LGBT Representation In Media / Literature

Literature 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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• Adventures on Trains: Hal's Uncle Nat is gay, and although most other characters' orientations don't become relevant to the story, in the fourth book it's a plot point that Freya Kratzenstein's father disowned her 25 years ago because she's a lesbian. He now greatly regrets it, and Freya and her partner Rada accept his overtures to reconcile.
• Aeon 14: More named characters are bi or gay than are explicitly straight, polyamory is relatively common, and many stories and characters deal with analogies or direct examples of body dysphoria. Setting creator M.D. Cooper herself came out as a trans woman in 2019.
• The Afterward: The book focuses on Olsa (a bisexual girl) and Kalanthe (a lesbian girl), who were both heroes on a quest together, which they became lovers during. In the present day, the two girls have broken up, although they still have feelings for each other and this is explored at length. They live in a society that fully accepts this, so their issues are born from class not them both being female. Supporting characters as well include an asexual woman and a trans woman who had been in the same party of heroes.
• Amberlough: The main character is a gay male secret agent who is trying to protect his drag queen boyfriend as their country's government becomes increasingly fascist.
• Anger Is a Gift: A young adult novel about a gay African-American teen dealing with racist policies at his school while overcoming trauma from a police brutality incident. There are several LGBTQIA+ supporting characters, subject matter includes LGBTQIA+ youth, queer male romance.
• Anita Blake: The title character is bisexual.
• The Art of Starving: Matt, the main character, is a gay teenage boy.
• Awaken the Stars: The two main characters, Rex and Euan, are gay men whose relationship progresses from friendship to romance over the course of the story.
• Before We Disappear: A subplot of the book is the romance that develops between Jack and Wilhelm, the two main characters.
• Black Dogs: Two of the major characters are an elven lesbian couple, their relationship being explored.
• Black Iris: Laney, the protagonist, is a morally-ambiguous bisexual woman whose love interest is her female friend Blythe.
• Blood Books: Vicki, the protagonist, is a polyamourous woman who's in relationships with her two boyfriends, Henry and Mike. Henry himself is bisexual.
• The Bone Season Series: Urban Fantasy novels set in alternate world. The main heroine is demisexual, her best friend is gay, her boss is ace and there are many queer side characters, including a trans woman, a non-binary person and a whole race of pansexuals.
• The Book of Joan: The story is set in the distant future where bisexuality is the norm and is considered unremarkable- most of the main characters exhibit attraction to men and women.
• Bridget Jones: Tom, a recurring character, is a Camp Gay and Bridget's Gay Best Friend.
• The Cabin at the End of the World: Horror novel about a gay couple and their children accosted by a group of strangers while they vacation at a remote cabin.
• Can You Spare a Quarter?: A drama and Coming of Age Story about a 12-year-old boy named Jamie who ran away from his Abusive Parents who used him as a Sex Slave. He then gets taken in and eventually adopted by an older man named Graham. Graham in the original Nifty version of the story is gay, though the revised version hints that he still is. Jamie is queer as he kisses his best friend Jason in the final chapter and the two are heavily implied to be a couple in the epilogue.
• Captain Underpants: Book series about two mischievous elementary schoolers that turn their principal into a tighty-whitey clad superhero; the 12th and final book, Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, reveals that main character Harold Hutchins is gay and marries a man in the future.
• Card Force Infection: Naota, one of the main characters, is genderfluid and uses they/them pronouns.
• Catwoman: Soulstealer: Two of the three main characters (Harley and Poison Ivy) are queer women who are attracted to each other. Selina's sister Maggie turns out to have gotten happily adopted by two men as well.
• Chaos Squad: The book focuses on a squad of 10 girls, many of whom are involved in relationships with each other and one of whom is transgender. Jupiter, the viewpoint character, is openly bisexual.
• The Chronicles of Dorsa: The two protagonists, Tasia and Joslyn, are both queer women. Joslyn is a lesbian and Tasia bisexual. They become lovers and their relationship is explored throughout the books. Starting out Tasia also was with Mylla, her handmaid, another bisexual woman. Later on three other lesbians become main characters, with their own lives (and romantic longings) focused on, though not as much.
• The Chronicles of Jegra: The protagonist Jegra is an openly pansexual heroine in a polyamorous relationship with three other women, one of whom is transgender.
• Circle of Magic: One of the main quartet, Daja, gradually realizes she's a lesbian.
• Cloud Atlas: Robert Frobisher, one of the protagonists, is a bisexual man in the 1930s who in a relationship with another man.
• The Color Purple: The book tells the life story of Celie, whose only genuine romance is with Shug, another woman.
