LGBT Representation In Media / Live-Action TV

Live-action TV shows with a prominent focus on LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual and/or 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. Word of Gay examples do not go here: the character's identity must be established within the work itself. See LGBT Fanbase for works that do not have unambiguous 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 LGBT Representation in Media for a list of works in other mediums with prominent LGBTQIA+ representation.

See also Queer Media for works with a primary focus on LGBT people, queer subjects and themes and Queer Romance for works that focus on romantic relationships between queer characters as the main plot. See also LGBT+ Creators for a list of artists/media creators who are LGBTQIA+.

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• The 100: A post-apocalyptic teen drama focusing on people who survived World War III through living in the Ark (formerly the International Space Station) before coming back down onto Earth almost a century later and the conflicts they get into with other groups (or each other). The lead character, Clarke, is a bisexual girl who gets involved with Lexa, the leader of one Grounder (Earth-based) group, which is played out at length. It caused much criticism and debate after Lexa was killed right after they consummated their relationship. She later also hooked up with another woman, Niylah, who becomes a major character (the pair don't get involved further).
• 13 Reasons Why: Teen drama centering around a young girl who committed suicide and her taped confessions, there are several LGBTQIA+ supporting characters including Tony, a gay teen who is Clay's best friend, Courtney, a budding lesbian whose parents are two gay men, Ryan, the gay school newspaper editor, and Monty, a Armoured Closet Gay football player. The final season adds Winston, another gay teen that was seeing Monty as a regular, Dean of Discipline Hansen Foundry is revealed to be gay, and Alex realizes he is bisexual and dates a bisexual football player.
• 4400: A reboot of the 2000s television series The 4400; the main cast is considerably more diverse than the original, with a predominately Black cast that includes Keisha, a lesbian corrections officer, and Andre, a transgender man from the 1920s. The supporting cast includes several LGBTQIA+ characters, including Jessica, Keisha's ex-girlfriend and special agent Soraya, a queer tech expert.
• 9-1-1: Procedural drama based on the professional and personal lives of first responders; the principal cast includes Michael, who came out as gay after 14 years of being married to a woman and Henrietta/"Hen", a lesbian firefighter and paramedic. Recurring characters include Hen's wife Karen, Hen's ex-girlfriend Eva, and Josh, a gay dispatcher.
  • 9-1-1: Lone Star: Drama spun off from 9-1-1 based on the lives of first responders in Austin, Texas; the series has three queer men as part of the main ensemble: TK and Carlos who are both gay and in a relationship, and Paul, who is a trans man.
• Abbott Elementary: Mockumentary series about the teachers at a Philadelphia inner city school; supporting character Jacob is gay and is dating recurring character Zach.
• Accused (2023):
  • In "Robyn's Story", Robyn is a gay drag queen who had dated closeted gay or bi man Keith.
  • In "Esme's Story", Esme is dating Aaliyah, another young woman she lives with.
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Recurring character Joey Gutierrez is gay.
• All American: Series about a high school football player juggling living and playing for a rich Beverly Hills school while trying to represent his urban hometown; Coop, a lesbian and her girlfriend Patience are part of the main cast with storylines centered around their relationship.
  • All American: Homecoming: Spin-off of All American set at a historically Black college; Keisha, a bisexual woman, is part of the main cast, and additionally supporting character Nathaniel is non-binary and transfeminine.
• All My Children: Bianca Montgomery is a lesbian.
• All Rise: One of the main characters is Judge Lisa Benner. Though she's been married to a man, it turns out she dated Jean Frost in law school, and is revealed as bisexual when looking for dates again, with a majority of the people she's matched with being women.
• Almost Family: A subplot in the first (and only) season is Edie, who is married to a man, falling in love with a woman for the first time and realizing that she's a lesbian.
• Altered Carbon: In Season 2 one of the main characters is Trepp, who's a lesbian Bounty Hunter.
• Amazing Stories (2020): In "The Heat" the female lead characters Tuka and Sterling confess they're in love with each other near the end, with it being implied they're a couple after this.
• American Auto: Cyrus, one of the main characters, is gay.
• American Gods: One of the main characters is Bilquis, a Love Goddess who's shown having sex with men and women quite explicitly. Salim is also a closeted gay Muslim Omani who gets involved with a male djinn. Later minor character Samantha "Sam" Black Crow is a Cherokee Two-Spirit.
• Andi Mack: Children's series about Andi Mack, an Asian-American girl and her coming of age; Andi's male best friend Cyrus has a storyline where he discovers that he is gay. He later crushes on a supporting character TJ who realizes that he is gay as well. Subject matter includes LGBTQIA+ youth, coming out, queer male romance and LGBTQIA+ acceptance.
• And Just Like That...: Miranda realizes that she's bisexual/pansexual after falling for her nonbinary friend Che, and there is a subplot involving Charlotte's child being transgender.
• Andor: Cinta and Vel, the women in the Rebel cell Andor joins, turn out to be a couple. This is notable as the first onscreen LGBT+ characters in Star Wars (who weren't just easily missed background characters anyway).
• Arrested Development: Tobias is heavily implied to be gay, and the fourth season reveals that GOB is bisexual.
• Arrow: Superhero series about Oliver Queen defending Starling City as the Green Arrow; there have been several LGBTQIA+ characters throughout the run of the series, most prominently the bisexual Sara Lance aka Black Canary aka White Canary who was introduced in season two and then went on to her own adventures. Nyssa Al-Ghul, who is a lesbian in this adaptation, was her love interest. Another case of Adaptational Sexuality is Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific who is a gay man. Oliver's son, both his present and future variants, is also gay.
• The Astronauts (2020): One of the lead characters has two mothers, one of whom is a famous astronaut.
• Atypical: From the second season onward Casey's growing realization that she's bisexual is a subplot, as well as her being torn between her feelings for her friend Izzie and her boyfriend Evan.
• Avocado Toast: One of the two lead characters is Molly, who's bisexual. The first season heavily involves her trying to get back with her girlfriend and tell her parents, but the second season moves into other things. A lesbian and gay men are supporting characters. Later another supporting character is shown to be a lesbian sexual abuser.
• Baby: Fabio, one of the main characters, starts out in the closet and comes out by the end of the first season. In season 2, the villainous Brando is also revealed to be gay, but he has much more trouble coming out due to his unsupportive father and homophobic friends. In season 3, Brando's Heel–Face Turn comes with him finally accepting his sexuality.
• Babylon 5: Although this wasn't allowed to be explicit then onscreen, Susan and Talia had been involved, something confirmed by the creator plus both actresses.
• The Baby-Sitters Club (2020), an adaptation of The Baby-Sitters Club middle grade book series chock full of Adaptational Diversity, has one of the main characters, Dawn, mention that she's open to dating anyone on the gender spectrum. A few are recurring and one-time characters queer characters which include Dawn's father, who is gay.
• Barry: NoHo Hank, one of the main Chechen criminals, is implied to be gay from the beginning. It's confirmed when he and Bolivian gangster Cristóbal become a couple.
• The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself: One third of the Power Trio at the center of the story is Gabriel, a gay alchemist. He is also the Closet Key for protagonist Nathan, who is bi.
• Batwoman (2019): Superhero series about Batwoman stepping up to defend Gotham; both Kate, the protagonist in the first season, and her successor Ryan are lesbians. Kate's ex-girlfriend Sophie is also a main character, and the series has had several queer recurring/supporting characters such as Ryan's ex-girlfriend Angelique and Evan Blake/Wolf Spider who is non-binary.
• The Beauty Queen Of Jerusalem: Luna's boss Alfred Zacks, a supporting character, is gay.
• Better Things: One of the main characters is Frankie, who's speculated by her sister as being a trans boy. Frankie however does not say definitely, but is indicated to at least be nonbinary. There's a gay main character as well, who's more or less a surrogate father to the Fox kids. A lesbian couple are supporting characters as well in later seasons.
• Betty: Kit is a lesbian and Honeybear is bisexual. Both of them date other women in the series.
• Billions: Taylor Mason, a member of the main cast from season 3 onward, is non-binary.
• Billy on the Street: Host Billy Eichner often makes references to his homosexuality and references gay culture.
• Black Lightning (2018): Superhero series about Jefferson Pierce suiting up again as Black Lightning to defend his city, all while dealing with family drama and his daughters gaining powers of their own; Jefferson's eldest daughter Anissa is a lesbian and is in a relationship with Grace Choi, a bisexual metahuman.
• Black Mirror: In "Hang the DJ" Amy is matched mostly to men, but also one women, indicating she's bisexual though with a preference for guys.
• Black Sails: Several of the characters are bisexual, gay or lesbian, and Anne realizing that she's bisexual after falling for Max is a subplot.
• Black Spot: Protagonist Laurène's right hand man is Martial Ferrandis, an openly gay man.
• The Bold Type: Workplace dramedy about three young women living in New York City and working for a women's magazine; one the main characters Kat is trying to figure out her sexuality and later comes out as bisexual.
• Bonding: Pete, one of the main characters, is gay.
• Bones: Angela, one of the main characters, is a bisexual woman. She rekindles her relationship with a woman in one season, but they later break up again.
• Das Boot (2018): Simone, an ethnic German French translator, gets involved with Carla, the American communist who's fighting with the French Resistance cell who she's passing secrets to.
• The Boys (2019): Maeve, one of the main characters, is bisexual. Her struggles with being closeted and then forcibly outed, at which point she's unwillingly turned into an LGBT+ icon while also portrayed as a lesbian (as her bisexuality is "confusing") gets explored. Elena, Maeve's ex-girlfriend, is a supporting character. A couple other supporting characters are also LGBT+. The themes of homophobia vs. acceptance (sometimes just for corporate exploitation) are highlighted, plus bisexual erasure.
• The Brittas Empire: Two of the supporting characters are a gay couple named Tim and Gavin, with some of the humor of the show coming from Brittas being oblivious to their relationship.
• Broad City: Ilana, one of the protagonists, is bisexual and is open about her attraction to Abbi.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Captain Holt, the captain of the 99 Precinct, is a married gay man, and Detective Rosa Diaz is bisexual. Several episodes discuss how it's been a combination of racism and homophobia that made it take so long for Holt to be promoted to captain, and we see Rosa's struggle to come out to her unaccepting family and their pressure on her to only date men.
• Brothers & Sisters: Kevin is gay, and eventually marries his long-time boyfriend Scotty during the course of the series. His uncle Saul comes out as gay in the second season.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow is revealed to be a lesbian in Season 4 along with lesbian character Tara joining the cast, and their romance is a recurring subplot with a big impact on Season 6's plot.
• Burden of Truth: Two of the female main characters have a relationship. One, Luna, also dates another woman after the two end their relationship. Later another lesbian character is also introduced.
• Carnival Row: Vignette, one of the lead characters, is a female fairy who's bisexual. Her ex-girlfriend Tourmaline is a main character too. They get back together and marry in the series finale.
• Charmed (2018): Mel, one of the leads, is a lesbian. There are several other lesbians and bisexual women as main characters. Among the supporting characters are more lesbians, a trans man and a trans woman.
• Chasing Life: Brenna, one of the main characters, is a bisexual girl. Revealing this to her family and standing up to people claiming she's simply confused are subplots, along with her dating Greer, who's a lesbian girl at her school. Along with Greer are several other LGBT+ supporting characters, for instance other queer students who have a club which Brenna joins, and lesbian Margo, whom she starts dating briefly after she parts from Greer. Beth, another main character, is implied to also be bisexual, but it doesn't get explored.
• The Cherry Queen: Two supporting characters are lesbians in 1930s Germany. The situation for them degrades as much as it does for the Jewish woman protagonist with the rise of the Nazis.
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: The Witch society in this series seems to be completely welcoming of queerness. In this adaptation, Sabrina's cousin, Ambrose, and Aunt, Zelda, are both shown to have same-sex attractions and have same-sex Love Interests. One of Sabrina's best friends, Theo, is a trans man, and coming to terms with this is a major character arc.
• Chucky: Horror series about the titular doll finding his way into the hands of Jake, an abused gay teen boy. Jake is nursing a crush on Devon, another gay teen. Tiffany Valentine, inhabiting the body of actor Jennifer Tilly (It's a Long Story) is bisexual. Chucky and Tiffany's children, the non-binary twins Glen and Glenda also make an appearance.
• Class of '07: Lesbians Tegan and Phoebe are two of the main characters on the show.
• Class of '09: Two of the main female characters, Poet and Hour, are both queer women. Hour is a lesbian, having hid the fact for a long time, even marrying a man to pretend otherwise in fear of her parents' reaction to this if she'd come out. Poet is bisexual, dating first Daniel and later Hour (they even get engaged). They don't stay together but remain friends afterward. Hour later marries another woman, with the two having children as well.
• The Cleaning Lady: One of the main characters is Nadia, who's a bisexual woman.
• Community: Dean Pelton is pansexual.
• Constantine (2014): The main character Constantine is a bisexual man (retroactively).
• Control Z: Several of the main characters are queer: Isabela is a trans girl, Alex is a lesbian who is in a secret relationship with her teacher, and Gerry is attracted to men but is fiercely in denial about it. As the plot is kicked off by a hacker revealing a huge number of the student's secrets, they are all forcibly outed. In the second season, Gerry accepts his sexuality, dating a man. His boyfriend is then a supporting character.
• The Cool Kids: Sid is a Camp Gay elderly man.
• Council of Dads: Drama series about three friends recruited to be father figures for their deceased friend Scott's children; Oliver, one of recruited dads, is an African-American gay man, who is married to another gay Black male recurring character, additionally Scott's adopted Chinese daughter Charlotte is a lesbian and his son JJ is a young transgender boy.
• Counterpart (2018): The mysterious female assassin Baldwin is a Butch Lesbian, it's revealed, and begins dating a woman named Greta. Earlier she and Clare had sex too, which was for making Baldwin vulnerable it turns out. Baldwin's counterpart Nadia Fierro is also a lesbian, though having a far more feminine style. Claude Lambert is also shown having sex with multiple women before it's also revealed later that he's seeing his own counterpart too.
• Conversations with Friends: The main character Frances is a bisexual woman, who's best friends with Bobbi, an African-American lesbian whom she previously dated. At the end they get back together.
• Conviction (2016): Hayes Morrison, the lead character, is a bisexual woman. Her ex-girlfriend Naomi Golden is also bisexual and a supporting character.
• Cowboy Bebop (2021): Faye in this series is shown to be bisexual and sleeps with another woman at one point. Gren, the matrie-d at Ana's club, is shown to be non-binary.
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Rebecca's boss Darryl has a Coming-Out Story about his bisexuality, as well as a romantic arc with the gay White Josh. Valencia also gets a girlfriend in Season 3, and minor character Maya is bisexual, with her A Day in the Limelight episode focusing on her pursuing a woman.
• Creepshow: "Lydia Lane's Better Half" is about the titular Lydia Lane, who gets into a fight with her girlfriend Celia and accidentally kills her. She tries to cover it up, but Celia's spirit comes back for revenge.
• Criminal Minds: Evolution: One of the main characters is Tara Lewis, who's shown to be involved with another woman. Before, her past onscreen relationships were only with men, but Tara says she's dated women before too. Her actress has said she considers Tara pansexual, though the character doesn't use any labels.
• Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019): Due to being a crossover between other Arrowverse shows, it features multiple returning queer characters, such as the bisexual Sara Lance and the lesbian Kate Kane.
• The Crowded Room: A complex example, given that the series centers on a character with split personalities, Danny. Among them is Ariana, a black bisexual woman. While she's dominant, Danny presents through Ariana as a woman, having sex with both a man and woman. So he has bisexual and genderfluid aspects, but Danny himself is a straight cisgender man. Jerome, the man Ariana has an affair with, identifies as a gay man. Danny also has another alter, Jonny, who's a queer man and involved with his drug dealer Angelo.
• The Crown (2016): Lord Snowdon is bisexual.
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Recurring character Wanda is eventually revealed to be a lesbian due to her actress Wanda Sykes coming out in real life. Joey Funkhouser, the son of Larry's friend Marty Funkhouser, initially identifies as a lesbian but later comes out as a trans man. Rosie O'Donnell plays herself in multiple episodes and is a lesbian.
• Curon: Protagonist Daria and Micki are in a sapphic relationship with each other.

