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** In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]] Celene's predecessor Florian was likewise rumored to be romantically involved with [[KissingCousins his cousin]] Meghran, which is why the latter was [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned to act as Ferelden's regent]]; it was the part about them being cousins that was considered scandalous, not that they were both men.
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** In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
*** The Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]] Celene's predecessor Florian was likewise rumored to be romantically involved with [[KissingCousins his cousin]] Meghran, which is why the latter was [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned to act as Ferelden's regent]]; it was the part about them being cousins that was considered scandalous, not that they were bothmen.men.
*** Elsewhere, however, it's a mixed bag, and those of noble birth are still expected to carry out their "family duty" to continue the bloodline. Dorian Pavus, a nobleman from the Tevinter Imperium, is gay. This in and of itself isn't that big an issue in Tevinter (or anywhere else in Thedas), but Dorian refused to "live a lie" and marry a woman to carry on his family lineage, so his father planned to use a BloodMagic ritual to literally change his brain and make him straight. Dorian also mentions that, in Tevinter, same-sex relationships are viewed as fun distractions rather than serious partnerships, which is why he has trouble wrapping his head around the Inquisitor wanting something more than just sex.
--->'''Dorian:''' Where I'm from, anything between two men...it's about pleasure. It's accepted, but taken no further.
*** The Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]] Celene's predecessor Florian was likewise rumored to be romantically involved with [[KissingCousins his cousin]] Meghran, which is why the latter was [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned to act as Ferelden's regent]]; it was the part about them being cousins that was considered scandalous, not that they were both
*** Elsewhere, however, it's a mixed bag, and those of noble birth are still expected to carry out their "family duty" to continue the bloodline. Dorian Pavus, a nobleman from the Tevinter Imperium, is gay. This in and of itself isn't that big an issue in Tevinter (or anywhere else in Thedas), but Dorian refused to "live a lie" and marry a woman to carry on his family lineage, so his father planned to use a BloodMagic ritual to literally change his brain and make him straight. Dorian also mentions that, in Tevinter, same-sex relationships are viewed as fun distractions rather than serious partnerships, which is why he has trouble wrapping his head around the Inquisitor wanting something more than just sex.
--->'''Dorian:''' Where I'm from, anything between two men...it's about pleasure. It's accepted, but taken no further.
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* The D'Angeline society of Literature/KushielsLegacy is very open about sexual freedom, to the point of EveryoneIsBi, especially among the nobility. Certain forms of prostitution are also considered to be a sacred calling, and there is a highly respected BandOfBrothels called the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers that operate as a form of nobility in their own right.
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** In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
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** In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
[[/note]] Celene's predecessor Florian was likewise rumored to be romantically involved with [[KissingCousins his cousin]] Meghran, which is why the latter was [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned to act as Ferelden's regent]]; it was the part about them being cousins that was considered scandalous, not that they were both men.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is prettynormal.normal, though they are discouraged from reproducing with each other due to a [[OutWithABang genetic defect]] that happens in a small number of so-called "pureblood" asari. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Kaidan? Bisexual. Morden? Mordin? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual. It's implied that 150 years in the future, humanity has largely gotten over its hang-ups regarding sexual orientation.
** The Angara race in ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' don't make any distinction between same-sex and opposite-sex relationships. A news bulletin on Aya mentions two families being united by the marriage of a son from each, which is treated with the same matter-of-factness as if they were a son and daughter.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty
** The Angara race in ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' don't make any distinction between same-sex and opposite-sex relationships. A news bulletin on Aya mentions two families being united by the marriage of a son from each, which is treated with the same matter-of-factness as if they were a son and daughter.
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* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}} games, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}} games, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
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* This trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}}, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
** In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ** ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual. \n* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}} games, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
** In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': [[spoiler:Magus]]'s home universe (which hasn't been seen outside of a brief flashback) is apparently this to some extent, as discussed in [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-03-30 this strip]],[[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-06 this one]], and [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-09 the one after]]. Magic is common there, and they haven't had any hang-ups about homosexuality, gender changes, etc. for centuries. If the opposite gender better suits someone's career choice (such as a battle mage), it's easy to switch. But their views on gender roles regarding people's default physical forms is "If you want to do stuff that requires a lot of physical strength, be a man!" Because of this (and possibly other reasons unknown to [[spoiler:Magus]]), they don't make strong female default physical forms.
