character, Daniela, is a bisexual girl. She dates both a man and woman (at the same time), with her girlfriend Antonia indicated to also be bisexual.
• Your Sister's Sister: Hannah, the protagonist's sister, is a lesbian. Much of the drama in the film comes from her sleeping with Jack, the main character's unrequited crush, because she wants kids.
• Y tu mamá también: Julio and Tenoch both are attracted to each other, though they're firmly in denial about it until near the end of the film, where they finally hook up.

Literature

• Aeon 14: More named characters are bi or gay than are explicitly straight, polyamory is relatively common, and many stories and characters deal with analogies or direct examples of body dysphoria. Setting creator M.D. Cooper herself came out as a trans woman in 2019.
• Amberlough: The main character is a gay male secret agent who is trying to protect his drag queen boyfriend as their country's government becomes increasingly fascist.
• Anger Is a Gift: A young adult novel about a gay African-American teen dealing with racist policies at his school while overcoming trauma from a police brutality incident. There are several LGBT supporting characters, subject matter includes LGBT youth, queer male romance.
• Anita Blake: The title character is bisexual.
• The Art of Starving: Matt, the main character, is a gay teenage boy.
• Awaken the Stars: The two main characters, Rex and Euan, are gay men whose relationship progresses from friendship to romance over the course of the story.
• The Bane Chronicles: Bane, the main character, is a bisexual man whose romance is with another man.
• Before We Disappear: A subplot of the book is the romance that develops between Jack and Wilhelm, the two main characters.
• Black Dogs: Two of the major characters are an elven lesbian couple, their relationship being explored.
• Black Iris: Laney, the protagonist, is a morally-ambiguous bisexual woman whose love interest is her female friend Blythe.
• Blood Books: Vicki, the protagonist, is a polyamourous woman who's in relationships with her two boyfriends, Henry and Mike. Henry himself is bisexual.
• The Book of Joan: The story is set in the distant future where bisexuality is the norm and is considered unremarkable-most of the main characters exhibit attraction to men and women.
• The Burning Kingdoms: Malini, the lead character, and her maidservant Priya are lovers whose relationship gets a lot of attention, though it isn't the main theme.
• The Cabin at the End of the World: Horror novel about a gay couple and their children accosted by a group of strangers while they vacation at a remote cabin.
• Captain Underpants: Book series about two mischievous elementary schoolers that turn their principal into a tighty-whitey clad superhero; the 12th and final book, Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, reveals that main character Harold Hutchins is gay and marries a man in the future.
• Card Force Infection: Naota, one of the main characters, is genderfluid and uses they/them pronouns.
• The protagonist of Doctrine of Labyrinths is Felix Harrowgate, a gay man, with a number of other gay men in his life.
• Catwoman: Soulstealer: Two of the three main characters (Harley and Poison Ivy) are queer women who are attracted to each other. Selina's sister Maggie turns out to have gotten happily adopted by two men as well.
• Chaos Squad: The book focuses on a squad of 10 girls, many of whom are involved in relationships with each other and one of whom is transgender. Jupiter, the viewpoint character, is openly bisexual.
• The Chronicles of Jegra: The protagonist Jegra is an openly pansexual heroine in a polyamorous relationship with three other women, one of whom is transgender.
• Circle of Magic: One of the main quartet, Daja, gradually realizes she's a lesbian.
• Cloud Atlas: Robert Frobisher, one of the protagonists, is a bisexual man in the 1930s who in a relationship with another man.
• The Color Purple: The book tells the life story of Celie, whose only genuine romance is with Shug, another woman.
• The Creatures of Supernatural
• The Crow: The Lazarus Heart: The main character is gay, as are many of the supporting characters. There is also transgender woman supporting character.
• The Dark Artifices: Mark, one of the main characters, is bisexual and is caught in a complicated love triangle that includes his male and female friends.
• The Darkest Part of the Forest: The secondary main character is gay.
• The Dawnhounds: Most of the main characters are queer, with the plot being kicked off by the protagonist being demoted to the night shift after her bosses found out she went to a gay bar.
• Detective Lane Mysteries: Detective Lane, the protagonist, is a gay man.
• Dragon Crown: Prince Ethan, the main character, gradually comes to realize over the course of the trilogy that his feelings for his male friend Samet are romantic, with the two of them eventually getting together.
• Elemental Logic: Zanja and Karis have a lot of UTS from the moment they meet, and get together by the end of the first book.
• The Eldest Curses: Alec, the protagonist, is gay and in a relationship with another man. By the second book they've adopted a son.
• Elemental Series (Kemmerer): Nick is gay and the focus of book 4, Secrets, where he has his own romantic subplot.
• The Extraordinaries Series: Superhero book series with a gay main character and multiple queer side characters.
• Fairest of All: Siofra is pansexual, Bogan is nonbinary, and the two of them and their friend Mahon eventually end up in a happy polyamorous relationship.
• The Fell of Dark: The main character is gay, and is in a Love Triangle with two gay vampires.
• Fires of the Faithful: Eliana is a lesbian, and part of the story involves her coming to realize that about herself.
• The Fire's Stone has three main characters: two bisexual men and an aro ace girl.
• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue: Monty, the main character, is bisexual and is in love with his gay best friend.
• Girl: "Who are you?" Alien: "Er, I'm an alien.": The alien is asexual-aromantic, and so is most of her species.
• Girls Don't Hit: Joss is a closeted lesbian with a husband and kids... and also a secret life as an assassin. She later becomes lovers with her female assassin apprentice, Echo.
• Gone: Young Adult series about any person under the age of 15 suddenly disappearing from a small beach town. There are several LGBT characters throughout the series, most notably Dekka, a 12-year-old lesbian with the power to manipulate gravity. The sequel series Monster also features LGBT characters, including Cruz, who is non-binary and transfeminine.
• Gossamer Axe: The protagonist is a lesbian, and the plot is driven by her desire to rescue her lover by using The Power of Rock.
• Grasshopper Jungle: A subplot in the book is Austin's confusion about having romantic feelings for both his female friend Shann and his male friend Robby, with the book ending with him being in a relationship with both of them.
• Harley Quinn: Reckoning: Harleen, the protagonist, shows attraction to both men and women, and her developing relationship with her girlfriend is a significant plot thread.
• Havemercy: Royston, the main protagonist, is a gay man, and most of the other main characters are queer as well.
• Heralds Of Rhimn: Navaeli is only shown interested in girls, and falls for her female friend Crislie.
• The Heroes of Olympus: Nico di Angelo is gay, and part of his storyline is him coming to terms with his sexuality.
• The Hexslinger Series: The majority of the cast is gay or bisexual
• The House In The Cerulean Sea: The main character is a gay man who finds himself suddenly becoming a father after adopting six magical children, while also falling in love with the director of the orphanage they lived in.
• InCryptid has Elsie Harrington, a lesbian recurring character, and James Smith, a gay main character, as well as sapphic supporting characters Sally Henderson, Cynthia, Phoebe, and Helen (the latter two of whom are married to each other). There has also been a hypothetical mention of a Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person.
• Infinity Cycle: Emil, the main character, is a gay man.
• Into the Bloodred Woods features a romance between two female were-bears.
• Into the Drowning Deep: The protagonist is a bisexual female scientist, who is in love with her lesbian scientist colleague.
• Iron Widow: The main characters are bisexual, who resolve their love triangle by all deciding to just date each other.
• Jock Meets Nerd: This series follows in senior year, the protagonist is a jock who is a closeted bisexual, an outcast who is gay, and supporting characters are bisexual, lesbian and pansexual as well.
• The Kingston Cycle has a variety of protagonists throughout the series, including lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and a nonbinary character.
• Knowledge Of Angels: Main character Palinor has a threeway with a man and woman. From how it's depicted, he's into both and this isn't his first time with a man either.
• Kushiel's Legacy: Two of the books' protagonists are bi, though while they're shown having encounters with members of the same sex, all the 'main' romances and final pairings are male/female. Additionally, there are numerous gay male minor characters in the series. Bisexuality is also indicated to be quite common in Terra D'Ange, the country where the books are mainly set, with no stigma against same-sex pairings.
• A Land Fit for Heroes: The protagonist Ringil is a gay man and major character Archeth is a lesbian.
• Legends & Lattes: Protagonists Viv and Tandri's growing attraction to each other is one of the plot lines of the book.
• Legends of Panthera: Most of the main characters and a l0t of the supporting cast are LGBT+.
• The Liar: Adrian, being something of an Author Avatar for author Stephen Fry, is a gay man.
• The Lightning Struck Heart: Most of the main characters are gay, with protagonist Sam pinning for an attractive young knight who works at the castle... and who is in turn taken with the bratty prince.
• A Little Life: Jude, the main character, is a gay man, and most of the supporting characters are either gay or bisexual.
• The Locked Tomb has a pair of lesbians as the leads, and has multiple same-sex relationships and crushes in the background.
• Loki: Where Mischief Lies: Loki, the main character, is bisexual. The book also features a gay man and the two develop a mutual crush on each other.
• Lords of the Sith: One of the main characters is female Moff Delian Mors, who's mourning her wife who died years earlier. Additionally she keeps female scantily-clad Twi'lek dancers in her palace. She is the first LGBT+ character in any Star Wars canon work.
• The Lost Girls: The book is about a group of bisexual and lesbian vampires who get together to kill the man who turned them before he can do so to another girl.
• Lost Souls (1992): The novel focuses heavily on a group of vampires who are all bisexual men (they tend to be depicted having sex with men most of the time, including each other). It also focuses on two human men, whose close relationship is hinted to be more than platonic culminating in them kissing, although it's left ambiguous (a later short story confirmed they indeed have a romance).
• Jane Fletcher's Lyremouth Chronicles has a lesbian couple as main characters.
• Magic University: Kyle, the main character, realizes he's bi over the course of the story, and many of the supporting characters are either gay or bi.
• Magical Girls (2014): Joan, one of the protagonists, is intersex and part of her character arc involves her dealing with her internalized shame over that.
• The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess: The main character Anisphia is a lesbian and has a female love interest Euphyllia.
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The protagonist is pansexual and his love interest is gender-fluid.
• Manifestation: Gabby, the protagonist, is a lesbian.
• Mask of Shadows: Sal, the protagonist, is genderfluid and swaps what pronouns they use depending on how they feel, which isn't considered a big deal by others.
• A Master of Djinn: Protagonist Fatma el-Sha'arawi is in a lesbian relationship with her lover Siti.
• A Memory Called Empire features a lesbian couple as the main characters, and a bisexual polycule as part of the plot.
• Millennium Series: One of the main characters is a Depraved Bisexual woman.
• Modern Faerie Tales: In Ironside, the secondary lead is gay and has a romantic subplot.
• Monk & Robot: A series of Solarpunk novels focused on a non-binary monk seeking distance from the cities they grew up on and the robot they befriend.
• The Monster of Elendhaven: The central romance in the book is between Johann, a Humanoid Abomination who takes the form of a man, and Florian, a bitter and vengeful sorcerer.
• Nemesis Series: Danny, the protagonist, is a transgender girl who starts the series being gifted superpowers that transform her into her ideal self. While she's happy about this, this also forces her out of the closet before she ready and not everyone in her life is accepting.
• The Neanderthal Parallax: A science fiction trilogy featuring a parallel world where Neanderthals are the dominant species, seeming to also be entirely bisexual. Because of this, it's a cultural norm that everyone has both male and female spouses. Ponter, a Neanderthal, is transported into our world by a freak accident. Though he romances and later marries a human woman, his preexisting relationship with his man-mate Adikor is also focused on and stays strong.
• The Nikolai Duology: Nina, one of the main characters, is bisexual.
• Not Your Backup: Sci-fi novel, featuring a budding queerplatonic relationship between a trans boy and an aro ace cis girl.
• Not Your Sidekick: Sci-fi romance between two queer girls.
• Not Your Villain: Sci-fi novel, featuring a budding relationship between a trans guy and an aro ace cis girl.
• The Nullweaver Cycle by trans co-creators Mabel Harper and Cassidy Webb is notable for featuring a large LGBT cast, highlighting transgender voices, and openly processing sexual trauma. One of the two protagonists in the story, Jules, is an out trans man, and the deuteragonist is in a homosexual relationship. The authors have confirmed that the second installment will "explore the transfemininity of two existing characters" one of whom is the second protagonist, Rory, and that nearly all major character in the series are queer.
• October Daye: The author has stated that all fae are some degree of bisexual (except Toby, who was raised in the conservative 1950s human world). Toby's fetch May Daye is a woman in a relationship with another woman, Jasmine.
• The One Who Eats Monsters: A major subplot is the growing romance between Naomi, a Republican senator's daughter, and Ryn, an elder god trapped in the form of a human girl.
• Otherside Picnic: Main characters Toriko and Sorawo end up in a relationship with one another, after a Big Damn Kiss in vol. 4. Side character Natsume is said to have a crush on her childhood friend, Akari (though as of vol. 4, it's not confirmed if Akari reciprocates or not). Toriko also has lesbian mothers.
• Pale Lights: The two main protagonists are respectively asexual and lesbian.
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Along with its Sequel Series, the books have a number of asexual, bisexual, gay, lesbian, nonbinary and transgender characters. The books of the Rick Riordan Presents imprint, written by different authors with similar themes drawing on other mythologies, continue this with various characters who are LGBT+ too.
• The Perils Of Enhance Girl: Sophie, the protagonist, is a lesbian superhero.
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower: A subplot in the book is that Brad, a Jerk Jock, is secretly in a relationship with Patrick, an openly gay student that he bullies in public because he fears the homophobic reactions of his family and friends.
• Pet: Jam, the protagonist, is a transgender girl.
• The Posterchildren: Most of the cast is queer, and three of the characters (Maks, June, and Ernest) are in a happy polyamorous relationship.
• A Practical Guide to Evil: The main protagonist, Catherine Foundling, is a bisexual woman with a string of dalliances throughout the series. The most noteworthy include Killian, the head of her army's mage units; a Friends with Benefits relationship with the Archer, herself in a non-intimate romantic relationship with the asexual Masego; the Kingfisher Prince; a series of casual flings with her former enemy Cordelia in the epilogue; and an incredibly slow burn Star-Crossed Lovers relationship with her Arch-Enemy, Akua Sahelian; with numerous other LGBT+ characters also featured in the setting.
• The Priory of the Orange Tree: Three of the main characters (Sabran, Ead, and Niclays), and the slowly developing romance between Sabran (a queen in need of an heir) and Ead (a mage sent to guard her) is a major subplot.
• Quarters:
  • In Sing The Four Quarters Bards Annice and Stasya are long-term lovers, with Annice being bisexual and Stasya being a lesbian. Stasya doesn't have a problem with it when Annice turns up pregnant from a fling she had on walkabout, indicating the pair are in an open relationship. They later arrange to raise her baby with the father, Duke Pjerin. Open same-sex relationships are quite common in their country of Shkoder, with other minor characters shown to have them as well.
  • Fifth Quarter shifts the focus to the nearby Havalkeen Empire, centering on brother and sister assassins with the Imperial Army. Vree, the sister, is shown as being bisexual and particularly attracted to women. The antagonist Gyhard is a bisexual man. His past relationship with Kars, a male Bard, significantly drives the plot. Karlene, another Bard, is attracted to women too. As in Shkoder, the people of the Empire treat same-sex relationships as perfectedly acceptable and unremarkable. Again, some minor queer characters are featured (e.g. a woman whom Vree had slept with in the Army).
• Radio Silence: The majority of the cast are queer- the protagonist Frances is bisexual, her best friend Aled is demisexual, and their friends Daniel and Carys are gay.
• The Raven Cycle: The main characters include a bisexual and a gay guy who fall in love with each other.
• The Red Vixen Adventures: Rolas, one of the main characters, is introduced in a relationship with the titular Red Vixen but is revealed to be bisexual when his ex-boyfriend Dak appears.
• Replica: Nate is gay, and is in a relationship with his childhood friend Nadia that both of them know is purely for show even though she genuinely has feelings for him.
• The Rifter: The protagonist is gay, and the main romance in the book is between him and another man.
• The Rise of Kyoshi: The series is about Kyoshi, a bisexual woman.
  • The Shadow of Kyoshi: A sequel to the previous book.
• Sanctioned: Two of the protagonists are queer: Ashleigh is gay and Stacey is bisexual.
• Santa Olivia: Loup, the protagonist, develops feelings for her friend Pilar who considers this an Inconvenient Attraction, as Pilar plans on marrying for wealth and status, not love. The two do eventually get together, with Pilar deciding that her love for Loup is worth the risk.
• San Amaro Investigations: Focused on a gay couple of a cop and a private investigator in a urban fantasy setting.
• The Satyricon: The main character, Encolpius, has sex with both men and women, though the concept of being LGBT+ or homosexuality didn't really exist in Ancient Rome.
• Schooled in Magic: Emily, the lead character, attracts the affections of several young women her age (while she's straight herself). Frieda falls in love almost immediately with her, Julienne gushes at how attractive she is, Alanna suggests that they could marry if Emily turned male by magic (so they could have a child to carry on Allana's royal line) and Nanette's also attracted to her.
• The Shadowhunter Chronicles, while mainly a fairly straightforward (pun intended) young adult urban fantasy romance 'verse, is notable in this regard for the featured romance of Alec Lightwood and Magnus Bane. They later got their own spin-off series, The Eldest Curses, which has a pretty big focus on their relationship.
• Shift Work: A trilogy of urban fantasy novels focusing on the Belligerent Sexual Tension romance between Marlow, a human cop specialized in dealing with werewolves, and Cade, a werewolf in charge of a security company. The series also features queer side characters like bisexual cop Bennett and Cade's younger brother Lem, who is also bisexual.
• Sing You Home: Demane is either gay or bisexual: his on-screen relationships have all been with men, but he's mentioned almost marrying a woman and implies regret over the relationship with her ending.
• The Sirantha Jax Series: One of the main characters is Dina, a butch lesbian who is very skilled with the ladies, to the point she often seduces women who never wanted a woman before.
• Six of Crows: The main characters include Nina and Jesper, who are bisexual and Wylan who is gay. Jesper and Wylan start a relationship at the end of the series.
• Smoke and Shadows: Tony, the protagonist, is gay and his complicated relationship with his ex-boyfriend Henry (a vampire) is touched on.
• Several in Solitaire. Micheal is pansexual. Tori, the protagonist, is asexual according to Word of God. Her brother Charlie is gay. His boyfriend Nick is bi, The author liked Nick and Charlie as characters enough to give them a Novella and a spin-off webcomic series, Heartstopper.
• Spellster has Dylan struggling to accept his bisexuality upon meeting the elven rogue, Tracker. curing his quest to get back home after failing to protect an army troop in an ambush.
• Starling: There is a friendship that develops into romance between Roy (the clone of the general who is credited with winning humanity's brutal war against the stellaraptors) and Elliott (the first stellaraptor to attend the otherwise all-human Astris Academy).
• Star Wars: Aftermath: Main character Shevek turns out to be a Straight Gay man. In subsequent books, he's dating a guy. There are also a couple minor lesbian characters, who have a child together, while another character was raised by two fathers.
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: The titular doctor is a lesbian, and a subplot concerns her ex-girlfriend.
• Stellar Ranger Dark Star: The vast majority of the cast, including the protagonist, are lesbians.
• Storm of Souls: Ethan and Samlet, the son of the warlord who took Ethan as a slave, eventually become friends and then fall in love as Samlet tries to help Ethan heal from what's been done to him.
• The Stone Dance of the Chameleon: Carnelian has romances with two other men during the course of the trilogy, and gay relationships aren't considered at all abnormal in the setting.
• Stranger Than Fanfiction: Joey is gay, and Sam is a trans guy- neither are out due to fear of how their friends and families will react.
• The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure: Nico and Will, the two main characters, are both gay and are boyfriends with one another.
• The Tale of the Five: The protagonist is a bisexual man in a relationship with another man, and it's not considered at all unusual in the setting.
• Tales of the City: The books follow the lives of the residents of an apartment block, a number of whom are queer—Mona is bisexual, DeDe is a lesbian, Michael is gay, and Jake is gay and transgender.
• Tales of an Mazing Girl: Sarah comes to realize that she's bisexual over the course of the story, eventually falling in love with Flame.
• Tales of the Pack: Everyone in the cast is a lesbian, and most are werewolves.
• The Tarot Sequence: Rune, the main character, is a gay man who is in a relationship with his friend Addam. In the setting, same-sex romances are extremelly common and most characters are queer in some way.
• A Taste of Honey: The plot is set into motion by Aqib's conflict between his love for the soldier Lucrio, and his duty to his homophobic family as he is set to inherit his father's title of Master of Beasts.
• The Teresa Knight Trilogy: After hooking up with Ayako, protagonist Teresa realizes that she's bisexual rather than straight, while several supporting characters are bisexual, gay or lesbian.
• Their Bright Ascendancy: Shefali and Shizuka have been engaged to be married since they were children, and they slowly fall for each other over the course of the first book as they work together to stop the Traitor God's invasion.
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant: The title character is a lesbian, who engages in relationships with several other women throughout the series.
  • The Monster Baru Cormorant: Sequel to the previous book.
• Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: The two main characters Harriet and Snabe are both trans.
• The Trials of Apollo: Apollo, the main character, is bisexual, and various supporting characters are LGBT.
• Upright Women Wanted: by Sarah Gailey, an alternate history Western about a group of queer librarians defying the government. One of the major plot points is the main character's growing feelings towards her travel companion, who identifies as non-binary.
• Valhalla: Violet, the main character, is only shown to be interested in girls.
• The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, a series about queer vampires.
• Virtually Reality: One of the main characters, Hellblazer, is a transgender man.
• Warchild Series: Jos, the main character, is asexual and supporting character Evan has a crush on him, though nothing comes of it due to Jos being too traumatized to be interested in a relationship.
• Wayward Children:
  • Down Among the Sticks and Bones: Jack is a Butch Lesbian who falls in love with Alexis, the most beautiful woman in town.
  • Beneath the Sugar Sky: Nancy is asexual, and supporting character Kade is a transgender boy.
• Whateley Universe:
  • Among the original six main characters (Team Kimba), Chaka, Fey, Generator, and Tennyo are AMAB transwomen, Lancer is a AFAB transman. Chaka and Fey are bisexual. Tennyo may be asexual. While Phase identifies as a heterosexual male, his female secondary sexual characteristics make it difficult to present as male.
  • In later "Gen 1" stories, main characters Absinthe, Knockoff, Kit, Ribbon, Roulette, Pejuta, Porcelain, Scald-Crow, and Whisper are AMAB transwomen. Loophole has come to accept her bisexuality. Solange's relationship with Kodiak may be a case of If It's You, It's Okay.
  • In the "Gen 2" stories set ten years later, main characters Calliope, Cerulea, Dragonsfyre, Eisenmädel, Glyph, Lapin, Okami, and Onyx are AMAB transwomen. Calliope, Cerulea, Dragonsfyre, and Glyph have sought girlfriends. Belfry is gay.
• What She Left Behind: A major reveal in the book is that Matt was gay, and he killed himself partly due to his father's abuse after he found out.
• When Women Were Warriors: Most of the cast are gay women, with the main romance in series being between Tamras and Maara.
• The Wheel of Time: Two of the main female characters, Moraine and Siuan, were lovers in their younger years. Several supporting lesbian characters are also present in the series.
• When We Were Magic: The protagonist, Alexis, has a crush on one of her best friends, Roya.
• White Trash Warlock: Adam, the protagonist, is gay. While it's not a big deal to him, he mentions that he had a hard time growing up in a rural area with a bigoted father.
• Whyborne and Griffin: The titular protagonists are gay and they became a couple at the end of the first book.
• Wings of Fire: One of the third arc's protagonists, Sundew, is a female dragon with a Childhood Friend Romance with her girlfriend, Willow. While it is a Secret Relationship, it's not because it's a same-sex relationship (dragons don't seem to care), but because Sundew is betrothed to someone else.
• Winter's Orbit is a Space Opera about Kiem, the prince of the Iskat empire, who enters an arranged marriage with his cousin's widower, Count Jainan of Thea, in order to secure an alliance and secure a renewed treaty to maintain power and protection for the empire.
• Xandri Corelel: The protagonist is a polyamorous bisexual woman with one male and one female love interest.

