List of fictional lesbian characters

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Cate Blanchett plays Carol Aird in the 2015 film Carol.

This is a list of lesbian characters in fiction, i.e. characters that either self-identify as lesbian or have been identified by outside parties to be lesbian. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters.

For fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community, see the lists of gay, trans, bisexual, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters.

The names are organized alphabetically by surname (i.e. last name), or by single name if the character does not have a surname. If more than two characters are in one entry, the last name of the first character is used.

Film[]

See also: List of films with LGBT characters and List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
Characters Title / Franchise Actors Year Notes Country
Carol Aird Carol Cate Blanchett 2015 Carol was always attracted to females but married as was expected of her social status and the post-WWII era. While in divorce proceedings, she meets Therese and comes out publicly after her love affair with her is exposed.[1][2] Therese realizes she's gay after she meets Carol and falls in love with her. The film is based on The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. United States
Therese Belivet Rooney Mara
Amy The War Widow Pamela Bellwood 1976 In this PBS made-for-TV film, set during World War I, Amy is married to a man that enlisted early. On a trip to New York City, she meets Jenny, a photographer. Their friendship blossoms into romance and they become lovers.[3]
Jenny Frances Lee McCain
Alex Cooper Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story Addison Holley 2019 In this Lifetime made-for-TV film, Alex, raised by conservative Mormon parents in Southern California, is fifteen-years-old when she meets Frankie, an eighteen-year-old out lesbian. Their mutual attraction becomes romantic. To "cure" her homosexuality, her parents trick Alex and leave her in the custody of a Mormon couple in Utah to undergo anti-gay conversion therapy, and she spends eight months under their cruel authority before she is finally able to escape and find help.[4][5][6] The film is based on the 2016 memoir, Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began.[7]
Frankie Nicolette Pearse
Eden Spidarlings Sophia Disgrace 2016 Eden and Matilda are a lesbian couple trying to get by.[8] United Kingdom
Matilda Rahel Kapsaski
Countess Geschwitz Pandora's Box Alice Roberts 1929 Countess Geschwitz is often cited as cinema's first explicit lesbian character.[9] Germany
Linda Ray Guettner A Question of Love Gena Rowlands 1978 In this ABC made-for-TV film, Linda and Barbara are a couple. Based on the true story of Mary Jo Risher, who in 1975 lost custody of her adopted 9‐year‐old son because she was a lesbian.[10][11] United States
Barbara Moreland Jane Alexander
Calamity Jane Deadwood: The Movie Robin Weigert 2019 In this HBO made-for-TV film, Calamity is lesbian and in love with Joanie. Joanie is lesbian and a hostess at a brothel. They rekindle their romance, which first began in the television series the movie is based on, Deadwood.[12][13][14]
Martha Jane Canary Kim Dickens
Joanie Stubbs
Kena Rafiki Samantha Mugatsia 2018 Kena is a lesbian character.[15] Kenya
Ellen Lange In the Glitter Palace Barbara Hershey 1977 In this NBC made-for-TV film, Ellen, a lesbian, hires her ex-boyfriend to defend her lover Casey who is accused of murder. Daisy is a lesbian and a nightclub entertainer. Ricky is a lesbian and hiding a child she lost in a custody suit. Grace is a lesbian. She was hired to seduce women so they can be blackmailed. Kendis, a judge, is a lesbian and another blackmail victim.[16][10] United States
Casey Walker Diana Scarwid
Daisy Dolon Carole Cook
Ricky Lynn Marta
Grace Mayo Tisha Sterling
Kendis Winslow Salome Jens
Leah Mother, May I Sleep Leila George 2016 In this Lifetime made-for-TV film, Leah is in love with Pearl, a lesbian vampire. The film is a re-imagining of the similarly titled 1996 television movie.[17]
Pearl Emily Meade
Tammy Metzler Election Jessica Campbell 1999 Tammy is a closeted lesbian[18] dumped by her girlfriend, Lisa Flanagan, for her brother, early in the film, and later runs a nihilistic campaign for class president aiming to dismantle student government,[19] attempting to get revenge on her brother,[20] She later falsely confesses to ripping down campaign posters, resulting in her expulsion and attendance at a Catholic girls school. Her story ends happily, as she meets her next love, Jennifer, at the school.[21] Additionally, early on in the film, Tammy gives narration where she says, "It's not like I'm a lesbian or anything. I'm attracted to the person. It's just that all the people I've been attracted to happen to be girls," impugning classification as a lesbian.[22]
Renee Montoya Birds of Prey Rosie Perez 2020 Renee and Ellen are exes of each other.[23]
Ellen Yee Ali Wong
Janine Neilssen What Makes a Family Brooke Shields 2001 In this Lifetime made-for-TV film, when Sandy dies, Janine must fight to keep the child Sandy bore through artificial insemination.[24] The teleplay is based on the true story of Janine Ratcliffe, who in 1989 won custody of the daughter of her deceased lesbian partner, Joan Pearlman.
Sandy Cataldi Cherry Jones
Policewoman Love Actually... Sucks! Lareine Xu 2011 The film tells a series of interconnected stories, several with LGBT relationships, with one of these being a role-playing lesbian couple, and the film celebrates the belief that life is love.[25][26] It is the third feature film directed by the award-winning Chinese LGBT filmmaker, 'Scud'. Hong Kong
Policewoman's girl Celia Chang
Gail Springer My Two Loves Mariette Hartley 1986 In this ABC made-for-TV film, after her husband dies, Gail finds a job as a chef for a company, where she meets Marjorie, an executive who is open about her being a lesbian. Their friendship becomes a love affair. The script was co-written by Rita Mae Brown.[27][10] United States
Marjorie Lynn Redgrave

