Comic books 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+.
- 52: The series introduces the second Batwoman, Kate Kane, who is gay.
- Alters: The main character is a trans woman.
- All-New Ultimates: The Earth-1610 verison of Jessica Drew (who is also a clone of Peter Parker) comes out as a lesbian after years of speculation.
- Alpha Flight: Canadian superhero team assembled by the Canadian government; notable for featuring Northstar, one of the first openly gay superhero characters and the first superhero to come out in a comic published by Marvel Comics.
- America (2017): The main character America Chavez is a lesbian. Most of the supporting characters are lesbians too, along with one bisexual man.
- Angela: Asgard's Assassin: Titular character Angela is a lesbian and her lover Sera is a trans woman.
- Angela: Queen of Hel: Angela and Sera are joined by Leah of Hel, another lesbian.
- Archie Comics: A Slice of Life comic series starring Archie Andrews and his friends; the series has introduced several LGBT characters throughout its history, most prominently the gay Kevin Keller. Jughead was revealed to be asexual in the 2015 reboot. Eliza Han, a bi-racial pansexual girl was introduced in 2023. The 2023 Strange Science series re-imagined cisgender minor character Danni Molloy as a trans girl.
- Life With Archie: The Married Life: Kevin Keller is also in this series, and he meets and marries Clay Walker, an African-American doctor and former soldier.
- Astonishing Ant-Man: This comic introduces supporting character Raz Malhotra, a gay Indian-American man who takes up the mantle of Giant-Man.
- Apocalyptic Trilogy:
- Memetic
- Eugenic: The main antagonist is a self-hating gay man who creates a race which, among other things, cannot be gay or trans. The short lived because this is a Downer Ending resistance has several LGBTQIA+ characters, arguing for the validity of their existence.
- Aquaman: Aquaman II Kaldur'ahm/Jackson Hyde is gay (the Post-DC Rebirth version)
- Aquaman: The Becoming: Limited series focusing on the new Aquaman Jackson Hyde, who is a gay Black young adult. Jackson dates another gay Atlantean, Ha'Wea; subject matter includes queer male romance.
- The Authority: Midnighter and Apollo, two members of the titular team, are a gay couple.
- The Avant-Guards: LGBTQIA+ sports series about an all female college basketball team; the ensemble cast is queer, containing several lesbian/bisexual women, nonbinary, and transgender main characters.
- The Avengers: Throughout the team's history, they have seen a few LGBT members join the team in different formations and spinoffs.
- Avengers Academy: Series about young superheroes being trained by the Avengers to keep them from becoming the next supervillains; the ensemble cast includes Striker, a teenaged gay main character and Julie Power/Lightspeed, a young adult bisexual woman; subject matter includes queer female romance, LGBTQIA+ awakening, LGBTQIA+ youth and coming out.
- Avengers Arena: Battle Royale/The Hunger Games-esque series where teen Marvel superheroes are kidnapped and forced to fight against each other; the cast includes Nico Minoru (bisexual girl) and Cullen Bloodstone (gay boy), there is a prominent (unrequited) Love Triangle storyline involving Cullen.
- Avengers Undercover: The sequel series to Avengers Arena still includes Nico and Cullen; Cullen has a prominent storyline regararding unrequited love towards a straight character.
- Avengers: No Surrender: Lightning (Miguel Santos) is gay and a main character.
- New Avengers (2015): Gay couple Hulking and Wiccan are members of the team.
- Great Lakes Avengers: Main cast member Flatman comes out as gay in GLA #4, having been inspired by Living Lightning (Miguel Santos) coming out as gay two issues prior.
- West Coast Avengers (2018): 2018 volume of West Coast Avengers, an Avengers team working out of Los Angeles. The ensemble cast of this volume includes America Chavez, a lesbian and Fuse, who realizes that he is bisexual.
- Young Avengers: Superpowered young people step up after the Avengers disband and become the newest generation of Avengers; the team is primarily made up of queer characters, consisting of Hulking and Wiccan (two gay teens in a relationship) and America Chavez (a young lesbian). Other team members include Prodigy, Speed and Marvel Boy, all of whom are queer men.
- Avengers: The Children's Crusade: Mini-series featuring the Young Avengers including Hulkling and Wiccan.
- Avengers Arena: Battle Royale/The Hunger Games-esque series where teen Marvel superheroes are kidnapped and forced to fight against each other; the cast includes Nico Minoru (bisexual girl) and Cullen Bloodstone (gay boy), there is a prominent (unrequited) Love Triangle storyline involving Cullen.