• Eugenie Danglars, a supporting character in The Count of Monte Cristo, is a Butch Lesbian and Does Not Like Men. What makes this example notable is the times it was written — 1844-1845. This makes her one of the first LGBT characters in written fiction.
• The Creatures of Supernatural
• The Crow: The Lazarus Heart: The main character is gay, as are many of the supporting characters. There is also transgender woman supporting character.
• Curse Words: The protagonist is a transgender boy.
• The Darkest Part of the Forest: The secondary main character is gay.
• The Dawnhounds: Most of the main characters are queer, with the plot being kicked off by the protagonist being demoted to the night shift after her bosses found out she went to a gay bar.
• A Day of Fallen Night: A prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree. Dumai is a lesbian, Tunuva is possibly bisexual but in a committed relationship with another woman, Wulf slowly falls in love with a male comrade, and Glorian may be asexual (although she bears a child out of dynastic necessity, she never expresses a personal desire for the act). There are also several trans and non-binary secondary characters (such as Mastress Bourn and the alchmeist Iprun, whose transition is briefly mentioned).
• Detective Lane Mysteries: Detective Lane, the protagonist, is a gay man.
• The Dirty Girls Social Club: One of the protagonists, Elizabeth, is a lesbian who longs to find a wife who loves her and adopt a child. But at the moment, she tries to hide her sexuality from everyone due to her conservative Christian Hispanic upbringing, and because she is a news anchor at a station that is all but stated to be an Expy of Fox News.
• Doctor Sleep: Big Bad Rose the Hat is bisexual and polyamorous.
• The protagonist of Doctrine of Labyrinths is Felix Harrowgate, a gay man, with a number of other gay men in his life.
• A Dowry of Blood: Four main characters are bisexual. (The three main heroes and the main antagonist.)
• Dragon Crown: Prince Ethan, the main character, gradually comes to realize over the course of the trilogy that his feelings for his male friend Samet are romantic, with the two of them eventually getting together.
• Dragonvarld: The two female lead characters when the story starts, Bellona and Melisande, are lovers. Bellona also presents herself as a man for a long time later.
• Dr. Harper Therapy: The title character is gay.
• Elemental Logic: Zanja and Karis, the female lead characters, have a lot of UTS from the moment they meet, and get together by the end of the first book.
• Elemental Series (Kemmerer): Nick is gay and the focus of book 4, Secret, where he has his own romantic subplot.
• The Enchantment Emporium: The Gale girls tend to be bisexual (largely through Situational Sexuality, but still), Allie's cousin Charlie is lesbian, Allie's ex-boyfriend Michael realized he was gay, and one of Charlie's bands has two male members mentioned to be sharing a bed together, and 'seen' naked (or at least shirtless, implied to be under a blanket, after a band "orgy") once.
• Even Though I Knew the End: The protagonist is on a quest to save her soul so she can have a future with the woman she loves.
• The Expanse: A science fiction series set in the future where polyamory and queer identities are not seen as unusual. The recurring protagonist, James Holden, is a child of 5 fathers and 3 mothers (though he himself is a straight cis man).
  • Abaddon's Gate: One of the PoV characters is a lesbian woman who conceived her daughter with her wife's genetic material.
  • Babylon's Ashes: One of the PoV characters is in group marriage with her spaceship's crew, having sexual relationships with men and women.
  • "The Vital Abyss": The narrator of this short story is a gay man.
• The Extraordinaries Series: Superhero book series with a gay main character and multiple queer side characters.
• Fairest of All: Siofra is pansexual, Bogan is nonbinary, and the two of them and their friend Mahon eventually end up in a happy polyamorous relationship.
• The Fell of Dark: The main character is gay, and is in a Love Triangle with two gay vampires.
• Fires of the Faithful: Eliana is a lesbian, and part of the story involves her coming to realize that about herself.
• The Fire's Stone has three main characters: two bisexual men and an aro ace girl.
• Forgive Me Not has one character in a dual-POV be a gay teenage boy.
• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue: Monty, the main character, is bisexual and is in love with his gay best friend.
• Girl: "Who are you?" Alien: "Er, I'm an alien.": The alien is asexual-aromantic, and so is most of her species.
• Girls Don't Hit: Joss is a closeted lesbian with a husband and kids... and also a secret life as an assassin. She later becomes lovers with her female assassin apprentice, Echo.
• The Godfather: The sequel novel The Godfather Returns reveals that Fredo is bisexual.
• Gone: Young Adult series about any person under the age of 15 suddenly disappearing from a small beach town. There are several LGBTQIA+ characters throughout the series, most notably Dekka, a 12-year-old lesbian with the power to manipulate gravity. The sequel series Monster also features LGBTQIA+ characters, including Cruz, who is non-binary and transfeminine.