Graphic novels[]

Main article: List of graphic art works with LGBT characters
Characters Title Year Notes Country
Donna Cavanagh The Sandman 1989–2015 Donna and Judy are lovers. After Judy dies, Donna changes her name to Foxglove[28] and starts a relationship with Hazel. Foxglove and Hazel have a child, Alvie, the result of one heterosexual encounter by Hazel. United States
Judy
Hazel McNamara
America Chavez Young Avengers 2005–2014 America Chavez is an openly gay character, who has had relationships with a male personification of the Ultimate Nullifier and a female emergency medical technician named Lisa Halloran.[29][30][31]
Tomoyo Daidouji Cardcaptor Sakura & Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card 1996–present Tomoyo is in love with the protagonist of the show, Sakura. Sakura does not return Tomoyo's feelings. The creators intended for Tomoyo to have romantic feelings for Sakura.[32] At some point, Tomoyo confesses her love to Sakura, but Sakura misunderstands her, thinking she means "love" as a friend, and Tomoyo says that she'll explain when Sakura is older.[33] She simply doesn't have romantic feelings for Tomoyo in particular. Tomoyo's mother, Sonomi, confesses that she was in love with Sakura's mother.[34] Japan
Sonomi Daidouji
Batwoman 52 2006–2007 The first appearance in this comic book series: 52 #7 (2006) and when DC Comics rebooted their universe with the series 52 in 2006, they reintroduced Batwoman as Kate Kane and identified her as a lesbian,[35] making her the highest profile lesbian in the DC universe.[36] United States
DC Comics Bombshells & Bombshells United 2015–present The comics series is set in an alternate reality where DC Comics superheroines are depicted as 1940s pin-up style heroes during World War II.[37] Despite being set in the 1940s, the setting has no era-appropriate homophobia.[38] Kate Kane is a lesbian and lives with her girlfriend, Detective Maggie Sawyer, at the start of the series.[39] Kate Kane and Renee Montoya are revealed to be ex-lovers in issue #45.[40]
Maggie Sawyer
Renee Montoya
Hazel Johnson Bingo Love 2018 This comic by Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge, follows the story of two Black women who come back together in their later life after "queerphobia separated them during their teenage years."[41]
Mari McCray
Kya The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars 2017–present Kya's sexuality is not mentioned in the animated series The Legend of Korra. However, in the sequel graphic novel The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, she is shown to be lesbian and gives advice to Korra and Asami about coming out.[42]
Shuichi Nitori Wandering Son 2002–2013 The protagonist of Wandering Son, Shu, is a transgender girl.[43] Shu is attracted to and dates women throughout the series and when she officially comes out as a girl, her girlfriend Anna states "I guess this means I'm a lesbian.".[44] Japan
Anna Suehiro
Hothead Paisan Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist 1991 Created by Diane DiMassa, Hothead Paisan's presentation was cathartic to lesbians, but so graphically violent that the strip was banned in Canada.[45] United States
Roxanne "Roxie" Richter Scott Pilgrim 2004–2010 The book's protagonist, Ramona Flowers has seven evil exes: six ex-boyfriends and her ex-girlfriend Roxie. Ramona repeatedly corrects him by pointing out that "exes" is correct, not "ex-boyfriends", but she does not actually tell him about her ex-girlfriend until Scott meets Roxie in person.[46] While Ramona says that dating a girl was just a phase,[47] she Ramona later spends the night at Roxie's house and they make out offscreen.[48] Canada
Doctor Aphra Star Wars: Darth Vader #3 March 25, 2015 A human female archaeologist recruited by Darth Vader, but ends up in prisons of the Empire and the Rebel Alliance.[49] She only shows attraction to other women, such as her lover, Magna Tolvan, Kieron Gillen, the creator of Doctor Aphra, in a conversation with the comic's co-writer, Si Spurrier, and Bria LaVorgna, said, "I normally say Aphra’s a lesbian. I’ve never written her with any romantic interest in men."[50] Gillen also argued that "homophobia...doesn't really exist in the Star Wars universe." United States
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra 2016-2019
Doctor Aphra 2020-present
Holly Robinson Catwoman vol. 3 2002–2010 Issue where her open lesbian identity begins: Catwoman vol. 3 #1 (2002). Holly Robinson is a friend of Catwoman and was one of the few openly lesbian characters in the early 2000s DC world.[51]
Scandal Savage Villains United 2005 The Villains United miniseries is the first appearance of Scandal. In this comic, she becomes a member of the Secret Six, says at one point "Lawton, do you know what the word 'lesbian' means?"[52] and later calls Knockout "beloved" as they hug after a battle.[53]
Knockout
Mo Testa Dykes to Watch Out For 1983–2008 Mo is a semi-autobiographical representation of the creator Alison Bechdel who started the strip in 1983 because she wanted to see representations of her life that were not available in the media at the time.[54]
Maggie Thrash Honor Girl 2015 Honor Girl is a graphic novel memoir recounting writer Maggie Thrash's experience of falling in love with an older female camp counselor during a summer all-girls' camp.[55]
Raven Xingtao Princeless 2012–present Raven, a character in Princeless and the protagonist in the spin-off Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess, is a lesbian.[56][57] Canada
Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess
Ymir Attack on Titan 2009–present The official website mentions Ymir is in love with Historia (Krista Lenz)[58] Also at the series panel for Animagic 2014, producer George Wada confirmed that Ymir and Krista are a couple.[59] Japan

