Works focusing on LGBT people, themes and relationships as the primary subject matter. This goes beyond media featuring queer characters and/or developing a supporting LGBT Fanbase; the works listed revolve around the lives of LGBT people and experiences. This often takes the form of:
- Any kind of Coming-Out Story or story focusing on an LGBT Awakening
- Stories focusing on Gayngst, Trans Tribulations and related tropes
- Stories whose central focus is on a Homophobic Hate Crime (not just one or two episodes of a crime series)
- Documentaries or biopics about queer people with a significant focus on their queerness
- Stories whose primary message is a Gay Aesop (not just one episode of a show)
Work which are not Queer Media:
- Works with one of the above subjects as a subplot rather than the main plot
- Works that are about a romance between queer characters—those are Queer Romance, a subgenre of Queer Media
- Works with queer main characters or large amounts of queer supporting characters but whose stories are not about being queer.
This is a sub-category of LGBT Representation in Media. See the sub-category Queer Romance for media specifically about LGBT relationships. There is also the sub-category Speculative Fiction LGBT for Speculative Fiction with heavy LGBT themes. See LGBT+ Creators for a list of queer performers and artists.
These can be contrasted with series which develop an LGBT Fanbase but aren't specifically aimed at one, as well as with genres such as Yaoi, Yuri, and Slash note which have LGBT romantic or sexual plotlines but are generally meant for a straight audience (even if some series have an LGBT+ Periphery Demographic).
Examples:
- Aido
- Banana Fish was a foundational manga kickstarting the Boys' Love genre in Japan, focusing on a young man who was the victim of sexual assault and child trafficking, and his relationship with another man.
- Bloom Into You
- Blue Flag (Homophobia, lesbian and gay main character, bisexual male lead character, gay romance)
- Bokura no Hentai: Genre Deconstruction of the Otokonoko Genre that includes a queer boy and a trans girl as part of its main cast. Trans Tribulations, homophobia, and Queer Romance play major roles in the plot.
- Boys Run the Riot (transgender male main character)
- The Bride Was A Boy (transgender female main character)
- BREAK THE BORDER (transgender male main character)
- The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (aside from the many side characters who are explicitly queer, much of the story arc revolves around Seigi's evolving understanding of love and gender and what it can mean and how it can look, in defiance of societal expectations)
- Claudine...! (transgender male main character)
- Dandelion Among Lilies
- The Day of Revolution
- Double House (transgender female main character, lesbian main character)
- Even Though We're Adults
- Family Compo
- Free Soul
- Fujimi Orchestra is a Boys' Love series focusing on music and the hardships of being gay in Japan.
- Girl Friends (lesbian main character, lesbian supporting character)
- Go For It, Nakamura!
- Goodbye, My Rose Garden
- Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku
- Husky and Medley
- I Think Our Son Is Gay is about parents of a young gay man and their evolving expectations coming to terms with it.
- Indigo Blue
- IS: Otoko demo Onna demo Nai Sei
- Kanojo ni Naritai Kimi to Boku (transgender female main character)
- Kyou Kara Yonshimai
- Legend of the Blue Wolves
- Love Me For Who I Am (non-binary main character, transgender female supporting characters, gay supporting character, lesbian supporting character, queer male supporting character/love interest, diamoric romance)
- Love My Life
- Maiden Rose
- Morefuyu
- MW (bisexual main character, gay main character)
- My Brother's Husband: Manga about a Japanese man and his deceased brother's Canadian husband bonding over their shared grief, there is a gay main character, several gay minor characters, subject matter includes homophobia, different cultural acceptances of LGBT people, queer male romance, LGBT acceptance.
- My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (lesbian main character)
- My Solo Exchange Diary
- Negative-kun to Positive-kun
- "Niku wo Hagu" (transgender male main character)
- Ohana Holoholo
- Oppai O Totta Kareshi by Yukiko Serizawa (transgender male main character)
- Otoko Ni Naritai by Hikaru Yamagishi (transgender male main character)
- Otoko Ni Naritai Watashi No Kareshi Wa Moto Onna by Sachiko Takeuchi (lesbian main character, transgender male main character)
- Our Dreams at Dusk (gay male main character, lesbian, gay, transgender, aromantic/asexual supporting characters, queer male and queer female romance)
- Pieta
- Plica
- Rules
- Sakura-chan to Amane-kun
- Sazanami Cherry
- Sweet Blue Flowers
- Wandering Son (transgender female main character, transgender male main character)
- What Did You Eat Yesterday?, about two middle-aged gay men, their life together, and navigating being a gay adult in Japan.