Live-Action TV

• 13 Reasons Why: Teen drama centering around a young girl who committed suicide and her taped confessions, there are several LGBT supporting characters including Tony, a gay teen who is Clay's best friend, Courtney, a budding lesbian whose parents are two gay men, Ryan, the gay school newspaper editor, and Monty, a Armoured Closet Gay football player. The final season adds Winston, another gay teen that was seeing Monty as a regular, Dean of Discipline Hansen Foundry is revealed to be gay, and Alex realizes he is bisexual and dates a bisexual football player.
• The 100: A post-apocalyptic teen drama focusing on people who survived World War III through living in the Ark (formerly the International Space Station) before coming back down onto Earth almost a century later and the conflicts they get into with other groups (or each other). The lead character, Clarke, is a bisexual girl who gets involved with Lexa, the leader of one Grounder (Earth-based) group, which is played out at length. It caused much criticism and debate after Lexa was killed right after they consummated their relationship. She later also hooked up with another woman, Niylah, who becomes a major character (the pair don't get involved further).
• 9-1-1: Procedural drama based on the professional and personal lives of first responders; the principal cast includes Michael, who came out as gay after 14 years of being married to a woman and Henrietta/"Hen", a lesbian firefighter and paramedic. Recurring characters include Hen's wife Karen, Hen's ex-girlfriend Eva, and Josh, a gay dispatcher.
  • 9-1-1: Lone Star: Drama spun off from 9-1-1 based on the lives of first responders in Austin, Texas; the series has three queer men as part of the main ensemble: TK and Carlos who are both gay and in a relationship, and Paul, who is a trans man.
• 4400: A reboot of the 2000s television series The 4400. The main cast is considerably more diverse than the original, with a predominately Black cast that includes Keisha, a lesbian corrections officer, and Andre, a transgender man from the 1920s. The supporting cast includes several LGBT characters, including Jessica, Keisha's ex-girlfriend and special agent Soraya, a queer tech expert.
• Abbott Elementary: Mockumentary series about the teachers at a Philadelphia inner city school; supporting character Jacob is gay and is dating recurring character Zach.
• All American: Series about a high school football player juggling living and playing for a rich Beverly Hills school while trying to represent his urban hometown; Coop, a lesbian and her girlfriend Patience are part of the main cast with storylines centered around their relationship.
  • All American: Homecoming: Spin-off of All American set at a historically Black college; Keisha, a bisexual woman, is part of the main cast, and additionally supporting character Nathaniel is non-binary and transfeminine.
• All Rise: One of the main characters is Judge Lisa Benner. Though she's been married to a man, it turns out she dated Jean Frost in law school, and is revealed as bisexual when looking for dates again, with a majority of the people she's matched with being women.
• Almost Family: A subplot in the first (and only) season is Edie, who is married to a man, falling in love with a woman for the first time and realizing that she's a lesbian.
• Altered Carbon: In Season 2 one of the main characters is Trepp, who's a lesbian Bounty Hunter.
• Amazing Stories (2020): In "The Heat" the female lead characters Tuka and Sterling confess they're in love with each other near the end, with it being implied they're a couple after this.
• American Gods: One of the main characters is Bilquis, a Love Goddess who's shown having sex with men and women quite explicitly. Salim is also a closeted gay Muslim Omani who gets involved with a male djinn. Later minor character Samantha "Sam" Black Crow is a Cherokee Two-Spirit.
• Andi Mack: Children's series about Andi Mack, an Asian-American girl and her coming of age; Andi's male best friend Cyrus has a storyline where he discovers that he is gay. He later crushes on a supporting character TJ who realizes that he is gay as well. Subject matter includes LGBT youth, coming out, queer male romance and LGBT acceptance.
• And Just Like That...: Miranda realizes that she's bisexual/pansexual after falling for her nonbinary friend Che, and there is a subplot involving Charlotte's child being transgender.
• Andor: Cinta and Vel, the women in the Rebel cell Andor joins, turn out to be a couple. This is notable as the first onscreen LGBT+ characters in Star Wars (who weren't just easily missed background characters anyway).
• Arrested Development: Tobias is heavily implied to be gay, and the fourth season reveals that GOB is bisexual.
• Arrow: Superhero series about Oliver Queen defending Starling City as the Green Arrow; there have been several LGBT characters throughout the run of the series, most prominetely the bisexual Sara Lance aka Black Canary aka White Canary who was introduced in season two and then went on to her own adventures. Nyssa Al-Ghul, who is a lesbian in this adaptation, was her love interest. Oliver's son, both his present and future variants, is gay.
• The Astronauts (2020): One of the lead characters has two mothers, one of whom is a famous astronaut.
• Atypical: From the second season onward Casey's growing realization that she's bisexual is a subplot, as well as her being torn between her feelings for her friend Izzie and her boyfriend Evan.
• Avocado Toast: One of the two lead characters is Molly, who's bisexual. The first season heavily involves her trying to get back with her girlfriend and tell her parents, but the second season moves into other things. A lesbians and gay men are supporting characters. Later another supporting character is shown to be a lesbian sexual abuser.
• Babylon 5: Although this wasn't allowed to be explicit then onscreen, Susan and Talia had been involved, something confirmed by the creator plus both actresses.
• The Baby-Sitters Club (2020), a diverse adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club middle grade book series, has one of the main characters, Dawn, mention that she's open to dating anyone on the gender spectrum. There are a few recurring and one-time characters queer characters which include Dawn's father, who is gay.
• Barry: NoHo Hank, one of the main Chechen criminals, is implied to be gay from the beginning. It's confirmed when he and Bolivian gangster Cristóbal become a couple.
• The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself: One third of the Power Trio at the center of the story is Gabriel, a gay alchemist. He is also the Closet Key for protagonist Nathan, who is bi.
• Batwoman (2019): Both Kate, the protagonist in the first season, and her successor Ryan are lesbians. Kate's ex-girlfriend Sophie is a major character, and their complicated relationship is given a lot of focus. Ryan's ex-girlfriend Angelique, a criminal she went to prison for, also appears and complicates her life significantly, then she gets involved with Sophie as well.
• Better Things: One of the main characters is Frankie, who's speculated by her sister as being a trans boy. Frankie however does not say definitely, but is indicated to at least be nonbinary. There's a gay main character as well, who's more or less a surrogate father to the Fox kids. A lesbian couple are supporting characters as well in later seasons.
• Betty: Kit is a lesbian and Honeybear is bisexual. Both of them date other women in the series.
• Billions: Taylor Mason, a member of the main cast from season 3 onward, is non-binary.
• Billy on the Street: Host Billy Eichner often makes references to his homosexuality and references gay culture.
• Black Lightning (2018): Superhero series about Jefferson Pierce suiting up again as Black Lightning to defend his city, all while dealing with family drama and his daughters gaining powers of their own; Jefferson's eldest daughter Anissa is a lesbian and is in a relationship with Grace Choi, a bisexual metahuman.
• Black Mirror: In "Hang the DJ" Amy is matched mostly to men, but also one women, indicating she's bisexual though with a preference for guys.
• Black Sails: Several of the characters are bisexual, gay or lesbian, and Anne realizing that she's bisexual after falling for Max is a subplot.
• Black Spot: Protagonist Laurène's right hand man is Martial Ferrandis, an openly gay man.
• Bonding: Pete, one of the main characters, is gay.
• Bones: Angela, one of the main characters, is a bisexual woman. She rekindles her relationship with a woman in one season, but they later break up again.
• Das Boot (2018): Simone, an ethnic German French translator, gets involved with Carla, the American communist who's fighting with the French Resistance cell who she's passing secrets to.
• The Boys (2019): Maeve, one of the main characters, is bisexual. Her struggles with being closeted and then forcibly outed, at which point she's unwillingly turned into an LGBT+ icon while also portrayed as a lesbian (as her bisexuality is "confusing") gets explored. Elena, Maeve's ex-girlfriend, is a supporting character. A couple other supporting characters are also LGBT+. The themes of homophobia vs. acceptance (sometimes just for corporate exploitation) are highlighted, plus bisexual erasure.
• The Brittas Empire: Two of the supporting characters are a gay couple named Tim and Gavin, with some of the humor of the show coming from Brittas being oblivious to their relationship.
• Broad City: Ilana, one of the protagonists, is bisexual and is open about her attraction to Abbi.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Captain Holt, the captain of the 99 Precinct, is a married gay man, and Detective Rosa Diaz is bisexual. Several episodes discuss how it's been a combination of racism and homophobia that made it take so long for Holt to be promoted to captain, and we see Rosa's struggle to come out to her unaccepting family and their pressure on her to only date men.
• Brothers & Sisters: Kevin is gay, and eventually marries his long-time boyfriend Scotty during the course of the series. His uncle Saul comes out as gay in the second season.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow is revealed to be a lesbian in Season 4 along with lesbian character Tara joining the cast, and their romance is a recurring subplot with a big impact on Season 6's plot.
• Burden of Truth: Two of the female main characters have a relationship. One, Luna, also dates another woman after the two end their relationship. Later another lesbian character is also introduced.
• Carnival Row: Vignette, one of the lead characters, is a female fairy who's bisexual. Her ex-girlfriend Tourmaline is a supporting character.
• Charmed (2018): Mel, one of the leads, is a lesbian. There are several other lesbians and bisexual women as main characters. Among the supporting characters are more lesbians, a trans man and a trans woman.
• Chasing Life: Brenna, one of the main characters, is a bisexual girl. Revealing this to her family and standing up to people claiming she's simply confused are subplots, along with her dating Greer, who's a lesbian girl at her school. Along with Greer are several other LGBT+ supporting characters, for instance other queer students who have a club which Brenna joins, and lesbian Margo, whom she starts dating briefly after she parts from Greer. Beth, another main character, is implied to also be bisexual, but it doesn't get explored.
• Chucky: Horror series about the titular doll finding his way into the hands of Jake, an abused gay teen boy. Jake is nursing a crush on Devon, another gay teen. Tiffany Valentine, inhabiting the body of actor Jennifer Tilly (It's a Long Story) is bisexual. Chucky and Tiffany's children, the non-binary twins Glen and Glenda also make an appearance.
• The Cleaning Lady: One of the main characters is Nadia, who's a bisexual woman.
• Constantine (2014): The main character Constantine is a bisexual man (retroactively).
• Control Z: Several of the main characters are queer: Isabela is a trans girl, Alex is a lesbian who is in a secret relationship with her teacher, and Gerry is attracted to men but is fiercely in denial about it. As the plot is kicked off by a hacker revealing a huge number of the student's secrets, they are all forcibly outed. In the second season, Gerry accepts his sexuality, dating a man. His boyfriend is then a supporting character.
• Conversations with Friends: The main character Frances is a bisexual woman, who's best friends with Bobbi, an African-American lesbian whom she previously dated. At the end they get back together.
• Conviction (2016): Hayes Morrison, the lead character, is a bisexual woman. Her ex-girlfriend Naomi Golden is also bisexual and a supporting character.
• The Cool Kids: Sid is a Camp Gay elderly man.
• Council of Dads: Drama series about three friends recruited to be father figures for their deceased friend Scott's children; Oliver, one of recruited dads, is an African-American gay man, who is married to another gay Black male recurring character, additionally Scott's adopted Chinese daughter Charlotte is a lesbian and his son JJ is a young transgender boy.
• Counterpart (2018): The mysterious female assassin Baldwin is a Butch Lesbian, it's revealed, with a girlfriend named Greta. She and Clare later had sex once too. Baldwin's counterpart Nadia Fierro is also implied to be a lesbian, though having a far more feminine style.
• Cowboy Bebop (2021): Faye in this series is shown to be bisexual and sleeps with another woman at one point. Gren, the matrie-d at Ana's club, is shown to be non-binary.
• Creepshow: "Lydia Lane's Better Half" is about the titular Lydia Lane, who gets into a fight with her girlfriend Celia and accidentally kills her. She tries to cover it up, but Celia's spirit comes back for revenge.
• Curon: Protagonist Daria and Micki are in a sapphic relationship with each other.
• Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: True Crime miniseries on Jeffery Dahmer, an infamous serial killer who was gay. In addition to this, the mini-series puts greater emphasis on the racism and homophobia of the time period that allowed Dahmer to get away with his crimes.
• Dante's Cove: Most of the main cast is queer, and the series mostly focuses on a gay couple as the viewpoint characters.
• Dark Angel: Original Cindy, one of the main characters, is a lesbian. One episode has her ex-girlfriend also reappear before she's murdered. In another Normal dates a trans woman briefly, who it turns out is also a lesbian, ending the relationship (she hits on Cindy and is turned down).
• Dark Desire: One of the main characters is Zoe, who has sex with her roommate, a lesbian, then also a man. This leads to her questioning her orientation. By Season 2 they're dating and she's concluded she just likes both.
• Dark Matter (2015): Two it turns out had a relationship with another woman in the past (her creator, actually, since she's a human-like android), after having slept with different men. For a time another bisexual woman is a supporting character too.
• Dates: Two of the protagonists are lesbians. Erica starts out in the closet due to her family being homophobic. She's inspired to come out partly due to falling for Kate, a bold out lesbian goth, and encouragement from a guy whom Erica went on a date with for cover.
• Daughter From Another Mother: Mariana, one of the two protagonists, is a bisexual woman.
• Dead to Me: Judy, one of the two protagonists, is a bisexual woman.
• Dear White People: Series following up on the events of the film; Lionel is a main character and gay, as is the supporting character Silvio, a conservative Mexican-American man. Additionally several queer women are supporting characters, including lesbian Kelsey, trans woman Genifer and bisexual Neika, with two other lesbian guest characters.
• Degrassi: The Next Generation: Teen drama series with a large ensemble cast which included several LGBT (including pansexual and non-binary) main characters and several LGBT supporting characters has dealt with a number of subplots related to LGBT teens.
• Derry Girls: Clare, one of the main characters, is a lesbian and one episode is about her coming out.
• Diary of a Future President: The main character's brother Bobby discovers he's gay and later comes out, there’s also LBGT+ representation through recurring and minor characters, such as the coworkers at Gabi’s law firm and the parents of Elena's classmates.
• Dickinson: Emily is depicted as bisexual, and in a relationship with a female friend that the two have to keep secret due to taking place in 19th-century America.
• Doctor Who: The Revival Series confirms that Time Lords are functionally genderfluid and pansexual, with both the Doctor and the Master regenerating across gender more than once; the Doctor even states in Series 10 that Time Lords are indifferent to the concept of gender. Three of the Doctor's companions are also explicitly queer: Jack Harkness is functionally pansexual and has the show's first same-gender kiss with the (male) Ninth Doctor, Bill Potts is lesbian, and Yasmine Khan has romantic feelings for the (female) Thirteenth Doctor.
• Don't Look Deeper: Aisha, who's an android indistinguishable from a young human woman at least in her appearance, is attracted to human women, and had been involved with Jenny (she's also into men, dating one initially in high school). There is also a trans male supporting character.
• Elite (2018): Omar is a gay man who is hiding his relationship from his conservative family, and Ander's arc in the first season is accepting that he's gay.
• Ellen's Game of Games: Game show hosted by lesbian comedian Ellen DeGeneres.
• Emerald City:
  • Tip was born female, but was raised as male and given potions from a young age that gave him a male body; he himself identifies as male, and is distraught that in order to secure the peaceful transition of power, he has to stop taking the potions and assume a female name and role (as he's officially heir to the throne as a princess). Fortunately, he later gains the ability to shift his body between male and female forms at will.
  • West is bisexual, introduced having sex with a man, but shows attraction to women too, mentioning her sexual trysts with Anna's mother in the past.
• Empire: Drama/Soap about a family dynasty that runs a Hip-Hop record label and entertainment conglomerate; there have been several LGBT characters throughout the run of series, most prominently main character Jamal Lyon who is a gay man and dealing with homophobia within his family and outside.
• ER: Procedural drama set in a Chicago emergency room and centering the professional and personal lives of the doctors and nurses; Dr. Kerry Weaver is the series' sole LGBT main cast member as she discovers that she is a lesbian several seasons in her tenure. There are several LGBT supporting and minor characters, such as Dr. Maggie Doyle and nurse Yosh who are lesbian and gay respectively.
• Everything Sucks!: Kate, one of the main characters, is introduced dating a boy but falls for a girl.
• Everything's Gonna Be Okay: Nicholas, the main character, is a gay man who suddenly becomes the legal guardian of his two half-sisters after their father dies. One of said half-sisters is queer and develops a romantic relationship with an asexual girl (which develops into an open marriage where she's allowed to have casual sex with guys).
• The Expanse: Many major and minor characters are gay or bisexual, which is considered normal, or at least unremarkable, in-universe — one of the ways in which the setting's depiction of the 23rd century is Crapsack Only by Comparison.
• The Fabulous Show with Fay & Fluffy: An educational preschool show hosted by two drag queens, Fay and Fluffy.
• The Fall (2013): Lead character Stella is an openly bisexual woman who's totally unapologetic about picking up men and women for sex (she mostly sleeps with the former though). Main character Danielle, who's a closeted lesbian at the start, comes out to Stella, who naturally doesn't care at all.
• The Family: Closeted lesbian Willa gets involved with Bridey, who's openly queer. Both of them manipulate each other but keep their relationship going to the end of the series. FBI Agent Gabe Clements, who's a supporting character, also mentions he's married to a man.
• Fantasy Island (2021): One of the main characters is Ruby, who's attracted to women but only admitted this (with her loving husband's urging) when she was in her seventies. She stays on the island to explore this (along with stopping her dying of cancer and being kept young), seeing two women. Multiple episodes also deal with non-hetero characters, usually seeking or declaring love for others.
• Feel Good: A semi-autobiographical series in which nonbinary and bisexual comedian Mae Martin portrays a fictionalized version of themself who has a difficult relationship with her girlfriend^note the real Martin uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, preferring the latter, but their fictional self is only referred to with the former. A couple lesbian supporting characters and then one gay supporting character are also in the cast.
• The First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt is portrayed as having an affair with Lenora "Hick" Hickok, a lesbian reporter (which may have happened, according to some historians), and supporting lesbian characters are also featured among Hick's social circle.
• Flesh and Bone: One of the main characters is the ballet company artistic director, Paul Grayson, who's very openly bisexual. He really abuses his position, hitting on both female and male dancers in the company pretty often, almost or actually assaulting them at times (e.g. a Forceful Kiss). There are also a couple of gay supporting characters (one is Paul's lover).
• The Flight Attendant: The main character's brother, David, is a gay man in a relationship with another man. His past being abused by his homophobic father is part of the backstory of both him and his sister.
• Flowers (2016): Amy is a lesbian, and a subplot in the first season involves her and her brother both developing feelings for Abigail, who returns them for her. In the second season she dates a Butch Lesbian vicar named Hylda.
• For Life: Two of the main characters in the show are LGBT+. Safiya, the kind-hearted warden, is a lesbian who's married to another woman. Jamal, another prisoner who's friends with Aaron, it turns out is gay. One episode centers on another couple of prisoners who were cellmates and lovers, which endangered one's life as he's in a homophobic prison gang for protection inside.
• For the People: Kate, one of the main characters, is a lesbian who dates Anya, a female ATF agent she meets. Anya becomes a supporting character as a result.
• Friends from College: One of the titular friends, Max, is a gay man engaged with Only Sane Man Felix. Max acts as the protagonist's right hand man and as his editor.
• Game of Thrones: Adaptation of the fantasy novels about war and machinations among those who try to claim power; the series has featured several characters on the LGBT spectrum, namely Renly Baratheon (gay), Loras Tyrell (gay) Yara Greyjoy (lesbian), Lord Varys (asexual), and Ellaria Sand and Oberyn Martell (both bisexual) who have unambiguously queer identites. The series also sees several other characters that are more sexually/gender ambiguous, from being bisexual/pansexual to gender non-conforming.
  • House of the Dragon follows that lead with Laenor Velaryon (gay) and his lovers.
• Gentefied: Ana, one of the three main characters, is a lesbian whose relationship with her girlfriend Yessika is shown under strain.
• Ginny and Georgia: Max, Ginny's best friend, is a lesbian. She dates Sophie, a bisexual girl. Supporting male characters Gabriel and Nick are gay, becoming a couple.