Literature[]

Main article: List of LGBT characters in modern written fiction
Characters Work Author Year Description
Aisling "Ash" Ash Malinda Lo 2009 This story tells the classic Cinderella story, but Ash falls in love with a beautiful woman, rather than a prince, named Kaisa, who saves her "from her oppressive new existence."[60] The twist to this story is described by some as important, especially for "those looking for a girl romance."
Kaisa
Nancy "Nan" Astley Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters 1998 Nan has sexual/romantic relationships with Florence and Diana; all three have also been with other women.[61][62]
Florence Banner
Diana Leathaby
Therese Belivet The Price of Salt  (a.k.a. Carol) Patricia Highsmith 1952 A married woman, Carol Aird, meets and falls in love with Therese Belivet, which results in her sexuality being used against her and relinquishing custody of her daughter, with Therese Comes out to herself after meeting Carol, while Abby is also a lesbian character.[63] Later made into a 2015 Hollywood film.
Abby Gerhard
Elizabeth Bennett Gay Pride and Prejudice Kate Christie 2012 In this story, which takes the original text of Pride and Prejudice, tweaking it and rewriting passages to "queer-up the story," Caroline Bingley has a crush on Elizabeth Bennett, while Charlotte Lucas never thinks "highly either of men or matrimony."[64]
Caroline Bingley
Charlotte Lucas
Berdine Blood of the Fold &Temple of the Winds Terry Goodkind 1996 & 1997 In these books, the two Mord-Sith are in a relationship with each other.[65] Berdine comes out as a lesbian in the third book of this series and says she loves Raina. This was later turned into a TV series, The Legend of the Seeker.
Raina
Beebo Brinker The Beebo Brinker Chronicles Ann Bannon 1957-1960 These books focus on gay and lesbian love, sexual adventure, with a positive, "yet still complicated look at lesbian relationships," in all five of the books in this series.[66] In the first book, Odd Girl Out, a college girl named Laura gets seduced by Beth, and in the next book, I Am A Woman, Laura goes to a bar and meets a butch lesbian, Beebo Brinker, and talks about coming out to her father. In the following book, Women In The Shadows, the relationship between Laura and Beebo continues, while Laura's first girlfriend returns in Journey To A Woman, leading to a "drama-laden lesbian love triangle" of Beebo, Beth, and Laura. In the next book, Beebo Brinker looks back to the formative years of Beebo.
Beth Ayers[a]
Laura Landon
Molly Bolt Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown 1973 Molly has numerous romantic and sexual relationships with other women.[67] In this novel, she confronts the "hypocrisies of both heterosexual and homosexual societies."[68]
Jayde Robin Brown Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit Joanna "Jo" Gordon 2016 In this sweet teen romance, Joanna, an "evangelical lesbian in a small Southern town," and Mary meet each other, as Joanna struggles to figure out her identity, but never considers it sinful.[69] Even though Joanna and Mary are White, "the rest of their friends display considerable diversity," with one reviewer hoping it will help people "bridge the gap between faith and sexuality."[70]