- Wiegenlied Of Green (lesbian main characters, queer female romance)
- Yuri Kuma Arashi
- Associated Student Bodies
- Bingo Love: The two main characters are queer (a lesbian and a bisexual woman); subject matter includes queer female romance.
- Call Me Nathan by Catherine Castro and Quentin Zuttion (transgender male main character)
- Cheat(er) Code: A gay erotic comic book; the main character is gay, the supporting characters are gay and/or queer men, subject matter includes queer male sex/sexuality.
- Circles
- Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles (gay main character, gay supporting characters, subject matter includes homophobia, LGBT acceptance)
- Fence: LGBT sports series; the two main characters are gay/queer and the vast majority of supporting characters are male and either gay or queer. Subject matter includes queer male romance.
- The Fire Never Goes Out: An autobiographical comic by comic writer/illustrator Noelle Stevenson who describes themselves as transmasculine and bigender and is married to a lesbian woman.
- Gender Queer: A Memoir: Autobiographical comic by asexual, nonbinary cartoonist Maia Kobabe, which also features a number of lesbian supporting characters, gay supporting characters, a nonbinary supporting character and Maia's relationships with multiple women.
- Killer Condom
- Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me (lesbian main character, dating a girl who dates boys and girls, supporting cast includes multiple queer girls)
- Life Is Strange: A queer female romance story between the main character (a bisexual girl) and the deuteragonist, a lesbian.
- Life Of Melody
- The Magic Fish
- Money Shot: The ensemble cast is sexually-fluid; the plot centers around a bisexual woman, who later gets into a romance with another bisexual female cast member.
- My Friend Dahmer (gay main character, biopic)
- The Pride
- Pride High
- The Prince and the Dressmaker: A story about a prince who likes to dress in beautiful dresses, the main character describes himself as sometimes not feeling like his assigned gender, subject matter includes gender non-conformity, gender dysphoria, gender euphoria, gender fluidity, transphobia, coming out, LGBT acceptance.
- Roadqueen: Eternal Roadtrip to Love
- SFSX (Safe Sex)
- Snotgirl
- Stuck Rubber Baby
- The Witch Boy: A middle grade comic series about a young male witch struggling to fit in with his family and magic clan as only girls are born to be witches; at the heart of the story is a fantastic allegory regarding gender and gender dysphoria, the main character is a gender non-conforming boy, and several queer supporting characters, from other queer youth to a character having two fathers.
- The Hidden Witch: A sequel to the The Witch Boy.
- The Midwinter Witch: Completes the trilogy of the The Witch Boy and The Hidden Witch.
- AJ & Magnus: Two gay men raise a child and his dog, there is a transgender female supporting character, several gay supporting characters, subject matter includes LGBT parenting/family, LGBT marriage, LGBT acceptance.
- Bitchy Butch
- Chelsea Boys
- A Couple of Guys
- Dykes to Watch Out For (queer ensemble cast, lesbian main characters)
- Kyles Bed And Breakfast (queer ensemble cast, gay main characters)
- Lucy And Sophie Say Good Bye
- Here by Accident, Staying on Purpose (trans girl main character)
- Formerly Known as Harry Potter? (transgender female main character)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Trans Ponies (transgender male main character)
- The Wound's Still Bleeding (transgender female main character)
- RWBY: Scars (transgender female main character)
- Eyes on Me (transgender female main character, lesbian main character, queer female romance)
- Problems AU (transgender male main character, lesbian supporting character, intersex and nonbinary supporting character)
- Achilles (bisexual main character)
- Adolescence of Utena (lesbian main characters, queer female romance)
- 2:37
- 3 Generations (transgender male main character, lesbian supporting characters, transphobia, LGBT youth, LGBT acceptance)
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- And the Band Played On
- Another Country
- Another Gay Movie
- Bedrooms and Hallways
- Before Stonewall
- Behind the Candelabra: LGBT biopic about gay pianist Liberace.
- Bent (gay main characters, homophobia, gay supporting characters, queer male romance)
- The Birdcage: A gay man with a male life partner masquerades as a straight married man to please his son's fiance's parents, there are several gay male characters, subject matter includes LGBT parenting/family.
