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* ''VisualNovel/AceInSpace'': The main protagonist is a nonbinary panromantic asexual, whose love interests are primarily sentient robots that lack gender identities; the exception is a human male from their home planet.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Repurpose}}'': The main protagonist can be cis male, cis female, trans male, or trans female. Most love interests are either bi or pansexual; the exceptions are a lesbian woman, an asexual angel, and a demon woman whose heterosexuality explicitly does not exclude trans men. One character, an omnisexual angel, has no set gender identity and can change their form to appear male, female, or nonbinary depending on the player's preference.
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* ''VisualNovel/SexAdviceSuccubus'': The main character's clients include a ghost girl asking for advice on being intimate with her girlfriend, and a male incubus uncomfortable with sex who can be advised to research asexuality.
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* VisualNovel/Va11HallA: ''VisualNovel/Va11HallA'': Protagonist Jill is bisexual and a large part of her plot revolves around [[spoiler:grieving her deceased ex-girlfriend and getting together with her boss, Dana]]. Other queer characters include Mario, and, possibly, Sei and Stella.Stella.
* ''VisualNovel/WickedWillow'': The main protagonist is a lesbian living in the '90s, an era when the community was still looked down upon. Some routes discuss the consequences from being open about her sexuality as she grows attracted to the women in her life.
* ''VisualNovel/WickedWillow'': The main protagonist is a lesbian living in the '90s, an era when the community was still looked down upon. Some routes discuss the consequences from being open about her sexuality as she grows attracted to the women in her life.
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* ''VisulNovel/MiceTea'': The main protagonist is bisexual, with male and female romance options. Two of her love interests are trans women, with one having transitioned prior to the story's events, and the other initially identifying as male but whose route centers on her transition; during the latter's route, the male love interest uses magic to experiment with gender and sexual identity, but ultimately identifies as cisgender and heterosexual.
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** ''VisualNovel/{{Kindred}}'': The main character's sister is transgender and sapphic, and part of the story revolves around her complicated feelings for her dead mother, believing that she didn't love her for who she was (it turns out that [[spoiler: her mother thought that having three daughters was a bad omen]]).
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Visual novels with a prominent focus on UsefulNotes/{{LGBT|Community}}QIA ([[UsefulNotes/{{Homosexual}} lesbian, gay]], UsefulNotes/{{bisexual}}, UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}, queer, intersex, and UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} and/or UsefulNotes/{{aromantic}}) characters and people. The subject/theme of these works may or may not be about LGBTQIA+ culture and identities and can be highly varied. To be listed here, the work must contain either a main or recurring LGBTQIA+ character, or there must be a high frequency of LGBTQIA+ figures appearing rather than limiting it to one or two offhanded/one-off appearances. WordOfGay examples do not go here: the character's identity must be established within the work itself. See LGBTFanbase for works that do not have unambiguous LGBTQIA+ subject matter, but attract a significant LGBTQIA+ fandom.
Some of these works have characters coming out or being shown to be LGBTQIA+ as reveals, beware of spoilers.
See LGBTRepresentationInMedia for a list of works in other mediums with prominent LGBTQIA+ representation.
See also LGBTPlusCreators for a list of artists/media creators who are LGBTQIA+.
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* ''VisualNovel/Adastra2018'': With the exception of Cato, every major male character in the story is gay.
* ''VisualNovel/Ascension2021'': Escort is nonbinary, and the other two main characters are heavily implied to be transgender.
* ''VisualNovel/BadEndTheater'': The Maiden and the Overlord, who are both women, have clear feelings for each other if allowed to interact, and the OmegaEnding reveals that [[spoiler:they're based on TRAGEDY and the player, respectively, two separated sapphics]]. The Underling and the other minor demons are nonbinary.
* ''VisualNovel/BloomingPanic'': Besides all the romance options being open regardless of the protagonist's gender, [=NakedToaster=] is nonbinary and uses he/they pronouns. Among the supporting characters, two2 also uses he/they pronouns while BIGLADY is a lesbian.
* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'':
** Existence of a GayOption aside, two of Melissa's potential male love interests act AmbiguouslyBi 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".
* ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'': A collection of various stories that you might have a relationship with a love interest of the same gender. More specifically:
** ''VisualNovel/TheFreshman'': 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.
** ''VisualNovel/HighSchoolStory'' features the first nonbinary character in the Choices franchise, Cameron Levy.
** ''VisualNovel/ItLives'':
*** 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 [[spoiler: an antagonist who killed their parents, kicking off the events of the story]]).
*** ''VisualNovel/ItLivesWithin'' (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).
** VisualNovel/TheElementalists: Zeph is the first canonically asexual/aromatic character in the Choices franchise. As he puts it, he's not into people romantically or sexually, just "friendically". Also, this is the first Choices book where the main character's sexuality can be explicitly customized. If the main character is also aro-ace, they are given an option to mention it to Zeph when his sexuality is brought up.
** ''VisualNovel/BacheloretteParty'': One of the main character's close friends is a trans woman who came out in college.
** ''VisualNovel/MyTwoFirstLoves'': One of the main character's love interests is her lesbian best friend, and it took 38 chapters for the latter to come out.
** ''VisualNovel/MurderAtHomecoming'': This book deals with LGBTQIA+ issues quite extensively, including the trials and tribulations faced by the LGBTQIA+ community. [[spoiler: 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.
** ''VisualNovel/GetawayGirls'': This book also tries to fully represent the LGBTQIA+ community. The 4 playable characters come in various sexualities: one straight, one lesbian, a main character who can also be a lesbian or bisexual (if the player so chooses) and the second canonically asexual/aromatic character in the Choices franchise (who also happens to be the main character's sister).
* ''VisualNovel/CrownDelightsDeli'': Two of your regular customers, Maya and Piper, are an LGBT+ couple who first visit you on Pride Day. [[QueerColors Maya wears the Progress Pride flag on her tank top while Piper wears a jacket with pansexual colors and a genderfluid flag pin.]]
* ''VisualNovel/CryptidCrush'': The protagonist is nonbinary and you can chose their pronouns, and there is another nonbinary main party member, Jamie.
* ''VisualNovel/DreamDaddy'': Your player character is a single father who finds himself in a new neighborhood full of other single dads (plus one in an unhappy marriage) who - you guessed it - you can have him date. While no character's orientation is specifically labeled, beyond the options all of course being [=MLM=], Hugo mentions an ex-husband, while Joseph has a wife, Craig has an ex-wife, and both Mat and Robert are widowers who were previously married to women; plus Robert's daughter Valerie mentions having a girlfriend. Another option, Damien, is transgender. All of the previous can apply to your character, too, as you can code him as trans by dressing him in a binder while customizing his sprite and an early dialogue choice prompts you to choose whether his own deceased former spouse was a woman or a man.
* ''VisualNovel/{{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.
** ''VisualNovel/TheSmokeRoom'' (prequel to ''VisualNovel/{{Echo}}'')
** ''VisualNovel/{{Arches}}'', the sequel, notably has a gay couple as the dual protagonists.
* ''VisualNovel/FarBeyondTheWorld'': Part of the story is the growing romance between Ranok and Caelan that the two need to keep secret, as LGBTQIA+ people are seen as "defective" in the wolves' society.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': In the uncensored version, tritagonist Rin Tohsaka is bisexual and discovers this during a sex scene with deuteragonist Saber (a girl) and protagonist Shirou (a guy); the rest of the story has her continue expressing affection towards Saber while also being able to have sex with Shirou. The censored version and later adaptations, however, downplay references to her sexuality, rendering her AmbiguouslyBi there.
* ''VisualNovel/FirstKissAtASpookySoiree'': The protagonist Marzipan is panromantic, and there are four girls and four boys she can kiss in the game's MultipleEndings.
* ''VisualNovel/HeavenWillBeMine'': Most of the cast is some variety of LGBTQIA+, with most being lesbians, though Mercury and Ganymede are two men married to each other.
* ''VisualNovel/LandsOfFire'': 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.
* ''VisualNovel/LadykillerInABind'': 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).