• Glee: Teen drama series about a glee club at a high school and the issues they face, there are several LGBT characters as part of the main ensemble cast as well as LGBT supporting characters. The subject matter shown includes coming out, homophobia, and transitioning.
• Good Omens (2019): The series changes up Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship to a love story, happening over 6000 years. Both the author and actors are open and very enthusiastic about this outside the show too. The supernatural beings in this show also are technically genderless and can present as any gender they want. Crowley and Aziraphale present as men, with a non-sexual romance.
• The Good Wife: One of the main characters is Kalinda Sharma during the early seasons. While she's married to a man (who's mostly absent), Kalinda's also involved off and on with FBI Agent Lana Delaney, a closeted lesbian. Kalinda also has sex with two other bisexual women more casually, and some men too, calling herself "flexible". A bisexual woman is a supporting character. Several minor LGBT+ characters appear too in single episodes.
• Gossip Girl (2021): One of the subplots is Aki realizing that he's bisexual and coming out to his girlfriend. Another subplot involves a gay student getting into a secret relationship with his teacher. Main cast members also include a lesbian and a trans girl. Three supporting characters are also gay men, with two being dads of a main character and one cross-dressing too.
• Grace and Frankie: The plot is kicked off by Grace and Frankie's husbands divorcing them and getting together with each other; the two remain supporting characters throughout the series.
• Grand Army: Teen drama set at the titular school in Brooklyn, New York; senior Sid Pakam is part of the main ensemble and is an Indian-American teen struggling with being gay and in the closet, in addition there is the recurring character Victor, who is bisexual.
• Grey's Anatomy: Medical Drama about the personal and professional lives of doctors and staff at Seattle Grace Hospital; there have been several LGBT characters through the series' run, both main and supporting. The most prominent LGBT characters include Dr. Callie Torres who realizes she is bisexual, and Dr. Arizona Robbins and Dr. Erica Hahn who are both lesbians and were in relationships with Callie.
• grown•ish: Spinoff of black•ish which follows eldest daughter Zoey to college; supporting character Nomi is bisexual and has been involved with both men and women, additionally there is Zaara (introduced in season 5) and she is a lesbian.
• Hacks: Ava, one of the protagonists, is bisexual. In addition, her former girlfriend and a number of other bi or lesbian women appear as supporting characters. There are also two gay supporting characters.
• Hap and Leonard: Leonard, one of the protagonists, is a Black Manly Gay Conservative.
• Happy Endings: Max is gay, and is still friends with his ex-girlfriend Penny that he dated before he came out. She's disappointed that he's not more stereotypically Camp Gay.
• The Haunting of Hill House (2018): One of the main protagonists, Theo, is a lesbian.^note in the novel the series is loosely based on, she was hinted to be attracted to women, while the series is unambiguous about her sexual orientation She has a subplot where she struggles to open up emotionally to a woman she's attracted to, due to unresolved trauma from her past and current family issues she's going through.
• Heroes: Claire, one of the main cast, dates a woman while in college.
• High Fidelity: The main character is a bisexual woman, with a plot arc which involves her ex-girlfriend.
• High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: Series set around a group of high school kids putting on a school play production of High School Musical while dealing with their various issues and entangelements; Main character Nini has two mothers, and recurring-turned-main character Carlos is a young gay Latino teen and he dates another male supporting character, Seb. Additionally, season 3 introduces Maddox, a young lesbian girl and two main characters realize they are bisexual.
• Hightown: Jackie is a Butch Lesbian detective attempting to solve a series of murders, and is shown hooking up with a number of women throughout the series. In the second season, she gets into a more committed relationship with her police partner Leslie, who realizes she's a lesbian as a result.
• Hit & Miss: Mia, the lead character, is a trans hitwoman who's saving up for sex reassignment surgery.
• Homicide: Life on the Street: Police Procedural about lives of homicide detectives on and off the job in Baltimore; the series featured detective Tim Bayliss exploring his bisexuality, one of very few bisexual characters to be shown on television during that time.
• The House of Flowers: Julian is bisexual, and his sister Paulina is in a relationship with Maria, a transgender woman who she had been married to at one point (they'd originally divorced long before Maria came out as trans).
• How to Get Away with Murder: A drama series about an infamous attorney/law professor and her student assistants; main character Annalise Keating is a bisexual woman, as is her associate laywer Bonnie. There are two gay characters, Connor and Oliver, that are part of the main cast and they end up in a relationship. Later seasons also see Tegan, a lesbian, become a main character. Multiple supporting characters also are lesbians.
• Humans: One of the main characters is Niska, a female android who's nigh indistinguishable outwardly from a human. In Season 2, she dates a German woman named Astrid, who accepts her after finding out she's an android. They are driven apart by circumstances, but profess their love for each other to the end.
• I Am Not Okay With This: Syd is a lesbian who develops telekinetic powers, and her figuring out her sexuality is a subplot.
• iCarly (2021): The revival of the original Nickelodeon iCarly has Harper, a pansexual African-American woman as part of the cast.
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021): Main character Lennon is bisexual, so is Margot, her best friend who is in love with her. Allison, the lead character, is also bisexual. Johnny, one of the main characters involved in the mystery, is bisexual as well and engaged to his high school coach. Dylan also has two moms.
• The Imperfects:
  • Abbi, the main character who becomes a Living Aphrodisiac, is asexual. However, the asexuality isn't explored beyond the irony of the power and needing to discuss things off-screen when she falls in love with another woman and said other woman admits to being attracted to her while her Power Limiter is active. As one may guess from the second part of that sentence, Abbi is also homoromantic.
  • The two only glimpses that are seen of the love life of one of the main male characters is a friend suggesting that he ask a male waiter out and later being briefly convinced that Abbi's pheromones (the channel to her Living Aphrodisiac powers) aren't going to work on him.
• Impulse: Main character Jenna's realization that she's attracted to girls (through Kate) is a major plot arc, along with the fallout. Megan, a supporting character, is also openly a lesbian, bringing her girlfriend for Thanksgiving.
• Industry: Gus, a main character in Season 1, is gay. Yasmin meanwhile was only shown as attracted to men at first, but then also has a relationship with lesbian Celeste later, which is complicated by the fact she partly wants to help advance her career by doing so but seems to genuinely like it too. She also engages in one threesome with her female colleague Harper and a man, which doesn't last long as Harper's not into it.
• In From the Cold: The lead character Anya/Jenny is a bisexual spy who'd fallen in love with a woman during her youth before later marrying a man.
• Instinct: Dylan Reinhart, the lead character, is gay. He is Happily Married to Andy, a supporting character.
• Intergalactic: The lead character Ash is a bisexual woman. A love triangle develops between her, Echo (a male pilot) and Verona (a lesbian). There's a supporting gay character as well. In the future portrayed, LGBT+ people or relationships seem unremarkable.
• In the Dark: Jess, one of the main characters, is a lesbian. She's shown in a committed relationship with her girlfriend (a bisexual woman) at the beginning. When they break up, Jess enters a relationship with another woman for a time. There are also a couple lesbian supporting characters, and then another bisexual woman is introduced too.
• Irma Vep: Mira, the lead character, is a bisexual woman. Her relationship with her ex Laurie (who's also bisexual) is explored, with both having feelings for each other still. There are minor gay and lesbian supporting characters too. Regina (Mira's assistant) has a thing for her too it turns out.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac, one of the main characters, has an arc over multiple seasons of slowly admitting to himself that he's not attracted to woman and becoming comfortable with being gay.
• Jessica Jones (2015): Superhero series about an empowered private investigator solving cases and her demons; the principal cast includes Jeri Hogarth, a lesbian Amoral Attorney and her subplots throughout the series highlight her romantic entanglements with other women. In addition, there are LGBT recurring characters, namely Gillian, Jessica's assistant who is a trans woman (the second trans woman character to have a speaking part in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) and Eddy Costa, a gay detective on the NYPD.
• Killing Eve: A spy drama with a major theme being the Foe Romance Subtext between the two bisexual female main characters and the romance that develops.
• Killjoys: Dutch, one of the main characters, is pansexual. Her genetic clone/sister Aneela who's pansexual too starts a relationship with Delle, a rich lesbian aristocrat. There is also a supporting gay character, Pree, who's married to a warlord it turns out.
• Kim's Convenience has a recurring side character, Enrique, who's a gay man — in fact, the very first episode is about Mr. Kim's reaction to Toronto Pride, and introduces Enrique. In the final season, Janet is seen kissing another girl and tries to come out to her dad, but he avoids the conversation.
• Kiss Me First: Leila, the lead character, is clearly drawn to Tess. Both of them have strongly implied sexual tension, though their only onscreen sex scenes or relationships are with guys. Jocasta/Jack, another main character, is either a queer boy roleplaying as a girl, or transgender, having an online relationship with an American man, Kyle.
• Krypton: One of the female main characters, Nyssa-Vex, is married to a man but shown as previously involved with another woman.
• Kung Fu (2021): Re-imagining of the original Kung Fu series about a young woman defending Chinatown with Supernatural Martial Arts; her brother Ryan is a supporting character who has recently come out as gay and is navigating being out and dating other men, and his boyfriend Sebastian becomes a supporting character in season 3.
• L.A.'s Finest: Syd, one of the two lead characters, is a bisexual woman. Multiple episodes also feature supporting LGBT+ characters (lesbians and trans women largely). Syd hooks up with women multiple times in the series.
• The Last of Us (2023): Adaptation of the video game about characters surviving in a fungi-fueled Zombie Apocalypse; Ellie, one of the lead characters, is a lesbian girl. Gay supporting character Bill's sexuality is greatly expanded and focused on in the series, as he falls in love with his partner Frank, whose role has also been expanded.
• Law & Order:
  • Law & Order: Prosecutor Serena Southerlyn famously revealed that she's a lesbian in her very last scene on the show, asking if that was why she'd been fired (little hint of this had occurred earlier). Several supporting or one-shot LGBT+ characters were also featured on the show.
  • Law & Order: Organized Crime: There are two lesbian detectives in the main cast. One also has a wife who's a recurring secondary character.
  • Law & Order: SVU: Dr. George Huang, a forensic psychiatrist, was part of the main cast for many years and eventually turned out to be gay, but this wasn't focused on. Later, Detective Kat Tamin who was openly bisexual joined them but departed after two years. The show also has had over two dozen supporting and one-shot LGBT+ characters, most of them a victim in the episode's case.
• Legend of the Seeker: Cara, a Heel–Face Revolving Door who joins the good guys in season 2, is a bisexual woman, with her former female lover from the Mord Sith appearing too. Some supporting Mord Sith characters also are strongly implied to be bisexual or lesbians as well.
• Legends of Tomorrow: The main character is a bisexual woman and there are several other LGBT supporting characters.
• Liar: One of the main characters is a lesbian who's married to another woman. A gay supporting character is also introduced.
• Lip Service: A series revolving around the lives of mostly lesbians and one bisexual woman living in Glasgow, Scotland. They have many different relationships with other women (or at least sex). Many lesbian or bisexual female supporting characters were featured too.
• A Little Late With Lilly Singh is hosted by the titular Lilly Singh, an openly bisexual woman.
• Lost Girl: Bo, the protagonist, is a bisexual woman who finds out that she's actually a Succubus who can control the people she kisses. She has numerous liaisons and relationships with other women or men. Three main characters on the show are also queer women. Lauren is a lesbian whom Bo has a long-running relationship with. Evony and Tamsin are bisexual women (Bo hooks up with the latter). Several minor characters are lesbians and bisexual women too.
• Lovecraft Country: Atticus' father Montrose is shown to be a closeted gay man who's now in a long-term committed relationship with his boyfriend. Christina is somehow LGBT+, but the circumstances leave it unclear of the specifics-bisexual, lesbian, nonbinary, trans man or some combination of these. Also two supporting characters are women in a same-sex relationship. There's an intersex Native American as well who's Two Spirit and briefly (but notably) appears along with the two real bisexual women Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker in an Imagine Spot.
• Luke Cage (2016): Superhero series about a bulletproof ex-con defending his neighborhood in Harlem; in season two, it is revealed that supporting characters/gangster flunkies Shades and Comanche were lovers in prison. The show doesn't state their identities definitively (it's implied through dialogue that Comanche is gay and Shades is with a woman during the season), but it's clear their relationship didn't stop at Situational Sexuality and that they love one another.
• Luna Nera: Tebe and Janara, two of the main female characters, are in a relationship. Valente on the other hand was assigned female at birth but turned male by a spell.
• The Magicians (2016): Quentin and Elliot are bisexual men, who have a threesome with Margot pretty early on. Later they have a relationship. Margot is also indicated to be a bisexual woman, while hedge witch Marina has a girlfriend. There are also some minor lesbian characters.
• Manner Of Death: The two main characters are gay men, who fall for each other over the course of the series as they work to solve a murder.
• Mare of Easttown: The series is about a single mother who tries to balance her job as a detective with being a single mother to her lesbian daughter after the death of her son.
• Master of None: Semi-autobiographical dramedy starring Aziz Ansari; his best friend Denise (played by out screenwriter/producer Lena Waithe) is a lesbian.
• The McCarthys: A sitcom about the openly gay youngest child of a family of sports fanatics, being taken under his father's wing as the assistant coach of his father's high school basketball team.
• Merry Happy Whatever: Kayla, Emma's older sister, is a closeted lesbian.
• The Mick: Main character Sabrina is revealed to have a girlfriend in the second season, but also dated guys and doesn't like labels. Ben, the youngest child of the family, likes to wear dresses at times and he's happy presenting as a girl using the name Beth. Sabrina suggests Ben's genderfluid; Mickey later says this too. The kids' great-grandmother Rita also hits on Mickey, their aunt, due to mistaking her for a woman she had loved many years before. Mickey, though straight, goes with it simply to enjoy Rita's wealth.
• Midnight Sun (2016): The male lead character, Anders, turns out to be secretly involved with Thor, a younger man, while at first he's afraid to come out. It turns out that his daughter knows already though and is wholly accepting of her dad.
• Mine: One of the two main characters is a lesbian, stuck in a miserable unhappy marriage to a man, who can't stop thinking about the lesbian lover she left behind.
• Misfits: Numerous recurring or one-shot LGBT+ characters were featured on the show, including multiple lesbians, a bisexual women, a trans man and a gay man. Main character Curtis, whose power at one point is him turning into a female version of himself, becomes Mel, who really enjoys sex with another woman. Abbey, another main character in a later series, realizes she's really a lesbian after finding no fulfillment in all the casual sex that she and many different guys had, starting a relationship with Laura. She breaks it off after learning that Laura created her, believing this is too close to Parental Incest. Greg the probation worker, a main character at the same time Abbey's in the cast, is heavily implied to be gay before it's confirmed in an alternate timeline.
• Modern Family: There are two gay main characters that are married to each other and are raising a child.
• Motherland: Fort Salem: Raelle is a Butch Lesbian and one of three new recruits to join an elite squadron of witch soldiers. Her girlfriend Scylla, who's bisexual, turns out to be The Mole and their very complicated relationship gets a lot of exploration. Later the series introduces a supporting character, M, who's nonbinary. Supporting character Glory Moffett is also indicated to be into women, as she's paired with three during the Reel in Beltane.
• The Murders: Meg, one of the main characters, is a lesbian who's married to another woman. An episode also heavily involves a man who's revealed to be bisexual.
• My Family: In Series 10, Michael Harper, who is one of the main characters, comes out as gay and is shown with a boyfriend for the rest of the show.
• Nancy Drew (2019): An adaptation of the Nancy Drew novels centering around a young adult Nancy Drew and with a supernatural/horror twist. One of Nancy's friends, Bess, is re-imagined as a British-born lesbian of Middle Eastern descent.
• Naomi (2022): The main character Naomi is a bisexual girl, and there is also another queer girl as part of the supporting cast.
• Never Have I Ever: One of the main cast, Fabiola, is a lesbian girl whose arc in Season 1 mostly focuses on her realizing this and dating Eve. Jonah is a gay supporting character too. In Season 3 too main character Aneesa (who's dating a boy) kisses Fabiola and is therefore revealed to be into her. She then breaks up with her boyfriend and dates Fabiola afterward (whose own relationship with Eve collapsed). They decide they're Better as Friends though.
• Nightflyers: Lommie and Melantha are queer women who have a relationship.
• Nos4A2: Vic, the lead character, is a bisexual woman (though she isn't actually shown as attracted to any women during the series). Maggie, her best friend, is a lesbian, having sex with and dating women.
• No Tomorrow: A subplot is Kareema falling in Love at First Sight with her brother's fiancee Sofia, realizing in the process that she's bisexual. Sofia, a lesbian who only got engaged to her brother for residence, returns her feelings and they begin a relationship.
• October Faction: Geoff is gay, and a subplot is about a supporting character realizing that he's gay as well.
• Once and Again: In season 3 Jessie develops feelings for her classmate Katie, realizing that she's a lesbian. The two of them eventually date, though they have to keep their relationship secret.
• One Big Happy: The plot of the series is that a newly-married straight couple and their lesbian friend Lizzie move in together, as Lizzie is having the man's baby since she desperately wants a child and he's her best friend.
• One Mississippi: The main character Tig is a queer woman; part of the Trauma Congo Line that she goes through in the first few episodes includes her girlfriend breaking up with her.
• One Day at a Time (2017): A remake of the 1975 original sitcom that stars a workng class Cuban-American family, the teenaged daughter, Elena comes out as a lesbian and later dates Syd, who is non-binary.
• Only Murders in the Building: One of the lead trio, Mabel, is shown to be bisexual when after dating Oscar in the first season she meets Alice, a lesbian, and they have a mutual attraction, sharing a kiss before dating for a time. There are also three lesbian supporting characters. A couple gay supporting characters get together in season 2.
• Orange Is the New Black: Series set in a women's minimum security prison, the main character is a bisexual woman; along with her lesbian love interest, there are several lesbian/queer women characters and a trans woman. The subject matter includes queer female romance, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and LGBT acceptance.
• The Order: Lilith is revealed to be bisexual when, after showing attraction toward Randall, she also pursues Nicole in the second season.
• Origin: Evelyn and Agnes (called "Lee") become attracted to each other, the pair sharing a kiss.
• Orphan Black: Several of the characters are queer, including Felix (gay), Cosima (lesbian), and Tony (gay and transgender).
  • Orphan Black: 7 Genes: In this version Izumi and Aiko (both lesbians) are the only queer characters.
• The Orville: Charly, a female human main character who joins the cast in Season 3, is a lesbian. Main character Bortus is a Discount Lesbians example: he belongs to the Moclan alien race which almost is entirely male, as female Moclans are heavily discriminated against. As such, most relationships are homosexual and men can reproduce with other men. He is married to the supporting character Klyden, who was born female but was surgically reassigned to male to avoid discrimination, which causes great anguish and dysphoria. Topa, their child, is also born female and reassigned over Bortus' objection, experiencing dysphoria as well later. With support from Bortus, Topa is reassigned back to female.
• The Other Two: One of the main characters is Cary, a gay man who is trying to make it as an actor while his younger brother is an immensely popular Teen Idol.
• Our Flag Means Death: Gay main characters, three queer relationships in the main cast consisting of cisgender men and a non-binary person (using they/them pronouns).
• Øyevitne: The plot is kicked off by two gay young men acting on long-buried feelings for the first time and hooking up... only to become witnesses to a gun fight between a hostage taker and members of a gang that he abducted.
• Oz: Several of the main cast (like Beecher and Keller) are gay or at least bisexual men, along with many supporting characters. The inmates are divided into several groups by the administration at one point to categorize them, one being just "the gays". Beecher and Keller are involved for some time, while other male same-sex relationships also get explored. The reality of prison rape also overshadows all this, along with some inmates being solely sexually active with men inside, not otherwise. AIDS is a very real threat as well, with an entire ward just for prisoners that have the disease.