- Blood of the Tribades (lesbian main characters, lesbian supporting characters; subject matter includes homophobia, queer female romance)
- The Blood Spattered Bride (Features a woman and her lover, a Lesbian Vampire)
- Bohemian Rhapsody (bisexual male main character, homophobia)
- Boy Erased: Based on a True Story film about a gay young man sent to conversion therapy by his parents; the main character is gay, there are several gay and lesbian supporting characters; subject matter includes conversion therapy, homophobia, queer male romance, coming out, and LGBT acceptance.
- Boys Don't Cry: A biopic about Brandon Teena, a young transgender man murdered in a hate crime; subject matter includes homophobia and transphobia, queer romance.
- BPM Beats Per Minute
- Breakfast with Scot
- The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
- But I'm a Cheerleader: Black comedy/dramedy about a young woman sent to a conversion therapy camp, the main character and her love interest are both lesbians, there are other LGBT supporting characters; subject matter includes female romance, homophobia, conversion therapy, and LGBT acceptance.
- By Hook or By Crook
- Camp (2003): A film about a Love Triangle at a performing arts camp; there is gay character in the main ensemble; subject matter includes homophobia, and coming out.
- The Carmilla Movie
- The Celluloid Closet (a Documentary about the depiction of gay and lesbian characters in film)
- Chasing Amy (bisexual female main character, gay supporting character, lesbian supporting characters; subject matter includes biphobia)
- Chloe (bisexual main characters; subject matter includes queer female romance)
- The Closet (the main character is a straight man who pretends to be gay, there is an Armoured Closet Gay supporting character)
- Colette (bisexual female main character, bisexual female supporting character, lesbian or transgender supporting character; subject matter includes queer female romance, homophobia)
- Colonel Redl
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- Cracks (lesbian main character, lesbian supporting character, LGBT youth)
- C.R.A.Z.Y.
- The Crying Game (the ensemble cast includes a transgender woman main character)
- Cruising
- The Curiosity of Chance
- Dallas Buyers Club
- The Danish Girl: Biopic on married painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the former of whom was a trans woman and the first person to receive sex-reassignment surgery. The film primarily focuses on Elbe's Trans Tribulations and her continued relationship with her wife after coming out.
- Dating Amber
- Different for Girls
- Different from the Others
- Eating Out
- A Fantastic Woman
- Far from Heaven
- Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
- Fox and His Friends
- Freeheld (lesbian main characters, queer female romance)
- Funeral Parade of Roses
- G.B.F. (gay main characters; subject matter includes coming out story)
- Gia (lesbian main character, lesbian supporting character; subject matter includes queer female romance)
- Giant Little Ones (gay or bi main character, gay or bi supporting characters, gay supporting characters, lesbian or transgender supporting character; subject matter includes homophobia, LGBT awakening, LGBT youth)
- Girl (2018) (trans main character)
- A Girl Like Grace
- Gohatto
- Gray Matters (lesbian main character, coming out story)
- The Half of It
- Handsome Devil
- Happiest Season (lesbian couple as the main characters, lesbian supporting character, subject matter includes coming out and queer female romance)
- The Hours
- Hurricane Bianca
- Ideal Home (two gay male main characters, subject matter includes LGBT parenting/family)
- I Love You Phillip Morris: LGBT biopic about the gay con artist Steven Jay Russell and his boyfriend Phillip Morris; subject matter includes queer male romance.
- In & Out (gay main character; subject matter includes coming out story)
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry: Two male firefighters pretend to be a gay couple getting married for healthcare benefits, there are several gay supporting characters; subject matter includes homophobia, coming out story, gay marriage.
- A Kid Like Jake
- The Kids Are All Right
- Kill Your Darlings
- Kinky Boots (about a shoemaker designing boots for a drag queen)
- Kinsey
- Knife And Heart
- The Living End
- Lost In Paradise
- Love Is All You Need? (2016): Persecution Flip with homosexual characters being the privileged majority.
- Make the Yuletide Gay
- Making Love
- Marguerite (2017)
- Ma Vie En Rose
- Michael (1924)
- Milk: A biopic about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the United States, gay main character, gay supporting characters; subject matter includes homophobia, LGBT biopic, queer male romance.