- The Backstagers: LGBTQIA+ youth-oriented series about school play techs and the magical backstage area; most of the all male ensemble cast is queer including a bisexual character, a gay character, and a transgender character; there are several queer male supporting characters, subject matter includes queer male romance and LGBTQIA+ youth.
- Batman (James Tynion IV): Gay comic writer James Tynion IV's run on this iteration of Batman introduces Ghost-Marker, a psychopathic Anti-Hero counterpart to Batman, who is bisexual.
- Batwoman: The main character Kate Kate/Batwoman is a lesbian, and there are several supporting lesbian/queer characters.
- Beetle & the Hollowbones
- Be Kind, My Neighbor: The protagonists, Wegg and Mr. Neighbor, are gay, transgender men who enter a relationship with each other.
- Black Cat: Black Cat herself is a bisexual woman.
- Iron Cat: The titular Iron Cat's true identity is Tamara Blake, Felicia's ex-girlfriend.
- Black Magick: The protagonist is bisexual and ends the story with a female love interest after becoming sexually involved with her ex-partner, a man.
- Bomb Queen: The title character is a Depraved Bisexual woman.
- Catwoman: The character of Catwoman is a bisexual woman. In volume 5, a new Catwoman (Catwoman III) Eiko Hasigawa is introduced and she is queer. In the same volume, new character Dario Tamasso, the gay son of a mob boss becomes a sidekick to Catwoman named Tomcat.
- Chefs Kiss: The comic follows Ben Cook, a gay writer who gets a job at a restaurant, falling for his handsome coworker.
- DC Comics Bombshells
- The Dead Lucky: A comic book set in Image Comics' Massive-Verse which stars Mexican-Chinese American Bibiana "Bibi" Lopez-Yang, an Afghanistan War vet battling PTSD and dealing with her new electric superpowers while defending her hometown of San Francisco. Bibi is also bisexual, and her current romantic interest is a woman.
- Deadpool: The character Deadpool is pansexual.
- Deadpool (2022): Features Valentine Vuong, a nonbinary love interest to Deadpool.
- The Department of Truth: Cole, one of the main characters, is a Straight Gay man with a husband. His sexuality is never focused on though.
- Dolltopia
- Doom Patrol: Villains the Brain and Monsieur Mallah of the Brotherhood of Evil are both male and in a a relationship with each other.
- Drama (Raina Telgemeier): A middle school girl works as a designer on a school play and deals with budget issues, in-fighting, and two cute twin brothers she likes. There is one gay supporting character, along with his twin brother who is also gay, subject matter includes coming out, LGBTQIA+ youth.
- Drain: The female protagonist and one of the antagonists are bisexual and former lovers.
- Earth 2: Alan Scott is gay in this continuity, which partially makes him a Composite Character with the original Alan Scott's son Obsidian, who was also gay.
- Elfquest: All elves are bisexuals, though most prefer the opposite sex from what's depicted. However, no one is ever shown to care or even notice if some elf gets it on with the same sex. Polyamory is common among them to different degrees, with many close friends also strongly implied to have sex as well, including if they're same-sex.
- Ekho: The main character is a bisexual woman.
- Emma Frost: Comic series about the origin story of X-Men anti-hero Emma Frost; a big arc of the series revolves around Emma's gay brother Christian and the severe emotional abuse he has received from his father.
- Empyre: Avengers/Fantastic Four storyline with Hulking and Wiccan as the central characters.
- Falka: The main character is a transgender woman.
- Fine Print: The protagonist, Lauren Thomas, appears to be pansexual, having relationships and trysts with people regardless of gender with no clear preference. All of the Cubi and Cupids are the same, along with being able to change sex at will, lacking any set genders. Some however choose to appear in one sex most of the time, and two that appear in same-sex pairings get more focus.
- Future Foundation: Rikki Barnes and Julie Powers are both bisexual women who eventually get together.
- Gen¹³: One of the main characters is a lesbian.
- The Girl from the Sea: The main character is a closeted teenage lesbian who has an identity-affirming relationship with a selkie girl.
- Goldie Vance: The title character is a lesbian in a relationship with another girl.
- Gotham High: Alfred is a married gay man in this version.
- Green Arrow: Connor Hawke, Green Arrow II, is revealed to be asexual after years of speculation in the DC Pride 2022 anthology.
- Green Lantern: Two Green Lanterns are LGBT; Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern was retroactively made gay in 2020 (there was an Earth-2 variant who was a gay man introduced in 2011), technically making him the first gay superhero. His son Todd is the superhero Obsidian and he is gay as well. Sojourner "Jo" Mullein is a bisexual woman.