* ''VisualNovel/LifeAfterMagic'': Player character Akiko is m-spec with a preference for women; she occasionally muses about a past crush on her male acquaintance, Solaire, but the romanceable characters in the game all include sapphic women [=ARA=], Jackie, Miranda and Leez, and nonbinary [=KJ=]. [[spoiler:In a side-story, Akiko can also ask out Anna Lee - who is implied to have been in love with her fellow magical girl Saori - but she will turn down Akiko due to the age gap.]]
* ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'': 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.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Lovelink}}'': Some of the possible matches are non-binary.
* ''VisualNovel/MagicalWarriorDiamondHeart'': 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.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'': Sophia and Xianne end up as a couple, but not much attention is paid to their relationship.
* ''VisualNovel/MissedMessages'': The player character is a lesbian trans woman, with the option to date one of the female characters depending on your choices.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'' 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 LGBTQIA+: 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; there's a nonbinary soul reaper; and so on.
* ''[[VisualNovel/MurderByNumbers2020 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.
* ''VisualNovel/RomanceDetective'': Almost everyone in Lovebloom City is gay, and the plot revolves around the player and her partner/girlfriend solving love-related mysteries and crimes.
* ''VisualNovel/{{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.
* ''VisualNovel/SyrupAndTheUltimateSweet'': 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 Creator/NomnomNami's webcomic.
* VisualNovel/Va11HallA: Protagonist Jill is bisexual and a large part of her plot revolves around [[spoiler:grieving her deceased ex-girlfriend and getting together with her boss, Dana]]. Other queer characters include Mario, and, possibly, Sei and Stella.
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Some of these works have characters coming out or being shown to be LGBTQIA+ as reveals, beware of spoilers.
See LGBTRepresentationInMedia for a list of works in other mediums with prominent LGBTQIA+ representation.
See also LGBTPlusCreators for a list of artists/media creators who are LGBTQIA+.
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* ''VisualNovel/Adastra2018'': With the exception of Cato, every major male character in the story is gay.
* ''VisualNovel/Ascension2021'': Escort is nonbinary, and the other two main characters are heavily implied to be transgender.
* ''VisualNovel/BadEndTheater'': The Maiden and the Overlord, who are both women, have clear feelings for each other if allowed to interact, and the OmegaEnding reveals that [[spoiler:they're based on TRAGEDY and the player, respectively, two separated sapphics]]. The Underling and the other minor demons are nonbinary.
* ''VisualNovel/BloomingPanic'': Besides all the romance options being open regardless of the protagonist's gender, [=NakedToaster=] is nonbinary and uses he/they pronouns. Among the supporting characters, two2 also uses he/they pronouns while BIGLADY is a lesbian.
* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'':
** Existence of a GayOption aside, two of Melissa's potential male love interests act AmbiguouslyBi 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".
* ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay'': A collection of various stories that you might have a relationship with a love interest of the same gender. More specifically:
** ''VisualNovel/TheFreshman'': 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.
** ''VisualNovel/HighSchoolStory'' features the first nonbinary character in the Choices franchise, Cameron Levy.
** ''VisualNovel/ItLives'':
*** 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 [[spoiler: an antagonist who killed their parents, kicking off the events of the story]]).
*** ''VisualNovel/ItLivesWithin'' (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).
** VisualNovel/TheElementalists: Zeph is the first canonically asexual/aromatic character in the Choices franchise. As he puts it, he's not into people romantically or sexually, just "friendically". Also, this is the first Choices book where the main character's sexuality can be explicitly customized. If the main character is also aro-ace, they are given an option to mention it to Zeph when his sexuality is brought up.
** ''VisualNovel/BacheloretteParty'': One of the main character's close friends is a trans woman who came out in college.
** ''VisualNovel/MyTwoFirstLoves'': One of the main character's love interests is her lesbian best friend, and it took 38 chapters for the latter to come out.
** ''VisualNovel/MurderAtHomecoming'': This book deals with LGBTQIA+ issues quite extensively, including the trials and tribulations faced by the LGBTQIA+ community. [[spoiler: 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.
** ''VisualNovel/GetawayGirls'': This book also tries to fully represent the LGBTQIA+ community. The 4 playable characters come in various sexualities: one straight, one lesbian, a main character who can also be a lesbian or bisexual (if the player so chooses) and the second canonically asexual/aromatic character in the Choices franchise (who also happens to be the main character's sister).