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post (lesbian main character, lesbian supporting characters, gay supporting characters, transgender supporting character; subject matter includes homophobia, conversion therapy)
- Moonlight (2016): A film about an African-African man growing up in impoverished Miami and his struggles with identity, the main character is gay, his male love interest is gay or queer; subject matter includes homophobia, coming out story, queer male romance.
- Myra Breckinridge (transgender female main character)
- Mysterious Skin
- Naomi And Ely's No Kiss List (gay main character, bi or gay supporting character; subject matter includes coming out story, LGBT acceptance, LGBT youth, queer male romance)
- The New Girlfriend (bigender main character; subject matter includes queer romance)
- A New York Christmas Wedding (bisexual female main character; the plot centers on her having the courage to come out and confess her love to her female best friend)
- 9 Dead Gay Guys
- Normal (2003) (transgender female main character; subject matter coming out story, transphobia)
- The Normal Heart
- Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa (third gender)
- Pariah (lesbian main character, bi or lesbian supporting character; subject matter includes coming out story, homophobia, queer female romance)
- Paris Is Burning
- Philadelphia (legal drama about LGBT workplace discrimination, the plot centers around a gay man with AIDS, there is a gay supporting character and his lover; subject matter includes homophobia, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS discrimination)
- Poison Ivy
- The Power of the Dog
- Prayers for Bobby (subject matter includes coming out story, homophobia)
- Pride (2014)
- Princess Cyd (bi female main character, lesbian supporting characters, queer female romance, subject matter includes LGBT youth)
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
- The Real Thing directed by Brandon Kelley (transgender female main character)
- Rocketman (2019)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (pansexual and transgender female main character, sexually fluid supporting characters, is one of the cult classics in the queer community.)
- Saint Laurent
- Saved! (gay male supporting character; subject includes coming out story, homophobia)
- Self Defense (gay supporting character; subject matter includes homophobia)
- Shortbus
- A Single Man
- Some Like It Hot
- Spa Night: A Korean-American young adult comes to term with his sexuality while being held back by cultural expectations, subject matter includes gay sexuality, LGBT awakening.
- Steam (lesbian main character, bisexual female supporting character, coming out story, LGBT youth, queer female romance)
- Strawberry and Chocolate: A university student in 1979 Havana becomes friends with a gay man, Castro's Cuba being a place where being gay could get you arrested then.
- Summerland (2020): Alice, the main character, is a closeted lesbian. Her past same-sex relationship with Vera becomes central to the plot. She expresses anxiety about homophobia, and was left by Vera to have a baby (which, this being in the early 20th century, required marrying a man). They end up getting together again and co-parent Vera's son.
- Super Deluxe
- Swoon (gay male protagonists, societal homophobia as a major theme)
- Tangerine
- They/Them (non-binary main character, lesbian supporting character, subject matter includes coming out story, LGBT youth, transphobia)
- The Times of Harvey Milk
- Those People
- Tomboy (transgender/gender nonconforming main character; subject matter includes LGBT youth, queer romance, transphobia)
- To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar: A film about three drag queens taking a road trip, subject matter includes homophobia, LGBT acceptance, drag queens/drag culture.
- Transamerica
- Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story (lesbian main character; subject matter includes coming out story, homophobia, conversion therapy, gay supporting character, lesbian supporting characters)
- "Trevor": A short film about a 13-year-old old boy realizing that he is gay; subject matter includes LGBT awakening, homophobia coming out story, LGBT youth.
- The Truth About Jane
- Two Spirits
- Uncle Frank
- Velvet Goldmine: A movie about a fictional Glam Rock singer loosely based on David Bowie, prominently focusing on his bisexuality (the real Bowie was described by his first wife as bisexual), the relationship between it and his work, and Britain's LGBT community during the 1970s.
- Victim (gay main character, gay supporting characters, homophobia)
- Victor/Victoria (drag queens, drag culture, gay and bisexual male supporting characters, If It's You, It's Okay romance; subject matter includes queer male romance, homophobia)
- The Wedding Banquet
- Zero As You Are, directed by Tokoi Miyuki (non-binary, transgender female, queer romance)
- Almost Perfect: A novel about a transgender girl, focusing on her transition and the acceptance/lack thereof from the people in her life, including the boy she falls for after transitioning.
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: One of the two main characters is gay and deals with 1940s and 50s homophobia, though he also has a brief romance.