- Alan Scott: The Green Lantern: series starring Alan Scott.
- Far Sector: series starring Jo Mullein.
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Team leader Peter Quill/Star-Lord was revealed to be bisexual in the 2020 volume, and there are other several queer members depending on the formation of the team. The 2013 volume introduces Angela, a queer female character, to the team.
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2008): This volume introduces Phyla-Vell and Heather Douglas/Moondragon, both characters are queer women.
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2019): Phyla-Vell and Moondragon are part of the team.
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2020): The ensemble cast of this volume is primarily queer, and the central character Star-Lord is revealed to be queer/bisexual.
- Hack/Slash: The protagonist is a bisexual women.
- Harley Quinn: The character of Harley Quinn is a bisexual woman.
- Harleen: While showing a straight attraction here a followup comic recontexualises scenes in the original graphic novel to show it was the beginning of Ivy and Harley's relationship.
- Harley & Ivy: The comic features two bisexual women and their romance.
- Heathen (2017)
- Heathen City
- Hellblazer: The main character John Constantine is a bisexual man.
- Hellina: The main character is a bisexual woman.
- I Am Not Starfire: One of the prominent things advertised for the book was that the protagonist, Mandy, in addition to being a chubby goth, is also a lesbian and crushes on a girl she knew through childhood.
- Iceman (Marvel Comics): Iceman (Bobby Drake) is gay, having been revealed as gay in 2015. Several of his solo series since then have dealt with him coming out and exploring his identity as a gay man.
- Invincible: Mark's best friend William is gay.
- The Invisibles: One of the main characters is a transgender woman.
- Jackpot & Black Cat: Black Cat is bisexual, and is revealed to have a girlfriend in the first issue.
- Jem and the Holograms (IDW)
- Kerry Kross: Kerry is a lesbian detective, there are several lesbians or bisexual supporting characters, subject matter includes homophobia, lesbian romance.
- Lady Baltimore: The title character is bisexual. She used to be married to a man, but now widowed, she starts a relationship with a female witch.
- Lady Death: The title character is bisexual.
- The Legend of Bold Riley
- The Legend of Korra: The main character Korra is a bisexual woman; there is a queer female romance subplot in the books between her and supporting character Asami, who is also a bisexual woman.
- Lumberjanes: The queer ensemble cast includes a young trans girl and two young lesbian main characters, there is a non-binary supporting character, subject matter includes LGBTQIA+ Youth, LGBTQIA+ acceptance, gender dysphoria, gender euphoria, queer female romance.
- Love and Rockets: several characters have queer relationships and romances.
- Masquerade: The main character is a bisexual woman.
- Midnighter and Apollo: Midnighter and Apollo are a gay couple.
- The Mighty Thor: Loki is bisexual.
- Money Shot: Sci-fi comic series about a group of scientists that fund their research by filming adult films with aliens; the plot centers around a bisexual woman, who later gets into a romance with another bisexual woman cast member; the cast of the cast is sexually fluid, as in they had sex with each other to test boundaries and have no major hang ups about their identity.
- Monstress: The main character and two of the main antagonists are lesbians.
- Morning Glories: (gay male main characters, lesbian minor characters, queer romance)
- Motor Crush: The main character is a lesbian, and she has a recurring romance plot with another lesbian woman.
- The Movement: (queer ensemble cast; asexual/aromantic main character, bisexual female main character, gay male main character, queer female main character)
- My Friend Dahmer: Graphic novel by John Backderf about attending high school with the infamous serial killer Jeffery Dahmer; the comic paints him as a tragic figure that could've been stopped with the right support, as well as touching on Dahmer's sexuality and self-hatred, as well as the rampant homophobia during that time.
- Nancy Drew (Dynamite Comics): Comic adaptation of the Nancy Drew novels, with a Setting Update to the present day. Nancy's friend George is reimagined as a lesbian, who is dating a supporting female character.
- The New Guardians: One of the main characters, Extraño, is gay and deals with HIV. The series was meant to delve more deeply into LGBTQIA+ topics, but this being DC in the 80's the executives cut this into a borderline caricature.
- The Nice House On The Lake: Among the guests that are trapped in the lake house after the end of the world, are Norah (THE WRITER), who is a trans woman; and a gay couple of Sam (THE REPORTER) and Arturo (THE ACUPUNCTURIST). Walter is also queer in some way, but it's not very specific (and to which extent an alien being even has a sexuality). Reg, another friend of the group, is also gay.