• P-Valley: Drama series about the Pynk, a Mississippi strip club and the employees who work there; the owner of the Pynk is Uncle Clifford, who is gay and also nonbinary/transfeminine. Uncle Clifford is also involved with rapper Lil Murda, who is in the closet about his sexuality. There are also a couple of LGBT supporting characters.
• Pandora: Jax and Atria are both bisexual women. Two ex-girlfriends of Jax's are supporting characters.
• Paper Girls: KJ learns her future self is involved with another woman, to her dismay initially, though it's indicated she's already feeling attraction toward girls and soon accepts this.
• Party of Five (2020): The main ensemble cast includes Lucia, a lesbian, and the supporting cast includes another lesbian (Teresa) and a transgender man (Matthew).
• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: There are several queer supporting characters. Townsend is a racist Gay Conservative who is in a secret relationship with Kurt, a Nazi spy. Rico is a feared (but overall heroic) gangster who is shown kissing Mateo and has a casual threesome with him and his girlfriend.
• Pennyworth: Bet Sykes is a Psycho Lesbian henchwoman who ends up joining the heroes against worse villains.
• Person of Interest: Root repeatedly makes romantic overtures towards Shaw, who mostly ignores her until the end of season 4, when she kisses Root right before making a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Picnic at Hanging Rock: Irma is a lesbian and has a crush on Miranda (who isn't interested in relationships with anyone), and Miss McCraw and Marion are in a secret relationship.
• Pivoting: Sarah, one of the three main characters, is bisexual.
• The Politician: Most of the main cast is bisexual, with Payton's complicated relationship with his childhood friend/rival River deeply affecting him throughout the series.
• Power Rangers Dino Fury: Izzy, the Green Dino Fury Ranger, is revealed to be lesbian and dating her former rival, Fern.
• Pretty Little Liars: Many of the main cast are lesbians or bisexual, including Emily, Maya, and Paige. The Big Bad of seasons 3-6 is a transgender woman who holds a grudge against her family after her parents essentially banished her after she came out to them as a child.
• Proven Innocent: The lead character is a bisexual woman, with her coming out to family and friends, plus her romance with her girlfriend being a long-running background arc; there's a gay supporting character and some trans women appear as minor characters, while homophobia/transphobia is dealt with in one episode.
• Quantum Leap (2022): Reboot of the 1980s/1990s Quantum Leap, the team includes artificial intelligence chief architect Ian Wright who is non-binary, just like their actor Mason Alexander Park.
• Queen Sugar: One of the central figures of the show is Nova, a bisexual woman.
• Ratched: Nurse Ratched starts the series openly homophobic, believing that homosexuality is a disease to be cured (usually with lobotomies, as the series is set in 1947). Her realizing how horrific the treatment of gay people really is and that she herself is a lesbian is part of her Character Development.
• Rebelde (2022): Several of its ensemble main cast are LGBT, with Andi and Emilia's romance and Luka and Okane's romance both being part of their storylines. The supporting cast also has Lourdes, who is played by a trans actress, and Laura and Ilse, who become involved.
• The Red Line: One of the main characters is Daniel, a Crusading Widower trying to get justice after his husband (a Black man) is killed by a police officer despite being an unarmed doctor, while also struggling to deal with his grief and adjusting to raising their adopted daughter as a single father.
• The Republic of Sarah: Drama about a town seceding from the U.S. to avoid a predatory mining company tearing the town apart; one of the main characters AJ, a Greylock police officer, is in an adulterous relationship with recurring character Alexis (who is either lesbian or bisexual), the wife of the former Greylock major. Another recurring character Luìs is a gay man, who is trying to connect with his daughter Maya who has been sent to live with him. A lesbian supporting character also appears.
• Rise (2018): A subplot of the show is Simon trying to prove to himself that he's not gay by dating Annabelle, who of course has no idea and thinks that he genuinely likes her.
• Riverdale: A Darker and Edgier adaptation of the Archie Comics series; some characters have had their sexualities changed with the adaptation, the ensemble cast includes several LGBT characters including Cheryl Blossom (lesbian), Toni Topaz (bisexual), Fangs Fogarty (bisexual), and Kevin Keller (gay).
  • Katy Keene: Spinoff from Riverdale on Archie Comics character Katy Keene who lives in New York with her friends, all of whom are chasing their dreams. The main cast includes Jorge, a gay drag queen, and Pepper Smith, the Josie and the Pussycats character who is reimagined as a bisexual woman.
• Rookie Blue: One of the main characters, Gail, starts a relationship with another woman, Holly, after she had been with multiple men before.
• Roswell, New Mexico: Two of the main characters (Isobel and Michael) are bisexual and Alex is gay. A Bisexual Love Triangle develops between Michael, Alec and Maria. In the backstory, Michael and Alec had to face violent homophobia by Alec's father due to their relationship too. Isobel dates multiple women during the series.
• Rubicon: Main character Kale is revealed as being and has a much younger boyfriend he lives with. It's also implied he was once involved with Bloom.
• Runaways (2017): TV adaptation of the Runaways comic; Karolina and Nico are portrayed as queer here as well, Karolina being a lesbian and Nico is bisexual.
• Safe (2018): Pete, the main character's right hand-man is gay. One of the subplots of the show regards him learning that his Last Het Romance resulted in a child he was never told about.
• Sally4Ever: The plot is kicked off by Sally, the protagonist, cheating on her extremely dull boyfriend by hooking up with Emma... who quickly proves to be obsessed with her and more than a little unhinged.
• The Sandman: The first episode has a gay couple, Desire and Lucifer are non-binary, Johanna Constantine is bi, the Corinthian is also bi, and Hal is gay.
• Schitt's Creek: Main character David is pansexual (though people in-series often assume he's gay), and his boyfriend Patrick is gay; him coming out to his parents is a subplot in season 5.
• Search Party: Elliot is gay and in a relationship with Mark, and the final season shows that Dory and Portia are bisexual.
• See: One of the protagonists, Haniwa, has a same-sex relationship, and villain Queen Kane has sexual encounters with men and women alike.
• Sense8: Sci-fi series about 8 people from around the world sharing a psionic mindlink; the 8 main characters are pansexual in their relationship, though one is a gay man and the other is a trans lesbian. The relationships these characters share with their partners (a gay man and a bisexual woman) are also shown at length.
• Severance (2022): One of the recurring plots of season 1 is the budding romance between Irving, the most devout member of the MDR department, and Burt, from another department, and the rebellious streak the former gains as such fraternization breaks the rules of the shady and mysterious company they work for.
• Sex Education: Has a number of queer characters (a gay main character, a pansexual main character, an asexual recurring character, and two nonbinary recurring characters), though the show is mostly about awkwardness of human sexuality in general rather than specifically LGBT subject matter.
• The Sex Lives of College Girls: One of the main cast members is a closeted lesbian, whose struggle regarding her sexual orientation is a main theme. She enters a relationship with another woman on campus.
• Shameless (UK): Monica, the kids' mom, left their dad Frank for Butch Lesbian Norma. Jaz is also a lesbian who's a supporting character, as was Shaza for a time.
• Shameless (US): A number of characters are queer: Ian is gay (and at one point dates Trevor, a transgender man), his sister Debbie is a lesbian, and their mom Monica is a lesbian. There are also several supporting queer characters.
• The Shannara Chronicles: Eretria is a bisexual woman who is attracted to Will (having sex with him once) and Amberlie, while an ex-girlfriend of hers also shows up. She dates Princess Lyria in Season 2.
• She's Gotta Have It: Nola, the main character, is pansexual and gets involved with a woman during the series.
• Single Drunk Female: Samantha, the lead character, is a bisexual woman. Olivia, her sponsor (Samantha's a recovering alcoholic) is a lesbian with a wife named Stephanie. Mindy, a trans woman who has Olivia as a sponsor as well, is a supporting character. Samantha hooks up with another alcoholic Olivia has sponsored, Chloe, but it doesn't work out.
• Skam: One of the subplots of the series is Isak coming to terms with his sexuality and accepting that he's gay.
• Snowpiercer: Till and Jinju, both lesbians, are a couple initially. Miss Audrey is a lesbian or at least bisexual. Zarah is definitely a bisexual meanwhile, as she's introduced involved with both men and women while in a polyamorous relationship. There are also a couple queer supporting characters.
• The Society: One of the subplots of the show is the gay romance between Sam, the only out teen in the group, and Grizz, a closeted gay boy that falls for him.
• Soap: Jodie is a gay man, and is one of the earliest examples (the show premiered in 1977) of a gay main character who does not end the series dead or turned straight.
• Some of My Best Friends: Odd couple type-sitcom about a straight man and gay man being roommates.
• Someone Has To Die: Gabino, the heir to a wealthy and conservative Spanish family in the 1950s, is made to return home after 10 years abroad for an arranged marriage. He brings with him his friend Lazaro, and it is quickly revealed to his family that he's gay and Lazaro is really his boyfriend.
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Several of the main gladiators (Barca, Auctus and Agron) are gay and their romances are given as much screentime as that of the straight characters. Several of the female characters are bisexual, and the relationship between Gaia and Lucretia is a major subplot of Gods of the Arena. A gay couple are among the survivors on the show at the end.
• Star Trek: Discovery: Dr. Hugh Culber and Commander Paul Stamets, both male, are the Official Couple of the series, and their relationship gets quite a bit of focus across all seasons. Supporting character Jett also turns out to be a lesbian. Additionally, nonbinary crewmember Adira Tal joins the cast, with a brief coming out story, and they have a trans male love interest. Recurring villain Mirror Philippa Georgiou is pansexual as well.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The cast contains multiple LGBT characters, including Nurse Chapel, who is bisexual. The villain Captain Angel is non-binary.
• Strange Empire: Morgan Finn is a trans man, it's revealed (in modern terms), and has a relationship with Rebecca. Though worried that Rebecca won't want him once his gender is revealed, she doesn't mind at all.
• Strangers with Candy: Jerri, the protagonist, is depicted as being attracted to men and women, though her attraction to women is mostly played as a joke.
• Stranger Things: Robin Buckley, a main character introduced in Season 3, was revealed to be a lesbian. While there have been hints since Season 1, Season 4 finally all but states that Will is gay and has feelings for Mike.
• Stumptown (2019): Dex, the main character, is a bisexual woman and we see some of her ex-girlfriends, though her main female love interest from the comics is changed to a man.
• Supergirl (2015): Series focusing around the character of Supergirl, additionally, there is a lesbian main character in the regular cast, a lesbian supporting character, and a transgender female supporting character.
• Survivors: The remake has a bisexual woman in the main cast. She's eventually revealed to have once been involved with her female friend, who's shown early on. Her male Love Interest's disgusted reaction makes it a plot point, although they get over it.
• S.W.A.T. (2017): One of the main cast members is Chris, a bisexual woman who's quite open about the fact, which gets explored via her entering a polyamorous relationship with a man and woman (a married couple), though it doesn't work out.
• Tales from the Crypt
  • "Comes The Dawn": The main antagonist is a lesbian, and her ex girlfriend is a supporting character.
  • "The Assassin": The main character is a transgender woman.
  • "Two For the Show": The plot is kicked off by a Bisexual Love Triangle between the characters.
• Teenage Bounty Hunters: April, one of the main characters, is a lesbian who acts homophobic so that her bigoted parents and conservative peers at her Christian school won't find out and make her life hell. Her developing feelings for Sterling makes this act a lot harder.
• Tidelands (Netflix): The main villain is a bisexual woman with a mutual attraction for her lesbian underling, and her lieutenant is gay while involved with a male dirty cop.
• Timeless: Major character Denise Christopher is a lesbian.
• Torchwood: Lead character Jack Harkness is functionally pansexual and romances both men and women.
• Trinkets: The protagonist is a lesbian, and a subplot involves her trying to overcome her extreme awkwardness and nervousness at talking to girls with the help of her friends. She later dates two different girls.
• Troy: Fall of a City: Achilles and Patroclus are a couple, indicated to both be bisexual since they have a highly enjoyable threesome with Briseis, a Trojan woman, on the beach.
• True Blood: The show had a high number of LGBT+ characters. Lafayette (who's gay) and Tara (bisexual) got the most screentime. Both of them had same-sex relationships, with their partners Jesús and Naomi serving as supporting characters (in the latter case on a shorter time frame). Russell Edginton was also a gay vampire whose relationship with his partner Talbot is about the only positive thing about him. Pam is a bisexual vampire, as was Sophie-Anne, with both of them having lovers who are human women. Nora Gainesborough was also a bisexual vampire. Antagonist Steve Newlin turned out to be gay too (he was turned to a vampire eventually).
• The Tunnel: One of the two protagonists, Elise (who previously had been with men), is revealed to be bisexual in the second season when she has mutual attraction with Eryka, a female German scientist. They sleep together, but any deeper connection collapses on the reveal Eryka is with the bad guys. She ends up saving Elise from them however. In Season 3, Elise reveals she previously had sex with both boys and girls as a teenager too.
• Twenties: The main character is Hattie, a Butch Lesbian. Two of her female lovers are supporting characters, along with a bisexual man.
• Two Sentence Horror Stories:
  • "Scion": Story centers around a gay young adult, and his boyfriend is present as well. Features a fantastic metaphor for gay conversion therapy.
  • "Singularity": One of the stories in this episode centers around a trans woman.
  • "Bag Man": Gabbi, an African-American girl, is attracted to Asian-American girl Zee it turns out, with the latter appearing to reciprocate or at least be open to the idea.
  • "Elliot": This story features a trans man.
  • "Fix": The lead character Jackson is gay, with his boyfriend Reza as a supporting character.
  • "Plant Life": The story centers on an Asian-American gay man, with his African-American boyfriend as a supporting character.
  • "Teeth": The story is about Olivia and Cara, a lesbian couple.
• Ugly Betty: Two of the main characters (Marc and Justin) are gay, and Justin's Coming-Out Story is a big part of the fourth season. Another main character, Alexis, is a transgender woman.
• The Umbrella Academy (2019): Two of the Hargreeves siblings are LGBT: Klaus is confirmed pansexual and non-binary, while Viktor/Vanya is a trans man who has been in a relationship with a man and a woman. Said woman was in a relationship with Viktor before his transition.
• Undressed: Soap-style series about the love and sex lives of teenagers and young adults, the series includes several gay and lesbian relationship stories.
• Utopia Falls: Sage and Brooklyn are queer women who become a couple. Another female couple are supporting characters, and there's no sign of homophobia in this future society.
• Vagrant Queen: Elida is a princess on the run from the Republic, who overthrew her family. Over the course of the series she befriends Amae, the mechanic of the ship she ends up on, with the two of them eventually becoming attracted to each other and kiss near the end, with hints they may become a couple.
• Valor: Main character Thea is a bisexual woman. She previously was with Zoe, who's a lesbian.
• Vicious: The main protagonists of this series are a gay couple named Freddie and Stuart, with Stuart having difficulties coming out to his mother.
• Vida: Emma is bisexual, and she and her sister were raised by a single mother who was secretly married to a woman they never knew and only find out about when their mother dies. This woman, Eddy, is a major character, and her wife's death is what kicks off the plot. A number of minor supporting queer women also appear, partly because Emma and Lyn turn their bar into one catering for them. Emma dates and or sleeps with multiple women during the series.
• Vikings: Lagertha, Ragnar's first wife, eventually leaves him and pursues a romance with fellow shieldmaiden Astrid. This seems much more abrupt in the US version of the series, which cut a scene of her sharing a kiss with a visiting Saxon queen in season 3.
• The Walking Dead (2010): Several of the main characters are gay or lesbians, along with some supporting ones as well. Tara, introduced in Season 4, is a lesbian who's the first. She's involved with Alisha at first briefly, then later Denise for a longer period. Aaron it turns out is also gay, and involved with Eric, then later has Ship Tease with Jesus. In Season 9 lesbian couple Magna and Yumiko are introduced, though this wasn't super obvious initially. Kelly is also implied to be a lesbian, though it hasn't been confirmed onscreen.
• The Watch (2021): Main character Cheery/Cheri is a nonbinary dwarf who tells her friends about rejecting their people's norms around gender (which includes not having a beard). Supporting character Jocasta Wiggs is also shown to have a female lover. Lord Vetinari, a male character originally, is played here by a woman, with he/him and she/her pronouns used alternately, indicating they're possible nonbinary too though it's not made explicit.
• We Are Lady Parts: Ayesha, one of the main characters, is queer and becomes attracted to another woman. She feels conflicted about this as she's also Muslim, with Islam forbidding homosexuality traditionally. Even so she dates Zarina, the woman she's interested in.
• We Are Who We Are: The main character Fraser is interested in other boys, and his friend Caitlin was assigned female at birth but questioning their gender, often presenting as male while away from home (the series ends with it ambiguous if they're a trans boy or not), while Caitlin's also interested in both boys and girls. Of the adult characters, Fraser has two moms, his birth mother Sarah and Maggie, her wife. Jenny (Caitlin's mom, who is married to Caitlin's father, a male officer) has an affair with Maggie during the series too. There's also an Italian male soldier whom Fraser is attracted to and reciprocates his feelings.
• Wentworth: Bea, the lead character for most of the show, is a bisexual woman. Several main characters on the show are also lesbians and bisexual women; transgender characters are also featured. A number of relationships between them occur.
• The Wheel of Time (2021): Moraine and Siuan have been a couple for 20 years, and Alanna and her male Warders Ihvon and Maksim are in a polyamorous relationship.
• The White Lotus:
  • The hotel manager in Season 1, Armand, turns out to be gay and has sex with one of his male employees.
  • In Season 2, Valentina is the manager of another hotel in the chain who's a closeted lesbian attracted to a female employee before she's seduced by Mia. Tanya also travels with several gay men led by Quentin who plan to murder her it turns out.
• Why Are You Like This: The show focuses on three young adults navigating their early steps in adulthood and the modern world. In the main trio, Mia is bisexual, while Austin is gay and a drag queen.
• Why Women Kill: In the first season, Taylor is in an open marriage with a man, which is made complicated when he invites his (bisexual) mistress Jade to live with them... and she falls for her as well. Additionally, Karl, Simone's husband, is forcibly outed as gay to her and then finds out that he has AIDS, a death sentence in 1984.
• The Wilds: Two of the main cast are lesbians, with two supporting lesbian characters shown in flashbacks. One's coming out story is focused on, along with her past, and the main two get into a relationship, with this being covered over multiple episodes. Some attention is also given to their past relationships/attraction toward other women via the flashbacks shown. In Season 2 a gay boy joins the cast. Two of the other main female characters are also indicated to be bisexuals (with one loving the other).
• Will & Grace: About the adventures of Straight Gay Will and his friend Grace, with Will's Camp Gay friend Jack serving as a recurring character. It was one of the first mainstream television shows to delve into gay culture beyond stereotypes.
• Willow (2022): Two of the main characters, Tomboy Princess Kit and Jade, her best friend, have an attraction to each other that grows into a relationship. Another main character, Boorman, also is revealed to be bisexual or bicurious as he castually hits on both female and male characters in the Season 1 finale.
• The Wire: Police detective Kima Greggs is a lesbian, and stick-up man Omar Little has multiple boyfriends throughout the course of the series.
• World on Fire: Two of the main characters on the show, Webster and Albert, are gay men who become a couple.
• The Wright Way: One of the supporting characters is Susan, who is a lesbian in a relationship with another girl named Victoria.
• Wynonna Earp: Waverly, Wynonna's younger sister, realizes she's bisexual after falling for Nicole, the deputy sheriff of Purgatory.
• Years and Years: Part of the cast is a duo of gay men (specifically Daniel and Ralph), and part of the series' plot is their declining marriage and Daniel's relationship with a Ukrainian refugee named Viktor, who is also gay. Additionally, it is implied that by the end of the series Lincoln may have come out as a transgender girl. Edith (Daniel's sister) and Fran also turn out to be a couple.
• Yellowjackets: Two of the main girls in 1996, Taissa and Van (Vanessa) are together. Later on in 2021 an adult Taissa is shown as being married to another woman. Both relationships are explored. A supporting character is also a gay adult man.
• Younger: Maggie, one of the main characters, is a lesbian.
• Young Royals (2021): The protagonist is gay, and his friend (later boyfriend) Simon is as well.
• Y: The Last Man (2021): An adaptation of the comic series Y: The Last Man. The adaptation updates the premise with today's knowledge of genetics/gender by highlighting transmasculine and intersex people, and additionally adding a transgender male character as part of the regular cast. Allison Mann is portrayed here as a lesbian too, while some other trans men are supporting characters.