- And the Band Played On
- The Art of Being Normal
- Babyji
- The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
- The Best at It: LGBT youth-oriented novel revolving around a gay 12-year-old Indian-American boy's self-actualization. Subject matter includes LGBT awakening, coming out, LGBT youth and LGBT acceptance.
- Blackbird (1986)
- Camouflage
- Carmilla
- Chaos Squad
- China Mountain Zhang
- Cracks
- Daddy's Roommate: Children's book about a boy learning about his father's relationship with another man, subject matter includes LGBT parenting, LGBT acceptance.
- A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
- Double Happiness by Fumino Sugiyama (transgender male main character)
- Fellow Travelers
- Funny Boy
- Geography Club: YA novel about a closeted gay teenager assembling with other closeted LGBT students in the guise of a fake school club to avoid homophobia, subject matter includes LGBT youth, coming out, homophobia, LGBT acceptance, and queer male romance.
- The Order of the Poison Oak: Sequel book set at a summer camp where the characters balance their counselor duties with summer love, subject matter includes queer male romance and LGBT youth.
- Soul Sucking Brain Zombies Duology Two main characters (a gay teen boy and a bisexual teen girl) narrate the book from different perspectives will working as extras on a zombie film, subject matter includes queer male romance, queer female romance, homophobia, conversion therapy, LGBT youth, and coming out.
- The Elephant Of Surprise A gay teen deals with his feelings for his ex and another man, while dealing with sudden unexpected changes in his life; subject matter includes queer male romance and LGBT youth.
- Giovanni's Room
- Heather Has Two Mommies
- Her Body and Other Parties
- Hero
- The Hours
- I Am J
- I Am Jazz (trans girl explaining what being trans means)
- Kiss
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Less
- Lets Talk About Love
- Lockpick Pornography
- The Lotterys Plus One (family raised by two gay dads and two gay moms)
- Love and Death on Long Island
- The Love And Lies Of Rukhsana Ali: The protagonist is a closeted Bangladeshi-American lesbian who's in a relationship with another girl. It's plot centers on dealing with her homophobic parents when she's outed. The book features her girlfriend as a supporting character, a closeted gay character and a hate crime that affects things deeply.
- Loveless (aromantic asexual protagonist in a story centered around her self-discovery)
- The Man from C.A.M.P.
- Maurice
- Melissa (transgender female main character, transphobia, LGBT youth)
- Middlesex
- Misfortune
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Nevada
- The Nullweaver Cycle by trans co-creators Mabel Harper and Cassidy Webb
is notable for featuring a large LGBT cast, highlighting transgender voices, and openly processing sexual trauma. One of the two protagonists in the story, Jules, is an out trans man, and the deuteragonist is in a homosexual relationship. The authors have confirmed that the second installment will "explore the transfemininity of two existing characters
" one of whom is the second protagonist, Rory, and that nearly all major character in the series are queer
.
The story follows two protagonists: Jules Nimri, a Magic Knight and Badass Bookworm, and his estranged childhood friend Rory Navarrete, a Pragmatic Hero and ex-mage. The odd couple join forces to investigate a coven of apostate mages after a hijacked war golem turns on the crowd at a meeting of the local Magical Society only to find clues of a deep conspiracy, and a malignant magic long thought extinct. Their discoveries could prevent tensions from boiling over, but finding proof is no easy task, and time is working against them, as Hunter Lockwood, scion of a potent magic dynasty and Jules' depraved ex-betrothed stokes the fires of separatism to fuel his own political rise, threatening to plunge the arcane world into war. The story can be read here.
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Orlando: A Biography
- Outsourced
- Parrotfish
- Peta Lyre's Rating Normal
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Prince And Knight
- Querelle de Brest
- Rage: A Love Story
- The Rainbow Trilogy
- Reconstructing Amelia
- Rubyfruit Jungle
- Running With Lions: LGBT youth-oriented sports novel, the main character is a bisexual teenage boy and the book features his romance with a gay teammate; there are several other gay and bisexual male supporting characters; subject matter includes coming out, LGBT youth and LGBT acceptance in sports.
- The Section 13 Case Files
- Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda: A closeted teen boy corresponds with another closeted gay teen over email without knowing his identity; subject matter includes coming out story, homophobia, LGBT youth, LGBT acceptance.
- Sirena Selena
- Something Like Summer
- Star-Crossed
- Surrender Your Sons: Thriller young adult novel about a gay teenager sent to a conversion therapy camp with other LGBT children; subject matter includes homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, coming out, LGBT youth and LGBT acceptance.