- Pathfinder (Dynamite Comics): Kyra and Merisiel, both women, have a mutual Anguished Declaration of Love in volume 2, chapter 3 and remain the Official Couple throughout the comics' run (they eventually got married off-page in a Short Story on Paizo's blog).
- Patsy Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat!: A Denser and Wackier series starring the titular character, her friend and supporting character Tom (from the old Patsy Walker comics) is now a gay man, and he is in a romance with another supporting character, the bisexual Inhuman Ian Soo.
- Poison Ivy (2022): Poison Ivy is in a romantic relationship with Harley Quinn, to whom she sends love letters after leaving Gotham to enact her final Evil Plan.
- Power Pack: The character of Julie Power would come out as bisexual as the characters were aged-up.
- Princeless – Raven: The Pirate Princess
- Purgatori: The main character is a lesbian and was part of a harem with only women before being betrayed by her lesbian queen.
- Radiant Pink: A spin-off of Radiant Black and part of the Massive-Verse, which stars Eva, a queer young Latina girl who balances life as a superhero and video game streamer.
- Raptors: One of the main characters is bisexual.
- Rat Queens: several main characters and side characters have queer relationships, and main character Braga is a trans woman.
- Royals: The queer Marvel Boy/Noh-varr is a main member of the cast.
- Runaways: Superhero series about a group of teenagers that run away from home from their Super Villain parents; team member Karolina Dean is lesbian, and Xavin is a shape-shifting alien who also is genderfluid. Subject matter includes LGBTQIA+ youth, gender dysphoria, queer romance and coming out.
- Runaways (2015)
- Runaways (Rainbow Rowell): The volume includes the aforementioned Karolina, along with confirming that Nico Minoru is bisexual. Both Karolina and Nico have a romantic arc in this series. Subject matter includes queer female romance.
- Saga: Two recurring characters, Doff and Upsher, are a gay couple, and supporting character Petrichor is a trans woman.
- Savage Dragon: The main character is a woman who can transform into a male superhero.
- Secret Six: The 2008 volume features Catman, a bisexual man. Later, the 2014 volume would introduce Porcelin, someone assigned-female-at-birth who is genderfluid.
- Scott Pilgrim:
- Scott's roommate Wallace is established as gay in his first scene.
- In Volume 4, Ramona reveals she experimented a bit back then, as one of the seven evil exes, Roxie Richter, is a woman.
- Stephen Stills, one of Scott's friends and bandmates realizes in Volume 6 that he's gay and starts dating a male supporting character.
- Shadoweyes
- Spider-Gwen: Recurring character Mary Jane Watson is bisexual and is in a relationship with Glory Grant, who is a lesbian.
- Squad: The main character Becca is lesbian, and her girlfriend Marley is bi.
- Starman (DC Comics): Mikaal Tomas is bisexual, first established in the 1990s run.
- Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (lesbian main character, lesbian supporting character, queer female romance)
- Static: Virgil's friend Rick is gay.
- Strikeforce: Gay superhero Wiccan is a part of the team.
- Suicide Squad (2019): One of the characters is gay, while another is non-binary.
- Superman: Son of Kal-El: Superman's teenage son Jonathan Kent becomes the new Superman; he realizes that he is bisexual and has a romance with a gay male teen character. Subject matter includes LGBTQIA+ youth, coming out story, and male romance. Transgender superhero Nia Nal/Dreamer also makes her DCU debut in the comic.
- Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent: The continuation of the above story.
- The Tea Dragon Festival
- Teen Titans (New 52): This volume of Teen Titans introduces Bunker/Miguel Barragan, a gay Mexican metahuman who joins the Titans.
- Tim Drake: Robin: Comic series focusing on Tim Drake/Robin moving to Gotham Marina and balancing heroics and finding himself, this series continues to exploring Tim Drake's bisexuality (with was revealed in Batman: Urban Legends in 2021) and his relationship with his boyfriend Benard.
- Top 10: Some of the characters are bisexual or homosexual.
- The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Takes place in a de facto homonormative society, with several married gay couples and multiple transfeminine characters (several of whom are also married).
- The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Comic series revolving around fourth-wall breaking Gwenpool (a character mash-up of Spider-Gwen and Comic Book/Deadpool) and her adventures; an issue of the Love Unlimited romance anthology comic reveals that Gwenpool is asexual and aromantic.
- Union Jack: The title character is a gay man.
- The Unstoppable Wasp: Series starring the new incarnation of The Wasp, Nadia van Dyne; the ensemble cast includes two lesbian supporting characters, subject matter includes queer female romance, homophobia, LGBTQIA+ youth, and coming out.
- Vampirella: The title character is bisexual in the most recent stories.