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': [[spoiler:Magus]]'s home universe (which hasn't been seen outside of a brief flashback) is apparently this to some extent, as discussed in [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-03-30 this strip]],[[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-06 this one]], and [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-09 the one after]]. Magic is common there, and they haven't had any hang-ups about homosexuality, gender changes, etc. for centuries. If the opposite gender better suits someone's career choice (such as a battle mage), it's easy to switch. But their views mentality on gender roles regarding people's default physical forms is "If you want to do stuff that requires a lot of physical strength, be a man!" Because of this (and possibly other reasons unknown to [[spoiler:Magus]]), they don't make strong female default physical forms.
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': [[spoiler:Magus]]'s home universe (which hasn't been seen outside of a brief flashback) is apparently this to some extent, as discussed in [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-03-30 this strip]],[[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-06 this one]], and [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2018-04-09 the one after]]. Magic is common there, and they haven't had any hang-ups about homosexuality, gender changes, etc. for centuries. If the opposite gender better suits someone's career choice (such as a battle mage), it's easy to switch. But their views on gender roles regarding people's default physical forms is "If you want to do stuff that requires a lot of physical strength, be a man!" Because of this (and possibly other reasons unknown to [[spoiler:Magus]]), they don't make strong female default physical forms.
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* In TheStormlightArchive the Parshendi default to four genders: male, female, malen, and femalen. This has to do with how they are almost completely asexual outside of Mateform.
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* In TheStormlightArchive ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' the Parshendi default to four genders: male, female, malen, and femalen. This has to do with how they are almost completely asexual outside of Mateform.
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* In TheStormlightArchive the Parshendi default to four genders: male, female, malen, and femalen. This has to do with how they are almost completely asexual outside of Mateform.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The ''Fullbody'' version of this introduces a new race to the mix. [[spoiler:Angels/Aliens. They're a OneGenderRace of beings that take the form of androgynous, pink-haired men when among humans. Rin is one of them, and when he falls in love with Vincent, the other members of the race don't really care about the fact that he's in love with a man, but rather with the fact he wants to stay on Earth and be with Vincent rather than return to their planet. They do eventually come around and give Vincent their blessing to be with Rin.]]
* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}} games, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': The game takes place in a world inhabited by monsters of various kinds. It seems that every character in the story is bisexual to some degree.
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': Because no character in the story has biological sex (they're either Androids or Machines), the concept of gender and sexuality is a bit hazy. According to side material, Androids can choose to install or not to install a component resembling genitalia, and even choose to imitate a pregnancy just to experience it. Both Androids and Machines are implied to have gender in an attempt to imitate humans, and some machines have a pretty basic understanding of it, which translates in simply wearing bows or tuxedos. Among Androids, the attraction between androids of the same gender seems to be so common that they won't even bat an eye to it, some of which includes BadassGay A2 being in love with her teammate A4, 6O being openly attracted to another female android, and 16D, a female android in a relationship with her mentor 11B, who was also female.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The ''Fullbody'' version of this introduces a new race to the mix. [[spoiler:Angels/Aliens. They're a OneGenderRace of beings that take the form of androgynous, pink-haired men when among humans. Rin is one of them, and when he falls in love with Vincent, the other members of the race don't really care about the fact that he's in love with a man, but rather with the fact he wants to stay on Earth and be with Vincent rather than return to their planet. They do eventually come around and give Vincent their blessing to be with Rin.]]
* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}} games, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': The game takes place in a world inhabited by monsters of various kinds. It seems that every character in the story is bisexual to some degree.
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': Because no character in the story has biological sex (they're either Androids or Machines), the concept of gender and sexuality is a bit hazy. According to side material, Androids can choose to install or not to install a component resembling genitalia, and even choose to imitate a pregnancy just to experience it. Both Androids and Machines are implied to have gender in an attempt to imitate humans, and some machines have a pretty basic understanding of it, which translates in simply wearing bows or tuxedos. Among Androids, the attraction between androids of the same gender seems to be so common that they won't even bat an eye to it, some of which includes BadassGay A2 being in love with her teammate A4, 6O being openly attracted to another female android, and 16D, a female android in a relationship with her mentor 11B, who was also female.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The ''Fullbody'' version of this introduces a new race to the mix. [[spoiler:Angels/Aliens. They're a OneGenderRace of beings that take the form of androgynous, pink-haired men when among humans. Rin is one of them, and when he falls in love with Vincent, the other members of the race don't really care about the fact that he's in love with a man, but rather with the fact he wants to stay on Earth and be with Vincent rather than return to their planet. They do eventually come around and give Vincent their blessing to be with Rin.]]
* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}} games, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': The game takes place in a world inhabited by monsters of various kinds. It seems that every character in the story is bisexual to some degree.