Series D-G

• Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: True Crime miniseries on Jeffery Dahmer, an infamous serial killer who was gay, along with many of his male victims. In addition to this, the mini-series puts greater emphasis on the racism and homophobia of the time period that allowed Dahmer to get away with his crimes.
• Daisy Jones & The Six: Simone, one of the female main characters, turns out to be into women. She starts a relationship with Butch Lesbian club DJ Bernie, and she's also accused of loving Daisy.
• Dante's Cove: Most of the main cast is queer, and the series mostly focuses on a gay couple as the viewpoint characters.
• Dark Angel: Original Cindy, one of the main characters, is a lesbian. One episode has her ex-girlfriend also reappear before she's murdered. In another Normal dates a trans woman briefly, who it turns out is also a lesbian, ending the relationship (she hits on Cindy and is turned down).
• Dark Desire: One of the main characters is Zoe, who has sex with her roommate, a lesbian, then also a man. This leads to her questioning her orientation. By Season 2 Zoe's started dating Karina, her roommate, and she's concluded she just likes both.
• Dark Matter (2015): Two it turns out had a relationship with another woman in the past (her creator, actually, since she's a human-like android), after having slept with different men. For a time another bisexual woman is a supporting character too.
• Dates: Two of the protagonists are lesbians. Erica starts out in the closet due to her family being homophobic. She's inspired to come out partly due to falling for Kate, a bold out lesbian goth, and encouragement from a guy whom Erica went on a date with for cover.
• Daughter From Another Mother: Mariana, one of the two protagonists, is a bisexual woman.
• Deadloch: Comedy mystery series set in a small Tasmanian town that has recently become the home of a thriving lesbian community. The main character, Dulcie, is a lesbian, and many supporting characters are also lesbians. One of Dulcie’s coworkers, Sven, is a gay man.
• Dead Boy Detectives (2024): Main character Edwin has a crush on his best friend Charles.
• Dead of Summer: Two of the main characters on the show are gay boys, Blair and Drew with a mutual attraction. Blair is initially shocked to learn Drew is transgender though, and rejects him. However, they reconcile and by the end they've begun a relationship.
• Dead to Me: Judy, one of the two protagonists, is a bisexual woman.
• Dear White People: Series following up on the events of the film; Lionel is a main character and gay, as is the supporting character Silvio, a conservative Mexican-American man. Additionally several queer women are supporting characters, including lesbian Kelsey, trans woman Genifer and bisexual Neika, with two other lesbian guest characters.
• Defiance: Three of the female main characters are queer women, two from the humanoid alien spieces on the show. Kenya Rosewater, a human, is bisexual. Stahma Tarr, a Castithan, is as well. Meh Yewell, an Indogene, turns out to have had a female lover in the past. Yewell is not shown as attracted to anyone else since then; Kenya and Stahma are lovers for a time, while also being with men.
• Degrassi: The Next Generation: Teen drama series with a large ensemble cast that included several LGBTQIA+ (including pansexual and non-binary) main characters and several LGBTQIA+ supporting characters has dealt with a number of subplots related to LGBTQIA+ teens.
• Deputy: Bishop, one of the main characters, is a Butch Lesbian. It's revealed right in the pilot, with Bishop's girlfriend soon introduced. Later it's revealed Bishop's also nonbinary and discusses the identity with Paula, another main character who's a medical doctor. Bishop's girlfriend doesn't accept this, with them breaking up. After this Bishop switches to they/them pronouns and dates another woman who's accepting.
• Derry Girls: Clare, one of the main characters, is a lesbian and one episode is about her coming out.
• Desperate Housewives: Bob and Lee are a married gay couple.
• Deutschland 83: Lenora Rauch is a main character during all three seasons, while she's bisexual. Then the second season has Rose Seithathi as a main character, who's also bisexual and Lenora's lover (after this she leaves the series).
• Diary of a Future President: The main character's brother Bobby discovers he's gay and later comes out, there's also LBGT+ representation through recurring and minor characters, such as the coworkers at Gabi’s law firm and the parents of Elena's classmates.
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The second season contains a subplot about Star-Crossed Lovers Silas and Panto, the two sons from warring families.
• Dispatches From Elsewhere: One of the main characters is a trans woman.
• Doctor Who: The Revival Series confirms that Time Lords are functionally genderfluid and pansexual, with both the Doctor and the Master regenerating across gender more than once; the Doctor even states in Series 10 that Time Lords are indifferent to the concept of gender. Three of the Doctor's companions are also explicitly queer: Jack Harkness is functionally pansexual and has the show's first same-gender kiss with the (male) Ninth Doctor, Bill Potts is lesbian, and Yasmine Khan has romantic feelings for the (female) Thirteenth Doctor.
• Don't Look Deeper: Aisha, who's an android indistinguishable from a young human woman at least in her appearance, is attracted to human women, and had been involved with Jenny (she's also into men, dating one initially in high school). There is also a trans man who serves as a supporting character.
• Doom Patrol (2019): Negative Man is gay in this adaptation.
• Downton Abbey: One of the main characters, Thomas Barrow, is a closeted gay man.
• Dracula (2013): Lucy is a lesbian, it turns out, who's attracted to her best friend Mina. She's encouraged to be open about it by Lady Jayne, a bisexual woman. Dracula is also hinted to be bisexual, though it isn't certain.
• Drag Race, the international Series Franchise that started with RuPaul's Drag Race, is a Reality Show for Drag Queens. Almost all of the contestants are LGBTQ+, and LGBTQ issues are a regular topic of discussion.
• Drop the Dead Donkey: Helen, one of the main characters, is a lesbian.
• Dynasty (1981): Steven is gay.
• Elite (2018): Omar is a gay man who is hiding his relationship from his conservative family, and Ander's arc in the first season is accepting that he's gay.
• Ellen's Game of Games: Game show hosted by lesbian comedian Ellen DeGeneres.
• Emerald City:
  • Tip was born female, but was raised as male and given potions from a young age that gave him a male body; he himself identifies as male, and is distraught that in order to secure the peaceful transition of power, he has to stop taking the potions and assume a female name and role (as he's officially heir to the throne as a princess). Fortunately, he later gains the ability to shift his body between male and female forms at will.
  • West is bisexual, introduced having sex with a man, but shows attraction to women too, mentioning her sexual trysts with Anna's mother in the past.
• Empire: Drama/Soap about a family dynasty that runs a Hip-Hop record label and entertainment conglomerate; there have been several LGBTQIA+ characters throughout the run of series, most prominently main character Jamal Lyon who is a gay man and dealing with homophobia within his family and outside.
• ER: Procedural drama set in a Chicago emergency room and centering the professional and personal lives of the doctors and nurses; Dr. Kerry Weaver is the series' sole LGBTQIA+ main cast member as she discovers that she is a lesbian several seasons in her tenure. There are several LGBTQIA+ supporting and minor characters, such as Dr. Maggie Doyle and nurse Yosh who are lesbian and gay respectively.
• Everything Now: The lead character Mia has a Love Triangle with two other girls, Alison and Carli. Other queer characters include Will and Theo.
• Everything Sucks!: Kate, one of the main characters, is introduced dating a boy but falls for a girl.
• Everything's Gonna Be Okay: Nicholas, the main character, is a gay man who suddenly becomes the legal guardian of his two half-sisters after their father dies. One of said half-sisters is queer and develops a romantic relationship with an asexual girl (which develops into an open marriage where she's allowed to have casual sex with guys).
• The Expanse: Many major and minor characters are gay or bisexual, which is considered normal, or at least unremarkable, in-universe — one of the ways in which the setting's depiction of the 23rd century is Crapsack Only by Comparison.
• The Exorcist: Marcus Keane is gay, while Verity is a lesbian.
• The Fabulous Show with Fay & Fluffy: An educational preschool show hosted by two drag queens, Fay and Fluffy.
• The Fall (2013): Lead character Stella is an openly bisexual woman who's totally unapologetic about picking up men and women for sex (she mostly sleeps with the former though). Main character Danielle, who's a closeted lesbian at the start, comes out to Stella, who naturally doesn't care at all.
• The Fall of the House of Usher (2023): Madeleine is queer, Victorine is a lesbian, Camille, Napoleon and Prospero are bisexual and August is gay.
• The Family (2016): Closeted lesbian Willa gets involved with Bridey, who's openly queer. Both of them manipulate each other but keep their relationship going to the end of the series. FBI Agent Gabe Clements, who's a supporting character, also mentions he's married to a man.