- The White Trees: A Blacksand Tale: The three male main characters of this comic are all queer.
- We Only Find Them When They're Dead
- Wet Moon
- The Wicked + The Divine
- Wonder Woman: The title character Wonder Woman is a bisexual woman; this was implicit or subtext throughout her publication history, finally made explicit in the DC Rebirth volume in 2016. Along with Wonder Woman, the other Amazons (such as Nubia, Hippolyta, and Philippus) also are queer and have relationships with each other. There are several other queer characters which include Cheetah (Barbara Minerva) who is queer, the post-Flashpoint version of Etta Candy is a African-American lesbian, and Bia (introduced in Nubia and the Amazons) is the first transgender Amazon.
- The Woods: A high school is suddenly transported to an alien world, the main ensemble cast is primarily queer, consisting of two gay teens, a lesbian girl, transgender boy, and an asexual/aromantic male teeanger; subject matter includes LGBTQIA+ youth, coming out, and queer romance.
- Y: The Last Man: Post-apocalyptic series about the sudden extinction of all people/species with a Y chromosome, with the exception of one single man. Yorick, the man, is the main character, along with Agent 355 (a bisexual woman) and Dr. Alison Mann (a lesbian).
- X-Men: Depending on the team's formation, some members of the group are LGBTQIA+.
- All-New X-Men: Bobby Drake/Iceman, both the past and present versions are revealed to be gay.
- All-New X-Men (2016): The second volume looks more into Past Iceman exploring his sexuality and introduces Romeo, a gay Inhuman as his love interest.
- X-Men: Blue: A follow up to All-New X-Men that features Iceman along with the other 4 original X-Men.
- Children of the Atom: One of the main characters is a lesbian and one is asexual, book involves a queer romance.
- Excalibur (2019): Betsy Braddock AKA the new Captain Britain is a bisexual woman.
- Knights of X: Sequel Series to Excalibur, Betsy hooks up with fellow bisexual woman Rachel Summers.
- Betsy Braddock: Captain Britain: Yet another Sequel Series, we get to see, alongside superheroics, Betsy and Rachel's lives as girlfriends.
- Generation X (2017): Three members of the cast are queer (Bling!, Hindsight and Morph), a subplot is the budding romance between Hindsight and Morph.
- Marauders (2019): Kitty Pryde is confirmed as bisexual after years of speculation in the series, and this team also includes Iceman, who is gay.
- Marauders (2022): Kitty Pryde is still leading the team, which now consists of the pansexual Dakken and Somnus, a gay mutant introduced in the 2021 anthology Marvel's Voices: Pride.
- New Mutants: Comic series about a new generation of mutants being taught at the Xavier School; Karma/Xuân Cao Mạnh is a founding and longstanding member and a lesbian. The series also includes Rictor, who was retroactively made gay.
- New X-Men: Academy X: This volume introduces young teenage mutant Anole, who realizes that he is gay. Prodigy is bisexual but applies retroactively as his sexuality wasn't revealed until years later.
- New Mutants (2019): The final arc of this volume introduces Escapade/Shela Sexton (who made her first appearance in Marvel's Voices: Pride), a trans lesbian girl mutant along with her friend Morgan Red, who is also transgender (he/they) and asexual. Also in this volume are longstanding member Karma, a lesbian, along with Anole (gay), and Leo Eng (trans girl). No-Girl/Martha Johansson gains a new superhero name (Cerebella) and falls in love with Shela.
- New Mutants: Lethal Legion: A continuation of the 2019 volume that features Karma, Escapade, and Morgan.
- X-Factor:
- X-Factor (2006): Comic series revolving around Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man's detective agency; the volume confirms Rictor and Shatterstar as a couple, Rictor being gay and Shatterstar being pansexual.
- X-Factor (2020): Three members of the cast are queer; Northstar is gay along with his husband Kyle who is a minor character, additionally there is Daken and Prodigy, both of whom are bisexual/pansexual.
- X-Force (2013): Betsy Braddock AKA Psylocke is revealed to be bisexual after kissing and sleeping with Lady Fantomex.
- X-Men (2013): A subplot in this volume involves young lesbian mutant Bling! and Mercury dating and figuring out their feelings for one another.
- Young X-Men: The comic introduces Graymalkin, a young gay mutant who was nearly killed by his father centuries ago after being caught experimenting with another boy.
- Ythaq: One of the protagonists, Callista, prefers women, and screws men for their money meanwhile.
- Zodiac Starforce
- Zsazsa Zaturnnah: The main character is a young gay boy who can become a female Amazon warrior.