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Mary Carlson
Calixte Strange the Dreamer series Laini Taylor 2017-2018 Calixte and Tzara are in a long-term lesbian relationship with each other at the start of the series.[71] Thyon Nero has never been romantically or sexually attracted to a woman, but finds himself drawn to Ruza, who seems to reciprocate his interest, making them both gay or in Ruza's case at least bisexual.
Tzara
Carmilla Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu 1872 Carmilla, published as part of the book, In a Glass Darkly, is considered the first lesbian vampire story.[72][73] In this story, Laura, who lives with her father, meets Carmilla, and they form a close relationship, with Laura becoming ill as Carmilla draws nourishment from her.
Anne Damer Life Mask Emma Donoghue 2004 This book is set in late 18th century London, telling the story of three women caught in a love triangle, one of whom is Anna, whose "lesbian side" is not realized until the end of the book.[74]
Clarissa Dalloway Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf 1925 This novel tells the day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional woman in post–war, and she is strongly attracted to Sally Seton,[75] with both sharing a kiss. Clarissa also recognizes that Septimus dies without revealing his homosexuality, perceiving his failure to speak out as "protecting her private lesbian passion," while Doris later encourages Clarissa to name, at least privately, her "lesbian desires."[76]
Doris Kilman
Elinor "Lakey" Eastlake The Group Mary McCarthy 1954 Elinar is a lesbian,[77] and graduate from Vassar College in 1933, with the lives of the stories proatgonists involving the men in their lives. The Baroness is her lesbian lover, which her fellow seven female graduates realize when she returned from Europe.[78] It was later adapted into a film in 1966.
Lucy Farinelli Kay Scarpetta novels Patricia Cornwell 1994–2003 Lucy has romantic relationships and casual sexual encounters with other women.[79] Lucy is not well accepted due to her suspected sexual orientation, has occasional one-night stands, mostly with women and occasionally with men, but she is seduced by Carrie Grethen, early in her career, a relationship which haunts her and those close to her across several books.
Stephen Gordon The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall 1928 This book, a candid novel about "coming to terms with a lesbian identity," was challenged as obscene, under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857, for its "frank portrayal of lesbianism."[80] Although the book has no language that is explicitly sexual, the lesbian themes were seen as a threat to the existing social order, seen as unpalatable, remained banned until 1959 when the Obscene Publications Act was amended, and was published in the U.S. in April 1929 when courts agreed that "lesbianism in and of itself was neither obscene nor illegal," meaning the book wasn't either.
Valérie Seymour
Joan Gilling The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 The novel has a central relationship between Joan and Esther,[77] and it addresses the question of socially acceptable identity, examining Esther's "quest to forge her own identity, to be herself rather than what others expect her to be"[81] while highlighting the problems with oppressive patriarchal society in mid-20th-century America.[82] There was the 1979 film adaption of the book, and a lawsuit by Jane V. Anderson claiming that she was not a lesbian and didn't have a relationship with Sylvia Path.[83]
Esther Greenwood
Rosemary Harper The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers 2015 Rosemary Harper and Sissix are either lesbians or bisexuals as the two women enter a relationship with each other over the course of the novel.[84] In her review, Casey Stepaniuk describes the book as "Star Trek but with lesbians and more aliens."
Sissix
Hurley The Adventure Zone Carey Pietch 2018–present In the third graphic novel, Petals to the Metal, there are two secondary female characters named Hurley and Sloane who have a relationship/feelings for each other.[85] The Hurley-Sloane lesbian couple survived to the end of the story, surviving a near-death experience.
Sloane
Ijeoma Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta 2015 Ijeoma and Amina fall in love with each other as children and keep loving each other way into adulthood.[86]
Amina
Wilma Irrling Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe Cornelia Funke 2003 Wilma comes out as lesbian to her friends. She falls in love with a girl from her theatre group who is called Leonie.[87]
Leonie
Ashlinn Järnheim Godsgrave[b] Jay Kristoff 2017 Mia Corvere is an infamous assassin and fugitive slave fleeing from the Blades of the Red Church and Luminatii legion, with her family wanting her to die and her mentor in hands of her foes.[88] She works with many individuals, like her lover, Ashlinn, to find out the "final answer to the riddle of her life."
Holland Jeager Keeping You a Secret Julie Anne Peters 2003 In this coming out novel, Holland is intrigued by a student transferring to her school who "wants to start a Lesbigay club at school."[89] In the process, Holland faces homophobia, and begins a relationship with Cece, adjusting to her new sexuality quickly.[90]
Cece
Jeanette Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson 1985 This book is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian girl named Jeanette who grows up in an English Pentecostal community.[91] Key themes of the book include transition from youth to adulthood, complex family relationships, same-sex relationships, and religion. A television adaptation of the book was made and aired by the BBC in 1990, starring Charlotte Coleman and Geraldine McEwan, which won the Prix Italia in 1991.[92]
Jo Ukiah Oregon series Wen Spencer 2001–2004 In this series of books, Jo and Lara are the mothers of Ukiah Oregon, the story's protagonist. In the first book, Alien Taste, it is revealed that Ukriah was raised first by wolves, then by Jo and Lara.[93] Jo and Lara also appear in the three other books in the series, Tainted Trail, Bitter Waters, and Dog Warrior, but only as minor characters.
Lara
Annie Kenyon Annie on My Mind Nancy Garden 1982 This book is a retrospect by Liza, remembering her first semester at MIT, how she met Annie, struggled to recognize her lesbian identity, and they reaffirm their love for each other on the phone at the end of the book.[94] Due to these themes, religious fundamentalists burned a copy of the book, a Kansas superintendent removed it from school libraries, and a lawsuit ensued, with a judge ruling on the side of the ACLU, ordering the book to be returned to the libraries shelves. The book is well-regarded as a "canonical lesbian-coming-of-age novel."[95]
