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* ''Literature/{{Run}}''
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* Podcast/TheRead: Both hosts Kid Fury and Crissle are queer, and centers around the African-American queer perspective on issues and pop culture.

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** ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'': The album is set around a SpeculativeFictionLGBT society in the waning days of planet Earth; several songs touch on LGBT characters and blurring gender and sexuality's lines.
** ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'': "Scream Like a Baby" is an ode against homophobia and conversion therapy, describing a gay couple imprisoned by a fascist dictatorship.
* Culture Club's ''Music/KissingToBeClever'': Most of the album's songs discuss frontman Boy George's relationship with drummer Jon Moss.
* Todrick Hall's ''Music/StraightOuttaOz'' has several songs about being gay, drawn from Hall's own experiences. "Color" is about him falling in love with a man for the first time and how it changed his life completely. "Papi" is about him, a gay man, being hit on (and fetishized by) a woman and wondering if it'll affect his career if he says no and his sexuality becomes public.
* Dev Hynes' ''Music/NegroSwan'''s main themes are about gender and sexuality, especially the experiences of queer POC.
* Music/JanelleMonae
** ''Music/DirtyComputer''
** ''Music/TheAgeOfPleasure''

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** 1972 - ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'': The album is set around a SpeculativeFictionLGBT society in the waning days of planet Earth; several songs touch on LGBT characters and blurring gender and sexuality's lines.
** 1980 - ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'': "Scream Like a Baby" is an ode against homophobia and conversion therapy, describing a gay couple imprisoned by a fascist dictatorship.
* Culture Club's Club:
** 1982 -
''Music/KissingToBeClever'': Most of the album's songs discuss frontman Boy George's relationship with drummer Jon Moss.
* Todrick Hall's ''Music/StraightOuttaOz'' has Hall
** 2016 - ''Music/StraightOuttaOz'': Has
several songs about being gay, drawn from Hall's own experiences. "Color" is about him falling in love with a man for the first time and how it changed his life completely. "Papi" is about him, a gay man, being hit on (and fetishized by) a woman and wondering if it'll affect his career if he says no and his sexuality becomes public.
* Dev Hynes' ''Music/NegroSwan'''s Hynes
** 2018 - ''Music/NegroSwan'': The album's
main themes are about gender and sexuality, especially the experiences of queer POC.
* Music/JanelleMonae
Janelle Monae
** 2018 - ''Music/DirtyComputer''
** 2023 - ''Music/TheAgeOfPleasure''



** ''Music/{{Montero}}'': A big theme of the album is {{Gayngst}} and the struggles that come with being gay.

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** 2021 - ''Music/{{Montero}}'': A big theme of the album is {{Gayngst}} and the struggles that come with being gay.



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** ''Music/{{Transformer}}'': "Walk on the Wild Side" is an ode to and namedrops various LGBT members of Creator/AndyWarhol's inner circle.
** ''Music/{{New York|1989}}'': "Halloween Parade" details the heavy impact of the AIDS epidemic on the LGBT community in New York.
* R.E.M.'s ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi'': "New Test Leper" is about a gay man with AIDS being harassed on live TV by a homophobic host and audience; frontman Michael Stipe based the lyrics on an incident that happened to a trans woman in real life.
* serpentwithfeet's ''Music/{{soil}}'' has several songs about the singer's sexuality, including "slow syrup" (breaking up with a male lover) and "wrong lover" (being in unrequited love with another man).
* The Velvet Underground's ''Music/WhiteLightWhiteHeat'': "Lady Godiva's Operation" discusses the use of lobotomy as a form of conversion therapy, describing a trans woman who dies from a botched procedure.

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** 1972 - ''Music/{{Transformer}}'': "Walk on the Wild Side" is an ode to and namedrops various LGBT members of Creator/AndyWarhol's inner circle.
** 1989 - ''Music/{{New York|1989}}'': "Halloween Parade" details the heavy impact of the AIDS epidemic on the LGBT community in New York.
* R.E.M.'s M
** 1996 -
''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi'': "New Test Leper" is about a gay man with AIDS being harassed on live TV by a homophobic host and audience; frontman Michael Stipe based the lyrics on an incident that happened to a trans woman in real life.
* serpentwithfeet's ''Music/{{soil}}'' has serpentwithfeet'
** 2018 - ''Music/{{soil}}'': Has
several songs about the singer's sexuality, including "slow syrup" (breaking up with a male lover) and "wrong lover" (being in unrequited love with another man).
* The Velvet Underground's Underground
** 1968 -
''Music/WhiteLightWhiteHeat'': "Lady Godiva's Operation" discusses the use of lobotomy as a form of conversion therapy, describing a trans woman who dies from a botched procedure.
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* Music/GracePetrie:
** "Black Tie" is about identity, transphobia and escaping restrictive views of gender.
** "The Last Man On Earth" is about UnrequitedLove and IncompatibleOrientation, with the singer conscious that she'll only ever be seen as a platonic friend by the woman she cares for.
** "Pride" looks at the progress since Stonewall, acknowledging that equality's an ongoing struggle.
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* ''VideoGame/AllWallsMustFall''
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General clarification on work content: calling Frank in the original film a trans woman suggests the film's portrayal is misgendering the character since he is always referred to as "he". Frank was based on Richard O'Brien's own experiences with gender: like the character, he identified as a "transvestite" at the time, and he has since come out as nonbinary but still uses he/him and does not identify as a woman.


* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' (Pansexual and transgender female main character, sexually fluid supporting characters, is one of the cult classics in the queer community.)
** ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain''

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* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' (Pansexual : Pansexual and transgender female crossdressing possibly nonbinary (it's hard to tell given that Frank is an alien from a planet with different ideas about gender and sexuality--human terminology might not quite describe him) main character, sexually fluid supporting characters, characters some of whom also crossdress, is one of the cult classics in the queer community.)
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** ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain''''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain'' (changes Frank to a trans woman, though one who still self-describes as a "transvestite")
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* ''Literature/DeathInVenice''
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** ''Literature/SymphonyOfHuntedTruths''
** ''Literature/SymphonyOfAwakenedGods''
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Moving to LGBT Representation In Media since it doesn't fit the criteria here.


* ''Film/DriveAwayDolls'': Thriller-sex-comedy with lesbian heroines.

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** ''Series/DragRaceGermany'': The German version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''
** ''Series/DragRaceMexico'': The Mexican version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''

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** ''Series/DragRaceGermany'': The German version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''
''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''.
** ''Series/DragRaceItalia'': The Italian version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''.
** ''Series/DragRaceMexico'': The Mexican version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''.



** ''Series/DragRaceThailand'': The Thai version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''

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** ''Series/DragRaceThailand'': The Thai version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''.



** ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVsTheWorld''

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** ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVsTheWorld''''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVsTheWorld'': A spinoff of ''[=RuPaul=]'s Drag Race UK'' that pits competitors from various international ''Drag Race'' series against each other.
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* ''ComicBook/HollowHeart'': The cast is primarily queer and revolves around a romance between the main monster character (who identifies as male) and a male human, the story has several allegories to queer experiences.
* ''ComicBook/IcemanMarvelComics'': The 2017 and 2018 volumes revolve around original 60's ''ComicBook/XMen'' member Iceman/Bobby Drake coming to terms with his sexuality and being an out gay superhero; Subject matter includes coming out and homophobia.

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* ''ComicBook/HollowHeart'': The cast is primarily queer and revolves around a romance between the main monster character (who identifies as male) and a male human, while the story has several allegories to queer experiences.
experiences as well.
* ''ComicBook/IcemanMarvelComics'': The 2017 and 2018 volumes revolve around original 60's ''ComicBook/XMen'' member Iceman/Bobby Drake coming to terms with his sexuality and being an out gay superhero; Subject subject matter includes coming out and homophobia.
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* ''ComicBook/HollowHeart'': The cast is primarily queer and revolves around a romance between the main monster character (who identifies as male) and a male human.

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* ''ComicBook/HollowHeart'': The cast is primarily queer and revolves around a romance between the main monster character (who identifies as male) and a male human.human, the story has several allegories to queer experiences.
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* ''ComicBook/HollowHeart'': The cast is primarily queer and revolves around a romance between the main monster character (who identifies as male) and a male human.
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* ''Series/MaryAndGeorge'': Historical drama focusing on George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, a favourite and lover of King James VI and I.
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* ''Film/Femme2023''
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* ''Film/{{Bottoms}}'': A (blood-soaked, slapstick) rom-com focusing on a pair of lesbian best friends in high school and their QuestForSex. It involves setting up a fight club for girls. Other significant characters, like Hazel and Rhodes, are also lesbians, while Isabel seems to be a bisexual girl.
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* ''Film/{{Chloe}}'': Bisexual female main characters; subject matter includes queer female romance.
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* ''Webcomic/MargeSimpsonAnime''
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* ''Film/{{Rustin}}'': The film is a biopic about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who was gay and lived as it openly even though homosexuality was criminal in much of the U.S. at the time of the film's events.
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* ''Literature/CampDamascus''
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* ''Film/Bruno2009'': The titular character is CampGay.
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* ''Theatre/BreakingTheCode''
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* ''Film/GoldenDelicious'' (about a young boy coming to terms with his sexuality when meeting his attractive, openly gay neighbor)
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** ''Literature/SymphonyOfShiftingTides''
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* ''Film/DriveAwayDolls'': Thriller-sex-comedy with lesbian heroines.
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* ''Literature/ElanciaChronicles''
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** ''Series/DragRaceThailand'': The Thai version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''
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