* ''VisualNovel/CrownDelightsDeli'': Two of your regular customers, Maya and Piper, are an LGBT+ couple who first visit you on Pride Day. [[QueerColors Maya wears the Progress Pride flag on her tank top while Piper wears a jacket with pansexual colors and a genderfluid flag pin.]]
* ''VisualNovel/CryptidCrush'': The protagonist is nonbinary and you can chose their pronouns, and there is another nonbinary main party member, Jamie.
* ''VisualNovel/DreamDaddy'': Your player character is a single father who finds himself in a new neighborhood full of other single dads (plus one in an unhappy marriage) who - you guessed it - you can have him date. While no character's orientation is specifically labeled, beyond the options all of course being [=MLM=], Hugo mentions an ex-husband, while Joseph has a wife, Craig has an ex-wife, and both Mat and Robert are widowers who were previously married to women; plus Robert's daughter Valerie mentions having a girlfriend. Another option, Damien, is transgender. All of the previous can apply to your character, too, as you can code him as trans by dressing him in a binder while customizing his sprite and an early dialogue choice prompts you to choose whether his own deceased former spouse was a woman or a man.
* ''VisualNovel/{{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.
** ''VisualNovel/TheSmokeRoom'' (prequel to ''VisualNovel/{{Echo}}'')
** ''VisualNovel/{{Arches}}'', the sequel, notably has a gay couple as the dual protagonists.
* ''VisualNovel/FarBeyondTheWorld'': Part of the story is the growing romance between Ranok and Caelan that the two need to keep secret, as LGBTQIA+ people are seen as "defective" in the wolves' society.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': In the uncensored version, tritagonist Rin Tohsaka is bisexual and discovers this during a sex scene with deuteragonist Saber (a girl) and protagonist Shirou (a guy); the rest of the story has her continue expressing affection towards Saber while also being able to have sex with Shirou. The censored version and later adaptations, however, downplay references to her sexuality, rendering her AmbiguouslyBi there.
* ''VisualNovel/FirstKissAtASpookySoiree'': The protagonist Marzipan is panromantic, and there are four girls and four boys she can kiss in the game's MultipleEndings.
* ''VisualNovel/HeavenWillBeMine'': Most of the cast is some variety of LGBTQIA+, with most being lesbians, though Mercury and Ganymede are two men married to each other.
* ''VisualNovel/LandsOfFire'': 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.
* ''VisualNovel/LadykillerInABind'': 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).
* ''VisualNovel/LifeAfterMagic'': Player character Akiko is m-spec with a preference for women; she occasionally muses about a past crush on her male acquaintance, Solaire, but the romanceable characters in the game all include sapphic women [=ARA=], Jackie, Miranda and Leez, and nonbinary [=KJ=]. [[spoiler:In a side-story, Akiko can also ask out Anna Lee - who is implied to have been in love with her fellow magical girl Saori - but she will turn down Akiko due to the age gap.]]
* ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'': 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.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Lovelink}}'': Some of the possible matches are non-binary.
* ''VisualNovel/MagicalWarriorDiamondHeart'': 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.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'': Sophia and Xianne end up as a couple, but not much attention is paid to their relationship.
* ''VisualNovel/MissedMessages'': The player character is a lesbian trans woman, with the option to date one of the female characters depending on your choices.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'' 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 LGBTQIA+: 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; there's a nonbinary soul reaper; and so on.
* ''[[VisualNovel/MurderByNumbers2020 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.
* ''VisualNovel/RomanceDetective'': Almost everyone in Lovebloom City is gay, and the plot revolves around the player and her partner/girlfriend solving love-related mysteries and crimes.
* ''VisualNovel/{{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.
* ''VisualNovel/SyrupAndTheUltimateSweet'': 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 Creator/NomnomNami's webcomic.
* VisualNovel/Va11HallA: Protagonist Jill is bisexual and a large part of her plot revolves around [[spoiler:grieving her deceased ex-girlfriend and getting together with her boss, Dana]]. Other queer characters include Mario, and, possibly, Sei and Stella.
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