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': Because no character in the story has biological sex (they're either Androids or Machines), the concept of gender and sexuality is a bit hazy. According to side material, Androids can choose to install or not to install a component resembling genitalia, and even choose to imitate a pregnancy just to experience it. Both Androids and Machines are implied to have gender in an attempt to imitate humans, and some machines have a pretty basic understanding of it, which translates in simply wearing bows or tuxedos. Among Androids, the attraction between androids of the same gender seems to be so common that they won't even bat an eye to it, some of which includes BadassGay A2 being in love with her teammate A4, 6O being openly attracted to another female android, and 16D, a female android in a relationship with her mentor 11B, who was also female.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The ''Fullbody'' version of this introduces a new race to the mix. [[spoiler:Angels/Aliens. They're a OneGenderRace of beings that take the form of androgynous, pink-haired men when among humans. Rin is one of them, and when he falls in love with Vincent, the other members of the race don't really care about the fact that he's in love with a man, but rather with the fact he wants to stay on Earth and be with Vincent rather than return to their planet. They do eventually come around and give Vincent their blessing to be with Rin.]]
* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}} games, to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': The game takes place in a world inhabited by monsters of various kinds. It seems that every character in the story is bisexual to some degree.
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': Because no character in the story has biological sex (they're either Androids or Machines), the concept of gender and sexuality is a bit hazy. According to side material, Androids can choose to install or not to install a component resembling genitalia, and even choose to imitate a pregnancy just to experience it. Both Androids and Machines are implied to have gender in an attempt to imitate humans, and some machines have a pretty basic understanding of it, which translates in simply wearing bows or tuxedos. Among Androids, the attraction between androids of the same gender seems to be so common that they won't even bat an eye to it, some of which includes BadassGay A2 being in love with her teammate A4, 6O being openly attracted to another female android, and 16D, a female android in a relationship with her mentor 11B, who was also female.
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* Becky Chamber's ''Literature/TheLongWayToASmallAngryPlanet'' and its sequels portray a Galaxy where same sex and inter-species relationships are utterly unremarkable. Our protagonist Rosemary ends up in a relationship with the female a space reptile, Sissix.
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* Cybertron and the various colonies are portrayed like this in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. As Transformers are a mechanical life form that doesn't reproduce sexually, and female Transformers stopped appearing on Cybertron (but not the lost colonies) so long ago that many Cybertronians don't even realize they exist, same-sex couples are the norm.
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* Cybertron and the various colonies are portrayed like this in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''.''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. As Transformers are a mechanical life form that doesn't reproduce sexually, and female Transformers stopped appearing on Cybertron (but not the lost colonies) so long ago that many Cybertronians don't even realize they exist, same-sex couples are the norm.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? BiTheWay.Bisexual. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
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* Malinda Lo's bisexual ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' retelling ''Ash'' and its prequel ''Huntress'' take place in a world where same-sex romance and marriage are casually accepted by everyone. Young upper-class lesbians are sometimes forced into marriages with men for the sake of money and connections, because there are always more wealthy men than wealthy women looking for wives, but homophobia doesn't exist.
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** The Horde Empire on the other hand, shuns ''all'' forms of love and attraction, standing as a polar opposite to the heroes. Since Galactic Horde society is centered on worship to their emperor, Horde Prime, any semblance of individuality is looked down upon, so it goes without saying concepts like sexual orientation or gender expression are non-existent.
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** In the same canon, the Azadian race as portrayed in ''Literature/ThePlayerOfGames'' has three sexes, male, female and apex. The reproductive process involves a male fertilizing an apex, who then passes on the embryo to a female, who brings the child to term. The apical sex enjoys enforced dominance in Azadian society. Males and females are essentially treated as inferior to apexes, and have even been bio-engineered over the generations to lower their intelligence.
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** In the same canon, the Azadian race as portrayed in ''Literature/ThePlayerOfGames'' has three sexes, male, female and apex. The reproductive process involves a male fertilizing an apex, who then passes on the embryo to a female, female (via an invertible vagina), who brings the child to term. The apical sex enjoys enforced dominance in Azadian society. Males and females are essentially treated as inferior to apexes, and have even been bio-engineered over the generations to lower their intelligence.
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** In the same canon, the Azadian race as portrayed in ''Literature/ThePlayerOfGames'' has three sexes, male, female and apex. The reproductive process involves a male fertilizing an apex, who then passes on the embryo to a female, who brings the child to term. The apical sex enjoys enforced dominance in Azadian society. Males and females are essentially treated as inferior to apexes, and have even been bio-engineered over the generations to lower their intelligence.