Liza Winthrop
Keren Arrows of the Queen Mercedes Lackey 1987 Keren, a minor character,[96] is life bonded to Ylsa and then Sherrill.
Daja Kisubo The Will of the Empress Tamora Pierce 2005 Daja is a main character who realizes she is gay and begins a relationship with a woman throughout the course of the novel while Lark is a mostly off screen character in a long-term lesbian relationship who appears more in other books.[97] Daja's relationship in this book ends badly, when she is forced to choose between her lover and her chosen family, and chooses the latter.
Lark
Renee LaRoche Along the Journey River Carole LaFavor 1996 In this novel, originally published in 1996, and re-released in 2017, it is the first detective novel to have "an openly out Indigenous lesbian," the protagonist, Renee.[98]
Anna Lightwood The Shadowhunter Chronicles Cassandra Clare 2007–present Anna is a genderqueer lesbian, as confirmed by author Cassandra Clare,[99] who has had many lovers but has never truly gotten over her first love,[100] Ariadne Bridgestock, a closeted lesbian[101] who entered a lavender engagement with Charles, becoming his fiancé.[102] Anna also, according to the author, outright rejects the gender binary but uses female pronouns because the book is set in 1903.[103]
Ariadne Bridgestock
Helen Blackthorn
Aline Penhallow
  • Maiju Montevideo
  • Claude Singapore
 Carnival Elizabeth Bear 2006 This story revolves around two spies sent to steal alien tech from Amazonia, a "planet ruled by man-enslaving lesbians" like Claude and Maiju.[104] Additionally, the two spies, Vincent and Michelangelo are homosexuals from a world with "regressive and repressive mores."[105]
Moff Delian Mors Star Wars: Lords of the Sith Paul S. Kemp 2015 Moff, the first LGBT character in the Star Wars canon, was introduced in this book.[c] She is an Imperial officer who makes mistakes, is very capable, and happens to be a lesbian as well, with those who included it saying that Star Wars should be diverse, apart from stories about "straight, white males."[106] Reviewers for the New York Daily News stated her sexuality is not a major concern in the novel, suggesting that "homophobia isn't an issue in the Empire," and something the Imperial Army doesn't worry about, even as they fight rebels.[107][108]
  • Cassie Peskin-Suso
  • Nadine Suso
 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli 2015 Abby's cousin Cassie Peskin-Suso, a principal character in the sequel novel The Upside of Unrequited, is a lesbian and Mina is her pansexual girlfriend while Cassie also has two mothers Nadine, who is a lesbian, and Patty, who is bisexual.[109]
Emi Price Everything Leads to You Nina LaCour 2015 Emi Price finds a letter written to a recently-dead film icon, leading them to Ava, his granddaughter, who Emi is smitten with, and hopes for "new love with Ava."[110]
Ava
Margaret Prior Affinity Sarah Waters 1999 Margaret also called "Peggy" and "Aurora" is an unmarried woman from an upper-class family. She becomes a visitor at a prison and meets Selina. Margaret is a prisoner in her life being "dictated by gender rules and societal expectations, as Selina is in her physical cell."[111] This novel is set in a women's prison in London, explores the "Victorian world of spiritualism," and won the Somerset Maugham Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction.[112] Like her first novel, Affinity contains overarching lesbian themes and was acclaimed by critics on its publication. Later it was turned into a feature film.
Selina Dawes
Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg 1998 This novel weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home, while her sister-in-law, Idgie, and her friend, Ruth, ran a café. Idgie is a lesbian and has a long-term romantic relationship with another woman, and sexual encounters with one other woman.[113] Although it is not explicitly labeled as a lesbian relationship, every resident both knows about and accepts Idgie and Ruth's relationship, making lesbianism a theme in the novel[114] while in the film adaptation, a story of Southern female friendship and love, Ruth had been in love with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother.[115][116]
Aud Torvingen The Blue Place Nicola Griffith 2007 Aud Torvingen, an 18-year-old coming to the U.S., who is the daughter of a rich diplomat, rents an apartment near Atlanta, and becomes an Atlanta cop, but falls into passionate encounters.[117] One of these encounters is with Julia. She remains a protagonist in the book's two sequels, Stay and Always, and becomes "one of the most human and intriguing lesbians in crime fiction."[117]
Jaret Tyler Happy Endings Are All Alike Sandra Scoppettone 1978 This young adult book is the first one with a "clearly lesbian main character," named Jaret Taylor who comes out in the book's first line: "Even though Jaret Tyler had no guilt or shame about her love affair with Peggy Danziger she knew there were plenty of people in this world who would put it down."[63] Jaret, a future lawyer, endures hardship and discrimination but remains strong even as Peggy, her girlfriend, "wavers in the face of family and small-town prejudices." Scoppettone would go on to write a popular mystery novel series featuring a lesbian detective named Lauren Laurano.
Peggy Danziger
Clodagh Unwin A Village Affair Joanna Trollope 1989 In this story, Alice Meadows questions her identity, having an affair with a lesbian woman named Clodagh Unwin, while she remains married, with her awakening depending on "a heart-wrenching choice between her lover and her family."[118]
Clarissa Vaughan The Hours Michael Cunningham 1998 In this novel, which has strong parallels with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Clarissa rejects a relationship with Richard, a gay man, for the love of her life, Sally, who is invigorated by this love.[119] Louis is also Richard's former lover, with Richard later taking his own life, while Clarissa comes to a full realization of her own identity.
Sally
Patience White Patience and Sarah Isabel Miller 1969 This book, which captures "Lesbian-feminist consciousness" in the U.S. in the 1960s, is not only a love story of Patience and Sarah but also became important in the "lesbian literary-political tradition," with Miller's experience as a woman and lesbian shaping the book itself.[120]
Sarah Dowling
Felicity Worthington Gemma Doyle Trilogy Libba Bray 2003 Felicity is an "alpha girl," who becomes friends with the protagonist, Gemma, and has an "obsession with power," and has a tortured lesbian relationship with Pippa [121] Felicity is revealed to be either bisexual or a lesbian (although most likely lesbian as she seemed to use men as a cover-up) in the last book when she shares a passionate kiss with Pippa, before leaving the corrupt Pippa behind forever.

