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* The English title of ''Manga/KissAndWhiteLilyForMyDearestGirl'' is "''A Kiss and a White Lily for Her''" and white lilies are featured prominently. Meanwhile Yukina and Towako's arc focuses on red roses rather than lilies, unlike all the other lesbian couples in the story.

* In ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' (''Lily Bear Love'', popularly translated as "Lesbian Bear Storm"), [[CastFullOfGay most of the characters are sapphic women]] (though many of them [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday are in denial about it]]). The story focuses on the protagonist Kureha's determination to win back her dead/disappeared girlfriend Sumika, but ends up in a complicated LoveTriangle with {{Anti Villain}}s Ginko and Lulu. Lillies are absolutely everywhere: in the opening, in random shots, and notably in the garden that Kureha and Sumika meet.

* In ''Film/HotFuzz'', the relevant lines and peace lily plotline originally meant for a cut female love interest were given to Danny. At the beginning of the film, Nicholas's ex-girlfriend complains he's MarriedToTheJob and he'll someday find someone to open up to. This ends up being Danny, who gets Nicholas to loosen up, drink, laugh, and watch action movies. Danny is instantly a fanbody of Nicholas, staying loyal to him [[spoiler:to the point of defying his own father.]] WordOfGod says the romantic implications were deliberate.

* In ''Literature/TheBellJar'', Esther suspects that her mannish editor Jay Cee is a lesbian, paranoid at one point that she is trying to "convert" her. Jay Cee's office is full of fake plants including African violets which Esther makes special mention of, and in her first appearance she is dressed in purple with purple flowers on her hat.

* When Creator/OscarWilde was put to trial for gross indencency, Robert Hichens' ''Literature/TheGreenCarnation'' was used against him. The main characters of the book are obvious {{exp|y}}ies of Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Panthers The Lavender Panthers]], a group active in San Francisco from 1973 to 1974. Reverend Raymond Broshears was tired of [[PoliceAreUseless police being useless]] when it came to {{Homophobic Hate Crime}}s, so he founded an armed vigilante group that patrolled the streets at night with the aim of stopping hate crimes in process.

* ''{{VideoGame/Moonrise}}'': in this sapphic werewolf interactive novel, the three love interests are associated with queer-coded flowers. Rosario smells of lavender and honey; Chika, of violets and ivory soap; and Ishara, of roses.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Agatha, Zeetha, and Violetta have shared a bed, showered in front of each other, and washed each other's hair.

* In ''Anime/MiyukiChanInWonderland'', Miyuki runs across two anthropomorphic flowers, Lily and Violet, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything frolicking in the grass]]. Lily has white hair, lingerie that looks more like [[BandageBabe bandages]], and wears lilies in her hair. Violet has purple hair and a purple [[OfCorsetsSexy corset]], both decked with little violets. They ask Miyuki to join them.

* Invoked in the case of ComicBook/WonderMan and ComicBook/BeastMarvelComics. When Wonder Man returns from the dead again in the pages of the Busiek/Perez Avengers, Beast shows up with a bouquet of roses, tackles him, and gives him [[http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac19/Rem_Rant/Beastkiss.jpg a sloppy kiss on the lips.]] In an issue of Marvel's AlternateUniverse ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'', the team's Alterna-Beast chooses not to return to his own universe because, with his lover Wonder Man dead, there was nothing left for him there.

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' uses roses to depict the love and relationships between a [[EveryoneIsBi heavily queer(-coded) cast]]. Anthy is a sapphic woman who is called the Rose Bride and is betrothed to Utena, another girl, and their relationship is described as "looking like a lily."

* In ''VideoGame/GrimGrimoire'', Amoretta's first meeting with Lillet seems to show her developing a "[[SchoolgirlLesbians girl crush]]" on the heroine, even saying "I like your smile. Can I touch it?" with Lillet nervously letting her do so. It's explicitly established that Amoretta, her name meaning "little love," only lives because [[ThePowerOfLove Lillet's love sustains her]]. Near the end game, [[spoiler:they sort of wind up together, and they actually live together in the post-game epilogue.]]