• Gossamer Axe: The protagonist is a lesbian, and the plot is driven by her desire to rescue her lover by using The Power of Rock.
• Grasshopper Jungle: A subplot in the book is Austin's confusion about having romantic feelings for both his female friend Shann and his male friend Robby, with the book ending with him being in a relationship with both of them.
• The Han Solo Trilogy: This book established that in the Star Wars Legends continuity the Hutt species is hermaphroditic. Further, they switch pronouns/honorifics from male to female during pregnancy and retain these for some time after giving birth. A minor human character too is implied to be attracted by males of other species.
• Harley Quinn: Reckoning: Harleen, the protagonist, shows attraction to both men and women, and her developing relationship with her girlfriend is a significant plot thread.
• Havemercy: Royston, the main protagonist, is a gay man, and most of the other main characters are queer as well.
• Heralds Of Rhimn: Navaeli is only shown interested in girls, and falls for her female friend Crislie.
• Heralds of Valdemar: Some parts of the series have more representation than others. Tarma, one of the main characters in the Vows and Honor trilogy, is asexual although it's by means of ritual. Firesong, in the Mage Winds, Mage Storms, and Owl trilogies, is openly gay and so In Touch with His Feminine Side that he's easily read as nonbinary.
• The Heroes of Olympus: Nico di Angelo is gay, and part of his storyline is him coming to terms with his sexuality.
• The Hexslinger Series: The majority of the cast is gay or bisexual
• The House In The Cerulean Sea: The main character is a gay man who finds himself suddenly becoming a father after adopting six magical children, while also falling in love with the director of the orphanage they lived in.
• InCryptid has Elsie Harrington, a lesbian recurring character, and James Smith, a gay main character, as well as sapphic supporting characters Sally Henderson, Cynthia, Phoebe, and Helen (the latter two of whom are married to each other). There has also been a hypothetical mention of a Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person.
• Infinity Cycle: Emil, the main character, is a gay man.
• Inkmistress: The protagonist, Asra, is a bisexual seventeen year old girl. When the story begins, she's in a relationship with Ina, a girl her age who's also bisexual. They're in a Bisexual Love Triangle since Ina gets engaged to a boy. In the end they split up, and Asra starts seeing a boy named Hal. Nismae, his sister, is also implied to have fallen for Ina.
• Into the Bloodred Woods features a romance between two female were-bears.
• Into the Drowning Deep: The protagonist is a bisexual female scientist, who is in love with her lesbian scientist colleague.
• Iron Widow: The main characters are bisexual, who resolve their love triangle by all deciding to just date each other.
• Jock Meets Nerd: This series follows in senior year, the protagonist is a jock who is a closeted bisexual, an outcast who is gay, and supporting characters are bisexual, lesbian and pansexual as well.
• The Kaiju Preservation Society: Niamh is nonbinary, which none of the characters bat an eye at, and protagonist Jamie is written with The All-Concealing "I", never revealing their gender. Two minor characters, Roderigo and Mattias, are a gay male married couple.
• The Kingston Cycle has a variety of protagonists throughout the series, including lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and a nonbinary character.
• Katabasis: One of the major characters, Julia, is aromantic and in a queerplatonic relationship with her familiar Yuli. Yuli and Julia's sibling, Asmeret, are also both nonbinary.
• Knowledge Of Angels: Main character Palinor has a threeway with a man and woman. From how it's depicted, he's into both and this isn't his first time with a man either.
• Kushiel's Legacy: Two of the books' protagonists are bi, though while they're shown having encounters with members of the same sex, all the 'main' romances and final pairings are male/female. Additionally, there are numerous gay male minor characters in the series. Bisexuality is also indicated to be quite common in Terra D'Ange, the country where the books are mainly set, with no stigma against same-sex pairings.
• Las Malas: The book is about a group of travestis prostitutes in 2000s Argentina, it deals with the effects of transphobia and their relationships with parents, lovers and clients.
• A Land Fit for Heroes: The protagonist Ringil is a gay man and major character Archeth is a lesbian.
• The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy is an 'old' example, the first book coming out back in 1989; it has some dated elements but is quite Fair for Its Day. Its hero Vanyel is gay and struggles with his family, leaves home, and finds and loses love, only to get it back by the end. In the first book he meets and is mentored by a gay couple who explain to him that there is nothing unnatural about who they love. Mercedes Lackey has featured LGBT characters in some of her other works, including other Heralds of Valdemar books, but Vanyel's the most prominent of them.
• Legends & Lattes: Protagonists Viv and Tandri's growing attraction to each other is one of the plot lines of the book.