Video games[]

Main article: List of video games with LGBT characters
Characters Title Year Notes Developer
A ghost couple Kindred Spirits on the Roof 2012 In the English release of this Japanese visual novel, the main character Toomi Yuna helps a female ghost couple, create other lesbian couples at her school. This game is notable for being the first erotic visual novel released on Steam not to be censored.[122] Liar-soft
Other couples
Asellus SaGa Frontier 1997 This Japanese role-playing game features a female main character named Asellus who was infused with mystical blood that causes her to be highly attractive to other women.[123][124] Square
Athena Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel 2014 In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (2014) the playable character Athena and the supporting character Janey Springs are lesbian.[125][126] Janey repeatedly flirts with Athena, causing her to become embarrassed. 2K Australia & Gearbox Software
Janey Springs
Sophie de Bretheuil The Last Express 1997 This adventure game has the player meeting two young adult girls named Sophie de Bretheuil and Rebecca Norton who are almost always in each other's company. While at first, they appear to be merely close friends, reading the diary of Rebecca suggests they are lesbians, but there are no explicitly homosexual gestures beyond hand-holding.[127] Smoking Car Productions
Rebecca Norton
Abigail Black Clive Barker's Jericho 2007 Lt. Abigail Black, a telekinetic sniper and playable character, is confirmed to be lesbian in this Spanish first-person shooter and survival horror game.[128] MercurySteam & Alchemic Productions
Byleth (player character) Fire Emblem: Three Houses 2019 Edelgard, Jeritza, Dorothea, Yuri, Rhea, Sothis, Linhardt, and Mercedes can be romanced by the player character regardless of gender during certain routes.[129][130] Intelligent Systems & Koei Tecmo
Edelgard
Dorothea
Mercedes
Linhardt
Jeritza
Rhea
Sothis
Yuri
Caithe Guild Wars 2 2012 This MMORPG game includes the sylvari race of plant-like humanoids who don't reproduce sexually. As such, they do not base their relationships upon reproduction, but rather love, sensuality, and finding beauty in one another.[131] Caithe and Faolain are minor characters, two female sylvari in a lesbian relationship. Eladus and Dagdar are two young male sylvari in a gay relationship. The player is able to encounter and save Eladus and Dagdar from the Knight Bercilak the Green in an optional quest. ArenaNet
Faolain
Corrin (player character) Fire Emblem Fates 2015 This game is the first in the Fire Emblem franchise to feature a same-sex marriage option for both the 'Birthright' and 'Conquest' versions of the game (Niles and Rhajat in the American version).[132] The same sex options, however, are restricted to one character per game, and if the player marries a character of the same sex, they will not be able to unlock Kana (the player's child) or Nina, Niles' daughter.[133] Nintendo SPD & Intelligent Systems
Niles
Rhajat
Crystal Dead Rising 2 2010 It's hinted that two minor villains, twin sisters Crystal and Amber Bailey, are in an incestuous lesbian relationship in this Canadian survival horror and beat 'em up game.[134] Blue Castle Games
Amber Bailey
Ellie The Last of Us 2013 In The Last of Us (2013), Ellie is one of the main characters and Riley is sometimes mentioned. In the DLC prequel The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014), players control Ellie as she spends time with Riley, and it is implied Ellie has feelings for Riley, culminating in a kiss between them near the climax. The developers Naughty Dog later confirmed they have romantic feelings for each other and the writer for Ellie's character, Neil Druckmann, said he wrote her to be gay.[135] Naughty Dog
Riley Abel
Garnet Steven Universe: Save the Light 2017 Garnet (composed of two Gems in a relationship, Ruby and Sapphire), and Pearl, are lesbian characters in this action-adventure, and role-playing game.[136][137] Grumpyface Studios
Pearl
Steph Gingrich Life Is Strange: Before the Storm 2015-2017 Steph has a crush on Rachel and can mention it to Chloe in episode 2. Her voice actress, Katy Bentz, later confirmed during a Reddit AMA that Steph is a lesbian.[138] Deck Nine
Hailey I Don't Have A Cue! 2018 In this visual novel game, Hailey, during her college's production, she got a crush on Shana, who has issues with processing her signals because of her autism.[139][140] Drazillion
Tracker McDyke Caper in the Castro 1988 A murder mystery problem solving and adventure game for Apple Mac computers written in the HyperCard language, distributed on underground gay bulletin boards, starring the lesbian detective Tracker McDyke. C. M. Ralph, who wrote the game, later released a straightwashed version called "Murder on Main Street" and published by Heizer Software.[141] C. M. Ralph
Fiona The Longest Journey 1999 This computer game features Fiona and Mickey, a lesbian landlady and her long-time lover. The game also features and a gay cop. While the game used a futuristic Blade Runner type setting, the gay characters are seen as normal and well adjusted secondary characters.[142] Funcom
Mickey
Kendall Flowers Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story 2011 Kendall and Charlotte have recently broken up as of the start of this Canadian visual novel game.[142] Love Conquers All Games
Charlotte Grewal
Aurora James Gangsters in Love 2016 A lesbian character who can be in a romance with the player character.[143] Voltage Entertainment USA
Juhani Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2003 The party member Juhani is lesbian, though bugged coding on the initial release allowed her to be attracted to the player character regardless of gender. In subsequent patches, she reverts to same-sex preferences. She and another female Jedi were also heavily implied to be lovers. This would make Juhani the first known gay character in the Star Wars universe.[144] BioWare
Another female Jedi
Kassandra Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2018 The player may choose to play as either Alexios or Kassandra; a pair of siblings. The game presents both opposite-sex and same-sex relationship options for the player character.[145] They are potentially lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Ubisoft Montreal
Alexios
Medusa Astoria: Fate's Kiss 2015 Medusa is a lesbian[146] in this visual novel game, and can enter into a relationship with the protagonist.[147] Voltage Entertainment USA
Nari Magical Mystery Cure 2018 This game, part crafting game and part visual novel, features Nari, a genderfluid partner of Ella, a trans woman and oracle of the stars. Nari and the players of the game have to combine the right combination of ingredients in order to reverse the effects of a magical potion ingested by Ella at her birthday party.[148][140] Dotorriii
Paige The Walking Dead: Michonne 2016 Paige has feelings for her friend Samantha.[149][150] Telltale Games
Vivien Pentreath Moonmist 1986 In one of the possible storylines, it is revealed that Vivien, a friend of Lord Jack, was in a relationship with his former fiancée, Deirdre, before her apparent suicide and was jealous that she chose Lord Jack over her in this interactive fiction.[151][142] Infocom
Chloe Price Life Is Strange 2015 In Life Is Strange (2015), Chloe admits that she had romantic feelings towards Rachel. In the prequel Life Is Strange: Before the Storm (2017), depending on the player's actions, Rachel may open up and reveal that she has romantic feelings towards Chloe too. At some point, Chloe may have the choice to kiss Rachel. Rachel also had a relationship with Frank before the plot of Life Is Strange. Dontnod Entertainment
Seiko Shinohara Corpse Party: BloodCovered 2006 Seiko is shown to have romantic feelings for her best friend, Naomi Nakashima in this Japanese survival horror, adventure, and dōjin soft game.[152] Team GrisGris
Hiyu Shinosaki Bokuhime Project 2020 Hiyu, a supporting character attending the same school as the protagonist, is attracted to women in this Japanese adventure game.[153] Nippon Ichi Software
Sole Survivor Fallout 4 2015 The player character, "Sole Survivor", can romance their companions, regardless of their sex.[154] Bethesda Game Studios
Tiny Tina Borderlands 2 2012 Tiny Tina confesses that she likes Maya and asks if she likes her in turn. It was confirmed by lead writer Anthony Burch on his ask.fm that she is lesbian. Also, during the production of the DLC Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage (2012), it was planned to depict Tiny Tina having a crush on Moxxi, but the dialogue concerning this was ultimately deleted before the DLC was released. However, in Borderlands 3, echo logs reveal that she had been in relationships with both men and women.[155] Gearbox Software
Two female lovers The Dagger of Amon Ra 1992 This adventure game features a woman from a small town who gets a job for a New York paper in the 1920s. Two of the women she meets are involved in a secret love affair.[142] Sierra On-Line
Various girls A Kiss for the Petals 2006–2016 A series of adult yuri visual novels.[156][157] Fuguriya
Teachers
Nurses
Various girls Nurse Love Addiction 2015 This is a Japanese yuri game, in the visual novel genre, centered around lesbian nursing school students.[158] Kogado Studio
Emily Verma Queen's Gambit 2015 A lesbian character in this visual novel game which can have a romance with the player character.[159][160] Voltage Entertainment USA