• Family Law (2021): Canadian drama series about a disgraced recovering alcoholic lawyer working for her estranged father's law firm with her half-siblings; Lucy is one of the main characters of the series and is a lesbian, and was married to another woman until they divorced due to Lucy's affairs. Supporting character Jerri is a trans woman and office manager of the firm. Another supporting character is Winston, a sassy gay Filipino-Canadian receptionist.
• Fantasy Island (2021): One of the main characters is Ruby, who's attracted to women but only admitted this (with her loving husband's urging) when she was in her seventies. She stays on the island to explore this (along with stopping her dying of cancer and being kept young), seeing two women. Multiple episodes also deal with non-hetero characters, usually seeking or declaring love for others.
• Fate: The Winx Saga: Terra, one of the main characters, comes out as gay in Season 2. Secondary characters Dane, Beatrix, and Riven are in a threesome relationship with the two men being sexually active with each other.
• Feel Good: A semi-autobiographical series in which nonbinary and bisexual comedian Mae Martin portrays a fictionalized version of themself who has a difficult relationship with her girlfriend^note the real Martin uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, preferring the latter, but their fictional self is only referred to with the former. A couple lesbian supporting characters and then one gay supporting character are also in the cast.
• Feud: Capote vs. the Swans: The series depicts gay writer Truman Capote and his feud with the Swans, a collection of influential New York socialites, when he exposes their secrets and they swear to make him a social pariah.
• The First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt is portrayed as having an affair with Lenora "Hick" Hickok, a lesbian reporter (which may have happened, according to some historians), and supporting lesbian characters are also featured among Hick's social circle.
• The Flash (2014): There are multiple gay and lesbian recurring characters, including Nora West-Allen, David Singh, and Hartley Rathaway.
• Flesh and Bone: One of the main characters is the ballet company artistic director, Paul Grayson, who's very openly bisexual. He really abuses his position, hitting on both female and male dancers in the company pretty often, almost or actually assaulting them at times (e.g. a Forceful Kiss). There are also a couple of gay supporting characters (one is Paul's lover).
• The Flight Attendant: The main character's brother, David, is a gay man in a relationship with another man. His past being abused by his homophobic father is part of the backstory of both him and his sister.
• Flowers (2016): Amy is a lesbian, and a subplot in the first season involves her and her brother both developing feelings for Abigail, who returns them for her. In the second season she dates a Butch Lesbian vicar named Hylda.
• For Life: Two of the main characters in the show are LGBT+. Safiya, the kind-hearted warden, is a lesbian who's married to another woman. Jamal, another prisoner who's friends with Aaron, it turns out is gay. One episode centers on another couple of prisoners who were cellmates and lovers, which endangered one's life as he's in a homophobic prison gang for protection inside.
• For the People: Kate, one of the main characters, is a lesbian who dates Anya, a female ATF agent she meets. Anya becomes a supporting character as a result.
• Found (2023): Dhan, a main character, has a husband. In addition, the crisis management team hunting marginalized people include LGBTQ characters.
• Foundation (2021): General Bel Riose in season 2 is gay and has a husband.
• Friends: Ross' ex-wife Carol is a lesbian and is married to Susan, while Chandler is the son of a trans woman, Helena.
• Friends from College: One of the titular friends, Max, is a gay man engaged with Only Sane Man Felix. Max acts as the protagonist's right hand man and as his editor.
• Game of Thrones: Adaptation of the fantasy novels about war and machinations among those who try to claim power; the series has several characters both main and minor that are ambiguous in sexuality and gender identity, among the characters with unambiguous queer identities, there's Renly Baratheon (gay), Loras Tyrell (gay), Yara Greyjoy (lesbian), Lord Varys (asexual), and Ellaria Sand and Oberyn Martell (both bisexual).
  • House of the Dragon follows that lead with Laenor Velaryon (gay) and his lovers.
• Gentefied: Ana, one of the three main characters, is a lesbian whose relationship with her girlfriend Yessika is shown under strain.
• Gen V: One of the main characters is Jordan, who's bigender with an ability to switch between sexes at will. Their male and female forms both have different additional powers. Jordan's father is embarrassed and uncomfortable about this. Marie is shown as attracted to Jordan while they're in both forms. It's also implied Luke and Andre were attracted to each other. Emma was also very open to having a threesome with Luke and his girlfriend Cate. Supporting character Dr. Gabriel Cardosa is shown as married to a man, while the pair have a daughter too.
• Ginny and Georgia: Max, Ginny's best friend, is a lesbian. She dates Sophie, a bisexual girl. Supporting male characters Gabriel and Nick are gay, becoming a couple.
• Girls 5 Eva: Main character Gloria is a lesbian, and some stories deal with her love life, such as wanting to rekindle her relationship with her ex-wife Caroline.
• Glee: Teen drama series about a glee club at a high school and the issues they face, there are several LGBTQIA+ characters as part of the main ensemble cast as well as LGBTQIA+ supporting characters. The subject matter shown includes coming out, homophobia, and transitioning.
• Golden Balls: The male protagonist's marriage and affair turns polyamory, and his wife and mistress end up bonding and having sex together.
• The Good Fight: Maia is a lesbian.
• Good Omens (2019): The series changes up Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship to a love story, happening over 6000 years. Both the author and actors are open and very enthusiastic about this outside the show too. The supernatural beings in this show also are technically genderless and can present as any gender they want. Crowley and Aziraphale present as men, with a non-sexual romance. The second season also features a budding romance between two human women as a prominent subplot.
• The Good Wife: One of the main characters is Kalinda Sharma during the early seasons. While she's married to a man (who's mostly absent), Kalinda's also involved off and on with FBI Agent Lana Delaney, a closeted lesbian. Kalinda also has sex with two other bisexual women more casually, and some men too, calling herself "flexible". A bisexual woman is a supporting character. Several minor LGBT+ characters appear too in single episodes.
• Gossip Girl (2021): One of the subplots is Aki realizing that he's bisexual and coming out to his girlfriend. Another subplot involves a gay student getting into a secret relationship with his teacher. Main cast members also include a lesbian and a trans girl. Three supporting characters are also gay men, with two being dads of a main character and one cross-dressing too.
• Gotham: Prequel series to Batman set when Bruce Wayne was orphaned and in the seedy city of Gotham; Barbara Kean, Jim Gordon's fiancee at the start, is bisexual, having previously been in a relationship with Renee Montoya. The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepott is Ambiguously Bi, having shown interest in women but he has an unambiguous crush on Edward Nygma. Later, Tabitha Galavan is a bisexual woman (who dates Barbara) as is The Lady, a supporting character.
• Gotham Knights (2023): Superhero series about the adopted son of Batman and a young group of thieves trying to clear the names after being framed for killing Batman; main characters Harper and Cullen Row are queer siblings, Harper being bisexual, and Cullen being a transgender guy. Duela has an obvious mutual attraction to male lead Turner, but also says flirtatious things toward Stephanie (albeit circumstances make it unclear if it's just a taunt). Later, after continued hints that she's attracted to Harper, Stephanie realizes her lesbianism as a result.
• Grace and Frankie: The plot is kicked off by Grace and Frankie's husbands divorcing them and getting together with each other; the two remain supporting characters throughout the series.
• Grand Army: Teen drama set at the titular school in Brooklyn, New York; senior Sid Pakam is part of the main ensemble and is an Indian-American teen struggling with being gay and in the closet, in addition, there is the recurring character Victor, who is bisexual.
• Greek: Teen dramedy set in college about the lives of students in Greek fraternities; Calvin, a Black American young adult pledge is gay and keeps it quiet until he starts getting closer to his brothers.
• Grey's Anatomy: Medical Drama about the personal and professional lives of doctors and staff at Seattle Grace Hospital; there have been several LGBTQIA+ characters through the series' run, both main and supporting. The most prominent LGBTQIA+ characters include Dr. Callie Torres who realizes she is bisexual, and Dr. Arizona Robbins and Dr. Erica Hahn who are both lesbians and were in relationships with Callie.
• grown•ish: Spinoff of black•ish which follows eldest daughter Zoey to college; supporting character Nomi is bisexual and has been involved with both men and women. Additionally, there is Zaara (introduced in season 5) who is a Muslim lesbian.
• Guilt: Roz, one of the main characters, it turns out is dating Molly, who's a supporting character,. She also slept with Kaley, another supporting character.
• Gypsy: The lead character Jean (alias Diane) begins a toxic relationship with another woman, Sidney, while she's already married to a man.