• Legends of Panthera: While the first book is pretty tame starting with book two, nearly every main character and most of the supporting cast are part of the community
• The Liar (novel): Adrian, being something of an Author Avatar for author Stephen Fry, is a gay man.
• The Lightning Struck Heart: Most of the main characters are gay, with protagonist Sam pinning for an attractive young knight who works at the castle... and who is in turn taken with the bratty prince.
• A Little Life: Jude, the main character, is a gay man, and most of the supporting characters are either gay or bisexual.
• The Locked Tomb has a pair of lesbians as the leads, and has multiple same-sex relationships and crushes in the background.
• Loki: Where Mischief Lies: Loki, the main character, is bisexual. The book also features a gay man and the two develop a mutual crush on each other.
• Looming Gaia: Most of the Freelance Good Guys, main characters of most of the stories, are LGBT: Evan is gay, Lukas is pansexual, Alaine, Jeimos, Linde, and Zeffer are bi and Jeimos is nonbinary, Isaac and Mr. Ocean are asexual and Mr. Ocean is panromantic, Elska is aro-ace, and Javaan prefers women, but would be willing to have sex with a man if offered. Some supporting characters are also LGBT.
• The Lost Girls: The book is about a group of bisexual and lesbian vampires who get together to kill the man who turned them before he can do so to another girl.
• Lost Souls (1992): The novel focuses heavily on a group of vampires who are all bisexual men (they tend to be depicted having sex with men most of the time, including each other). It also focuses on two human men, whose close relationship is hinted to be more than platonic culminating in them kissing, although it's left ambiguous (a later short story confirmed they indeed have a romance).
• Lyremouth Chronicles by Jane Fletcher has a lesbian couple as main characters.
• Magic University: Kyle, the main character, realizes he's bi over the course of the story, and many of the supporting characters are either gay or bi.
• Magical Girls (2014): Joan, one of the protagonists, is intersex and part of her character arc involves her dealing with her internalized shame over that.
• The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess: The main character Anisphia is a lesbian and has a female love interest Euphyllia.
• Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The protagonist is pansexual and his love interest is gender-fluid.
• The Making Of Yolanda La Bruja: The protagonist, Yolanda, mentions having had a previous relationship with a female classmate. One of her school friends uses gender neutral pronouns.
• Manifestation: Gabby, the protagonist, is a lesbian.
• Mask of Shadows: Sal, the protagonist, is genderfluid and swaps what pronouns they use depending on how they feel, which isn't considered a big deal by others.
• A Master of Djinn: Protagonist Fatma el-Sha'arawi is in a lesbian relationship with her lover Siti.
• A Memory Called Empire features a lesbian couple as the main characters, and a bisexual polycule as part of the plot.
• Millennium Series: One of the main characters, Lisbeth, is a bisexual woman.
• Modern Faerie Tales: In Ironside, the secondary lead is gay and has a romantic subplot.
• Mom And Mum Are Getting Married! has the premise of a girl's single mother marrying her girlfriend.
• Monk & Robot: A series of Solarpunk novels focused on a non-binary monk seeking distance from the cities they grew up on and the robot they befriend.
• The Monster of Elendhaven: The central romance in the book is between Johann, a Humanoid Abomination who takes the form of a man, and Florian, a bitter and vengeful sorcerer.
• Mrs. Dalloway: Titular Clarissa Dalloway is a bisexual woman and there are many hints other main characters may not be straight.
• The Neanderthal Parallax: A science fiction trilogy featuring a parallel world where Neanderthals are the dominant species, seeming to also be entirely bisexual. Because of this, it's a cultural norm that everyone has both male and female spouses. Ponter, a Neanderthal, is transported into our world by a freak accident. Though he romances and later marries a human woman, his preexisting relationship with his man-mate Adikor is also focused on and stays strong.
• Nemesis Series: Danny, the protagonist, is a transgender girl who starts the series being gifted superpowers that transform her into her ideal self. While she's happy about this, this also forces her out of the closet before she ready and not everyone in her life is accepting.
• The Newton Family: Three of the Newton family is Salem, a closeted bisexual oldest son, Claudia is the lesbian teenager and a middle child of the family, and Clarissa is a pansexual youngest child. The supporting and minor characters who are gay, bisexual, pan and transgender though.
• The Night Circus: A supporting character, Tsukiko, is bisexual.
• The Nikolai Duology: Nina, one of the main characters, is bisexual, and her Love Interest Hanne comes out as trans man at the end of the series.
• Not Your Backup: Sci-fi novel, featuring a budding queerplatonic relationship between a trans boy and an aro ace cis girl.
• Not Your Sidekick: Sci-fi romance between two queer girls.
• Not Your Villain: Sci-fi novel, featuring a budding relationship between a trans guy and an aro ace cis girl.