- Tant Quil Le Faudra
- These Words Are True and Faithful
- Two Boys Kissing
- An Unkindness of Ghosts
- The Vast Fields of Ordinary
- Verge: Stories
- "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
- "Mechanics"
- "Two Girls"
- Waterways
- The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 novel about a woman named Stephen diagnosed with "sexual inversion" (an old theory that stated that gay people are mentally the opposite gender). Stephen falls in love with a woman named Mary during World War 1. It doesn't end on a particularly happy note. Stephen decides that she cannot make Mary happy and helps her fall for a male friend of hers.
- Who Needs Men?
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- You Know Me Well
- Zara Hossain Is Here: The story of a teenage bisexual Pakistani girl living in the US with her family; her relationship with her girlfriend Chloe, plus the homophobia Chloe's dealing with from her family, are major themes.
- Zombie
- AJ and the Queen
- The Assassination of Gianni Versace: A bio-miniseries revolving around the murder of gay fashion designer Gianni Versace, subject matter includes homophobia.
- Beautiful People
- Black Mirror: Striking Vipers
- Bob and Rose (gay main character)
- Boy Meets Girl
- El corazón nunca se equivoca
- Cucumber
- Dragula: A reality show hosted by the gay drag queen couple Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet, all contestants are LGBT.
- Ellen: The main character famously came out as a lesbian during the show.
- Euphoria (lesbian main character, bisexual transgender female supporting character, queer female romance)
- Faking It (bisexual female main characters, bisexual male supporting character, coming out story, gay supporting characters, LGBT acceptance, LGBT youth, queer female romance)
- Fantasy Island (2021) (queer female main character, coming out story, LGBT acceptance, lesbian supporting characters, queer female romance)
- Feel Good (nonbinary bisexual main character, likely bi female supporting character, lesbian supporting characters, gay supporting characters, queer female/nonbinary romance, coming out story)
- First Day (trans girl main character, trans boy supporting character, coming out story, LGBT acceptance, LGBT youth, transphobia)
- Finding Prince Charming
- Fire Island (reality show with gay male cast members)
- The Fosters
- Gentleman Jack (lesbian main characters, queer female romance)
- Heartstopper: A romantic teen drama series about a young gay boy who falls in love with his classmate. Also features a transgender girl, two lesbians and a bisexual boy among the main cast.
- It's a Sin deals with the AIDS crisis in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and how it impacts a group of gay men.
- Koisenu Futari (two aromantic asexual main characters)
- Lip Service (lesbian and bisexual female main characters, queer female romance)
- Looking
- Love, Victor: Sequel television series to the Love, Simon film about a Latino teenager coming to terms with his sexuality; the central character is a gay teenager, additionally there are gay supporting characters; subject matter includes coming out, homophobia, queer male romance.
- The L Word (lesbian main characters, queer female romance)
- Metrosexuality
- My Husband's Lover
- Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves
- The New Normal (two gay main characters, subject matter includes LGBT marriage, LGBT parenting/family)
- Noah's Arc (gay main character, gay supporting characters, queer male romance)
- Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
- Playing It Straight
- Please Like Me (gay main character, gay supporting characters)
- Pose: Period drama about the lives of NYC's Ballroom community through the AIDS/HIV crisis in the 1980s/1990s. There are several trans women main characters, and gay/queer male main characters, subject matter includes homophobia, transphobia, gender dysphoria, gender euphoria, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS discrimination, LGBT acceptance.
- Queen of the Universe: A reality singing competition featuring a cast made up entirely of drag queens.
- Queer as Folk
- Queer Eye (reality show, gay hosts/personalities)
- Theres Something About Miriam
- The Real O'Neals (gay main character, coming out story, LGBT youth)
- The Rich Man's Daughter
- RuPaul's Drag Race: A reality show hosted by the gay drag queen RuPaul, most contestants are LGBT.
- South of Nowhere: Teen drama centered around a lesbian teen and bisexual teen girl and their relationship. There are several lesbian/bisexual female supporting/minor characters; subject matter includes coming out, homophobia, LGBT youth, LGBT acceptance, and queer female romance.