Series H-L

• Hacks: Ava, one of the protagonists, is bisexual. In addition, her former girlfriend and a number of other bi or lesbian women appear as supporting characters. There are also two gay supporting characters.
• Hap and Leonard: Leonard, one of the protagonists, is a Black Manly Gay Conservative.
• Happy Endings: Max is gay, and is still friends with his ex-girlfriend Penny that he dated before he came out. She's disappointed that he's not more stereotypically Camp Gay.
• The Hardy Boys (2020): Frank and Joe's Aunt Trudy and Biff's mom are lesbians and are in a relationship. Belinda is bisexual.
• The Haunting of Hill House (2018): One of the main protagonists, Theo, is a lesbian.^note in the novel the series is loosely based on, she was hinted to be attracted to women, while the series is unambiguous about her sexual orientation She has a subplot where she struggles to open up emotionally to a woman she's attracted to, due to unresolved trauma from her past and current family issues she's going through.
• Heroes: Claire, one of the main cast, dates a woman while in college.
• High Fidelity: The protagonist is a bisexual woman, with a plot arc which involves her ex-girlfriend. One of the main characters is Simon, best friend of Rob, who's gay.
• High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: Series set around a group of high school kids putting on a school play production of High School Musical while dealing with their various issues and entanglements; Main character Nini has two mothers, and recurring-turned-main character Carlos is a young gay Latino teen and he dates another male supporting character, Seb. Additionally, season 3 introduces Maddox, a young lesbian girl, and two main characters realize they are bisexual.
• Hightown: Jackie is a Butch Lesbian detective attempting to solve a series of murders, and is shown hooking up with a number of women throughout the series. In the second season, she gets into a more committed relationship with her police partner Leslie, who realizes she's a lesbian as a result.
• Hit & Miss: Mia, the lead character, is a trans hitwoman who's saving up for sex reassignment surgery.
• Home Economics: Two of the main characters, Sarah and Denise, are lesbians and are married.
• Homicide: Life on the Street: Police Procedural about lives of homicide detectives on and off the job in Baltimore; the series featured detective Tim Bayliss exploring his bisexuality, one of very few bisexual characters to be shown on television during that time.
• House of Cards (US):
  • Frank Underwood is revealed to be bisexual.
  • Rachel Posner later gets into a relationship with another women, Lisa Williams.
  • One of the plotlines in the third season involves a gay rights activist, Michael Corrigan, being arrested in Russia, which causes an international incident.
• The House of Flowers: Julian is bisexual, and his sister Paulina is in a relationship with Maria, a transgender woman who she had been married to at one point (they'd originally divorced long before Maria came out as trans).
• How I Met Your Father: One of the main characters is Ellen, who is divorced from her wife and moves to New York where she reunites with her adopted brother and meets his new friends. She dates her neighbor, Rachel.
• How I Met Your Mother: Barney's brother James Stinson is gay.
• How to Get Away with Murder: A drama series about an infamous attorney/law professor and her student assistants; lead character Annalise Keating is a bisexual woman, as is her associate lawyer Bonnie. There are two gay characters, Connor and Oliver, that are part of the main cast and they end up in a relationship. Later seasons also see Tegan, a lesbian, become a main character. Multiple supporting characters also are lesbians.
• Humans: One of the main characters is Niska, a female android who's nigh indistinguishable outwardly from a human. In Season 2, she dates a German woman named Astrid, who accepts her after finding out she's an android. They are driven apart by circumstances, but profess their love for each other to the end.
• I Am Not Okay With This: Syd is a lesbian who develops telekinetic powers, and her figuring out her sexuality is a subplot.
• iCarly (2021): The revival of the original Nickelodeon iCarly has Harper, a pansexual African-American woman as part of the cast.
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021): Main character Lennon is bisexual, so is Margot, her best friend who is in love with her. Allison, the lead character, is also bisexual. Johnny, one of the main characters involved in the mystery, is bisexual as well and engaged to his high school coach. Dylan also has two moms.
• The Imperfects:
  • Abbi, the main character who becomes a Living Aphrodisiac, is asexual. However, the asexuality isn't explored beyond the irony of the power and needing to discuss things off-screen when she falls in love with another woman and said other woman admits to being attracted to her while her Power Limiter is active. As one may guess from the second part of that sentence, Abbi is also homoromantic.
  • The only two glimpses that are seen of the love life of one of the main male characters is a friend suggesting that he ask a male waiter out and later being briefly convinced that Abbi's pheromones (the channel to her Living Aphrodisiac powers) aren't going to work on him.
• Imposters: Two of the main characters on the show are both queer women. Maddie it seems is bisexual, as she's been married to both men and a woman. Though these were for cons she pulled on them, Maddie admits to loving all her past spouses somewhat. Jules, her ex-wife, appears to be a lesbian as she only shows clear attraction toward women. In the first season Jules also slept with Gina, but as she's revealed as an undercover FBI agent this may have been a ploy. Jules later also has some implied (possibly mutual) attraction for a Mexican woman as well.
• Impulse (2018): Main character Jenna's realization that she's attracted to girls (through Kate) is a major plot arc, along with the fallout. Megan, a supporting character, is also openly a lesbian, bringing her girlfriend for Thanksgiving.
• Industry: Gus, a main character in Season 1, is gay. Yasmin meanwhile was only shown as attracted to men at first, but then also has a relationship with lesbian Celeste later, which is complicated by the fact she partly wants to help advance her career by doing so but seems to genuinely like it too. She also engages in one threesome with her female colleague Harper and a man, which doesn't last long as Harper's not into it.
• In From the Cold: The lead character Anya/Jenny is a bisexual spy who'd fallen in love with a woman during her youth before later marrying a man.
• Instinct: Dylan Reinhart, the lead character, is gay. He is Happily Married to Andy, a supporting character.
• Intergalactic: The lead character Ash is a bisexual woman. A love triangle develops between her, Echo (a male pilot) and Verona (a lesbian). There's a supporting gay character as well. In the future portrayed, LGBT+ people or relationships seem unremarkable.
• Interview with the Vampire (2022): The lead characters are the gay Louis de Pointe du Lac and the bisexual Lestat de Lioncourt. The queer Armand joins the main cast at the end of Season 1.
• In the Dark: Jess, one of the main characters, is a lesbian. She's shown in a committed relationship with her girlfriend (a bisexual woman) at the beginning. When they break up, Jess enters a relationship with another woman for a time. There are also a couple lesbian supporting characters, and then another bisexual woman is introduced too.
• Intimate: German Cringe Comedy starring five guy friends constantly finding themselves in awkward situations. Leo is the gay one; in the pilot, he cheats on his boyfriend, then is horrified to find out his affair is his boyfriend’s prospective new roommate. The show also satirizes straight guys being threatened by diversity, as Leo’s straight actor friends have to compete with queer actors for roles.
• Irma Vep: Mira, the lead character, is a bisexual woman. Her relationship with her ex Laurie (who's also bisexual) is explored, with both having feelings for each other still. There are minor gay and lesbian supporting characters too. Regina (Mira's assistant) has a thing for her too it turns out.
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac, one of the main characters, has an arc over multiple seasons of slowly admitting to himself that he's not attracted to woman and becoming comfortable with being gay. Reccuring character Carmen is a trans woman.
• Jessica Jones (2015): Superhero series about an empowered private investigator solving cases and her demons; the principal cast includes Jeri Hogarth, a lesbian Amoral Attorney and her subplots throughout the series highlight her romantic entanglements with other women. In addition, there are LGBTQIA+ recurring characters, namely Gillian, Jessica's assistant who is a trans woman (the second trans woman character to have a speaking part in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) and Eddy Costa, a gay detective on the NYPD.
• Killing Eve: A spy drama with a major theme being the Foe Romance Subtext between the two bisexual female main characters and the romance that develops.
• Killjoys: Dutch, one of the main characters, is pansexual. Her genetic clone/sister Aneela who's pansexual too starts a relationship with Delle, a rich lesbian aristocrat. There is also a supporting gay character, Pree, who's married to a warlord it turns out.
• Kim's Convenience has a recurring side character, Enrique, who's a gay man — in fact, the very first episode is about Mr. Kim's reaction to Toronto Pride, and introduces Enrique. In the final season, Janet is seen kissing another girl and tries to come out to her dad, but he avoids the conversation.
• Kiss Me First: Leila, the lead character, is clearly drawn to Tess. Both of them have strongly implied sexual tension, though their only onscreen sex scenes or relationships are with guys. Jocasta/Jack, another main character, is either a queer boy roleplaying as a girl, or transgender, having an online relationship with an American man, Kyle.
• Krypton: One of the female main characters, Nyssa-Vex, is married to a man but shown as previously involved with another woman.
• Kung Fu (2021): Re-imagining of the original Kung Fu series about a young woman defending Chinatown with Supernatural Martial Arts; her brother Ryan is a supporting character who has recently come out as gay and is navigating being out and dating other men, and his boyfriend Sebastian becomes a supporting character in season 3.
• L.A.'s Finest: Syd, one of the two lead characters, is a bisexual woman. Multiple episodes also feature supporting LGBT+ characters (lesbians and trans women largely). Syd hooks up with women multiple times in the series.
• The Larry Sanders Show': Hank's personal assistant Brian is gay.
• The Last of Us (2023): Live-Action Adaptation of the video game about characters surviving in a fungi-fueled Zombie Apocalypse; Ellie, one of the lead characters, is a lesbian girl and part of her backstory involves falling in love with Riley, another lesbian teen girl. Gay supporting character Bill's sexuality is greatly expanded and focused on in the series, as he's shown while falling in love with his partner Frank, whose role has also been expanded.
• Last Tango in Halifax: Caroline is a lesbian and a major subplot of the first two series follows her relationship with her girlfriend and eventual wife, Kate.
• Law & Order:
  • Law & Order: Prosecutor Serena Southerlyn famously revealed that she's a lesbian in her very last scene on the show, asking if that was why she'd been fired (little hint of this had occurred earlier). Several supporting or one-shot LGBT+ characters were also featured on the show.
  • Law & Order: Organized Crime: There are two lesbian detectives in the main cast. One also has a wife who's a recurring secondary character.
  • Law & Order: SVU: Dr. George Huang, a forensic psychiatrist, was part of the main cast for many years and eventually turned out to be gay, but this wasn't focused on. Later, Detective Kat Tamin who was openly bisexual joined them but departed after two years. The show also has had over two dozen supporting and one-shot LGBT+ characters, most of them a victim in the episode's case.
• Legend of the Seeker: Cara, a Heel–Face Revolving Door who joins the good guys in season 2, is a bisexual woman, with her former female lover from the Mord Sith appearing too. Some supporting Mord Sith characters also are strongly implied to be bisexual or lesbians as well.
• Legends of Tomorrow: The main character Sara Lance is a bisexual woman and there are several other LGBTQIA+ supporting characters.
• Letterkenny: Katy is bisexual and has had many relations with men and women.
• Leverage: Redemption: Main character Breanna is a lesbian. One episode's con involved her hitting on (and later getting together with) another woman (and that episode also had a gay male couple as minor characters).
• Liar (2017): One of the main characters is a lesbian who's married to another woman. A gay supporting character is also introduced.
• Lip Service: A series revolving around the lives of mostly lesbians and one bisexual woman living in Glasgow, Scotland. They have many different relationships with other women (or at least sex). Many lesbian or bisexual female supporting characters were featured too.
• A Little Late With Lilly Singh is hosted by the titular Lilly Singh, an openly bisexual woman.
• Loki (2021): Loki mentions being bisexual.
• London Spy: Three of the main characters, Danny, Alex, and Scottie, are gay.
• Lost Girl: Bo, the protagonist, is a bisexual woman who finds out that she's actually a Succubus who can control the people she kisses. She has numerous liaisons and relationships with other women or men. Three main characters on the show are also queer women. Lauren is a lesbian whom Bo has a long-running relationship with. Evony and Tamsin are bisexual women (Bo hooks up with the latter). Several minor characters are lesbians and bisexual women too.
• Lovecraft Country: Atticus' father Montrose is shown to be a closeted gay man who's now in a long-term committed relationship with his boyfriend. Christina is somehow LGBT+, but the circumstances leave it unclear of the specifics-bisexual, lesbian, nonbinary, trans man or some combination of these. Tic’s aunt Ethel and Bertie (another woman) also became a couple after both their husbands died. There's an intersex Native American as well who's Two Spirit named Yahima who briefly (but notably) appears along with the two real bisexual women Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker in an Imagine Spot.
• Love, Sidney: A sitcom centering around Sidney Shorr, a single, closeted gay man who shares an apartment with a single mom and her daughter. Notable as the first American TV series to feature a gay principal character (albeit a closeted one).
• Luke Cage (2016): Superhero series about a bulletproof ex-con defending his neighborhood in Harlem; in season two, it is revealed that supporting characters/gangster flunkies Shades and Comanche were lovers in prison. The show doesn't state their identities definitively (it's implied through dialogue that Comanche is gay and Shades is with a woman during the season), but it's clear their relationship didn't stop at Situational Sexuality and that they love one another.
• Luna Nera: Tebe and Janara, two of the main female characters, are in a relationship. Valente on the other hand was assigned female at birth but turned male by a spell then raised as a boy to protect him from enemies.
• The Magicians (2016): Quentin and Elliot are bisexual men, who have a threesome with Margot pretty early on. Later they have a relationship. Margot is also indicated to be a bisexual woman, while hedge witch Marina has a girlfriend. There are also some minor lesbian characters.