• 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.
• October Daye: The author has stated that all fae are some degree of bisexual (except Toby, who was raised in the conservative 1950s human world). Toby's fetch May Daye is a woman in a relationship with another woman, Jasmine. Her squire Quentin is shown in relationships with both men and women, and Dianda, Patrick, and Simon are in a bisexual polyamorous triad. January O'Leary was married to a woman, though we only meet her after January's death.
• The One Who Eats Monsters: A major subplot is the growing romance between Naomi, a Republican senator's daughter, and Ryn, an elder god trapped in the form of a human girl.
• Otherside Picnic: Main characters Toriko and Sorawo end up in a relationship with one another, after a Big Damn Kiss in vol. 4. Side character Natsume is said to have a crush on her childhood friend, Akari (though as of vol. 4, it's not confirmed if Akari reciprocates or not). Toriko also has two mothers.
• Our Wives Under the Sea is a nautical-themed horror story where the protagonists, Miri and Leah, are lesbian and married.
• Pale Lights: The two main protagonists are respectively asexual and lesbian.
• The Perils Of Enhance Girl: Sophie, the protagonist, is a lesbian superhero.
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower: A subplot in the book is that Brad, a Jerk Jock, is secretly in a relationship with Patrick, an openly gay student that he bullies in public because he fears the homophobic reactions of his family and friends.
• Pet: Jam, the protagonist, is a transgender girl.
• The Posterchildren: Most of the cast is queer, and three of the characters (Maks, June, and Ernest) are in a happy polyamorous relationship.
• A Practical Guide to Evil: The main protagonist, Catherine Foundling, is a bisexual woman with a string of dalliances throughout the series. The most noteworthy include Killian, the head of her army's mage units; a Friends with Benefits relationship with the Archer, herself in a non-intimate romantic relationship with the asexual Masego; the Kingfisher Prince; a series of casual flings with her former enemy Cordelia in the epilogue; and an incredibly slow burn Star-Crossed Lovers relationship with her Arch-Enemy, Akua Sahelian; with numerous other LGBT+ characters also featured in the setting.
• The Priory of the Orange Tree: Three of the main characters (Sabran, Ead, and Niclays), and the slowly developing romance between Sabran (a queen in need of an heir) and Ead (a mage sent to guard her) is a major subplot.
• Quarters:
  • In Sing The Four Quarters the female Bards Annice and Stasya are committed lovers. Annice turns out to be a bisexual and Stasya is a lesbian. Stasya doesn't have a problem with it when Annice turns up pregnant from a fling she had on walkabout, indicating the pair are in an open relationship. They later arrange to raise her baby with the father, Duke Pjerin. Open same-sex relationships are quite common in their country of Shkoder, with other minor characters shown to have them as well.
  • Fifth Quarter shifts the focus to the nearby Havalkeen Empire, centering on brother and sister assassins with the Imperial Army. Vree, the sister, is shown as being bisexual and particularly attracted to women. Bannon, her brother, is bisexual as well. The antagonist Gyhard is a bisexual man. His past relationship with Kars, a male Bard, significantly drives the plot. Karlene, another Bard, is attracted to women too. As in Shkoder, the people of the Empire treat same-sex relationships as perfectly acceptable and unremarkable. Again, some minor queer characters are featured (e.g. a woman whom Vree had slept with in the Army).
• Radio Silence: The majority of the cast are queer- the protagonist Frances is bisexual, her best friend Aled is demisexual, and their friends Daniel and Carys are gay.
• The Raven Cycle: The main characters include a bisexual and a gay guy who fall in love with each other.
• Ready Player One: Aech is a lesbian.
• The Red Vixen Adventures: Rolas, one of the main characters, is introduced in a relationship with the titular Red Vixen but is revealed to be bisexual when his ex-boyfriend Dak appears.
• Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Kimberly Magic Academy has a student club specifically for students with gender- and sex-linked magical abilities, which was started by AMAB nonbinary upperclassperson Carlos Whitrow. Another minor character is similarly enby, main cast member Pete Reston is a Sex Shifter who appears to prefer men, and supporting character Tim Linton is a crossdressing gay man who sits on the student council. In all there are at least nine named characters who are confirmed to be queer in some respect.
• Replica: Nate is gay, and is in a relationship with his childhood friend Nadia that both of them know is purely for show even though she genuinely has feelings for him.
• The Rifter: The protagonist is gay, and the main romance in the book is between him and another man.
• The Rise of Kyoshi: The series is about Kyoshi, a bisexual woman.
  • The Shadow of Kyoshi: A sequel to the previous book.