- Transparent (transgender female main character, bisexual female supporting character, non-binary supporting character)
- When We Rise (gay main character, several gay and lesbian supporting characters, transgender female supporting character, homophobia, HIV/AIDS)
- David Bowie:
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The album is set around a Speculative Fiction LGBT society in the waning days of planet Earth; several songs touch on LGBT characters and blurring gender and sexuality's lines.
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps): "Scream Like a Baby" is an ode against homophobia and conversion therapy, describing a gay couple imprisoned by a fascist dictatorship.
- Culture Club's Kissing to Be Clever: Most of the album's songs discuss frontman Boy George's relationship with drummer Jon Moss.
- Gumbi500's "Night Illusion" is about an aromantic woman picking up someone at a club, and trying to make it clear that she doesn't want any romance with their dance.
- Todrick Hall's Straight Outta Oz has several songs about being gay, drawn from Hall's own experiences. "Color" is about him falling in love with a man for the first time and how it changed his life completely. "Papi" is about him, a gay man, being hit on (and fetishized by) a woman and wondering if it'll affect his career if he says no and his sexuality becomes public.
- Dev Hynes' Negro Swan's main themes are about gender and sexuality, especially the experiences of queer POC.
- Lil Nas X:
- MONTERO: A big theme of the album is Gayngst and the struggles that come with being gay.
- "MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name)" is about being closeted and the freedom that comes from being openly gay, as well as a Take That, Critics! to the conservative Christians who had been vicious to Nas when he'd been outed as gay.
- MONTERO: A big theme of the album is Gayngst and the struggles that come with being gay.
- R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi: "New Test Leper" is about a gay man with AIDS being harassed on live TV by a homophobic host and audience; frontman Michael Stipe based the lyrics on an incident that happened to a trans woman in real life.
- Lou Reed:
- Transformer: "Walk on the Wild Side" is an ode to and namedrops various LGBT members of Andy Warhol's inner circle.
- New York: "Halloween Parade" details the heavy impact of the AIDS epidemic on the LGBT community in New York.
- serpentwithfeet's soil has several songs about the singer's sexuality, including "slow syrup" (breaking up with a male lover) and "wrong lover" (being in unrequited love with another man).
- The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat: "Lady Godiva's Operation" discusses the use of lobotomy as a form of conversion therapy, describing a trans woman who dies from a botched procedure.
- Vocaloid:
- minato's "magnet" is about a forbidden romance between two women, and the suffering they have to endure because of homophobia.
- SLAVE.V-V-R's "God Has Mistaken My Gender." is from the perspective of a closeted transgender girl who is wrestling with gender dyphoria while also realizing she's in love with someone, but feels she can't tell them her feelings because she's trans.
- Teniwoha's "Villain" is about a transgender girl hiding that she's a girl from the wider world, but how that still brings scorn from people who think that she and her boyfriend are gay.
- Gayest Episode Ever centers around queer themes in television sitoms, in particular their Very Special Episodes on the subject.
- Moonface is about a gay Korean American man who wants to come out to his mother, but is stopped by the fact that he speaks little Korean and she speaks little English.
- Thirsty Sword Lesbians (it's about disaster lesbians with swords)
- Angels in America (gay main characters; subject matter includes homophobia, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS discrimination)
- Bare: A Pop Opera
- The Boys in the Band
- The Children's Hour
- Edward II
- Everybody's Talking About Jamie
- Falsettos
- A Frigate Bird Sings (third gender, by David Fane, Oscar Kightley and Nathaniel Lees)
- Fun Home
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch revolves around a nonbinary character's identity
- In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue
- La Cage aux folles was adapted as the film The Bird Cage abouta drag club and queer parenting
- The Laramie Project
- The Normal Heart
- Prince Kaguya
- The Prom
- RENT (queer ensemble cast includes a gay main character, a lesbian main character, a bisexual female main character, a gender non-conforming character; subject matter includes queer romance, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS discrimination)
- The Ritz
- She Kills Monsters
- A Strange Loop
- Torch Song Trilogy
- Zanna, Don't!
- Caper in the Castro
- Gone Home: Video game about a college student arriving to her family's new home, finding it empty and uncovering her family's secrets and finding her younger sister's relationship.
- Life Is Strange: Video game about a girl with the power to rewind time and her budding romance with her former friend, the main characters are a bisexual teenage girl and a lesbian teenage girl, subject matter includes queer female romance.
