Media 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.
Superindex to:
- Queer Media: works that focus on LGBTQIA+ people along with a primary focus on queer subjects and themes
- Queer Romance: works that focus on romantic relationships between same-sex or transgender characters as the main plot
See also LGBT+ Creators for a list of artists/media creators who are LGBTQIA+.
Mediums with their own pages:
- Anime & Manga
- Comic Books
- Fan Works
- Films — Live-Action
- Literature
- Live-Action TV
- Video Games
- Visual Novels
- Webcomics
- Western Animation
Other mediums:
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Advertising
- Long Long Man: In the finale, Long Long Man is revealed to be gay and attracted to Tooru, who seems to reciprocate.
- One of the people shown in the period-relief brand Midol's "Comfort is Power" ad is a transgender man.
Film — Animated
- Lightyear: Supporting character Alisha Hawthorne is married to a woman with whom she has children. They're also the first same-sex couple to share a kiss in a Pixar film.
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines: The main character Katie says that she's always felt "a little different than everyone else" as a rainbow appears behind her, and we see her wearing a rainbow pride pin. The end of the film confirms she is seeing another girl.
- NIMONA (2023): Ballister, a main character, has a romantic history with Ambrosius, another male character, and they get together in the end. Nimona's shapeshifting is a fantastic allegory for gender fluidity/being transgender.
- ParaNorman: Supporting character Mitch mentions having a boyfriend at the end.
- Strange World: Ethan Clade, one of the main characters of the film, is openly gay with an attraction to another male character.
- Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! marks the first official piece of Scooby-Doo media where, after years of efforts by creators, Velma Dinkley is portrayed as a lesbian, shown to have a crush on another female character, Coco Diablo.
- Wendell & Wild: One major character, Raul, is a trans boy attending a Catholic school for girls.
Podcasts
- The Adventure Zone: Balance: One of the player characters, Taako (played by Justin McElroy), is gay and eventually dates another man named Kravitz, who happens to be the Grim Reaper. His twin sister, Lup, is also a trans woman.
- Alice Isn't Dead: The narrator and the titular Alice are both lesbians.
- Blake Skye Private Eye: Almost every character is LGBTQ+ in some way- Blake is a gay detective who is perpetually unlucky in love, Mickey is a nonbinary mob boss, Gordon is the local bartender and Blake's ex...
- Dining In The Void: Almost every character is either gay, bi, or pansexual. Additionally, Jo is a nonbinary shapeshifter.
- Friends at the Table: Aria, one of the player characters in the second season, dates another woman (it's not specified if she's bisexual or a lesbian).
- Hello from the Hallowoods: Most of the characters are LGBTQIA+.
- Jar of Rebuke: Most of the characters are LGBTQAI+.
- Less is Morgue: Evelyn, one of the two characters 'hosting' the podcast, is the ghost of a lesbian. The other host, Riley, is an agender ghoul.
- Mabel: Most of the characters are gay.
- The Magnus Archives eventually gets Jon and Martin (the former of whom is asexual) as its Official Couple and a lesbian couple in Georgie and Melanie. Episodes will also sometimes have one-off characters who are mentioned to have had same-sex partners. Episode 110 also featured a statement subject who was a trans woman.
- The Penumbra Podcast:
- Juno Steel takes place in a futuristic setting where gender and sexuality are of little consequence; many characters are queer and it isn't a big deal.
- Second Citadel takes place is a world similar to our own, and the relationship between Lord Arum, Sir Damien, and Rilla has a lot of societal barriers.
- Spirit Box Radio: Most of the characters are queer in one form or another. Sam is pan and trans-masculine, Anna is ace, Kitty is a lesbian, Oliver is queer, and etcetera.
- The Strange Case of Starship Iris: At least 4/5 main characters are either not straight, not cisgender, or both.
- Unwell Podcast: Lily, the main character, falls for Marisol, another woman. Additionally, one of the major supporting characters, Abbie, is nonbinary.
- Welcome To Nightvale: Numerous queer characters appear in the series, the most prominent being Cecil, the narrator who in the first episode tells how he fell in Love at First Sight with Carlos, and Carlos himself (a scientist new to the town who becomes Cecil's boyfriend and later husband).
- Within the Wires: Hester is a woman in love with another women, Claudia is bisexual, Michael is a transgender man, Indra is a woman who is still in love with her ex-girlfriend Nan, and Cliodhna is a woman in a relationship with another woman.
Scripts
- Powerpuff: Buttercup is portrayed as a lesbian in the unreleased pilot's script.
Tabletop Games
- Arkham Horror has several LGBTQ+ characters among its playable investigators: Calvin Wright is gay and trying to save his boyfriend's life, Gabriela Reyes is lesbian, and Stella Clark is a trans woman who herd whispers of her true name before coming out.