• Rose of the Prophet: Mathew, one of the main character, is a biromantic asexual going by what he says (that he's able to fall in love with both women and men, while he isn't interested in having sex at all). He also spends a long time in women's clothing (having been forced to do this) and nearly gets killed for his supposed attempted seduction of a man in that guise.
• Sanctioned: Two of the protagonists are queer: Ashleigh is gay and Stacey is bisexual.
• Santa Olivia: Loup, the protagonist, develops feelings for her friend Pilar who considers this an Inconvenient Attraction, as Pilar plans on marrying for wealth and status, not love. The two do eventually get together, with Pilar deciding that her love for Loup is worth the risk.
• San Amaro Investigations: Focused on a gay couple of a cop and a private investigator in a urban fantasy setting.
• The Satyricon: The main character, Encolpius, has sex with both men and women, though the concept of being LGBT+ or homosexuality didn't really exist in Ancient Rome.
• The Scholomance: The titular school has several students from all over the LGBT spectrum in attendance. The protagonist El is bi, one of her best friends, Liu, is either bi or a lesbian, Sixth Ranger Liesel is bi and polyamorous, and several background characters are also in same-sex relationships.
• Schooled in Magic: Emily, the lead character, attracts the affections of several young women her age (while she's straight herself). Frieda falls in love almost immediately with her, Julienne gushes at how attractive she is, Alassa suggests that they could marry if Emily turned male by magic (so they could have a child to carry on Alassa's royal line) and Nanette's also attracted to her.
• The Seafare Chronicles: Bear is the protagonist of three out of the four books of the series. The first covers him realizing he's gay and has feelings for his best friend's older brother (Otter) while also trying to raise his own little brother (the Kid). Later books cover his and Otter's growing relationship. The second book has Tyson "the Kid" as narrator and protagonist, and he too discovers that he's gay and has feelings for his childhood best friend. In the second book specifically, there are also nonbinary, genderfluid, and trans characters.
• The Secret History: Two members of the Clique are LGBT — Francis is gay, and Charles is bisexual.
• Shades of Magic: Among the protagonists is Rhy, the main character's brother who is openly bisexual. Starting in book 2, there is a recurring subplot of his romance with a former male lover, Alucard.
• The Shadowhunter Chronicles has several LGBTQ characters appearing throughout its various series:
  • The Mortal Instruments has Alec Lightwood, a gay Shadowhunter, as one of its main characters. Throughout the series he comes to terms with his sexuality, deals with homophobia, starts dating bisexual warlock Magnus Bane and comes out of the closet. Later books also introduce Aline, a minor character who turns out to be lesbian and gets together with bisexual Helen.
  • The Bane Chronicles is a collection of short stories focusing on Magnus Bane. It shows more of his relationship with Alec as well as relationships he had before him with both men and women.
  • The Eldest Curses has Alec and Magnus as its protagonists. The first book also features Aline and Helen as supporting characters and confirms that minor character Raphael is asexual.
  • The Dark Artifices: Mark, one of the main characters, is bisexual and is caught in a complicated love triangle that involves Kieran, his bisexual ex boyfriend, and the new girl Cristina. They eventually decide to have a poly relationship. It also features a trans woman as a supporting character.
• Shatter the Sky: The protagonist is Maren, a bisexual seventeen year old girl. At the start she's in a committed relationship with another girl named Kaia. Later she becomes attracted to a boy named Sev around her age, with Maren being torn between them. There is no perceptible stigma toward same-sex love in their society as well, since they're quite open about this. A couple of the supporting characters also seem to be nonbinary, as both use they/them pronouns.
• Shift Work: A trilogy of urban fantasy novels focusing on the Belligerent Sexual Tension romance between Marlow, a human cop specialized in dealing with werewolves, and Cade, a werewolf in charge of a security company. The series also features queer side characters like bisexual cop Bennett and Cade's younger brother Lem, who is also bisexual.
• Sing You Home: Zoe is bisexual and Vanessa is a lesbian; Zoe was married to a man named Max and then marries Vanessa after she and Max divorce (with Vanessa being a Closet Key for her). Most of the novel focuses on Zoe and Vanessa's struggle to have children; they hope to use embryos Zoe and Max had frozen while they were still married, but matters are complicated because Max has since joined a church who have homophobic beliefs, leading to a legal battle.
• The Sirantha Jax Series: One of the main characters is Dina, a butch lesbian who is very skilled with the ladies, to the point she often seduces women who never wanted a woman before.
• Six of Crows: The main characters include Nina and Jesper, who are bisexual and Wylan who is gay. Jesper and Wylan start a relationship at the end of the series.