- Life Is Strange: Before the Storm (lesbian main character, bisexual female main character, queer female romance)
- Life Is Strange 2 (bisexual male main character, queer male romance, gay and queer male supporting characters)
- The Missing JJ Mac Field And The Island Of Memories revolves around J.J and Emily, who are ambiguously a lesbian or asexual couple. The overarching plot is J.J coming to terms with her identity as a trans woman.
- Mouth Sweet
- A Normal Lost Phone (transgender female and bisexual main character, transgender, gay, bisexual and queer supporting characters, LGBT youth, coming out story, transphobia, homophobia)
- Tell Me Why: Tyler is a gay transgender man, who flirts with (and eventually dates) a gay supporting character. Much of his story involves processing his emotions about returning to the town that mistreated him as child for being trans.
- Cryptid Crush, an Urban Fantasy work with non-binary main characters.
- Echo, it's prequel The Smoke Room and Adastra (2018) by the same team, all dealing with male/male romance.
- Lands of Fire, male/male romance in Aboriginal Australian mythology.
- Minotaur Hotel, male/male romance in a work featuring multiple mythologies.
- Nerus, male/male romance in Gnostic mythology.
- one night, hot springs (lesbian, transgender main character, bisexual supporting character, aromantic/asexual supporting character)
- last day of spring
- spring leaves no flowers
- Secret Little Haven (transgender female main character, transgender female supporting characters, LGBT youth, coming out story, transphobia)
- We Know the Devil
- Yearning: A Gay Story
- In a Heartbeat is about a Sherwin, a middle school boy who is struggling to come to terms with his crush on Jonathan, the most popular boy in school. Sherwin must chase after his own heart to stop it from revealing his true feelings to Jonathan, and the entire student body.
- Queer Duck
- Between the Lines
- Blur the Lines
- Darkest Night (lesbian protagonist, bisexual and trans woman love interest)
- High Class Homos
- Khaos Komix
- Magical Boy (gay transgender male main character, lesbian supporting characters, gay male supporting character, nonbinary supporting characters, LGBT youth, homophobia, transphobia)
- Moratorium On My Gender (asexual agender main character)
- My Husband Was Actually a Woman (pansexual female main character, transgender female main character; subject matter includes LGBT marriage, coming out, LGBT acceptance, and transitioning)
- The Princess
- QUILTBAG
- Rain (transgender female main character)
- Taiki the Webcomic
- Transformed!, by Al Neun (transgender male main character)
- Trans Girl Diaries
- Trans Girl Next Door (a Slice of Life comic about life as a trans woman)
- Transcendent
- Venus Envy
- Welcome to Room #305
- What's Normal Anyway?
- ContraPoints: Trans woman creator/host Natalie Wynn talks about a variety of topics from transgender issues to politics to philosophy; subject matter includes transphobia, gender topics, transitioning, LBGT acceptance, LGBT awakening and coming out.
- Gay Comic Geek: Gay creator/host Paul Charles reviews comic books from a gay male perspective.
- Needs More Gay: Video Review Show specifically devoted to gay media and media depictions of LGBT people.
- Out With Dad: A series about a teen then young adult lesbian, who comes out as does her best friend/love interest (as bisexual). Along with the coming out topic, homophobia, general LGBT youth, LGBT people's families, transgender identities (including transphobia), asexuality, queer female relationships and LGBT acceptance by heterosexuals are themes.
- Philosophy Tube: Trans woman creator/host Abigail Thorn discusses philsophy and politics; subject matter includes coming out, transitioning, LGBT acceptance, LGBT awakening.
- Queer Kid Stuff: LGBT youth-oriented web series, queer and non-binary creator/host Lindsay Amer, subject matter includes LGBT topics and issues for children.
- Sassy Gay Friend
- Tales of a Homoromantic Ace
- Flee: Dutch animated documentary feature, about a gay man from Afghanistan who fled persecution and wound up in Denmark
- Out, part of Disney/Pixar's SparkShorts (animated short about coming out revolving around two gay men with one coming out to his parents, subject matter includes coming out, and LGBT acceptance)
- Q-Force (main cast is almost entirely LGBT, both lesbian and gay romances)
- Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (two gay main characters, lesbian supporting characters)
- Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (reveals that the character formerly known as Ralph Bighead is a trans woman who changed her name to Rachel during a journey of self discovery. A major story element is her father Ed having to accept her new identity)
- Super Drags (drag queens, three gay main characters)