Podcasts

• Alice Isn't Dead: The narrator and the titular Alice are both lesbians.
• Blake Skye Private Eye: Almost every character is LGBTQ in some way- Blake is a gay detective who is perpetually unlucky in love, Mickey is a nonbinary mob boss, Gordon is the local bartender and Blake's ex...
• Dining In The Void: Almost every character is either gay, bi, or pansexual. Additionally, Jo is a nonbinary shapeshifter.
• Friends at the Table: Aria, one of the player characters in the second season, dates another woman (it's not specified if she's bisexual or a lesbian).
• Hello from the Hallowoods: Most of the characters are LGBT.
• Less is Morgue: Evelyn, one of the two characters 'hosting' the podcast, is the ghost of a lesbian. The other host, Riley, is an agender ghoul.
• Mabel: Most of the characters are gay.
• The Magnus Archives eventually gets Jon and Martin (the former of whom is asexual) as its Official Couple and a lesbian couple in Georgie and Melanie. Episodes will also sometimes have one-off characters who are mentioned to have had same-sex partners. Episode 110 also featured a statement subject who was a trans woman.
• The Penumbra Podcast:
  • Juno Steel takes place in a futuristic setting where gender and sexuality are of little consequence; many characters are queer and it isn't a big deal.
  • Second Citadel takes place is a world similar to our own, and the relationship between Lord Arum, Sir Damien, and Rilla has a lot of societal barriers.
• The Read: Both of the hosts/personalities are openly queer.
• Spirit Box Radio: Most of the characters are queer in one form or another. Sam is pan and trans-masculine, Anna is ace, Kitty is a lesbian, Oliver is queer, and etcetera.
• The Strange Case of Starship Iris: At least 4/5 main characters are either not straight, not cisgender, or both.
• Unwell Podcast: Lily, the main character, falls for Marisol, another woman. Additionally, one of the major supporting characters, Abbie, is nonbinary.
• Welcome To Nightvale: Numerous queer characters appear in the series, the most prominent being Cecil, the narrator who in the first episode tells how he fell in Love at First Sight with Carlos, and Carlos himself (a scientist new to the town who becomes Cecil's boyfriend).
• Within the Wires: Hester is a woman in love with another women, Claudia is bisexual, Michael is a transgender man, Indra is a woman who is still in love with her ex-girlfriend Nan, and Cliodhna is a woman in a relationship with another woman.

Tabletop Games

• Arkham Horror has several LGBTQ characters among its playable investigators: Calvin Wright is gay and trying to save his boyfriend's life, Gabriela Reyes is lesbian, and Stella Clark is a trans woman who herd whispers of her true name before coming out.
• Magic: The Gathering has many LGBTQ characters across its lore. One of its main planeswalker characters, Chandra Nalar, is bisexual, and has been in relationships with both men and women. Among its supporting planeswalkers, Nissa has had Ship Tease with Chandra, Ral Zarek is a Happily Married gay man, and Niko Aris is nonbinary. Non-planeswalker characters include Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis (two married kings who have a card together) and Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, the game's first openly transgender character.
• Pathfinder intentionally cultivated an LGBT Fanbase by creating a variety of characters of gender and sexual minorities. Three of the major goddesses, Desna, Shelyn, and Sarenrae, are a polyamorous trio, the Iconic Shaman, Shardra Geltl, is a trans woman, the Iconic Rogue Merisiel and Iconic Cleric Kyra are canonically a married interspecies lesbian couple, and four significant Non Player Characters from the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path are in gay relationships (Sosiel Vaenic and Aron Kir are a male-male couple, while Irabeth and Anevia Tirabade are respectively a female half-orc and a post-op human trans woman).
• Visigoths vs. Mall Goths: Proudly uses the tagline "there are a lot of bisexuals." Most of the pre-made NPCs are labeled as LGBTQ+ by the rulebook's demographic categorizations.

Theatre

• Head over Heels: Pamela and Mopsa are lesbians, and Pythio is a nonbinary oracle banished from their home after coming out.
• The History Boys: Posner is gay, which he lists as one of the things that makes his life suck (in addition to being short, Jewish, and living in Sheffield). Hector is too, and gropes his male students (which eventually gets him fired).
• Love Valour Compassion: All of the characters are gay men, who are friends who've gotten together to celebrate the holidays.
• A New Brain: Gordon, the main character, is gay.
• No Exit: One of the three characters is Inès, a lesbian who was sent to hell because she murdered her cousin so she could seduce his wife.
• Spamalot: A stage Self-Adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A subplot in the play revolves around Lancelot, one of the main characters, realizing that he's gay and coming to terms with it, going on to marry Prince Herbert^note in the film, Herbert was Ambiguously Gay and Lancelot was simply Mistaken for Gay after rescuing him, having expected a princess.

Toys

• Monster High: Doll franchise about the teenaged versions of classic monsters and the high school they attend; the 2022 third generation of dolls reimagines the character Frankie Stein as non-binary, and several adaptations have cast non-binary actors (Ceci Balagot for Monster High: The Movie and Iris Menas for Monster High (2022)) to portray them.