Webcomics[]

Main article: List of webcomics with LGBT characters
Characters Title Year Notes
Acolyte Lady of the Shard[161] 2016 This comic by Gigi D.G. features a romance between women,[162] specifically between Acolyte and the Goddess. The former gives the latter gifts, in the form of breakfasts and other meals. As the comic moves forward, romantic strains increase as they try to figure out their love for each other
Goddess
Donna Bruno 1996–2007 In this Christopher Baldwin webcomic, Bruno, a bisexual, and free-spirited woman,[163] and later becomes involves with Sophia, who "has male and female lovers within the bounds of a polyamorous relationship."[164] The webcomic also features a trans woman named Judi, with Baldwin offering "brief flashes inside Judi's private sexual life," even though most of the main characters don't know she is trans.[165] In one comic, Bruno admits her bisexuality,[166] and in others, she goes on a date with Frank, has a one-night-stand with Patricia, and sleeps with her friend Donna. In the later case, Bruno and Donna have a passionate relationship, but due to Bruno's alcoholism and somewhat turbulent personality, they break up.[d] After the breakup, Bruno expresses interest in a boy[167] and Donna is seen with a new girlfriend.[168]
Emily Chroma Key 2018 – present In this webcomic by Brandon Dumas, which follows a multiracial group of childhood female friends who transform into Power Ranger-like superheroes, there are various lesbian characters. For instance, Emily, who has Type II of Waardenburg syndrome which comes with, in her case, moderate hearing loss and less pigmentation of hair and eyes, and prefers to use ASL,[169] has a crush on another girl, Adrienne,[169] and shown to be a lesbian.[170] Additionally, April is shown to have a crush on an unnamed older woman.[171]
April
Eve Eve's Apple[172] 2008–2013 This webcomic, by Christine Smith, focuses on intimacy and dating from a transgender perspective, centers on a gay, and overweight, trans woman, Eve, and has "some very frank discussions about physical intimacy."[173] The story was well received by the trans community, while Smith added that Alison Bechdel's webcomic "Dykes To Watch Out For" was a big influence on her.[174] This comic also includes Eve's crush, and best friend, Lucy, while her lesbian friend, Lilith, has a crush on Eve, along with other LGBT characters, like a trans man named Adam, and two estranged lovers, Candace and Abelle. Christine Smith later spun off Sarah, who had a few frames in this comic, to her new comic, "The Princess," as noted in a later entry on this page.
Lilith
Candace
Abelle
Fran Goodbye to Halos 2015 – present This comic features a lesbian named Fran with a girlfriend,[175][176] Fenic, a "20-year-old trans lesbian" from Skyport. The latter, in the story, has been living in the "run-down queer district of Market Square" for five years, and has a magic ability to "manipulate any object from a distance," even though this magic is "temperamental".[175]
Fenic
Gyp Bucko 2011–2012 This Jeff Parker and Erika Moen webcomic features an "uninhibited" lesbian main character, Gyp. who is the housemate of the protagonist, Rich "Bucko" Richardson.[177]
Jane Jane's World 1998–2018 In this webcomic by Paige Braddock, most of the central characters, including the titular Jane, are lesbians.[178][179]
Other characters
Kate Demon Street[180] 2013–present This comic by Aliza Layne features several queer characters, including a nonbinary character and a pair of crushing pre-teen girls.[176][181][182][183]
Celine
Alexis "Alex" Koenig Motherlover 2018–present This webcomic, by Lindsey Ishihiro, is a slow-burn romance about two moms from different walks of life, who eventually fall in love, and will be published in print in 2023 by Iron Circus Comics.[184]

The story centers around two women: Alexis "Alex" Koenig, a single lesbian woman of Japanese descent who moved back to her childhood home, with a daughter, and her neighbor Imogen Dawson, a stay-at-home mom who is trying to find "a new identity and purpose" in her life, who is married to Jonathan, living with their four children.[185]