* In ''[[Manga/YuriSeijinNaokoSan Yuri Seijin Naoko-san]]'', the titular Naoko-san comes from the Planet Yuri who wants to take over Earth by "yurifying" it. She is of course obsessed with yuri and eroticism.

* One of Creator/EmilyDickinson's most famous poems about her lover Susan Gilbert refers to violets lying in her eye.

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* The English title of ''Manga/AnoKoNiKissToShirayuriWo'' is "''A Kiss and a White Lily for Her''" and white lilies are featured prominently. Meanwhile Yukina and Towako's arc focuses on red roses rather than lilies, unlike all the other lesbian couples in the story.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_scare The Lavender Scare]], an extension of the Red Scare. [=McCarthy=] and his followers led a witch hunt to expel all LGBT people from the United States government under the pretense that they were more vulnerable to blackmail from communist infiltrators. It didn't occur to any of them that their targets wouldn't be vulnerable to blackmail if laws at the time didn't force them to keep their sexuality a secret in the first place.

* From the same author of ''Sexiled,'' ''LightNovel/ALilyBloomsInAnotherWorld'' is about Miyako, a woman reincarnated as the protagonist of her favorite ''otome'' game who only has eyes for the "villainess" Fuuka Hamilton. When Miyako proposes the idea of running away together, she thinks about how she wishes she could give her a lily to put in her black hair. [[spoiler: She is eventually able to, and the epilogue reveals that Fuuka is working on cultivating the flower, fulfilling the title of the book.]]

That said, roses in the West [[SomethingAboutARose symbolize many things]] depending on the color and placement of the flower. In general, a rose symbolizes romance, and it should be noted that examples of roses symbolizing anything other than homosexuality are better suited for SomethingAboutARose.

* A seminal work of lesbian literature ''Literature/StoneButchBlues'', in which the lesbian couple Edna and Butch Jan eventually open a flower shop together named Blue Violets. When Jess visits them, she first sees Jan "bent over a crate of violets."

* When Creator/OscarWilde was put to trial for gross indencency, Robert Hichens' ''Literature/TheGreenCarnation'' was used against him. The main characters of the book are obvious {{Exp|y}}ies of Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas.

* ''LightNovel/{{Sexiled}}: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out So I Teamed Up With A Mythical Sorceress!'' is a {{yuri|Genre}} LightNovel that focuses on the relationship between Tanya Artemiciov and the legendary sorceress Laplace, who form an adventuring party together after Tanya is kicked out of her old one. Tanya decides to name the new party Lilium after the flower Alisa sends with her thank you letter.

Subtrope of FlowerMotifs and HomoeroticSubtext. A sister trope to SomethingAboutARose and FleurDeLis, which concern roses and lilies respectively when they don't symbolize homosexuality. Can be expressed through FlowersOfRomance, GardenOfLove, FloralThemeNaming, FlowerInHerHair, and HanahakiDisease. Compare FourLeafClover as a luck symbol. See also UsefulNotes/ThePoppy, which is worn in remembrance for the dead of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* In ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' (''Lily Bear Love'', popularly translated as "Lesbian Bear Storm"), [[EveryoneIsGay most of the characters are sapphic women]] (though many of them [[ArmoredClosetGay are in denial about it]]). The story focuses on the protagonist Kureha's determination to win back her dead/disappeared girlfriend Sumika, but ends up in a complicated LoveTriangle with {{Anti Villain}}s Ginko and Lulu. Lillies are absolutely everywhere: in the opening, in random shots, and notably in the garden that Kureha and Sumika meet.

* Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena uses roses to depict the love and relationships between a largely LGBT cast. Anthy is a sapphic woman who is called the Rose Bride and is betrothed to Utena, another girl, and their relationship is described as "looking like a lily."

* In ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' (''Lily Bear Love''), Kureha is in love with Sumika and by the end of the series she [[spoiler:heads out on a journey with Ginko]].

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