Video Games

• AI: The Somnium Files: Secondary character Mama is a trans woman who serves as an information broker for the protagonist. Renju, a major suspect and victim in the case, and Pewter, the game's Mission Control, are revealed to be in a relationship.
  • AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative: One of the protagonists, Ryuki, is noted to have an attraction to his mentor Date.
• All Walls Must Fall: The player character is a gay male secret agent.
• Apex Legends: Battle Royale Game set in the Titanfall universe; there are a few LGBT playable characters which include Bloodhound (non-binary), Gibraltar (gay), Loba (bisexual), Valkyrie (lesbian), Catalyst (transgender woman), Seer and Fuse (both of whom are pansexual). On the more ambiguous end, Bangalore is heavily implied to be a lesbian or bisexual and Mirage appears to be questioning his sexuality.
• Bastard Bonds: A player character of either gender can romance Nazar, a very muscular orc man and one of the titular 'Bastards' you can recruit. He is the only Bastard who can be romanced in this way.
• BattleTech (2018): Used subtly: it is possible to design your Player Character's portrait to be of one sex, but set their pronouns to masculine, feminine, or gender-neutral.
• Birdland: Bridget, the protagonist, is a teenager who realized recently that she's a lesbian and is dealing with a crush she's embarrassed about.
• Black Closet: Among the other options you have to interact with your classmates, you (as Elsa) can choose to romance several of the other girls who attend St. Claudine's.
• Borderlands:
  • Borderlands 2: Axton a.k.a. The Commando is bi, though this example is accidental; Originally, Axton was meant to make flirtatious remarks only when reviving Maya, but due to an oversight in development he makes them when reviving male team members as well. They decided to Throw It In! and make him canonically bisexual, leading to this line from the Dragon Keep DLC when the characters ponder what they are going to spend their riches on:
    Axton: Guns and ladies... sometimes dudes.
  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!: Janey Springs is a major NPC who occasionally helps out the Vault Hunters, and has a crush on Athena, one of the game's player characters (and narrator for the game). In the Claptastic Voyage DLC Athena reveals she and Janey started dating.
  • The character of Lor shows up first in Borderlands 3, and has a slightly-out-of-the-way log talking about how he wants to transition (with other hints, such as his subordinates addressing him as "sir", and the fact that his VA's a trans man). An NPC based on him shows up as a character in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, and he's finally managed to transition as of New Tales from the Borderlands.
  • Tiny Tina is shown having a Precocious Crush on both men and women a few times in the second game onwards. As an adult in the third game, she's dated at least one other woman during the timeskip.
• Bugsnax: Among the major supporting cast are a WLW couple (Lizbert and Eggabell), an MLM couple (Snorpy and Chandlo), and another supporting character (Floofty Fizzlebean) is nonbinary and is voiced by a nonbinary VA.
• Catherine: Erica, a main character, is a transgender woman who gets outed at the end of the game, and Full Body introduces Rin, a crossdressing man who can be romanced by the male player character.
• Celeste: Madeline, the game's protagonist, is shown to be a trans woman via the paraphernalia on her desk in the DLC chapter, "Farewell".
• Cookie Run: Many of the playable characters are nonbinary and use they/them pronouns, with even more Cookies beyond that being gender non-conforming. This also applies to the spinoff game Cookie Run: Kingdom where the English dub has many of the non-binary cookies (Snow Sugar, Fig and Cream Unicorn) voiced by non-binary voice actors.
• Cute Bite: All of Buttercup's romance options are women, and one of her possible backstories is that she was locked in her coffin for stealing the heart of a woman her old master wanted to himself.
• Cyberpunk 2077: The main protagonist can be transgender and/or gay/bisexual. Also features a bisexual Deuteragonist, lesbian and bisexual male secondary characters (who can be romanced by a player with the right body type and voice) and a transgender woman as a supporting character.
• Deltarune: The main character, Kris, is nonbinary, and two of the party members/other main characters are girls with feelings for each other. Multiple side characters are also nonbinary, and there's an implied romance between a queer woman and a bisexual woman.
• The Devil in Me: Two of the main characters (Jaime and Erin) become a lesbian couple at the end of the game if they confess their feelings for each other and kiss (if both of them survive).
• Disco Elysium: Bisexual male main character and gay male Deuteragonist, lesbian secondary character, two gay male minor characters. Main character realizing his bisexuality is a minor optional subplot.
• Dragon Age: Medieval European Fantasy video game series. Each game entry allows for a Gay Option for the main player character, male or female.
  • Dragon Age: Origins: Players can choose to romance party members Leliana or Zevran as both male and female Wardens.
  • Dragon Age II: Players can choose to romance party members Anders, Fenris, Isabela, or Merrill as both male and female Hawkes.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition: Players can choose to romance the Iron Bull or Josphine as a male or female Inquisitor; additionally there are Dorian (a gay companion exclusively for male Inquisitors) and Sera (a lesbian companion exclusively for female Inquisitors) as romance options.
• Extreme Meatpunks Forever: The game is about four gay friends beating up nazis using Humongous Mecha made of meat.
• Fear Effect: In the second game Hana is revealed to have a female love interest, Rain.
• Fire Emblem:
  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Kyza/Kysha was initially presented as a gay man, but Heroes retcons them to being nonbinary. Heather is a lesbian.
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Soleil is bisexual, especially in the English localization where her only S-support options still presented as romantic are Forrest and a male Corrin. In addition, a Corrin of either gender has one same-gender romance option.
  • Fire Emblem Echoes has Camp Gay Leon, who has a one-sided crush on Valbar and is willing to stay by his side despite knowing that Valbar will never return his feelings.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses: The player character Byleth has same-sex relationship options, and some characters can be romanced regardless of gender, such as Edelgard.
  • Fire Emblem Engage: The player character Alear has more same-sex relationship options than any previous game, as most characters can be romanced regardless of gender.
• Get in the Car, Loser!: Sam, the player character, is a lesbian, and is only involved in the quest to save the world in the first place because Grace asked her, and Sam can't refuse a pretty woman.
• Gotham Knights (2022): Batman's proteges Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and Red Hood take over as Gotham's protectors after the supposed death of Batman; Tim Drake/Robin comes out as bisexual to his fellow heroes in this game, and his canon male love interest Benard is mentioned.
• Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony: One of the main characters is Gay Tony, who is gay. He's a club owner who is deep in debt to the mafia, which gets him caught up in a variety of dangerous and absurd situations.
• Growing Up: There are gay, lesbian, and bi romance options, with one character's route being a Coming-Out Story.
• The Guilty Gear fighting game series has featured several fighters/characters on the LGBT spectrum: playable fighter Testament (introduced in Guilty Gear: The Missing Link, the first game) has an androgynous character design and Ambiguous Gender, but as of Guilty Gear -STRIVE-, they are referred as agender, with the English localization using they/them pronouns to refer to them. Venom (introduced in Guilty Gear X) is explicity a gay man. Bridget (introduced in Guilty Gear XX) was previously presented throughout the series as a Wholesome Crossdresser, and she comes out as a trans girl during her storyline in Guilty Gear -STRIVE-.
• Gyee: Most of the recruitable characters are gay or bi men.
• Hades: Zagreus is bisexual, with the option to romance Megaera, Thanatos, or both. Additionally, as the game is set in the Greek afterlife, Achilles and Patroclus are present and depicted as lovers.
• Haven (2020): The main characters can be played as a same-sex couple depending on player preference.
• Idol Manager: The Idol Singer group the player has to manage is all-female and the following can happen when it comes to their love lives:
  • The Player Character has the option to try flirting with the idols while socializing and can potentially get positive responses from them regardless of their own sex. When negative responses happen, they are sometimes explicitly caused by Incompatible Orientation.
  • It's entirely possible for two of the idols to start dating each other.
  • Idols who don't date each other will sometimes get in a relationship with an off-screen person. Said off-screen person is usually male, but can be female once in a while.
  • As the game depicts a subset of the entertainment industry with expectations of invokedContractual Purity, one possible idol trait is never getting involved in romantic relationships, be it with groupmates, off-screen partners or the Player Character. Such idols are tagged as being asexual and are aroace for gameplay purposes.
• Ikenfell features a large cast of queer characters, including three non-binary party members (Rook who uses he/him, Petronella who uses they/them and Ima who uses the neopronouns Ze/Zir). An epilogue also reveals the main character dates at least two other women, and that one of the party members is aro/ace.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: The protagonist's name, pronouns, and gender presentation can be changed anytime since the setting's advanced technology allows for an Easy Sex Change. Among the romanceable characters, all of which are open regardless of the MC's gender identity, Tangent is a trans woman while Nomi-Nomi is a nonbinary demisexual. Among the adults, Seeq is also nonbinary. Additionally, Marz is raised by her gay dads while Cal's mother is in a polyamorous relationship with three people, two of which are her boyfriends.
• Jade Empire: Action RPG based on Wuxia and Chinese legends; the game allows for a Gay Option for male or female players, with Silk Fox and Sky being romance options for either gender. As it was developed and published in the early 2000s, the heterosexual romances ended with a kiss on screen whereas the gay romances faded to black before the kiss can be seen. A game mod for the PC years later restored the kissing scenes in full.
• Kitty Powers' Matchmaker has Drag Queen Kitty Powers herself hiring you to help her grow her dating agency. Some of your clients are gay, lesbian, or bi in addition to straight, and same-sex marriage is normal and legal.
• Knight Bewitched: Ruth, the main character, realizes after meeting Gwen that she's attracted to women. While she'd dated men previously, she'd never felt for them what she felt for Gwen.
• Known Unknowns: Many of the main characters are LGBT in some way. The protagonist Nadia is bisexual, Kaz is nonbinary, Summer and Anja are lesbians, and Annette is asexual.
• The Last of Us: A video game series about a Zombie Apocalypse caused by fungi; Ellie, one of the main characters revealed to be a lesbian in a DLC side story/campaign about her relationship with another girl, and there is Bill, a gay supporting character in the main game.
  • The Last of Us Part II: Ellie, from the first game, is a main player character, and her love interest is Dina, a bisexual woman. There is also Lev, a young trans boy supporting character escaping with his sister from a transphobic community.
• League of Legends has several queer characters, whether they be introduced as such or featuring updated lore that confirms them to be queer. Not including instances that only are only metatextually implied (such as Taliyah, who was intended by her writers to be a trans woman, but this isn't alluded to in the final product), there still exists plenty of outward or at least subtextual queer representation:
  • In terms of fully confirmed couples: Vi and Caitlyn are a lesbian couple (it's more gentle Ship Tease in the game, but much more pronounced in Arcane), as were Diana and Leona who still hold a torch for each other. Graves and Twisted Fate are in a gay partnership, Valmar and Kai — two-thirds of the champion Varus — are a gay couple, and K'Sante is gay though has broken up with his partner, a non-playable male character named Tope. Nami is bisexual and in a polyamorous relationship with a man and a woman, and Udyr is strongly implied to be bisexual (having a female lover and male partner whom he refers to with equal fondness). In the Spirit Blossom Alternate Universe, Sett and Aphelios are definitely a couple (Sett is bi, Aphelios is at the very least into men), and it's suggested by their writer that their sexualities also apply to their main universe counterparts.
  • In individual instances, Neeko is lesbian (having an unrequited crush on the female Nidalee), Rell is bisexual, and Blitzcrank is treated as nonbinary (at least insofar as being referred to with gender-neutral pronouns following the game's Continuity Reboot).
  • In terms of non-playable characters, Tyari "The Traveler" identified as an AMAB nonbinary character before ascending as a transgender woman. Ada and Dess are confirmed to be a lesbian Battle Couple, and a smattering of Legends of Runeterra followers are also queer, such as the "Legion Veteran" (married gay man), the "Widowed Huntress" (married lesbian), the "Buhru Leader" (trans male), and "Dropboarder" (nonbinary).
• Littlewood: During the game's epilogue, the characters the player didn't choose to romance will pair up. Among these potential pairs are Bubsy and Max, who are both male, and Zanna and Mel, who are both female.
• Lonely Wolf Treat: Treat is heavily implied to have a crush on both Mochi and Moxie, with the three of them eventually getting together. Trick, the protagonist of the fourth game, is nonbinary.
• Love & Pies: Amelia's uncle Sven is Happily Married to his husband Angus, Eve is in a Long-Distance Relationship with her partner, who goes by they/them pronouns, while Yuka is bisexual and has a crush on Eve.
• Love, Sam: Kyle is a gay man, whose unrequited feelings for Brian drive his hostility towards Sam, his girlfriend.
• Mass Effect: Sprawling Space Opera video game series revolving around companionship and moral choices, each game entry allows for a Gay Option for the main player character, male or female.
  • Mass Effect: Liara is a Discount Lesbians example; she belongs to the asari alien race, which is monogendered pansexual alien race. She can be romanced by female Shepard.
  • Mass Effect 2: You can choose to romance Kelly, a pansexual woman/non-player character as female Shepard.
  • Mass Effect 3: Players can choose to romance Kaiden, Liara or Diana as male or female Shepard; additionally Steve (a gay non-player character exclusively for male Shepard) and Samantha (a lesbian non-player character exclusively for female Shepard) are romance options.
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda: Players can choose to romance Vetra, Pelessaria (an asari Discount Lesbian), Jaal, Keri, or Reyes as both male and female Ryder. Additionally, Gil (a gay non-player character exclusively for male Ryder) and Suvi (a lesbian non-player character exclusively for female Ryder) are romance options.
• Mortal Kombat introduced its first openly gay character in Mortal Kombat X with Kung Jin. The characters of Mileena (introduced in Mortal Kombat II) and Tanya (introduced in Mortal Kombat 4) were retconned into bisexual women in Mortal Kombat X and the both of them are in a relationship.
• Mother 3: The Magypsies, a group of tritagonists who prominently appear throughout the game, are nonbinary and were based on gender-nonconforming friends of Shigesato Itoi.
• Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: Ashuku Nyorai is a trans woman, and Nanda Ryūō is a gay man.
• Nefarious: In the minigame segment spoofing The Dating Game, Would You Date a Super Villain?, one of the suitors for the bachelorettes is Malice, a female villain. The three bachelorettes — Princess Mayapple, Becky, and Princess Ariella — are also unfazed by Malice's inclusion, and Mayapple chooses Malice as her date.
• Night in the Woods: Two of the main characters, Gregg and Angus, are a gay couple, and the player character Mae is attracted to multiple genders. A trans woman named Jackie also shows up briefly in an early scene, and plays a more prominent role in one of Bea's hangouts (in which Mae can also flirt with another girl).
• Nights of Azure: Arnice fell in love with her best friend Lilysse the first time she saw her, and shows no romantic interest in anyone else.
  • Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon
• Overwatch: Tracer is revealed to be a lesbian with a girlfriend in the comic "Reflections" and Soldier: 76 is gay and was previously in a relationship with a man, as revealed in the short story "Bastet". A few lore-based omnics are nonbinary, including Lynx Seventeen of the "Searching" comic, and Nameless of "Ramattra: Reflections".
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Vivian, a secondary character who becomes one of Mario's partners after a Heel–Face Turn, is depicted as a trans woman in most versions of the game (save for the English and German localizations). Much of her initial arc revolves around learning to stand up to her openly transphobic sisters.
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker: Romance options include one straight relationship each for male and female PCs, and a bisexual polyamorous male-female couple who can be romanced individually or possibly together. The Wild Cards DLC adds a pair of bisexual tiefling twins who can also be romanced together. Additionally party members Linzi and Amiri, though not romanceable, have noticeable Homoerotic Subtext with other female characters; Linzi was confirmed to be gay by one of the writers. It is also possible to set your character to present as either sex but use voice acting of the opposite sex.
• Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous: Romance options include a straight male, a gay male, a pansexual male, two straight females, and Arueshalae—a succubus who is trying to mend her ways. Additionally the Courtly Love route with Queen Galfrey is available to PCs of both genders. As with the previous game, it is possible to set your character to present as either sex but use voice acting of the opposite sex.
• The Persona 2 duology features several LGBTQ characters both in the main cast and among the NPCs. Protagonist Tatsuya and party member Yukino are bisexual, party member Jun is Tatsuya's Gay Option, Anna and Noriko are lesbians — which actually becomes plot relevant in Eternal Punishment as Noriko is enough of a Yandere to kill people who insulted Anna — and among the NPCs we have homosexual, asexual, transgender, and even an intersex individual — the last of which having a major effect in gameplay. None of them are portrayed in a negative light for their identity or preferences — though some are villains - but since the game takes place in 90s Japan, there is a bit of questioning from some characters regarding the subject.
• Persona 4 features Kanji Tatsumi who's struggling with the possibility that he's attracted to men and whose level in the Shadow World focuses on homoerotic themes and imagery.
• Princess Remedy: The titular character is at least a lesbian in the first game, with Frallan. It also has the possibly of marrying anything that can be interacted with, and the second game allows dating anything that needs to be cured.
• Psychonauts 2: Helmut Fullbear and Bob Zanotto, two members of the Psychic 6, were two men who were married before the former seemingly died in the Battle of Grulovia. But he's not really dead, as his brain survived. Once you manage to beat Bob Zanotto's level, the two of them reunite.
• Read Only Memories: There are gender-nonconforming main character options, a non-binary non-player character, and gay non-player characters.
• The Red Strings Club: The player character, Donovan, is a gay bartender and Knowledge Broker who is dating Brandeis, a hacker.
• Scratchin' Melodii: The main character Melodii is nonbinary, referenced when they walk out of a restroom marked with a music note during "Greese Poppin'", and uses any pronouns.
• Smile for Me: Several of the supporting characters are queer: Lulia is a lesbian, Gillis and Randy exchange love poems, Parsley is 'uninterested in women', and Tim Tam is nonbinary.
• Sofia?: Protagonists Crow and Fio are in a queer relationship, with Crow being a transgender man, and Fio being AMAB nonbinary (but, according to Word of God, he self-describes himself as a "boy outside the box", since there wasn't much mainstream awareness of gender identity in the year the game is set). The antagonist, Icarus, is intersex and doesn't identify with any particular gender or sexuality.
• Stardew Valley, all the potential love interests can be romanced by either gender, there's special dialogue for certain characters mentioning how they've never experienced attraction to a individual of their same gender before.
  • In Stardew Valley Expanded, a very popular unofficial expansion mod, Scarlett is revealed to be living with her dad and his husband. Also the non-binary child Morgan comes to live in the town on year 3.
  • In Ridgeside Village another popular expansion mod, one of the romanceable bachelors, Sean, is a transgender man.
• Street Fighter has one unambigiously LGBT character: Eagle, who was introduced in the first Street Fighter, is a gay man, though this wasn't made explict until Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium with some of his win quotes. The rest of the series has had inconsistent LGBT representation, stemming from cultural differences/localization issues: Zangief from Street Fighter II has been Ambiguously Gay, but some games portray him as straight. Likewise, Juri (from Street Fighter IV) is Ambiguously Bi. Poison (coming in from the Final Fight series) was intended to be a transgender woman, but she has gone from cisgender to transgender and back several times. Seth (introduced in Street Fighter IV) is a transhuman cyborg that was male but in Street Fighter V, he is now in a female body. He is still refered to as male, though some characters refer to him with gender-neutral terms.
• Super Lesbian Animal RPG: Many of the major characters are LGBT; for example, the protagonists consist of three lesbians and one bisexual, two of whom are transgender, and there are also nonbinary supporting characters.
• Super Mario Bros. 2: The game marks the debut of Birdo, who is transgender and serves as a Recurring Boss facing Mario and his friends in the name of her master Wart.
• Them's Fightin' Herds: Cashmere, one of the game's only two shopkeepers, has an obvious attraction towards one of the game's heroes, Oleander (despite the fact the former is a reindeer while the later is a unicorn), and flirts with her in most of Cash's unique dialogue with her. It's ambiguous whether Oleander feels the same way, but certain promotional material and few Ship Teasing moments in-game (to varying degrees of subtlety) imply that she does.
• Thirsty Suitors: The player character, Jala, is bi/pan and is confronted throughout the game by former suitors, male and female.
• Timespinner: Most of the primary characters are some variety of LGBT, with the protagonist Lunais herself being bisexual.
• Tokyo Afterschool Summoners: Most of the cast are burly, muscular gay men.
• Undertale includes several nonbinary characters and a romance plot between two women, one of whom is bisexual. There are also two queer male side characters whose Sparing method involves getting them to confess their feelings for each other, after which they become a couple.
• The Walking Dead (Telltale):
  • The Walking Dead: Season Three: There is a bisexual male player character and a gay male secondary character (the two can flirt in one scene, but they don't develop a romance).
  • The Walking Dead: Season Four: There is a bisexual female main character, lesbian secondary character, character (who doubles as a Gay Option), wlw minor antagonist who becomes the main antagonist in episode four.
• The Wizard Sniffer: One of the main characters is a drag queen, whose father disproves.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: One of the recruitable heroes in the main quest is Juniper, a non-binary archer who goes by they/them.