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* The citizens of ''Literature/TheCulture'' are bio-modified from “human basic” to such a degree that, among other things, they can change their biological sex more or less with a thought (though the process, when started, does take several months to complete). Interestingly though, this doesn’t necessarily affect the individual’s gender identity or even their sexual preferences. For instance, the main character in the short story “A Gift From the Culture” was born a heteronormative female, though has converted to a male body. Contrary to her/his expectations, she/he still prefers male sexual partners after the change.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The gems are an alien race of [[Main/{{NoBiologicalSex}} sexless]] [[Main/{{OneGenderRace}} female-presenting beings]] from another [[Main/{{LadyLand}} world]]. Most gems have been shown to be attracted to [[Main/{{CastFullOfGay}} other gems]] (or human women). Since their understandings of gender and sexuality are very different from human's, they don't have the concept of "same-sex attraction".
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The gems are an alien race of [[Main/{{NoBiologicalSex}} sexless]] [[Main/{{OneGenderRace}} female-presenting beings]] from another [[Main/{{LadyLand}} world]]. Most gems have been shown to be attracted to [[Main/{{CastFullOfGay}} other gems]] (or human women). Since their understandings of gender and sexuality are very different from human's, they don't have the concept of "same-sex attraction". Beach City is pretty inclusive, too; when Sadie starts dating the nonbinary Shep, the only objection comes from Steven, and only on the grounds that he was a ShipperOnDeck for Sadie and Lars.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? BiTheWay. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepherd (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? BiTheWay. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepherd Shepard (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? BiTheWay. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepherd (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly chambers ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}}, period - to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? BiTheWay. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepherd (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly chambers Chambers? BoldlyComing ExtremeOmnisexual.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal. To say nothing of the various romance options available to the PlayerCharacter and the relationships between the party members. Cortez? BadassGay grieving widower. Kaiden? BiTheWay. Morden? Asexual, but admits that if he were to "try" a human, Shepherd (of either gender) would be a good option. Samantha Trainor? Lesbian. Kelly chambers ExtremeOmnisexual.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}}, period - to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
* In fact, this trope is pretty much standard operating procedure in Creator/{{BioWare}}, period - to the point where it's quite noticeable when it's not in play.
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This is a trope that occurs when a society or culture introduced in a story is such that their concept of gender and sexuality is very much unlike that of modern Western society, which often means that genders gender in that society is either not a concept, much broader than male and female, or maybe it's easy to switch between genders. This also extends to sexuality in which attraction to the same gender or multiple genders is extremely common or at least totally accepted as normal by said society.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}:'' Trolls are considered bisexual by default, as their means of reproduction involves supplying material to one large mother grub rather than reproducing with each other, so any pair of trolls has the same reproductive effectiveness. They don't even consider the concepts of "straight" or "gay," as trolls who ''are'' exclusive to a single gender (namely Kanaya) are considered having a strong preference more than anything. Additionally, troll society is matriarchal, and their non-traditional views on sexism are explored through the social-justice-oriented characters of Kankri and Porrim.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}:'' Trolls are considered bisexual by default, as their means of reproduction involves supplying material to one large mother grub rather than reproducing with each other, so any pair of trolls has the same reproductive effectiveness. They don't even consider the concepts of "straight" or "gay," as trolls who ''are'' exclusive to a single gender (namely (such as Kanaya) are considered having a strong preference more than anything. Additionally, troll society is matriarchal, and their non-traditional views on sexism are explored through the social-justice-oriented characters of Kankri and Porrim.
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* Cybertron and the various colonies are portrayed like this in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. As Transformers are a mechanical life form that doesn't reproduce sexually, and female Transformers stopped appearing on Cybertron (but not the lost colonies) so long ago that many Cybertronians don't even realize they exist, same-sex couples are the norm.
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* Cybertron and the various colonies are portrayed like this in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''. As Transformers are a mechanical life form that doesn't reproduce sexually, and female Transformers stopped appearing on Cybertron (but not the lost colonies) so long ago that many Cybertronians don't even realize they exist, same-sex couples are the norm.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Etheria is a world where queer people are extremely common and never judged on it. In fact, among the major characters of the story, many are queer and it's never seen as odd. Even the villains seem to be pretty much OK with it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Etheria is a world where queer LGBT people are extremely common and never judged on it. In fact, among the major characters of the story, many it.