Series M-O

• Mad Men: Sterling-Cooper Advertising's art director Sal Romano is a closeted homosexual.
• Madam Secretary: Liz's personal assistant Blake Moran is openly gay (but closeted bi), while her second policy advisor Kat Sandoval is bisexual and genderqueer.
• Manner Of Death: The two main characters are gay men, who fall for each other over the course of the series as they work to solve a murder.
• Mare of Easttown: The series is about a single mother who tries to balance her job as a detective with motherhood as she raises her lesbian daughter after the death of her son.
• Master of None: Semi-autobiographical dramedy starring Aziz Ansari; his best friend Denise (played by out screenwriter/producer Lena Waithe) is a lesbian.
• The McCarthys: A sitcom about the openly gay youngest child of a family of sports fanatics, being taken under his father's wing as the assistant coach of his father's high school basketball team.
• Merry Happy Whatever: Kayla, Emma's older sister, is a closeted lesbian.
• The Mick: Main character Sabrina is revealed to have a girlfriend in the second season, but also dated guys and doesn't like labels. Ben, the youngest child of the family, likes to wear dresses at times and he's happy presenting as a girl using the name Beth. Sabrina suggests Ben's genderfluid; Mickey later says this too. The kids' great-grandmother Rita also hits on Mickey, their aunt, due to mistaking her for a woman she had loved many years before. Mickey, though straight, goes with it simply to enjoy Rita's wealth.
• Midnight Sun (2016): The male lead character, Anders, turns out to be secretly involved with Thor, a younger man, while at first he's afraid to come out. It turns out that his daughter knows already though and is wholly accepting of her dad.
• Mine: One of the two main characters is a lesbian, stuck in a miserable unhappy marriage to a man, who can't stop thinking about the lesbian lover she left behind.
• Misfits: Numerous recurring or one-shot LGBT+ characters were featured on the show, including multiple lesbians, a bisexual women, a trans man and a gay man. Main character Curtis, whose power at one point is him turning into a female version of himself, becomes Mel, who really enjoys sex with another woman. Abbey, another main character in a later series, realizes she's really a lesbian after finding no fulfillment in all the casual sex that she had with many different guys. Instead Abbey starts a relationship with Laura. She breaks it off after learning that Laura created her, believing this is too close to Parental Incest. Greg the probation worker, a main character at the same time Abbey's in the cast, is heavily implied to be gay before it's confirmed in an alternate timeline.
• Miss Scarlet & The Duke: Rupert Parker, Eliza's landlord's son, onetime suitor, and eventual investor in her Private Detective business, is a Closet Gay man, confirmed when she notices both he and the Body of the Week have blue roses on display—a Victorian code signaling one prefers men.
• Modern Family: There are two gay main characters that are married to each other and are raising a child.
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: One of the main characters, Cate, is shown to have been dating a woman in the past. Another main character, May, is heavily implied to be bisexual. Cate and May also have implied attraction for each other.
• Motherland: Fort Salem: Raelle is a Butch Lesbian and one of three new recruits to join an elite squadron of witch soldiers. Her girlfriend Scylla, who's bisexual, turns out to be The Mole and their very complicated relationship gets a lot of exploration. Later the series introduces a supporting character, M, who's nonbinary. Supporting character Glory Moffett is also indicated to be into women, as she's paired with three during the Reel (a sexual matchmaking ritual) in Beltane. Another supporting character, Hilary, is also possibly bisexual; she's married to a man but after discovering him and Tally in bed together, she suggests a threesome. Lastly, supporting character Vira is implied to be Scylla's ex-girlfriend too.
• Mr. Mayor: Tommy Tomás, a main character, is gay.
• The Murders: Meg, one of the main characters, is a lesbian who's married to another woman. An episode also heavily involves a man who's revealed to be bisexual.
• My Dead Ex: One of the main characters is Wren, who's attracted to another girl at school named Bethany. She's quite open about this, but Bethany's closeted. Wren and Charley coax her to come out after she returns Wren's affection, which Bethany eventually does. Though not the main focus of the series, it's a long subplot.
• My Family: In Series 10, Michael Harper, who is one of the main characters, comes out as gay and is shown with a boyfriend for the rest of the show.
• Nancy Drew (2019): An adaptation of the Nancy Drew novels centering around a young adult Nancy Drew and with a supernatural/horror twist. One of Nancy's friends, Bess, is re-imagined as a British-born lesbian of Middle Eastern descent.
• Naomi (2022): The main character Naomi is a bisexual girl, and there is also another queer girl as part of the supporting cast.
• Never Have I Ever: One of the main cast, Fabiola, is a lesbian girl whose arc in Season 1 mostly focuses on her realizing this and dating Eve. Jonah is a gay supporting character too. In Season 3 too main character Aneesa (who's dating a boy) kisses Fabiola and is therefore revealed to be into her. She then breaks up with her boyfriend and dates Fabiola afterward (whose own relationship with Eve collapsed). They decide they're Better as Friends though.
• The Nevers: Frank is gay but very closeted. Hugo, a cheerfully pansexual pimp, was Frank's lover in the past. Nimble Jack is implied to be transmasculine-though probably assigned female at birth he lives and is treated as an androgynous young man (Jack's actor has said he's played him this way). Annie and Maladie are quite obviously attracted to each other as well, nearly sharing a kiss. Amalie is also attracted to Prudence, though it's unclear if the latter feels the same way.
• New Girl: There are multiple queer recurring characters on the show. Jess's friends Sadie and Melissa are a lesbian couple, and Nick's girlfriend Reagan is bisexual.
• The Newsreader: Dale Jennings (a co-lead character whose actor Sam Reid has second billing) is bisexual and Tim Ahern (his actor Chai Hansen is part of the main cast in Season 1) is gay. Season 2 adds the bisexual Gerry Carroll as a series regular.
• Nightflyers: Two of the main characters on the show are Lommie, who is genderfluid (assigned female at birth), and Melantha, a bisexual woman. For a few episodes, they have a relationship.
• Nos4A2: Vic, the lead character, is a bisexual woman (though she isn't actually shown as attracted to any women during the series). Maggie, her best friend, is a lesbian, having sex with and dating women.
• No Tomorrow: A subplot is Kareema falling in Love at First Sight with her brother's fiancee Sofia, realizing in the process that she's bisexual. Sofia, a lesbian who only got engaged to her brother for residence, returns her feelings and they begin a relationship.
• October Faction: Geoff is gay, and a subplot is about a supporting character realizing that he's gay as well.
• The Office (US): Recurring character Oscar Martinez is gay.
• Once and Again: In season 3 Jessie develops feelings for her classmate Katie, realizing that she's a lesbian. The two of them eventually date, though they have to keep their relationship secret.
• One Big Happy: The plot of the series is that a newly-married straight couple and their lesbian friend Lizzie move in together, as Lizzie is having the man's baby since she desperately wants a child and he's her best friend.
• One Mississippi: The main character Tig is a queer woman; part of the Trauma Congo Line that she goes through in the first few episodes includes her girlfriend breaking up with her.
• One Day at a Time (2017): A remake of the 1975 original sitcom that stars a workng class Cuban-American family, the teenaged daughter, Elena comes out as a lesbian and later dates Syd, who is non-binary.
• One of Us is Lying: Three of the main characters on the show are queer in different ways. Cooper is a gay boy (initially closeted), with his boyfriend Kris being a supporting character. He has to face being outed and whether this will ruin his chance for a career in baseball. Janae is a lesbian who's open about the fact and unapologetic. Later, Janae also comes out as genderfluid. Maeve turns out to be a bisexual girl, while she has a mutual attraction with Janae and they get into a romance together.
• Only Murders in the Building: One of the lead trio, Mabel, is shown to be bisexual when after dating Oscar in the first season she meets Alice, a lesbian, and they have a mutual attraction, sharing a kiss before dating for a time. There are also three lesbian supporting characters. A couple gay supporting characters get together in season 2.
• Orange Is the New Black: Series set in a women's minimum security prison, the main character is a bisexual woman; along with her lesbian love interest, there are several lesbian/queer women characters and a trans woman. The subject matter includes queer female romance, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and LGBTQIA+ acceptance.
• The Order: Lilith is revealed to be bisexual when, after showing attraction toward Randall, she also pursues Nicole in the second season.
• Origin: Evelyn and Agnes (called "Lee") become attracted to each other, the pair sharing a kiss.
• Orphan Black: Several of the characters are queer, including Felix (gay), Cosima (lesbian), and Tony (gay and transgender).
  • Orphan Black: 7 Genes: In this version Izumi and Aiko (both lesbians) are the only queer characters.
• The Orville: Charly, a female human main character who joins the cast in Season 3, is a lesbian. Main character Bortus is a Discount Lesbians example: he belongs to the Moclan alien race which almost is entirely male, as female Moclans are heavily discriminated against. As such, most relationships are homosexual and men can reproduce with other men. He is married to the supporting character Klyden, who was born female but was surgically reassigned to male to avoid discrimination, which causes great anguish and dysphoria. Topa, their child, is also born female and reassigned over Bortus' objection, experiencing dysphoria as well later. With support from Bortus, Topa is reassigned back to female.
• The Other Two: One of the main characters is Cary, a gay man who is trying to make it as an actor while his younger brother is an immensely popular Teen Idol.
• Our Flag Means Death: Gay main characters, three queer relationships in the main cast consisting of cisgender men and a non-binary person (using they/them pronouns).
• Øyevitne: The plot is kicked off by two gay young men acting on long-buried feelings for the first time and hooking up... only to become witnesses to a gun fight between a hostage taker and members of a gang that he abducted.
• Oz: Several of the main cast (like Beecher and Keller) are gay or at least bisexual men, along with many supporting characters. The inmates are divided into several groups by the administration at one point to categorize them, one being just "the gays". Beecher and Keller are involved for some time, while other male same-sex relationships also get explored. The reality of prison rape also overshadows all this, along with some inmates being solely sexually active with men inside, not otherwise. AIDS is a very real threat as well, with an entire ward just for prisoners that have the disease.