Visual Novels

• Adastra (2018): With the exception of Cato, every major male character in the story is gay.
• Ascension (2021): Escort is nonbinary, and the other two main characters are heavily implied to be transgender.
• BAD END THEATER: The Maiden and the Overlord, who are both women, have clear feelings for each other if allowed to interact, and the Omega Ending reveals that they're based on TRAGEDY and the player, respectively, two separated sapphics. The Underling and the other minor demons are nonbinary.
• C14 Dating:
  • Existence of a Gay Option aside, two of Melissa's potential male love interests act Ambiguously Bi towards each other. Yet another of the men turns out to be a heteroromantic asexual.
  • There is a lesbian in the supporting cast and another character mentions going to visit a male friend "and his husband".
• Choices: Stories You Play: A collection of various stories that you might have a relationship with a love interest of the same gender. More specifically:
  • The Freshman: Kaitlyn develops a crush on the main character and comes out to her parents as a lesbian in Book 2. The main character's roommate is gay, and part of Book 4 involves helping him move on after he breaks up with his boyfriend.
  • It Lives:
    • One of the main characters in the first book, Lily, is a lesbian, having a crush on her bully. She can forgive her bully in the end or realise that she's not worth it and find a girl who genuinely likes her for her. Andy is transgender (the first ever trans character in Choices, in fact), and is bullied by most of the basketball team for who he is (to the point where they only recruited him because it would get them good PR). If he survives the events of the story, the basketball team begins to treat him with respect.
    • In the second book, the main character's brother is gay, along with his boyfriend (who's also the son of an antagonist who killed their parents, kicking off the events of the story).
    • It Lives Within (the Fan Sequel) has Luis (an openly bi/pan witch who not only flirts with the main character regardless of their gender, but also compliments their love interests' beauty), Sunny (a non-binary witch from the same coven as Luis, who is also mentioned to be aro-ace in Chapter 19), and Amalia (one of the main character's love interests, who is canonically demisexual, mentioned in Chapter 14).
  • Bachelorette Party: One of the main character's close friends is a trans woman who came out in college.
  • My Two First Loves: One of the main character's love interests is her lesbian best friend, and it took 38 chapters for the latter to come out.
  • Murder at Homecoming: This book deals with LGBT issues quite extensively, including the trials and tribulations faced by the LGBT community. The murder victim was in a relationship with a girl who couldn't make their relationship known because of the girl's extremely homophobic parents (in fact, said girl was sent to conversion therapy when she was 12). Also, two of the main character's love interests are canonically bisexual, while the third comes off as straight, then he discovers he isn't if a male or nonbinary main character romances him.
• Cryptid Crush: The protagonist is nonbinary and you can chose their pronouns, and there is another nonbinary main party member, Jamie.
• Echo: Almost all of the main characters are men attracted to other men, exclusively or not, with the story taking place in a small, homophobic town in the American southwest.
  • The Smoke Room (prequel to Echo)
  • Arches, the sequel, notably has a gay couple as the dual protagonists.
• Far Beyond the World: Part of the story is the growing romance between Ranok and Caelan that the two need to keep secret, as LGBT people are seen as "defective" in the wolves' society.
• First Kiss at a Spooky Soiree: The protagonist Marzipan is panromantic, and there are four girls and four boys she can kiss in the game's Multiple Endings.
• Heaven Will Be Mine: Most of the cast is some variety of LGBT, with most being lesbians, though Mercury and Ganymede are two men married to each other.
• Lands of Fire: The main character is gay and has multiple love interests. Uniquely it takes place in pre-colonial Australia, so it explores the sexual norms of Aboriginal cultures.
• Ladykiller in a Bind: The main character is a butch lesbian biker, and you have the option to romance several of the female characters (and a few male ones, though she's only doing so in that case because she's disguised as her brother and she needs to keep up the charade).
• Long Live the Queen: Four of the female characters turn out to be lesbian if the right gameplay choices are made. Elodie can make one of them her lifelong companion, either unofficially or officially. Another one can only be made an unofficial one. One snippet of the country's history that can be learned involves a nobleman who gave up on marriage to pledge himself as the lifemate of the man he was in love with.
• Lovelink: Some of the possible matches are non-binary.
• Magical Warrior Diamond Heart: Pansexual female main character, multiple bi and lesbian supporting characters/love interests, non-binary supporting character/love interest, trans male supporting character/love interest and aromantic/asexual supporting character.
• Melody: Sophia and Xianne end up as a couple, but not much attention is paid to their relationship.
• Missed Messages: The player character is a lesbian trans woman, with the option to date one of the female characters depending on your choices.
• Monster Prom series: Player characters can identify as male, female, or nonbinary regardless of their appearance, and this choice does not block access to any of the love interests. Main romance options and multiple side characters are LGBT: a male demon has two dads; a female witch has male, female, and nonbinary ex-lovers; one monster is an asexual aromantic that players befriend instead of date; a soul reaper identifies as non-binary; and so on.
• Murder By Numbers: One of the major characters is a gay man, and one of the murders you investigate takes place at a gay bar.
• Romance Detective: Almost everyone in Lovebloom City is gay, and the plot revolves around the player and her partner/girlfriend solving love-related mysteries and crimes.
• Stillwater: The VN follows the story of a detective investigating strange occurences in the mansion of an elderly man. Said elderly man is later revealed to be haunted by the ghost of an old male lover he lost in his youth.
• Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet: Toffee, one of the main characters, is nonbinary. The protagonist Syrup is a girl who likes girls, which is only alluded to in the game itself, but confirmed in NomnomNami's webcomic.

Web Animation

• Dead End: Barney, the main character, is a gay trans man.
• Doris & Mary-Anne Are Breaking Out of Prison: The final episode reveals that Mary-Anne had romantic feelings for a female friend.
• Hazbin Hotel: Much of the main cast is queer: Charlie is a bi and dating another woman, Vaggie is a lesbian, Angel Dust is a gay drag queen, and Alastor is asexual.
  • Helluva Boss: A subplot is that Blitzo and Stolas sleep together, with Blitzo thinking that its a Sex for Services arrangement, but Stolas has genuinely fallen for Blitzo and Cannot Spit It Out.
• Meta Runner: Former antagonist Belle Fontiere is revealed to have been in a relationship with Lucinia Porter before the lab incident.
• My Pride: The protagonist is a lesbian lion, with her struggling to find acceptance in a homophobic pride of lions after being banished from her original one due to being disabled.
• The Most Popular Girls in School: Jenna Darabond is bisexual, and several of the supporting characters (Tanner, Than, and Tristan) are gay.
• Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls: Hitoshi, one of the main characters, is gay or bisexual and enters a relationship with his male kidnapper.
• Town Attack: Taiyaki and Paella are a gay couple who join the race in hopes of fixing their strained relationship.
• Pancake's Show: Pancake and Finley have been subtly confirmed to be in a romantic relationship. Waffle, Abigail and Casey are both also lesbian.

Webcomics

• Acception: The lead is a Camp Straight, crossdressing boy, with the comic having several gay and transgender supporting characters.
• Aerial Magic is a fantasy story set in a Non-Heteronormative Society. Wisteria, the protagonist, is bisexual, and her mentor Cecily is a lesbian dating a transgender woman.
• Agents of the Realm is a Magical Girl series centering on a group of young women at college, most of whom are queer. There are also queer supporting characters and some subplots focusing on romantic relationships between women.
• Alice and the Nightmare: The protagonist, Alice, is bisexual and shown to be attracted to both men and women, deuteragonists Edith and Quinn are lesbians in a relationship, and the major supporting characters, Dee and Dum, are nonbinary.
• Almighty Protectors: Everybody on the titular team is LGBT, with the exception of Dispawn (Flame Thrower is a trans woman and in a relationship with the female Multiblades, Mineral is a trans man and in a relationship with the male Rearranger, female team members B.A.D. and Arianna have begun a relationship, and Pinball is nonbinary and has made reference to being asexual).
• Arcane Doodleverse: Vi and Caitlyn are now girlfriends instead of mutually attracted to one another. The "Star Guardian" strips also focus on Jinx and her crush on fellow classmate Lux.
• Balderdash!: Both of the protagonists are queer witches.
• Band vs. Band: The story follows two rival bands, and only one member of either of them is cis and straight.
• Batman: Wayne Family Adventures: Multiple major characters are queer, as Tim Drake is bisexual and Kate Kane is a lesbian.
• Best Friends Forever: A continuing subplot in the comic before it was discontinued involved Vincent accepting that he's gay and that he has feelings for one of his friends.
• Big Break (2019): Ai, a boxer and karate expert, is a lesbian and has an unrequited crush on Kris, one of the main characters and who works out with her at the gym.
• Born Sexy Tomorrow: The main character is a gay man, with his habit of breaking his lover's hearts without a second thought being one of his flaws.
• Carpe Diem: Most of the main characters are gay or bi, with Josh being the only straight one in the group.
• Chrysalis: One of the main characters, Lady Garnet, becomes lovers with Lady Ash.
• Crimson Dark: The lead character Kari is a Butch Lesbian who's dating another female fighter pilot named Ren, with the latter turning into a main character over time.
• Crow Cillers: Zak and Mint Chip are transgender, and several supporting characters are gay.
• Cucumber Quest: Both secondary protagonist Almond and antagonist/rival Peridot are queer girls with romantic feelings for one another. Additionally, Rosemaster, the Arc Villain of chapter 3, is a trans woman.
• Darkest Night: The lead character Mags is a Butch Lesbian, and she's initially seeing a closeted bisexual woman. Another bisexual woman who's also transgender soon turns into her love interest.
• DeadEndia: Barney, one of the protagonists, is a transgender man.
• Demon Street: Most named characters are shown to be LGBT+, with the main cast including sapphic characters, a non-binary character, and a trans girl. There is a romantic subplot with two of the girls. The importance of names in magic is a recurring plot point, with trans characters' chosen names being their true names.
• Doki Doki Literature Girls: Not only are all the protagonists dating each other, but Natsuki is also depicted as a trans girl.
• Drop-Out is about Sugar and Lola, two nonbinary lesbians who decide to take a cross-country roadtrip to the Grand Canyon, where they will then jump to their deaths. Throughout the comic their struggles with gender and sexuality are some of the topics that come up prominently.
• El Goonish Shive: Many characters, both main characters and secondary characters, are confirmed to be LGBT+ and are in committed relationships. Early in the series this was limited to gay, lesbian and bisexual characters but later on, characters were confirmed to be genderfluid, trans, or strongly implied to be asexual.
• Ennui GO!: The main character, Izzy Pritchard, is a bisexual woman who's in an open polyamourous relationship with two women, Darcy and Tanya and regularly sleeps with both men and women. Most of the main and supporting characters are implied to be/lean toward being bisexual, with some characters being strictly gay (namely Darcy along with Izzy's twin sister Adelie and her wife Bella, who are lesbians). The only character who's confirmed to be straight so far is Kirsty, Izzy's clone. In part 2, supporting character Andromeda has a Coming-Out Story in a minor subplot, coming out to her ex-boyfriend Vanitas as a lesbian.
• Empress: Mother Earth's Handmaiden: The protagonist is a lesbian superhero.
• Flaky Pastry: All three protagonists are bisexual women.
• Foxes in Love: The two titular foxes are both men, with Green being transgender and Blue being bisexual. Although most strips are Slice of Life fluff and their gender is rarely even acknowledged, a few comics do deal with queer subjects such as getting top surgery or coming out to your family.
• Fur-Piled: The comic is about the everyday lives of a group of friends in California, almost of whom are gay.
• George and Johnny: Both titular characters are queer, with a romance slowly developing between them over time.
• The Glass Scientists centers around an entirely queer main cast. Jasper is a trans man, the Creature is nonbinary and asexual, and Jekyll and Hyde are both bisexual.
• Goblins: One of the main cast members is gay.
• Go Get a Roomie!: The fun adventures of a life-loving, happy-go-lucky lesbian. At least that's how it starts...
• Goodbye to Halos: An all queer cast, including a trans lesbian protagonist.
• Grant: Grant is a gay werewolf, with part of the story being about him realizing his attraction to men.
• The Green-Eyed Sniper: The main cast is are all lesbians.
• Griefer Belt: Many of the characters are gay or bi, including Scott, Lars, Seong, and Addie.
• The Guide to a Healthy Relationship: Julian, one of the main characters, is intersex and uses they/them pronouns.
• Gun Kitty: Two of the main characters are pansexual and one is bisexual.
• Gunnerkrigg Court: The deuteragonist Kat is bisexual, which she realizes after getting a crush on her classmate Paz and which she needs a while to accept about herself. There are also same-gender couples among the supporting characters.
• The Hazards of Love: The main character is a nonbinary teenager, with much of the supporting cast being queer.
• Heartstopper: Six out of the eight main characters are either gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans teenagers, all are friends who get on well and came together to support one another.
• Hitmen for Destiny: The protagonist is revealed to be a lesbian, and there is a romantic subplot involving her and another female character.
• Homestuck: Includes a bisexual alien race and several same-gender romance arcs involving both humans and aliens, with one main human character coming to terms with being bisexual near the end of the comic.
• Homestuck: Beyond Canon: Many of the main characters are queer: Roxy is transmasculine, Kanaya and Rose are lesbians, Dave and Karkat are bisexual, and Dirk is a gay man.
• Ignition Zero: An Urban Fantasy comic where most of the cast is queer- Robbie and Orson are asexual and dating, Neve is genderfluid, and Marin is aromantic.
• ISO: Much of the cast is gay, with the protagonist struggling for a while with internalized homophobia.
• Karabear Comics Unlimited: Many of the superheros are trans. Eiderdown, Sparkle, and Swimmer are trans women and Astral and Runner are trans men.
• Kiwi Blitz: Protagonist Steffi is revealed in a late chapter to be bi. Among the supporting cast, Chandra is into girls, and Cho is later revealed to have a wife.
• Lemonhead and Lollipup: Lollipop is a transgender lesbian poodle.
• Loserz: One of the three main characters, Jodie, is bisexual.
• Maddie on the Island Hue: Supporting characters Siobhan and Ebony are a bisexual girl and a lesbian respectively, and become a couple.
  • Maddie In America: Sequel; Siobhan and Ebony are part of the main cast.
• The Magpie is a horror comic whose main character is a queer woman.
• A Matter of Life and Death: The story is about the personifications of life and death, who both take the form of human men. Death, the protagonist, is deeply in love with Life.
• Meanies Comic: All of the Meanies are gay, and The Noid is transgender.
• Ménage à 3: Most of the cast is either gay or bisexual.
  • Sticky Dilly Buns
  • Pixie Trix Comix
• Monsterkind: The lead characters Wally and Kip are both queer, though their exact sexualities aren't specificed. Wally develops a mutual attraction for his landlord Ben, while Kip is hung up on an old flame that returned to the neighborhood, Pascal. Both of these romances are recurring plots. Louise, one of the supporting characters, is genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns.
• Monster Pop!: George is a queer cyclops girl in love with a gorgon girl, who in turn is in love with George's human friend Franny. Additionally, Percy, a supporting character, is a trans man.
• My Life In Blue: Alex is gay, Marius is transgender, and most of the other characters are gay or bi.
• Nebula: The entire cast are nonbinary personifications of planets and stars, with Saturn and Uranus being the only two who use they/them pronouns exclusively.
• Neo Kosmos: The main characters are nonbinary (Tye and Z) or transgender (Iris) children who were raised by an alien species who are a One-Gender Race.
• Never Satisfied: The story takes place a Non-Heteronormative Society, and most named characters are queer by means of gender, orientation, or both. Lucy (the main character) is nonbinary.
• Les Normaux: Most of the cast is queer: Sebastian is a gay man who falls in love with his neighbor, a bisexual vampire, Drew is a pansexual Frankenstein monster, and Pam is an asexual lesbian cyclops.
• Oglaf is a sex comedy whose subject matter frequently includes same-sex sexual pairings and LGBT+ characters. As the comic as a whole is largely gag-a-day, most have been one-shot, though there is a reoccurring subplot of Sandoval attempting to woo Ivan to little success.
• O Human Star: Al is gay man's mind uploaded into a robot body by his lover Brendan after the original Al died. Sulla, their first robotic creation, was intended to be a copy of Al but developed her own personality completely different from his and transitioned to female.
• On a Sunbeam: Almost every person in the comic is a queer woman.
• The Order of the Stick: Haley Starshine is canonically bisexual and supporting character Bandana is a lesbian.
• Paranatural: There are multiple LGBT+ characters among the cast, including main cast member Mr. Spender.
• Parhelion has a central gay relationship, lesbian side characters, and about seventy percent of aliens go by 'they' when addressed in English.
• Penny and Aggie: Over the course of the comic, Penny realizes that she's bisexual (or at least open to dating one girl), while Aggie realizes that she's only interested in women.
• PepsiaPhobia: In Season 4, Phobia's child comes out as a trans girl and changes her name to Pepsia.
• Peritale: Two of the supporting characters, Lavender and Dagmar, are nonbinary.
• Questionable Content: Of the main human characters (depending on who you count as "main"), four are bi and one is trans.
• The Quick and Dirty Life of Fritz Fargo: Eddie is a gay man, Fritz is bi, and Mona is a lesbian.
• Real Life Comics: The main character over time realizes she is a trans woman.
• Realta: Set in a fantasy Non-Heteronormative Society. The main character is nonbinary and their love interest is female.
• Relativity follows the effects of a lightspeed space travel mission on an astronaut's relationship with her wife. As well as what happens when she ends up in an alternate universe where she and her wife divorced.
• Rock and Riot follows the high school life of two rival gangs in the 50s, with queer couples abounding.
• The Rock Cocks: Dakota is a trans man, Seth and his boytoy Georgie are gay, and Clover and Coral are lesbians.
• RWBY Doodleverse: While Yang and Blake are in a relationship with one another, Ruby and Weiss are shown by some strips to be sapphic as well. Canon lesbians Coco and Ilia are recurring characters, with the former often giving other characters advice on getting a girlfriend.
• Sandra and Woo: Recurring character Zoey Irwin is a lesbian, and her A Day in the Limelight arc centers around her coming to terms with her sexuality.
• Scandinavia and the World: Many characters are ambiguously or explicitly gay or bi.
• Shortpacked!: Of the three leads, Ethan is gay, Amber is (probably) straight, and Robin (after much confusion) identifies as "generally undefinably queer". Most of the supporting cast is some manner of queer.
• Silver Bullet Nights: Seek, the protagonist, is an extremely buff, burly gay vampire mercenary.
• Sister Claire: The main cast is mostly sapphic women and includes multiple female couples, including a trans woman and an asexual woman. Word of God is that there are no cisgender heterosexuals in the comic.
• Sleepless Domain: There is an sapphic romantic subplot between the protagonist and another main character. In this setting, anyone who is a girl can become a Magical Girl, including trans girls; one such girl is a major character.
• Soft and Shattered: The entire main cast is LGBT, and met in a college dorm specifically for LGBT people.
• Spinnerette: A long-running subplot in the comic is Mecha Maid's crush on the heroine, who after some reflection eventually comes to the conclusion that she's bisexual.
• Splitting Image: None of the main characters are straight. Mortimer is bisexual, his son Spinelthorn is gay, and his friend/supervisor Veriesin is demisexual and pan.
• Star Trip: Khut is a non-binary shapeshifting alien, and their human companion, Jas, originally left Earth to escape from her family's homophobia.
• Star Impact: Buzz and Teddy, two side-characters and friends of Aster, are boyfriends. Additionally, a few scenes imply that Aster and Phoebe have crushes on each other.
• Stellarscape: The main cast are the nonbinary personifications of stars.
• Sunstone: One protagonist is a lesbian and the other is bisexual.
• The Sunjackers: The main cast consists of a lesbian, a trans woman, and an asexual.
• Switcheroo AU: A recurring element in the comics is Spinel and Japser's infatuation with each other, with Lapis being annoyed at Spinel getting together with her "awful ex".
• Tamberlane : Several of the supporting characters are queer: Ainsley is nonbinary, Marie is transgender, and her parents are two women.
• Tiger, Tiger: Remy, the twin brother that the main character is impersonating, is gay, and Luck the pirate is nonbinary.
• Trashy Vampire Romance Novel: The main characters are gay vampires, with the titular 'trashy romance' being between two men.
• Unknown Lands: Vard is poly, Marya is a lesbian (with a wife and child at home), and Kai is demisexual.
• Vinci and Arty is a slice of life comic that centers around a gay couple.
• When She Was Bad: The Villain Protagonist is a lesbian who gains superpowers and decides to become a supervillain instead of a magical girl.
• Witchy: Nyneve, the protagonist, is a queer woman who wants to settle down with a nice girl someday. Her classmate Prill is a transgender woman.
• The Young Protectors: Kyle is a closeted gay man in training to be a superhero.