• Smoke and Shadows: Tony, the protagonist, is gay and his complicated relationship with his ex-boyfriend Henry (a vampire) is touched on.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: Oberyn Martell, his lover Ellaria Sand and daughter Nymeria are all bisexual. Additionally, Loras Tyller was gay and in relationship with Renly Baratheon.
• Spellster starts out with Dylan struggling to accept his bisexuality upon meeting the elven rogue, Tracker, during his quest to get back home after failing to protect an army troop in an ambush. Their burgeoning romance then becomes a continuous subplot. Many minor and supporting characters are also somehow LGBT+, and it's made clear their society accepts this fully.
• The Star of the Guardians: Raoul, from both the original series and its sequel series Mag Force 7, is a (flamboyantly) gay man. The Deuteragonist of Mag Force 7, Darlene Mohini, is also a trans woman.
• The Starless Sea: Protagonist Zachary is gay and has a budding romance with Dorian.
• Starling: There is a friendship that develops into romance between Roy (the clone of the general who is credited with winning humanity's brutal war against the stellaraptors) and Elliott (the first stellaraptor to attend the otherwise all-human Astris Academy).
• Star Wars Expanded Universe:
  • From a Certain Point of View: One of the stories reveals that TK-421 is in a relationship with a male superior, implied to be Tarkin.
  • From A Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi: One of the stories focuses on Karie Neth, who has feelings toward another female pilot named Lanna.
  • Lords of the Sith: One of the main characters is female Moff Delian Mors, who's mourning her wife who died years earlier. Additionally she keeps female scantily-clad Twi'lek dancers in her palace. She is the first LGBT+ character in any post 2012 Star Wars canon work.
  • In the prequel novel Padawan, Obi-Wan is revealed as a biromantic asexual in the canon.
  • Star Wars: Aftermath: Main character Shevek turns out to be a Straight Gay man. In subsequent books, he's dating a guy. There are also a couple minor lesbian characters, who have a child together, while another character was raised by two fathers.
  • Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: The titular doctor is a lesbian, and a subplot concerns her ex-girlfriend.
  • Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars: Merrin is confirmed as pansexual.
  • Star Wars: Queen's Shadow: Sabé is bisexual.
• Stellar Ranger Dark Star: The vast majority of the cast, including the protagonist, are lesbians.
• Storm of Souls: Ethan and Samlet, the son of the warlord who took Ethan as a slave, eventually become friends and then fall in love as Samlet tries to help Ethan heal from what's been done to him.
• The Stone Dance of the Chameleon: Carnelian has romances with two other men during the course of the trilogy, and gay relationships aren't considered at all abnormal in the setting.
• Stranger Than Fanfiction: Joey is gay, and Sam is a trans guy- neither are out due to fear of how their friends and families will react.
• The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure: Nico and Will, the two main characters, are both gay and are boyfriends with one another.
• The Sunbearer Trials: The story is set in a Non-Heteronormative Society, with the hero Teo being a trans boy who is attracted to his former best friend Aurelio; his current best friend Niya is a lesbian with two dads, and his cousin Xio is also trans.
• Swan's Braid & Other Tales of Terizan: Five collected stories by Tanya Huff of Terizan, a lesbian thief, on her different adventures in her home city-state, Oreen. Terizan's Love Interest Swan, a Butch Lesbian warrior, serves as a supporting character.
• Sweet & Bitter Magic: Tamsin and Wren, the two protagonists, turn out to both be lesbian girls. In the course of going on a quest, they fall for each other, though their romance is just one of several themes.
• Tales of the City: The books follow the lives of the residents of an apartment block, a number of whom are queer—Mona is bisexual, DeDe is a lesbian, Michael is gay, and Jake is gay and transgender.
• The Tale of the Five: The protagonist is a bisexual man in a relationship with another man, and it's not considered at all unusual in the setting.
• Tales of an Mazing Girl: Sarah comes to realize that she's bisexual over the course of the story, eventually falling in love with Flame.
• Tales of Inthya: A series of books set in a world called Inthya, where bisexuals are the majority. Because of this, relationships and also marriages between people of the same sex are common, totally accepted occurrences. Nonbinary people called neutroi also are respected as members of society, with one god who's worshiped also being neutroi (with neutroi clergy). The protagonists are therefore bisexual too, with the books having queer romances multiple times as focal plots as well. Magic to change sex is easily available, with it being used so a same-sex couple can have a child or by transgender people who want it too.
• Tales of the Pack: All of the main characters in the series are lesbians. A trans man, a gay man and a bisexual woman are also among the cast.
• The Tarot Sequence: Rune, the main character, is a gay man who is in a relationship with his friend Addam. In the setting, same-sex romances are extremelly common and most characters are queer in some way.