Series P-R

• The Pact: Two of the main characters in the first season, Cat and Tish, turn out to both be queer. Cat is a Butch Lesbian, and Tish a feminine bisexual. While at first hostile to each other, they eventually become a couple.
• Pandora: Jax and Atria are both bisexual women. Two ex-girlfriends of Jax's are supporting characters.
• Paper Girls (2022): KJ learns her future self is involved with another woman, to her dismay initially, though it's indicated she's already feeling attraction toward girls and soon accepts this.
• Parks and Recreation: Recurring character in the later seasons Craig Middlebrooks is gay.
• Party of Five (2020): The main ensemble cast includes Lucia, a lesbian, and the supporting cast includes another lesbian (Teresa) and a transgender man (Matthew).
• Peacemaker (2022): Peacemaker is a bisexual man while Leota Adebayo is a lesbian who's married to another woman. Keeya, Leota's wife, is a supporting character.
• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels: There are several queer supporting characters. Townsend is a racist Gay Conservative who is in a secret relationship with Kurt, a Nazi spy. Rico is a feared (but overall heroic) gangster who is shown kissing Mateo and has a casual threesome with him and his girlfriend.
• Pennyworth: Bet Sykes is a Psycho Lesbian henchwoman who ends up joining the heroes against worse villains.
• Perry Mason (2020): Della Street is a closeted lesbian while Hamilton Burger's a gay man and also in the closet for this adaptation (as it's the 1930s). She sees other women secretly, while pretending to date Hamilton so both of them have cover.
• Person of Interest: Root repeatedly makes romantic overtures towards Shaw, who mostly ignores her until the end of season 4, when she kisses Root right before making a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Picnic at Hanging Rock: Irma is a lesbian and has a crush on Miranda (who isn't interested in relationships with anyone), and Miss McCraw and Marion are in a secret relationship.
• Pivoting: Sarah, one of the three main characters, is bisexual, and she has sex with multiple other women during the series.
• P.J.: French police officer Nadine Lemercier (from the series' core cast) turns out to be lesbian.
• The Politician: Most of the main cast is bisexual, with Payton's complicated relationship with his childhood friend/rival River deeply affecting him throughout the series.
• The Power (2023): Main character Roxy is shown as bisexual, having a threesome with a man and woman. Supporting character Ryan is also an intersex boy. This is a plot point since he gets the power as a result, whereas otherwise only cisgender women and girls (and transgender women on estrogen therapy) are capable of it. Another supporting character it turns out is a transgender woman too.
• Power Rangers Dino Fury: Izzy, the Green Dino Fury Ranger, is revealed to be lesbian and dating her former rival, Fern.
• Pretty Little Liars: Many of the main cast are lesbians or bisexual, including Emily, Maya, and Paige. The Big Bad of seasons 3-6 is a transgender woman who holds a grudge against her family after her parents essentially banished her after she came out to them as a child.
• Proven Innocent: The lead character is a bisexual woman, with her coming out to family and friends, plus her romance with her girlfriend being a long-running background arc; there's a gay supporting character and some trans women appear as minor characters, while homophobia/transphobia is dealt with in one episode.
• P-Valley: Drama series about the Pynk, a Mississippi strip club and the employees who work there; the owner of the Pynk is Uncle Clifford, who is gay and also nonbinary/transfeminine. Uncle Clifford is also involved with rapper Lil Murda, who is in the closet about his sexuality. There are also a couple of LGBTQIA+ supporting characters.
• Quantum Leap (2022): Reboot of the 1980s/1990s Quantum Leap, the team includes artificial intelligence chief architect Ian Wright who is non-binary, just like their actor Mason Alexander Park.
• Queen Sugar: One of the central figures of the show is Nova, a bisexual woman.
• Ratched: Nurse Ratched starts the series openly homophobic, believing that homosexuality is a disease to be cured (usually with lobotomies, as the series is set in 1947). Her realizing how horrific the treatment of gay people really is and that she herself is a lesbian is part of her Character Development.
• Raven's Home: A sequel to That's So Raven; Cami, Booker's love interest and daughter of Raven's rival Alana Rivera is bisexual, whose previous relationship was with a girl. Raven's hapless assistant Nikki is Disney Channel's first transgender character, whose portrayer is also the first transgender actress on the channel.
• Rebelde (2022): Several of its ensemble main cast are LGBTQIA+, with Andi and Emilia's romance and Luka and Okane's romance both being part of their storylines. The supporting cast also has Lourdes, who is played by a trans actress, and Laura and Ilse, who become involved.
• The Red Line: One of the main characters is Daniel, a Crusading Widower trying to get justice after his husband (a Black man) is killed by a police officer despite being an unarmed doctor, while also struggling to deal with his grief and adjusting to raising their adopted daughter as a single father.
• The Republic of Sarah: Drama about a town seceding from the U.S. to avoid a predatory mining company tearing the town apart; one of the main characters AJ, a Greylock police officer, is in an adulterous relationship with recurring character Alexis (who is either lesbian or bisexual), the wife of the former Greylock major. Another recurring character Luìs is a gay man, who is trying to connect with his daughter Maya who has been sent to live with him. A lesbian supporting character also appears.
• Rise (2018): A subplot of the show is Simon trying to prove to himself that he's not gay by dating Annabelle, who of course has no idea and thinks that he genuinely likes her.
• The Rising: Neve, the lead character, it turns out is bisexual. Originally she'd dated Joe, then becomes attracted to his female cousin Alex, who's a lesbian it turns out, returning her feelings. Nicky, a supporting character who's a friend of Joe's, also turns out to be gay and wants him for himself.
• Riverdale: A Darker and Edgier adaptation of the Archie Comics series; some characters have had their sexualities changed with the adaptation, the main cast includes several LGBTQ characters including Cheryl Blossom (lesbian), Toni Topaz (bisexual), Fangs Fogarty (bisexual), and Kevin Keller (gay). A twist in the final season reveals that Betty and Veronica were bisexual and dated each other while being in a polyamorous relationship Archie and Jughead. There were also several LGBTQ supporting characters throughout the series, including Moose Mason who is now bisexual, and Clay Walker, Kevin Keller's canon gay love interest from Life With Archie: The Married Life.
  • Katy Keene: Spinoff from Riverdale on Archie Comics character Katy Keene who lives in New York with her friends, all of whom are chasing their dreams. The main cast includes Jorge, a gay drag queen, and Pepper Smith, the Josie and the Pussycats character who is reimagined as a bisexual woman.
• The Really Loud House: A Live-Action Adaptation of The Loud House; just like in the cartoon, Clyde has two fathers.
• Robyn Hood (2023): In this modern reimagining of Robin Hood, Robyn is now bisexual (and Really Gets Around with both men or women). Marian is a lesbian.
• Rojst: Anna Jass is a Butch Lesbian, who starts a relationship with bisexual Teresa Zarzycka by the end of Season 2.
• Rookie Blue: One of the main characters, Gail, starts a relationship with another woman, Holly, after she had been with multiple men before. There are also several LGBT+ supporting characters.
• Roseannne: The series has seen a couple of recurring LGBT characters; Leon Carp, Roseanne's boss and later business parter, is a gay man who ends up marrying his partner Scott. Roseanne's friend Nancy realizes she is bisexual.
• Roswell, New Mexico: Two of the main characters (Isobel and Michael) are bisexual and Alex is gay. A Bisexual Love Triangle develops between Michael, Alec and Maria. In the backstory, Michael and Alec had to face violent homophobia by Alec's father due to their relationship too. Isobel dates multiple women during the series.
• Rubicon: Main character Kale is revealed as being gay and has a much younger boyfriend he lives with. It's also implied he was once involved with Bloom.
• Runaways (2017): TV adaptation of the Runaways comic; Karolina and Nico are portrayed as queer here as well, Karolina being a lesbian and Nico is bisexual.