** Both main character Adora and main villain Catra arequeer {{Badass Gay}}s, and it's never seen as odd. Even odd or milked for {{Gayngst}}. [[spoiler:The two of them end the villains seem to be pretty much OK series with it. an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, a BigDamnKiss, and a RelationshipUpgrade (in that order).]]
** A nonbinary villain named Double Trouble uses gender-neutral "they/them" pronouns, and everyone respects that (including the villains).
** Bow [[HasTwoMommies has two dads]]. He's worried less about his friends finding out he has a gay couple as parents and worried more that [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents they'll show of all of Bow's baby pictures]].
** Side characters Netossa and Spinnerella eventually fall in love and end up married. Both of them are women, and use the word "wife" to refer to each other, showing that same-sex marriage is also accepted in Etheria.
** Both main character Adora and main villain Catra are
** A nonbinary villain named Double Trouble uses gender-neutral "they/them" pronouns, and everyone respects that (including the villains).
** Bow [[HasTwoMommies has two dads]]. He's worried less about his friends finding out he has a gay couple as parents and worried more that [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents they'll show of all of Bow's baby pictures]].
** Side characters Netossa and Spinnerella eventually fall in love and end up married. Both of them are women, and use the word "wife" to refer to each other, showing that same-sex marriage is also accepted in Etheria.
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* ''WebComic/LesNormaux'': This trait is actually contrasted with the current real world. Sebastien, the main character, moves to the Catacombs, a fantastical version of Paris hidden beneath the city where monsters and humans that use magic co-exist. Sebastien's family disapproves of him learning magic and of his homosexuality, so moving there was a plan to escape from it. In the Catacombs, he is introduced to a society where queer identities and romance are all very well accepted and fairly common.
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* ''WebComic/LesNormaux'': This trait is actually contrasted with the current real world. Sebastien, the main character, moves to the Catacombs, a fantastical version of Paris hidden beneath the city where monsters and humans that use magic co-exist. Sebastien's family disapproves of him learning magic and of his homosexuality, so moving there was a plan to escape from it. In the Catacombs, he is introduced to a society where queer identities and romance are all very well accepted and fairly common.
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This is a trope that occurs when a society or culture introduced in a story is such that their concept of gender and sexuality is very much unlike that of modern Western society, which often means that genders in that society is either not a concept, much broader than male and female, or maybe it's easy to switch between genders. This also extends to sexuality in which attraction to the same gender or multiple genders is extremely common or at least totally accepted as normal by said society.
There are usually two reasons why this trope happens:
* The media is aimed at a queer audience, and therefore is portraying a society that better represents it. As a form of {{escapism}}, it also allows this audience to be told a story of a world where homophobia and transphobia are non-existent or problems of the long forgotten past.
* The society presented is meant to be seen as alien, ethereal and/or otherworldly by not functioning at all in the same way that human society usually works.
Related to SpeculativeFictionLGBT.
Some tropes that are usually present in this kind of society include:
* BizarreAlienBiology
* BizarreAlienSexes
* BizarreHumanBiology
* CastFullOfGay
* EveryoneIsBi
* HomosexualReproduction
* LadyLand
* MonogenderMonsters
* NoBiologicalSex
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* ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'': The story takes place years and years in the future. Japan has been reduced to a fraction of its population and what is left has psychic powers. In this society, people are encouraged into having plenty of sex to keep their stress levels low, and in order to improve everyone's chances, teenagers are encouraged into trying same-sex relationship, while relationships between people of the opposite sex are forbidden until later in life, prompting an entire society of bisexuals. There are though people who are exclusively attracted to one gender or one person in the setting.
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* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': The Radchaai GalacticSuperpower doesn't practice marriage and doesn't have a societal concept of gender, so the Radchaai protagonist often has PronounTrouble when interacting with outsiders.
* ''Literature/TheForeverWar'': When Will Mandella returns to Earth following his first combat tour, he finds that the world has drastically changed. To curb overpopulation, being gay is encouraged and has become the wider norm. As Mandella sees more and more future generations thanks to TimeDilation, later ones barely even remember that human societies used to be heteronormative and gender becomes pretty much trivial.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness''. The people of the planet Gethen change their sexual identity on a regular basis. For twenty four local days out of each twenty six day local month, they are androgynous ({{Asexuality}} and NoBiologicalSex). For a two day period they become either male or female, as well as sexually active and fertile.
* In ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'', although the Hexarchate is [[TheEmpire a pretty nasty society]], it is free of heteronormativity, with cis and trans men, women and agender people accepted and no prejudice or discrimination against same-sex relationships. There is some disapproval remaining against actual gender reassignment procedures, but only among a small, very old-fashioned element of society.