- Magic: The Gathering has many LGBTQ+ characters across its lore. One of its main planeswalker characters, Chandra Nalaar, is bisexual, and has been in relationships with both men and women, with her current official girlfriend being fellow planeswalker Nissa Revane. Among its supporting planeswalkers, Saheeli Rai and Huatli are two female planeswalkers who are dating, Ral Zarek is a Happily Married gay man, and Niko Aris is nonbinary. Non-planeswalker characters include Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis (two married kings who have a card together) and Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, the game's first openly transgender character.
- Pathfinder intentionally cultivated an LGBT Fanbase by creating a variety of characters of gender and sexual minorities. Three of the major goddesses, Desna, Shelyn, and Sarenrae, are a polyamorous trio, the Iconic Shaman, Shardra Geltl, is a trans woman, the Iconic Rogue Merisiel and Iconic Cleric Kyra are canonically a married interspecies lesbian couple, and four significant Non Player Characters from the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path are in gay relationships (Sosiel Vaenic and Aron Kir are a male-male couple, while Irabeth and Anevia Tirabade are respectively a female half-orc and a post-op human trans woman).
- Visigoths vs. Mall Goths: Proudly uses the tagline "there are a lot of bisexuals." Most of the pre-made NPCs are labeled as LGBTQ+ by the rulebook's demographic categorizations.
Theatre
- Avenue Q: Rod is gay and his story arc is about his Coming-Out Story.
- The Color Purple (Musical): An adaptation of the novel; Celie and Shug, two women, have a romance.
- Cinderella (Lloyd Webber): Prince Charming is revealed to be gay and in a relationship with another man near the end of the play.
- Frank and Percy: A Minimalist Cast play about the friendship and subsequent romance between two elderly men. Percy's a gay man who's been out for fifty years, whereas widower Frank was married to a woman for much of his life, and has never really explored his bisexuality.
- Head over Heels: Pamela and Mopsa are lesbians, and Pythio is a nonbinary oracle banished from their home after coming out.
- The History Boys: Posner is gay, which he lists as one of the things that makes his life suck (in addition to being short, Jewish, and living in Sheffield). Hector is too, and gropes his male students (which eventually gets him fired).
- Love Valour Compassion: All of the characters are gay men, who are friends who've gotten together to celebrate the holidays.
- Mamma Mia!: One of Sophie's potential fathers, Harry, has a male partner.
- Mean Girls: Like in the movie, Damian is gay.
- A New Brain: Gordon, the main character, is gay.
- No Exit: One of the three characters is Inès, a lesbian who was sent to hell because she murdered her cousin so she could seduce his wife.
- Spamalot: A stage Self-Adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A subplot in the play revolves around Lancelot, one of the main characters, realizing that he's gay and coming to terms with it, going on to marry Prince Herbertnote .
Toys
- Monster High: Doll franchise about the teenaged versions of classic monsters and the high school they attend; the 2022 third generation of dolls reimagines the character Frankie Stein as non-binary, and several adaptations have cast non-binary actors (Ceci Balagot for Monster High: The Movie and iris menas for Monster High (2022)) to portray them. They're also shown to have a reciprocated crush on Cleo de Nile, who was herself confirmed to be pansexual after the plot point was introduced.
Web Animation
- The Annoying Orange: Marshmallow is eventually revealed to be nonbinary.
- Dead End: Barney, the main character, is a gay trans man.
- Doris & Mary-Anne Are Breaking Out of Prison: The final episode reveals that Mary-Anne had romantic feelings for a female friend.
- Eddsworld: Kim and Katya are a lesbian couple, with them originally being a joke about how Girl on Girl Is Hot. They were eventually Put on a Bus due to ensuing Creator Backlash on their representation, until they were brought back over a decade after their introduction on Twitter
, with Katya reimagined as a Butch Lesbian proposing to Kim.
- Gotham Girls: Supporting character Selma Reesedale is a trans woman.
- Helluva Boss: A subplot is that the male main characters Blitzo and Stolas sleep together, with Blitzo thinking that it's a Sex for Services arrangement while Stolas has genuinely fallen for Blitzo and Cannot Spit It Out. Moxxie, meanwhile, is bisexual and dated a man before marrying Millie, who also had a thing with the same man and whose sister Sallie May is transgender.
- Imigrantes Road The protagonist, Soccoro Itaquera is nonbinary and bisexual. The series and character blog show them both interested in men and women, Ricardo and Kami respectively.
- Inanimate Insanity: Paintbrush, who had a case of Ambiguous Gender Identity for most of the first two seasons, comes out as nonbinary in "Alternate Reality Show". Likewise, Bow's robotic clone, Bot, comes out as nonbinary in "Home Is Where The Heart Is" through their self-portrait containing the words "they/them".
- Lobo (Webseries): Major Snake is gay.