• A Taste of Honey: The plot is set into motion by Aqib's conflict between his love for the soldier Lucrio, and his duty to his homophobic family as he is set to inherit his father's title of Master of Beasts.
• The Teresa Knight Trilogy: After hooking up with Ayako, protagonist Teresa realizes that she's bisexual rather than straight. She goes on to sleep with and date other women in the next books. There are several supporting characters who are bisexual, gay or lesbian.
• Their Bright Ascendancy: Shefali and Shizuka have been engaged to be married since they were children, and they slowly fall for each other over the course of the first book as they work together to stop the Traitor God's invasion.
• To Shape a Dragon's Breath: The main character, Anequs, is bisexual and polyamorous; she has affections for both Liberty (a lesbian) and Theod, and wants to pursue relationships with both of them.
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant: The title character is a lesbian, who engages in relationships with several other women throughout the series.
  • The Monster Baru Cormorant: Sequel to the previous book.
• Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: The two main characters Harriet and Snabe are both trans.
• The Trials of Apollo: Apollo, the main character, is bisexual, and various supporting characters are LGBTQIA+.
• Under The Whispering Door: Protagonist Wallace is bisexual, and his love interest is Hugo, who is gay.
• Unpopular Girl And Popular Girl: The story follows the two main female characters who were falling in love with each other; Joy is a lesbian and Vanessa is a closeted bisexual.
• Upright Women Wanted: by Sarah Gailey, an alternate history Western about a group of queer librarians defying the government. One of the major plot points is the main character's growing feelings towards her travel companion, who identifies as non-binary.
• Valhalla: Violet, the main character, is only shown to be interested in girls.
• The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, a series about queer vampires.
• Vigilauntie Justice: Baz is a trans woman and Peggy and Carole are married to each other. Daisy, a minor character, is also a trans woman.
• Virtually Reality: One of the main characters, Hellblazer, is a transgender man.
• Warchild Series: Jos, the main character, is asexual and supporting character Evan has a crush on him, though nothing comes of it due to Jos being too traumatized to be interested in a relationship.
• The Warring Gods: The main protagonist, Reina, is a lesbian who falls in love with her best friend, and though she doesn't reciprocate Reina eventually falls in love with another woman, Maior, instead and she does.
• Wayward Children:
  • Down Among the Sticks and Bones: Jack is a Butch Lesbian who falls in love with Alexis, the most beautiful woman in town.
  • Beneath the Sugar Sky: Nancy is asexual, and supporting character Kade is a transgender boy.
• Whateley Universe:
  • Among the original six main characters (Team Kimba), Chaka, Fey, Generator, and Tennyo are trans women, and Lancer is a trans man. Chaka and Fey are bisexual. Tennyo may be asexual. While Phase identifies as a heterosexual male, his female secondary sexual characteristics make it difficult to present as male.
  • In later "Gen 1" stories, main characters Absinthe, Knockoff, Kit, Ribbon, Roulette, Pejuta, Porcelain, Scald-Crow, and Whisper are trans women. Loophole has come to accept her bisexuality. Solange's relationship with Kodiak may be a case of If It's You, It's Okay.
  • In the "Gen 2" stories set ten years later, main characters Calliope, Cerulea, Dragonsfyre, Eisenmädel, Glyph, Lapin, Okami, and Onyx are trans women. Calliope, Cerulea, Dragonsfyre, and Glyph have sought girlfriends. Belfry is gay.
• What She Left Behind: A major reveal in the book is that Matt was gay, and he killed himself partly due to his father's abuse after he found out.
• When Women Were Warriors: Most of the cast are gay women, with the main romance in series being between Tamras and Maara.
• The Wheel of Time: Two of the main female characters, Moraine and Siuan, were lovers in their younger years. Several supporting lesbian characters are also present in the series.
• When We Were Magic: The protagonist, Alexis, has a crush on one of her best friends, Roya.
• White Trash Warlock: Adam, the protagonist, is gay. While it's not a big deal to him, he mentions that he had a hard time growing up in a rural area with a bigoted father.
• Whyborne and Griffin: The titular protagonists are gay and they became a couple at the end of the first book.
• Wings of Fire: One of the third arc's protagonists, Sundew, is a female dragon with a Childhood Friend Romance with her girlfriend, Willow. While it is a Secret Relationship, it's not because it's a same-sex relationship (dragons don't seem to care), but because Sundew is betrothed to someone else.
• Winter's Orbit is a Space Opera about Kiem, the prince of the Iskat empire, who enters an arranged marriage with his cousin's widower, Count Jainan of Thea, in order to secure an alliance and secure a renewed treaty to maintain power and protection for the empire.
• Xandri Corelel: The protagonist is a polyamorous bisexual woman with one male and one female love interest.

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