* ''Literature/{{Seraphina}}'': In the country of Porphyry each person can choose their own gender and even personal pronoun others use to address them.
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheJokka'': Jokka society discourages relationships between their [[BizarreAlienSexes three sexes]] because childbirth has a high risk of inducing [[DeathOfPersonality mind death]] in the mother. And anadi are often treated like children or livestock because of said mind death while eperu are stereotyped as asexual so basically the only socially acceptable romances are between two or more emodo. The protagonists of the stories tend not to conform.
* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': The vampires in the story don't seem to be quite interested in sex, aside from a way to lure their prey, but they do form long lasting emotional relationship with each other, which seem to be made regardless of the gender of their partners. In his review of the novel, Dominic Noble describes them as being asexual and panromantic.
* Omegaverse fiction is an entire sub-genre of literature and (especially) fanfiction that portrays societies where humans have a secondary gender aside from male and female, that being alphas, betas and omegas. This kind of literature often focus on the romance between two men, usually one alpha and one omega, and very often portray the attraction between same-sex partners as entirely normal in that setting. There aren't exactly clear rules about how a society of this type works, and every author is free to make it their own, so some actually do address a similar version of homophobia which is the attraction between people of the same secondary gender rather than their primary ones.
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* In all campaigns of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'', queerness is seen as no big deal and barely even worth commenting on -- in ''[[Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance Balance]]'', multiple significant characters are gay or bisexual, and [[spoiler:Taako's [[LongLostRelative long-lost sister]] Lup]] is very casually mentioned to be [[{{Transgender}} trans]] precisely once. The next campaign ''[[Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty Amnesty]]'' follows suit, with several casually out gay characters.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}:'' Trolls are considered bisexual by default, as their means of reproduction involves supplying material to one large mother grub rather than reproducing with each other, so any pair of trolls has the same reproductive effectiveness. They don't even consider the concepts of "straight" or "gay," as trolls who ''are'' exclusive to a single gender (namely Kanaya) are considered having a strong preference more than anything. Additionally, troll society is matriarchal, and their non-traditional views on sexism are explored through the social-justice-oriented characters of Kankri and Porrim.
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* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is noted to take place in an ''extremely'' accepting world, where homophobia never even comes up -- not even in the flashbacks to Victorian times. Even Carmilla's EvilMatriarch doesn't seem to care that Carmilla's gay; it's that she keeps falling for ''humans''. The one exception is that Perry has difficulty accepting that her childhood friend [=LaFontaine=] is non-binary and now goes by they/them, but she's the only character to have such issues and she's portrayed as being unambiguously in the wrong. [[CharacterDevelopment She also gets over it]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The ''Fullbody'' version of this introduces a new race to the mix. [[spoiler:Angels/Aliens. They're a OneGenderRace of beings that take the form of androgynous, pink-haired men when among humans. Rin is one of them, and when he falls in love with Vincent, the other members of the race don't really care about the fact that he's in love with a man, but rather with the fact he wants to stay on Earth and be with Vincent rather than return to their planet. They do eventually come around and give Vincent their blessing to be with Rin.]]
* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The Asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an Asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': The game takes place in a world inhabited by monsters of various kinds. It seems that every character in the story is bisexual to some degree.
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': Because no character in the story has biological sex (they're either Androids or Machines), the concept of gender and sexuality is a bit hazy. According to side material, Androids can choose to install or not to install a component resembling genitalia, and even choose to imitate a pregnancy just to experience it. Both Androids and Machines are implied to have gender in an attempt to imitate humans, and some machines have a pretty basic understanding of it, which translates in simply wearing bows or tuxedos. Among Androids, the attraction between androids of the same gender seems to be so common that they won't even bat an eye to it, some of which includes BadassGay A2 being in love with her teammate A4, 6O being openly attracted to another female android, and 16D, a female android in a relationship with her mentor 11B, who was also female.
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* ''WebComic/LesNormaux'': This trait is actually contrasted with the current real world. Sebastien, the main character, moves to the Catacombs, a fantastical version of Paris hidden beneath the city where monsters and humans that use magic co-exist. Sebastien's family disapproves of him learning magic and of his homosexuality, so moving there was a plan to escape from it. In the Catacombs, he is introduced to a society where queer identities and romance are all very well accepted and fairly common.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The gems are an alien race of [[Main/{{NoBiologicalSex}} sexless]] [[Main/{{OneGenderRace}} female-presenting beings]] from another [[Main/{{LadyLand}} world]]. Most gems have been shown to be attracted to [[Main/{{CastFullOfGay}} other gems]] (or human women). Since their understandings of gender and sexuality are very different from human's, they don't have the concept of "same-sex attraction".