- Meta Runner: Former antagonist Belle Fontiere is revealed to have been in a relationship with Lucinia Porter before the lab incident.
- The Most Popular Girls in School: Jenna Darabond is bisexual, and several of the supporting characters (Tanner, Than, and Tristan) are gay.
- The Music Freaks: Zander Wickham is gay and is in a relationship with Luke Peterson, who is pansexual.
- My Pride: The protagonist is a lesbian lion, with her struggling to find acceptance in a homophobic pride of lions after being banished from her original one due to being disabled.
- Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls: Hitoshi, one of the main characters, is gay or bisexual and enters a relationship with his male kidnapper.
- Pancake's Show: Pancake and Finley have been subtly confirmed to be in a romantic relationship. Waffle, Abigail and Casey are both also lesbian.
- RWBY:
- Jaune's sister, Saphron Arc, is a lesbian who is married to technician Terra Cotta, and has a son named Adrien Cotta-Arc.
- Coco Adel from Team CFVY is lesbian, although this is more elaborated upon in side material, whether it be canon (RWBY: After the Fall mentioning that she has been in relationships with multiple women) or non-canon (RWBY Chibi showing her to have a crush on her teammate, Velvet).
- May Marigold is a trans woman, and is voiced by an actual trans actress, Kdin Jenzen. Near the start of Volume 8, May mentions how she was disowned by her parents due to the fact that they refused to see her as anything but their son.
- After many years and volumes of Ship Tease, main characters Blake Belladonna (bisexual) and Yang Xiao Long (pansexual) have a Big Damn Kiss in Volume 9.
- Sonic for Hire: Link is depicted as Camp Gay.
- Town Attack: Taiyaki and Paella are a gay couple who join the race in hopes of fixing their strained relationship.
Web Original
- 17776: The main plot of 20020 follows a married male couple.
Web Videos
- 1 For All: Eva is a Butch Lesbian, and Atrius appears to be bi or pansexual, while Nixie might be a lesbian as well. All three of them are the protagonists.
- Barbelle: The main characters are a lesbian pop duo.
- CPU Kerfuffle: Almost all the main characters are queer.
- Critical Role has a host of queer non player characters, oneshot characters, and guest star party members. Queer Character, Queer Actor is the norm on this show.
- Vox Machina (main characters of campaign 1) has bisexual twins Vax'ildan and Vex'ahlia, and pansexual Scanlan Shorthalt. Vax's plotline involves his relationships with gay NPC sorcerer Gilmore and party member Keyleth. Additionally, Grog goes to purchase services from sex workers throughout the campaign and is stated to be only interested in women but never in a romantic way, making him aromantic.
- The Mighty Nein (main characters of campaign 2) has bisexual Caleb Widogast, genderfluid Mollymauk Tealeaf (played by the bisexual Taliesin Jaffe), lesbians Beauregard Lionett and Yasha Nydoorin (whose wife Zuala died pre-campaign) and eventually back an item, aromantic asexual Caduceus Clay. Prominent NPC Essek Thelyss is demi and embarked on a romantic relationship with Caleb post-campaign.
- In Bell's Hells (campaign 3), the player characters Fresh Cut Grass (an automaton) and Ashton (an earth genasi), use he/they pronouns interchangeably. Ashton also has a conversation about having close friends but he's unable to tell if he's ever been in love. Orym is gay (his husband died pre-campaign).
- Daisy Brown: Protagonist Daisy is heavily implied to be gay throughout the story, such as asking her dad if two women could get married and creating rainbow-colored friendship bracelets; her extremely sheltered upbringing is presumably why she has no label for herself.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Recurring characters Yajirobe and Korin, both of whom are male, are romantic partners who eventually get married. Both of them are voiced by KaiserNeko, who is openly gay.
- Merry Maidens: Robin is a lesbian, and none of the merry maidens are straight.
- My Drunk Kitchen: Lesbian comedianne Hannah Hart is the host.
- Rabbit: The titular character turns out to be asexual during a job that has him pretend to be someone's boyfriend.
- RG33: In the Chainsaw Man skits, Power is depicted as a lesbian.
- Robot, Ninja, and Gay Guy: The story is about the friendship between the titular three main characters.
- Sanders Sides: The show is about a gay man working out his issues with the various personified aspects of his personality, who are all gay as well. His being gay is often brought up as a quick gag or reference, but two major subplots focus on getting over his ex-boyfriend and wanting to pursue another guy.
- SuperMarioLogan: Cody is gay.
- Twelfth Grade (Or Whatever): Viola, Oren, and Liv are all bisexual.
- UNHhhh: Hosted by two drag queens, this show has them talk about various aspects of life in general, though some do talk about queer life.
- Where the Bears Are: The story is a murder mystery about a group of gay men who find a dead bear in their bathroom after a wild party.