Web Original

• 17776: The main plot of 20020 follows a married male couple.

Web Videos

• Barbelle: The main characters are a lesbian pop duo.
• Critical Role has a host of queer non player characters, oneshot characters, and guest star party members. Queer Character, Queer Actor is the norm on this show.
  • Vox Machina (main characters of campaign 1) has bisexual twins Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia, and pansexual Scanlan Shorthalt. Vax's plotline involves his relationships with gay NPC sorcerer Gilmore and party member Keyleth. Additionally, Grog goes to purchase services from sex workers throughout the campaign and is stated to be only interested in women but never in a romantic way, making him aromantic.
  • The Mighty Nein (main characters of campaign 2) has bisexual Caleb Widogast, genderfluid Mollymauk Tealeaf (played by the bisexual Taliesin Jaffe), lesbians Beauregard Lionett and Yasha Nydoorin (whose wife Zuala died pre-campaign) and eventually back an item, aromantic asexual Caduceus Clay. Prominent NPC Essek Thelyss is demi and embarked on a romantic relationship with Caleb post-campaign.
  • In Bell's Hells (campaign 3), the player characters Fresh Cut Grass (an automaton) and Ashton (an earth genasi), use he/they pronouns interchangeably. Ashton also has a conversation about having close friends but he's unable to tell if he's ever been in love. Orym is gay (his husband died pre-campaign).
• Daisy Brown: Protagonist Daisy is heavily implied to be gay throughout the story, such as asking her dad if two women could get married and creating rainbow-colored friendship bracelets; her extremely sheltered upbringing is presumably why she has no label for herself.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Recurring characters Yajirobe and Korin, both of whom are male, are romantic partners who eventually get married. Both characters are voiced by KaiserNeko, who is openly gay.
• Merry Maidens: Robin is a lesbian, and none of the merry maidens are straight.
• Pretty Dudes: Most of the cast are queer, with their romantic troubles fueling most of the story.
• Robot, Ninja, and Gay Guy: The story is about the friendship between the titular three main characters.
• Sanders Sides: The show is about a gay man working out his issues with the various personified aspects of his personality, who are all gay as well. His being gay is often brought up as a quick gag or reference, but two major subplots focus on getting over his ex-boyfriend and wanting to pursue another guy.
• Twelfth Grade (Or Whatever): Viola, Oren, and Liv are all bisexual.
• UNHhhh: Hosted by two drag queens, this show has them talk about various aspects of life in general, though some do talk about queer life.
• Where the Bears Are: The story is a murder mystery about a group of gay men who find a dead bear in their bathroom after a wild party.

Western Animation

• Adventure Time: BMO is agender, and Marceline and Bubblegum's sapphic relationship is a major subplot of the series.
  • Adventure Time: Distant Lands: Princess Bubblegum and Marceline are queer women, and their relationship is a major part of "Obsidian".
• Allen Gregory: Richard, Allen's dad, is a gay man whose abuse towards his partner is Played for Laughs.
• Amphibia: One of the main characters, Sasha, is bisexual, which is revealed in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the series finale. Marcy's companions in Newtopia, Yunan and Olivia, have settled down together after the Time Skip. In Wartwood, Mayor Toadstool and his assistant Toadie are also shown to be dating in the epilogue. Among the Earth allies of the Plantars are the I.T. Gals Ally and Jess, a sapphic couple (specifically, Ally is pan and Jess is bi). One of the Plantars' enemies on Earth is Mr. X, an Agent Peacock voiced by Ru Paul who mentions having a husband.
• Archer: Out of the major cast, Pam is a bisexual woman while Ray is a gay man.
• The Avatar Universe has become synonymous with introducing LGBT characters to its world. Various works released since have retroactively introduced numerous gay characters to the franchise's parent series.
  • The Legend of Korra revealed that the titular main character and her best friend/lover Asami Sato were bisexual, having dated the same man Mako in Books 1 and 2, before becoming a couple themselves at the end of Book 4, an unprecedented move for a major western cartoon aimed at children at the time and arguably led to later creators taking greater risks in introducing LGBT themes in their work.
• Baymax!: The third episode has Baymax go on a Tampon Run with one of the people he meets being a trans man. Another episode has Baymax help Mbita work up the nerve to talk to his crush, Yukio.
• Big Mouth: Sexual and gender identity during puberty is one of the issues explored in the show from various persectives. Part of Jay's character development is realizing and accepting that he's bisexual, Matthew has several stories relating to his experience as a gay kid, and other recurring characters, such as Ali (pansexual) and Natalie (transgender), introduce various other orientations.
  • Human Resources (2022): Not only do the monsters live in a Non-Heteronormative Society, but casual LGBT representation is even more common than in the parent series Big Mouth. For example, trans girl Natalie returns as a recurring character, and one episode focuses on her college-aged lesbian sister choosing between pursuing her dream college or following her girlfriend. Sonya also ends up in a star-crossed romance with a human woman, though the main conflict there is the Interspecies Romance angle.
• Big Nate: Slice of Life animated series based on the comic strip and novels on the misadventures of mischevious sixth grader Nate Wright. In a case of Adaptational Sexuality, Nate's friend Dee Dee is a lesbian, which she realizes when she's captivated by a substitute drama teacher and then sees her with her wife.
• BoJack Horseman: Todd Chavez, one of the five major characters, is asexual, and part of his character arc involves coming to terms with it and navigating his relationships after coming out. Also, Hollyhock is raised by her eight adoptive gay dads, all of whom care for her well.
• The Bravest Knight: Sir Cedric and Prince Andrew are gay dads raising their adopted daughter, Nia. Cedric tells her stories about how he became a knight.
• Castlevania (2017): Alucard is bisexual.
• Chozen: The main character Phil Cullins/Chozen is a gay man.
• Clarence: Jeff, a main character, has two mothers.
• Craig of the Creek: Out of the main three, only Kelsey is confirmed LGBT (she's lesbian, which is shown through her Ship Tease with Stacks, with the two of them becoming an Official Couple in season 4), but there are numerous other LGBT creek kids, such as Angel, who is agender, and Raj and Shawn of the Honeysuckle Rangers, who are gay. Craig has a cousin, Jasmine, who mentions having a girlfriend. JP's older sister, Laura, also has a girlfriend, and recurring characters Tabitha and Courtney are girlfriends and even kiss onscreen once.
• The Crumpets: Grownboy is bisexual and Steve is his partner and eventual husband.
• Danger & Eggs: There are numerous LGBT supporting characters, including Milo (a nonbinary kid that the protagonists form a band with) and Zadie (a young trans girl). There is also a whole episode about a Pride Parade, and an overarching theme of chosen families.
• Dead End: Paranormal Park has a Cast Full of Gay: Barney is a gay transgender boy, Norma is bisexual, and Courtney is a non-binary demon.
• Disenchantment: The main character is a bisexual woman in love with a mermaid.
• The Dragon Prince: There are three prominent same sex couples featured in the show, which are depicted being as commonplace as hetero romances. The Moonshadow elves Runaan and his husband Ethari, who were entrusted to raise the main heroine Rayla by her parents, the Queens of Duren, who gave their lives to save their kingdom and daughter, and as of season 4, the deaf, Human General, Amaya and her enemy-to-lover, the Sunfire elf Queen, Janai, who were able to communicate with the help of non-binery Sunfire elf interpreter, Kazi. Season 4 introduces Terry, a transgender male Earthblood elf, as the boyfriend of the dark mage Claudia.
• Freedom Fighters: The Ray: Ray, the main character, is a gay superhero.
• The Great North: One of the main characters Ham is a gay teenager.
• Harley Quinn (2019): Harley and Poison Ivy are both bisexual.
• The Hollow: Adam, one of the main three characters, is gay. Another main character Mira, has two fathers.
• Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Key character Benson is gay and starts a romance with Troy.
• Little Demon: Chrissy's human mother Laura is bisexual; she was in a relationship with Satan (which ended up producing their Anti-Christ daughter), was flirting with (and trying to kill) a male Serial Killer in "Everybody's Dying for the Weekend" and eventually had a fling with a female sea-monster in "Wet Bodies".
• The Loud House: Lincoln's best friend Clyde has two dads. And one of Lincoln's sisters, Luna, has a girlfriend named Sam.
• Magical Girl Friendship Squad: One of the protagonists is a Butch Lesbian.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes has a sheer amount of queer characters. One of the main characters, Enid, is bisexual and falls in love with Red Action, a lesbian. The primary villain, Lord Boxman, is pansexual and gets together with another major villain, Professor Venomous, who is bisexual. Supporting characters Nick Army and Joff the Monk are clearly gay, and are even shown getting married in the series finale. Minor character Gregg is non-binary.
• Onyx Equinox: The main character, Izel, was confirmed to be gay and does have Homoerotic Subtext with one of his party members Yun. Meanwhile Yaotl is bisexual, the festivities as his sacrifice to Tezcatlipoca abundantly showing him having intercourse with other men. Originally Zyanya was designed as a Muxe, a Zapotec third gender, but this unfortunately did not come to pass.
• The Owl House: The main character, Luz, is bisexual. While romance isn't the main focus of the show, several episodes are driven by her growing relationship with the young lesbian witch Amity, which eventually becomes canon. In addition, major character Eda has a non-binary love interest called Raine Whispers. Supporting character Willow has two fathers, and Eda's older sister Lilith is aroace (aromantic and asexual).
• The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder: 2020s Revival of the original 2000s The Proud Family series; one of Penny's friends has two fathers, and her other friend Michael is gay (which was only alluded to in the original series) and gender non-conforming.
• Rick and Morty: Most of the main characters are explixitly pan/bisexual or have at the least shown attraction to both men and women. In particular: Rick identifies as pansexual and used to have feelings for his best friend, a Hive Mind that took control of bodies of all genders, Jerry had a threesome with his wife and another man and even had a fantasized male partner in one episode, and Beth spends an episode having an affair with a clone of herself, who is still female..
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Almost every character on the show is LGBT in some way. For example, Glimmer and Bow are both bi, and arc antagonist Double Trouble is a non-binary shapeshifter. The core of the show is Adora's Foe Romantic Subtext with Catra which eventually became canonical romantic subtext when Catra had a Heel–Face Turn in Season 5, eventually ending with the two declaring their love for each other and kissing in the show's final episode.
• The Simpsons: Smithers, Mr. Burns' right-hand man, is openly gay in newer seasons and closeted in earlier seasons. Patty, one of Marge's older sisters, is later revealed to be a lesbian.
• Solar Opposites: The Shlorpians are genderless Plant Aliens who nonetheless are able to pick the gender they want to be identified as. The two main characters Korvo and Terry are a bisexual shlorpian couple who both identify themselves as male and are in an open relationship.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: Sexuality is pretty fluid on the U.S.S. Cerritos. Ensign Mariner is openly pansexual, and many of the Mauve Shirts, such as Barnes and Stevens, are Ambiguously Gay or Bi to varying degrees.
• Steven Universe: The Gems are a non-binary alien race who all present femininely and use she/her pronouns, meaning that any attraction between them is homosexual by default. In particular, Ruby and Sapphire, Garnet's component gems, are permanently fused out of love for each other. They even broke ground out of universe by having an on-screen wedding and kissing each other on the lips. Steven can fuse with his best friend Connie to form a non-binary, intersex fusion, Stevonnie. All of Steven's other fusions are non-binary and use they/them pronouns.
• Tuca & Bertie: The lead characters are both bisexual.
• Twelve Forever: The lead, Reggie, is revealed to have a crush on a girl at her school. Also two of the residents of Endless are a gay male couple.
• Velma: Velma, the protagonist, is a lesbian, and Daphne is bisexual.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: One of the main characters, Shiro, is revealed to be into men in one of the final seasons^note The series finale briefly shows him getting married to another man; while he had previously been shown to have had a past male partner, their relationship is ambiguous within the show itself, with Word of God specifying him as gay.
• Young Justice (2010): Animated series about a group of teenage/young adult superhero sidekicks that run covert missions for the Justice League; the series has several LGBT characters both main and supporting, specifically Aquaman/Aqualad who multisexual and is in a romance with another male character. Lagoon Boy is also multisexual and is in a polyamourous relationship with a woman and a man. Halo (a Motherbox in the body of a human girl) is nonbinary and starts to use they/them pronouns in the fourth season. Kid Flash and El Dorado are Word of Gay examples, as their sexuality/relationship was never outright stated in the series.

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