Series S-V

• Safe (2018): Pete, the main character's right hand-man is gay. One of the subplots of the show regards him learning that his Last Het Romance resulted in a child he was never told about.
• The Sandman (2022): The first episode has a gay couple, Desire and Lucifer are non-binary, Johanna Constantine is bi, the Corinthian is also bi, and Hal is gay.
• Schitt's Creek: Main character David is pansexual (though people in-series often assume he's gay), and his boyfriend Patrick is gay; him coming out to his parents is a subplot in season 5.
• The Sea Beyond: In this teen prison drama, one of the third season's subplots is a secret relationship between two male inmates, and one of them has a homophobic brother. A flashback also features Luna, a transgender woman.
• Search Party: Elliot is gay and in a relationship with Mark, and the final season shows that Dory and Portia are bisexual.
• See: One of the protagonists, Haniwa, has a same-sex relationship, and villain Queen Kane has sexual encounters with men and women alike.
• Seinfeld: Susan's primary love interest is George, but she also dates women after their initial breakup.
• Sense8: Sci-fi series about 8 people from around the world sharing a psionic mindlink; the 8 main characters are pansexual in their relationship, though one is a gay man and the other is a trans lesbian. The relationships these characters share with their partners (a gay man and a bisexual woman) are also shown at length.
• Severance (2022): One of the recurring plots of season 1 is the budding romance between Irving, the most devout member of the MDR department, and Burt, from another department, and the rebellious streak the former gains as such fraternization breaks the rules of the shady and mysterious company they work for.
• Sex Education: Has a number of queer characters (a gay main character, a pansexual main character, an asexual recurring character, and two nonbinary recurring characters), though the show is mostly about awkwardness of human sexuality in general rather than specifically LGBTQIA+ subject matter.
• The Sex Lives of College Girls: Leighton, one of the main cast members, is a closeted lesbian whose struggle regarding her sexual orientation is a main theme. She enters a relationship with another woman on campus. There are also several lesbian supporting characters, including the women who Leighton dates, and one nonbinary character who's a friend of Leighton's girlfriend Alicia.
• Shadow and Bone: Two of the male main characters, Jesper and Wylan from the Crows, become a couple. Nadia, a supporting character, is attracted to other women. In Season 2, Tamar is a new main character who's a Butch Lesbian and potential romance for Nadia.
• Shameless (UK): Monica, the kids' mom, left their dad Frank for Butch Lesbian Norma. Jaz is also a lesbian who's a supporting character, as was Shaza for a time.
• Shameless (US): A number of characters are queer: Ian is gay (and at one point dates Trevor, a transgender man), his sister Debbie is a lesbian, and their mom Monica is a lesbian. There are also several supporting queer characters.
• The Shannara Chronicles: Eretria is a bisexual woman who is attracted to Will (having sex with him once) and Amberlie, while an ex-girlfriend of hers also shows up. She dates Princess Lyria in Season 2.
• She's Gotta Have It: Nola, the main character, is pansexual and gets involved with a woman during the series.
• ''AShortStayInSwitzerland: Edward, the oldest of Anne's three children, has a male partner, Stephen, who he later marries.
• Single Drunk Female: Samantha, the lead character, is a bisexual woman. Olivia, her sponsor (Samantha's a recovering alcoholic) is a lesbian with a wife named Stephanie. Mindy, a trans woman who has Olivia as a sponsor as well, is a supporting character. Samantha hooks up with another alcoholic Olivia has sponsored, Chloe, but it doesn't work out.
• Siren (2018): Maddie and Ryn, the two main female characters, gradually realize they have a mutual attraction, becoming lovers (at the same time being with Ben too). A minor lesbian character also later shows up, along with some merpeople who have shapeshifted from female to male and identify this way, so they're basically like trans men.
• Six Feet Under: David and Keith are gay and romantically involved.
• Skam: One of the subplots of the series is Isak coming to terms with his sexuality and accepting that he's gay.
• Skins: Maxxie is gay.
• Slip: Comedy series about a woman who travels to Alternate Universes. Main character Mae is bisexual, and is in a relationship with a woman in one alternate reality.
• Snowpiercer: Till and Jinju, both lesbians, are a couple initially. Miss Audrey is a lesbian or at least bisexual. Zarah is definitely a bisexual meanwhile, as she's introduced involved with both men and women while in a polyamorous relationship. There are also a couple queer supporting characters.
• The Society: One of the subplots of the show is the gay romance between Sam, the only out teen in the group, and Grizz, a closeted gay boy that falls for him.
• Soap: Jodie is a gay man, and is one of the earliest examples (the show premiered in 1977) of a gay main character who does not end the series dead or turned straight.
• Some of My Best Friends: Odd couple type-sitcom about a straight man and gay man being roommates.
• Someone Has To Die: Gabino, the heir to a wealthy and conservative Spanish family in the 1950s, is made to return home after 10 years abroad for an arranged marriage. He brings with him his friend Lazaro, and it is quickly revealed to his family that he's gay and Lazaro is really his boyfriend.
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Several of the main gladiators (Barca, Auctus and Agron) are gay and their romances are given as much screentime as that of the straight characters. Several of the female characters are bisexual, and the relationship between Gaia and Lucretia is a major subplot of Gods of the Arena. A gay couple are among the survivors on the show at the end.
• Special Ops: Lioness: Cruz, one of the lead characters, is bisexual. It's shown when she falls for Aaliyah, the woman who has been her mark (means of getting close to Aaliyah's father), and they have a brief relationship. Bobby, a supporting character, is a Butch Lesbian too.
• The Spencer Sisters: Canadian dramedy series about a bickering-yet-loving mother and daughter duo forming a private investigation agency; Darby's friend Zane is part of the main cast, and he is a gay police officer and is married to his husband Antonio and they are raising a child together.
• Spin City: Carter Heywood is gay.
• Stargirl (2020): Todd Rice is gay.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Main character Dax (in both Jadzia and Ezri forms) is pansexual, having had past relationships with people regardless of gender. Jadzia attempts to rekindle her past relationship with Lenara Kahn, who's also female, but this is stopped as a result of Trill laws with a clear homophobic analogy. However, it can be taken as being Discount Lesbians given both are nonhumans (though almost indistinguishable from humans). In the Mirror universe as well, several main characters' counterparts were LGBT+, i.e. Ezri's is a lesbian and Kira's pansexual. The Trills in general seem to be largely pansexuals from what's said.
• Star Trek: Discovery: Dr. Hugh Culber and Commander Paul Stamets, both male, are the Official Couple of the series, and their relationship gets quite a bit of focus across all seasons. Supporting character Jett also turns out to be a lesbian. Additionally, nonbinary crewmember Adira Tal joins the cast, with a brief coming out story, and they have a trans male love interest. Recurring villain Mirror Philippa Georgiou is pansexual as well.
• Star Trek: Picard: The series reveals that Seven of Nine, a main character, is queer. After only showing attraction to men before on Star Trek: Voyager, Seven dates the female Starfleet officer Raffaela "Raffi" Musiker.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The cast contains multiple LGBTQIA+ characters, including Nurse Chapel, who is bisexual. The villain Captain Angel is non-binary.
• Strange Empire: Morgan Finn is a trans man, it's revealed (in modern terms), and has a relationship with Rebecca. Though worried that Rebecca won't want him once his gender is revealed, she doesn't mind at all.
• Strangers with Candy: Jerri, the protagonist, is depicted as being attracted to men and women, though her attraction to women is mostly played as a joke.
• Stranger Things: Robin Buckley, a main character introduced in Season 3, was revealed to be a lesbian. While there have been hints since Season 1, Season 4 finally all but states that Will is gay and has feelings for Mike.
• Stumptown (2019): Dex, the main character, is a bisexual woman and we see some of her ex-girlfriends, though her main female love interest from the comics is changed to a man.
• Succession: Lawrence is indicated to be non-heterosexual, as he is shown in bed with another man. Stewy is also implied to be gay due to Kendall mentioning that he enjoys making out with guys. Tabitha and Naomi are both bisexual. Meanwhile, most of the main characters are Ambiguously Bi.
• The Summer I Turned Pretty: Two of the main characters, Jeremiah Fisher and Cleveland Castillo, are bisexual men. Both have women as their main love interests though. Two supporting characters are lesbian teenagers along with them, as is a queer boy who Jeremiah made out with. All are entirely accepted and unremarkable.
• Supergirl (2015): Series focusing around the character of Supergirl. Additionally, there is a lesbian main character in the regular cast, a lesbian supporting character, and a transgender female supporting character.
• Survivors (BBC): The remake has Anya, a bisexual woman, in the main cast. She's eventually revealed to have once been involved with her female friend, who's shown early on. Her male Love Interest's disgusted reaction makes it a plot point, although they get over it.
• Swarm: Dre, the protagonist, has a one night stand first early on with a man, then she dates another woman in the last episode.
• S.W.A.T. (2017): One of the main cast members is Chris, a bisexual woman who's quite open about the fact, which gets explored via her entering a polyamorous relationship with a man and woman (a married couple), though it doesn't work out.
• Tales from the Crypt
  • "Two For the Show": The plot is kicked off by a Bisexual Love Triangle between the characters.
  • "The Assassin": The main character is a transgender woman.
  • "Comes The Dawn": The main antagonist is a lesbian, and her ex-girlfriend is a supporting character.
• Ted Lasso: The series features multiple queer characters. Keeley Jones is revealed to be bi in the third season after being Ambiguously Bi throughout the show. Colin Hughes and Trent Crimm are both revealed to be gay in the third season.
• Teen Wolf: Jackson is bisexual.
• Teenage Bounty Hunters: April, one of the main characters, is a lesbian who acts homophobic so that her bigoted parents and conservative peers at her Christian school won't find out and make her life hell. Her developing feelings for Sterling makes this act a lot harder.
• This Is Going To Hurt: Based on a memoir by Adam Kay, who is gay.
• thirtysomething: Recurring character Russell is gay, as his boyfriend Peter and one episode that aired in 1989, "Strangers", shows them in bed together, post-sex which caused a huge controversy and caused several sponsors to pull advertising from the show.
• Tidelands (Netflix): The main villain is a bisexual woman with a mutual attraction for her lesbian underling, and her lieutenant is gay while involved with a male dirty cop.
• Timeless: Major character Denise Christopher is a lesbian.
• 30 Rock: Recurring character JD Lutz is revealed to be bisexual in the finale. Recurring antagonist Devon Banks is gay.
• Torchwood: Lead character Jack Harkness is functionally pansexual and romances both men and women.
• Trinkets: The protagonist is a lesbian, and a subplot involves her trying to overcome her extreme awkwardness and nervousness at talking to girls with the help of her friends. She later dates two different girls.
• Troy: Fall of a City: Achilles and Patroclus are a couple, indicated to both be bisexual since they have a highly enjoyable threesome with Briseis, a Trojan woman, on the beach.
• True Blood: The show had a high number of LGBT+ characters. Lafayette (who's gay) and Tara (bisexual) got the most screentime. Both of them had same-sex relationships, with their partners Jesús and Naomi serving as supporting characters (in the latter case on a shorter time frame). Russell Edginton was also a gay vampire whose relationship with his partner Talbot is about the only positive thing about him. Pam is a bisexual vampire, as was Sophie-Anne, with both of them having lovers who are human women. Nora Gainesborough was also a bisexual vampire. Antagonist Steve Newlin turned out to be gay too (he was turned to a vampire eventually).
• The Tunnel: One of the two protagonists, Elise (who previously had been with men), is revealed to be bisexual in the second season when she has mutual attraction with Eryka, a female German scientist. They sleep together, but any deeper connection collapses on the reveal Eryka is with the bad guys. She ends up saving Elise from them however. In Season 3, Elise reveals she previously had sex with both boys and girls as a teenager too.
• Twenties: The lead character is Hattie, a Butch Lesbian. Two of her female lovers are supporting characters, along with a bisexual man.
• Two Sentence Horror Stories:
  • "Scion": Story centers around a gay young adult, and his boyfriend is present as well. Features a fantastic metaphor for gay conversion therapy.
  • "Ma": The story centers on a young woman attracted to her Butch Lesbian neighbor.
  • "Singularity": This episode centers around a trans woman.
  • "Bag Man": Gabbi, an African-American girl, is attracted to Asian-American girl Zee it turns out, with the latter appearing to reciprocate or at least be open to the idea.
  • "Elliot": This story centers on a teenage trans boy.
  • "Fix": The lead character Jackson is gay, with his boyfriend Reza as a supporting character.
  • "Plant Life": The story centers on an Asian-American gay man, with his African-American boyfriend as a supporting character.
  • "Teeth": The story is about Olivia and Cara, a lesbian couple.
• Ugly Betty: Two of the main characters (Marc and Justin) are gay, and Justin's Coming-Out Story is a big part of the fourth season. Another main character, Alexis, is a transgender woman.
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Titus, one of the protagonist, is a Camp Gay actor. His romance with Mikey, a newly out Italian-American construction worker, starting season 2 is one of the ongoing plots of the show.
• The Umbrella Academy (2019): Two of the Hargreeves siblings are LGBTQIA+: Klaus is confirmed pansexual and non-binary, while Viktor/Vanya is a trans man who has been in a relationship with a man and a woman. Said woman was in a relationship with Viktor before his transition.
• The Undeclared War: Saara, the protagonist, has a boyfriend at the start whom she's living with. Before long however she grows attracted to Kathy, whom she's working with. They kiss and later have sex, though Kathy is unwilling to explore anything more while she's with James. Saara does not end up with either.
• Undressed: Soap-style series about the love and sex lives of teenagers and young adults, the series includes several gay and lesbian relationship stories.
• Utopia Falls: Sage and Brooklyn are queer women who become a couple. Another female couple are supporting characters, and there's no sign of homophobia in this future society.
• Vagrant Queen: Elida is a princess on the run from the Republic, who overthrew her family. Over the course of the series she befriends Amae, the mechanic of the ship she ends up on, with the two of them eventually becoming attracted to each other and kiss near the end, with hints they may become a couple.
• Valor: Main character Thea is a bisexual woman. She previously was with Zoe, who's a lesbian.
• Veep: Selina's daughter Catherine is a lesbian.
• Versailles: As in real life, Louis XIV's brother Philippe has same sex relationships.
• Vicious: The main protagonists of this series are a gay couple named Freddie and Stuart, with Stuart having difficulties coming out to his mother.
• Vida: Emma is bisexual, and she and her sister were raised by a single mother who was secretly married to a woman they never knew and only find out about when their mother dies. This woman, Eddy, is a major character, and her wife's death is what kicks off the plot. A number of minor supporting queer women or nonbinary people appear as well, partly because Emma and Lyn turn their bar into one catering for them. Emma dates/has sex with multiple women or nonbinary people during the series.
• Vigil (BBC): Main protagonist DCI Amy Silva is bisexual and had a romantic relationship with her partner, supporting protagonist DS Kirsten Longacre. One of the subplots involves Amy trying to sort out her feelings for Kirsten, complicated by Kirsten being her first same-sex partner (with Kirsten accusing Amy of being ashamed of her for not wanting to make things more official) and her grief for her late fiance Ian.
• Vikings: Lagertha, Ragnar's first wife, eventually leaves him and pursues a romance with fellow shieldmaiden Astrid. This seems much more abrupt in the US version of the series, which cut a scene of her sharing a kiss with a visiting Saxon queen in season 3. Astrid is also bisexual like her.