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Etheria is a world where queer people are extremely common and never judged on it. In fact, among the major characters of the story, many are queer and it's never seen as odd. Even the villains seem to be pretty much OK with it.
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'''Alternative title(s)''': Queer Society, Queer World
[[caption-width-right:350:You wouldn't need to worry about coming out here.]]
This is a trope that occurs when a society or culture introduced in a story is such that their concept of gender and sexuality is very much unlike that of modern Western society, which often means that genders in that society is either not a concept, much broader than male and female, or maybe it's easy to switch between genders. This also extends to sexuality in which attraction to the same gender or multiple genders is extremely common or at least totally accepted as normal by said society.
There are usually two reasons why this trope happens:
* The media is aimed at a queer audience, and therefore is portraying a society that better represents it. As a form of {{escapism}}, it also allows this audience to be told a story of a world where homophobia and transphobia are non-existent or problems of the long forgotten past.
* The society presented is meant to be seen as alien, ethereal and/or otherworldly by not functioning at all in the same way that human society usually works.
Related to SpeculativeFictionLGBT.
Some tropes that are usually present in this kind of society include:
* BizarreAlienBiology
* BizarreAlienSexes
* BizarreHumanBiology
* CastFullOfGay
* EveryoneIsBi
* HomosexualReproduction
* LadyLand
* MonogenderMonsters
* NoBiologicalSex
* OneGenderRace
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* ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'': The story takes place years and years in the future. Japan has been reduced to a fraction of its population and what is left has psychic powers. In this society, people are encouraged into having plenty of sex to keep their stress levels low, and in order to improve everyone's chances, teenagers are encouraged into trying same-sex relationship, while relationships between people of the opposite sex are forbidden until later in life, prompting an entire society of bisexuals. There are though people who are exclusively attracted to one gender or one person in the setting.
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* ''Literature/ImperialRadch'': The Radchaai GalacticSuperpower doesn't practice marriage and doesn't have a societal concept of gender, so the Radchaai protagonist often has PronounTrouble when interacting with outsiders.
* ''Literature/TheForeverWar'': When Will Mandella returns to Earth following his first combat tour, he finds that the world has drastically changed. To curb overpopulation, being gay is encouraged and has become the wider norm. As Mandella sees more and more future generations thanks to TimeDilation, later ones barely even remember that human societies used to be heteronormative and gender becomes pretty much trivial.
* Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin's ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness''. The people of the planet Gethen change their sexual identity on a regular basis. For twenty four local days out of each twenty six day local month, they are androgynous ({{Asexuality}} and NoBiologicalSex). For a two day period they become either male or female, as well as sexually active and fertile.
* In ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'', although the Hexarchate is [[TheEmpire a pretty nasty society]], it is free of heteronormativity, with cis and trans men, women and agender people accepted and no prejudice or discrimination against same-sex relationships. There is some disapproval remaining against actual gender reassignment procedures, but only among a small, very old-fashioned element of society.
* ''Literature/{{Seraphina}}'': In the country of Porphyry each person can choose their own gender and even personal pronoun others use to address them.
* ''Literature/TalesOfTheJokka'': Jokka society discourages relationships between their [[BizarreAlienSexes three sexes]] because childbirth has a high risk of inducing [[DeathOfPersonality mind death]] in the mother. And anadi are often treated like children or livestock because of said mind death while eperu are stereotyped as asexual so basically the only socially acceptable romances are between two or more emodo. The protagonists of the stories tend not to conform.
* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': The vampires in the story don't seem to be quite interested in sex, aside from a way to lure their prey, but they do form long lasting emotional relationship with each other, which seem to be made regardless of the gender of their partners. In his review of the novel, Dominic Noble describes them as being asexual and panromantic.
* Omegaverse fiction is an entire sub-genre of literature and (especially) fanfiction that portrays societies where humans have a secondary gender aside from male and female, that being alphas, betas and omegas. This kind of literature often focus on the romance between two men, usually one alpha and one omega, and very often portray the attraction between same-sex partners as entirely normal in that setting. There aren't exactly clear rules about how a society of this type works, and every author is free to make it their own, so some actually do address a similar version of homophobia which is the attraction between people of the same secondary gender rather than their primary ones.