Series W-Z

• Walker: Reboot of the Chuck Norris series Walker, Texas Ranger; Cordell's younger brother Liam Walker is a gay man, and his ex-fiancé Bret is a recurring character.
• The Walking Dead (2010): Several of the main characters are gay or lesbians, along with some supporting ones as well. Tara, introduced in Season 4, is a lesbian who's the first. She's involved with Alisha at first briefly, then later Denise for a longer period. Aaron it turns out is also gay, and involved with Eric, then later has Ship Tease with Jesus. In Season 9 lesbian couple Magna and Yumiko are introduced, though this wasn't super obvious initially. Kelly is also implied to be a lesbian, though it hasn't been confirmed onscreen.
• The Watch (2021): Main character Cheery/Cheri is a nonbinary dwarf who tells her friends about rejecting their people's norms around gender (which includes not having a beard). Supporting character Jocasta Wiggs is also shown to have a female lover. Lord Vetinari, a male character originally, is played here by a woman, with he/him and she/her pronouns used alternately, indicating they're possible nonbinary too though it's not made explicit.
• We Are Lady Parts: Ayesha, one of the main characters, is queer and becomes attracted to another woman. She feels conflicted about this as she's also Muslim, with Islam forbidding homosexuality traditionally. Even so she dates Zarina, the woman she's interested in.
• We Are Who We Are: The main character Fraser is interested in other boys, and his friend Caitlin was assigned female at birth but questioning their gender, often presenting as male while away from home (the series ends with it ambiguous if they're a trans boy or not), while Caitlin's also interested in both boys and girls. Of the adult characters, Fraser has two moms, his birth mother Sarah and Maggie, her wife. Jenny (Caitlin's mom, who is married to Caitlin's father, a male officer) has an affair with Maggie during the series too. There's also an Italian male soldier whom Fraser is attracted to and reciprocates his feelings.
• Wentworth: Bea, the lead character for most of the show, is a bisexual woman. Several main characters on the show are also lesbians and bisexual women; transgender characters are also featured. A number of relationships between them occur.
• The Wheel of Time (2021): Moraine and Siuan have been a couple for 20 years, and Alanna and her male Warders Ihvon and Maksim are in a polyamorous relationship.
• The White Lotus:
  • The hotel manager in Season 1, Armand, turns out to be gay and has sex with one of his male employees.
  • In Season 2, Valentina is the manager of another hotel in the chain who's a closeted lesbian attracted to a female employee before she's seduced by Mia. Tanya also travels with several gay men led by Quentin who plan to murder her it turns out.
• Why Are You Like This: The show focuses on three young adults navigating their early steps in adulthood and the modern world. In the main trio, Mia is bisexual, while Austin is gay and a drag queen.
• Why Women Kill: In the first season, Taylor is in an open marriage with a man, which is made complicated when he invites his (bisexual) mistress Jade to live with them... and she falls for her as well. Additionally, Karl, Simone's husband, is forcibly outed as gay to her and then finds out that he has AIDS, a death sentence in 1984.
• The Wilds: Two of the main cast are lesbians, with two supporting lesbian characters shown in flashbacks. One's coming out story is focused on, along with her past, and the main two get into a relationship, with this being covered over multiple episodes. Some attention is also given to their past relationships/attraction toward other women via the flashbacks shown. In Season 2 a gay boy joins the cast. Two of the other main female characters are also indicated to be bisexuals (with one loving the other).
• Will & Grace: About the adventures of Straight Gay Will and his friend Grace, with Will's Camp Gay friend Jack serving as a recurring character. It was one of the first mainstream television shows to delve into gay culture beyond stereotypes.
• Willow (2022): Two of the main characters, Tomboy Princess Kit and Jade, her best friend, have an attraction to each other that grows into a relationship. Another main character, Boorman, also is revealed to be bisexual or bicurious as he castually hits on both female and male characters in the Season 1 finale.
• The Wire: Police detective Kima Greggs is a lesbian, and stick-up man Omar Little has multiple boyfriends throughout the course of the series.
• Witches of East End: Main character Joanna is shown as attracted to women along with men when Alex, a female supporting character, is introduced and it's revealed they once dated.
• Wolf Pack: Harlan, one of the four main characters, is openly gay and starts up a relationship with another student in the first season.
• World on Fire: Two of the main characters on the show, Webster and Albert, are gay men who become a couple.
• The Wright Way: One of the supporting characters is Susan, who is a lesbian in a relationship with another girl named Victoria.
• Wynonna Earp: Waverly, Wynonna's younger sister, realizes she's bisexual after falling for Nicole, the deputy sheriff of Purgatory.
• Y: The Last Man (2021): Television adaptation of the comic series Y: The Last Man; the adaptation updates the premise with today's knowledge of genetics/gender by highlighting transmasculine and intersex people, and additionally adding a transgender male character as part of the regular cast. Allison Mann is portrayed here as a lesbian too, while some other trans men are supporting characters.
• Years and Years: Part of the cast is a duo of gay men (specifically Daniel and Ralph), and part of the series' plot is their declining marriage and Daniel's relationship with a Ukrainian refugee named Viktor, who is also gay. Additionally, it is implied that by the end of the series Lincoln may have come out as a transgender girl. Edith (Daniel's sister) and Fran also turn out to be a couple.
• Yellowjackets: Two of the main girls in 1996, Taissa and Van (Vanessa) are together. Later on in 2021 an adult Taissa is shown as being married to another woman. Both relationships are explored. A supporting character is also a gay adult man.
• Younger: Maggie, one of the main characters, is a lesbian.
• Young Royals (2021): The protagonist is gay, and his friend (later boyfriend) Simon is as well.

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