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* In all campaigns of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'', queerness is seen as no big deal and barely even worth commenting on -- in ''[[Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance Balance]]'', multiple significant characters are gay or bisexual, and [[spoiler:Taako's [[LongLostRelative long-lost sister]] Lup]] is very casually mentioned to be [[{{Transgender}} trans]] precisely once. The next campaign ''[[Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty Amnesty]]'' follows suit, with several casually out gay characters.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}:'' Trolls are considered bisexual by default, as their means of reproduction involves supplying material to one large mother grub rather than reproducing with each other, so any pair of trolls has the same reproductive effectiveness. They don't even consider the concepts of "straight" or "gay," as trolls who ''are'' exclusive to a single gender (namely Kanaya) are considered having a strong preference more than anything. Additionally, troll society is matriarchal, and their non-traditional views on sexism are explored through the social-justice-oriented characters of Kankri and Porrim.
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* ''WebVideo/CarmillaTheSeries'' is noted to take place in an ''extremely'' accepting world, where homophobia never even comes up -- not even in the flashbacks to Victorian times. Even Carmilla's EvilMatriarch doesn't seem to care that Carmilla's gay; it's that she keeps falling for ''humans''. The one exception is that Perry has difficulty accepting that her childhood friend [=LaFontaine=] is non-binary and now goes by they/them, but she's the only character to have such issues and she's portrayed as being unambiguously in the wrong. [[CharacterDevelopment She also gets over it]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The ''Fullbody'' version of this introduces a new race to the mix. [[spoiler:Angels/Aliens. They're a OneGenderRace of beings that take the form of androgynous, pink-haired men when among humans. Rin is one of them, and when he falls in love with Vincent, the other members of the race don't really care about the fact that he's in love with a man, but rather with the fact he wants to stay on Earth and be with Vincent rather than return to their planet. They do eventually come around and give Vincent their blessing to be with Rin.]]
* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series, the Orlesian nobility views sex as just another weapon in the Grand Game of courtly intrigue, meaning that gender and biological sex have no practical bearing on which Orlesian noble sleeps with whom. This goes all the way up to the current Empress of Orlais, who is a lesbian in a long-term relationship[[note]]though she still has to hide it because her lover is an ''elf'' -- i.e. it's okay to be queer in Orlais, but [[FantasticRacism interracial relationships are a no-no]][[/note]], and extends as far down as the "bards" -- a euphemism for traveling assassins/spies for hire, who get into their marks' good graces with music and seduction.[[note]]E.g. the companion Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a former Orlesian bard and one of two bisexual [[RomanceSidequest romance candidates]].[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': The Asari are a OneGenderRace of blue-skinned women who all seem to be pansexual. Because of their biology, they can reproduce with anyone, of any gender and any race (though the child will always be an Asari), and their relationship to other women is pretty normal.
* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': The game takes place in a world inhabited by monsters of various kinds. It seems that every character in the story is bisexual to some degree.
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': Because no character in the story has biological sex (they're either Androids or Machines), the concept of gender and sexuality is a bit hazy. According to side material, Androids can choose to install or not to install a component resembling genitalia, and even choose to imitate a pregnancy just to experience it. Both Androids and Machines are implied to have gender in an attempt to imitate humans, and some machines have a pretty basic understanding of it, which translates in simply wearing bows or tuxedos. Among Androids, the attraction between androids of the same gender seems to be so common that they won't even bat an eye to it, some of which includes BadassGay A2 being in love with her teammate A4, 6O being openly attracted to another female android, and 16D, a female android in a relationship with her mentor 11B, who was also female.
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* ''WebComic/LesNormaux'': This trait is actually contrasted with the current real world. Sebastien, the main character, moves to the Catacombs, a fantastical version of Paris hidden beneath the city where monsters and humans that use magic co-exist. Sebastien's family disapproves of him learning magic and of his homosexuality, so moving there was a plan to escape from it. In the Catacombs, he is introduced to a society where queer identities and romance are all very well accepted and fairly common.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The gems are an alien race of [[Main/{{NoBiologicalSex}} sexless]] [[Main/{{OneGenderRace}} female-presenting beings]] from another [[Main/{{LadyLand}} world]]. Most gems have been shown to be attracted to [[Main/{{CastFullOfGay}} other gems]] (or human women). Since their understandings of gender and sexuality are very different from human's, they don't have the concept of "same-sex attraction".
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Etheria is a world where queer people are extremely common and never judged on it. In fact, among the major characters of the story, many are queer and it's never seen as odd. Even the villains seem to be pretty much OK with it.
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'''Alternative title(s)''': Queer Society, Queer World