Rose Lalonde Homestuck 2009-2016 In this webcomic by Andrew Hussie, Rose Lalonde is a lesbian human who eventually dates Kanaya Maryam, a lesbian troll.[186]
Luna Lion Acception 2015–present This ongoing Dutch teen dramedy romance webcomic by Coco "Colourbee" Ouwerkerk,[187] who was inspired by "manga genres such as shojo and shounen," focuses on a rainbow-haired male protagonist named Arcus McCarthy, a high school student who faces some hostility for his appearance. The comic also features various LGBT characters.[188] This includes Luna Lion, a trans woman who is introduced in the 23rd comic, who is transitioning, and Casper, a gay guy, both of whom have crushes on Arcus. The comic also features Bo, an asexual woman, introduced in the 78th comic, along with gay, trans male, lesbian, and bisexual characters in other comics.
Unnamed characters
Mal Lumberjanes 2014–2020 This series, created by Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters,[e]features two campers, Mal and Molly, who discover they have mutual crushes for each other, with their friends accepting their relationship.[189][190]
Molly
Malori Mage & Demon Queen 2018 – present This webcomic by Kuru,[f] is focused on Malori, a young woman and mage, who is told to kill the Demon Queen, Velverosa, but is deeply in love with her, with the queer relationship between them a central part of the story.[191] In the second chapter of the comic, Princess Lenora and Malori go on a date in Folstina.[192][193] It is also shown that Lenora has a crush on Malori.[194]
Velverosa
Lenora
Kabi Nagata My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness 2016 This autobiographical manga is by a lesbian author named by Kabi Nagata.[195]
Nimona Nimona 2012–2015 Noelle Stevenson, the author of this webcomic, described Nimona, the series protagonist, as a person who is stocky, wears pink but is "still very kind of butch,"[196] referring to a woman with masculine traits, beyond what is considered typical of a tomboy, specifically a lesbian identity.
Nye Fera[197] 2009–present This webcomic by Davy Shirley features a lesbian protagonist, Nye, and her bisexual partner.[198]
Peggy My Two Lesbian Ants[199] 2017–present This comic strip, by Lisa Franklin, is about two ants, Peggy and Sandro, which are lesbian, and one who is non-binary and queer, Angie.[200]
Sandro
Anaïs Phalèse Curvy[201] 2008–present This webcomic by Sylvan Migdal features two lesbian protagonists, Anaïs Phalèse and Fauna Lokjom, who are in a relationship.[202]
Fauna Lokjom
Rosie Close Your Eyes, Look at the Mountains[203] 2016–present In this comic by Juniper Abernathy, all main characters are lesbians, queer, and/or trans, like Rachelle. Most strips are about a cat named Rosie and a dog named Isabelle who are in love.[204]
Isabelle
Sarah The Princess[205] 2010–present This comic by Christine Smith sports a transgender protagonist, Sarah, among various other LGBT characters, as she struggles against transphobia.[206]
Camille Severin Muted 2019 – present The comic is set in New Orleans where people possess different magical abilities, and at age 21, Camille Severin is told to summon a demon, but it fails.[207][208][209] Camille later does summon a demon named Dendrobium "Dendro"[210] and they grow closer over time. In episode 79 of the comic's second season, they kiss and express their love for one another.[211] When some raised the question of whether Camille is "cheating" on her girlfriend, Lilinyra 'Nyra' Dupre,[g] the comic's artist Miranda Mundt implied that Camille, Dendro, and Dendro are in a polyamorous relationship.[212]
Dendrobium "Dendro"
Lilinyra "Nyra" Dupre
Sunati Always Human 2015-2017 This comic by Ari North centers around the relationship between Sunati and Austen, who begin as friends and later enter a romantic relationship with one another.[213]
Austen
Mo Testa Dykes to Watch Out For 1983–2008 This webcomic by Alison Bechdel features multiple lesbian characters,[214] specifically a lesbian feminist named Mo Testa, a drag king named Lois MacGiver who dates Jasmine and the mother of a trans teen: Janis (whose birth name is Jonas), and a self-described "bisexual lesbian" named Sparrow Pidgeon (whose birth name is Prudence). There's also the college girlfriend of Mo (Clarice Clifford), the married partner of Clarice (Toni Ortiz), the current lover of Mo (Dr. Sydney Krukowski), and a Jewish lesbian named Theo who was Sydney's lover in college, along with other central characters, like Jezanna and Audrey who are in a relationship, and Harriet, Mo's ex-girlfriend.[215]
Sparrow Pidgeon
Clarice Clifford
Toni Ortiz
Dr. Sydney Krukowski
Thea Girls With Slingshots 2004–2015 This webcomic, by Danielle Corsetto, focuses on the adventures of Jaime, Hazel, and their friends, and at one point "Thea and Angel have the safe lesbian sex talk."[173] Corsetto also leads the readers through the "wonderful world of sex with girls," reminding readers that "sexuality comes in a number of flavors."
Angel
Lisa van Gogh Venus Envy 2001–2014 Friends with Zoë and is on the soccer team, which is filled with other lesbians.[216]
Meera Varma Power Ballad 2017 This 26-issue self-contained comic, by a lesbian cartoonist named Molly Brooks, tells a story which "normalize[s] the presence and experience of queer people"[217] and has various LGBTQ characters. Meera Varma, who has many ex-girlfriends, is an assistant to Carina Petersen, a world-acclaimed superstar who is also a crimefighter, and she falls in love with her after working with her for two years, trying to figure out if Carina shares her feelings.[218] Apart from her ex-girlfriends, Meera goes on a date in the comic's eighth episode with a woman named Lori before hearing Carina's music.[219]
Carina Petersen
Lori
Meera's many ex-girlfriends

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Also named Cullison
  2. ^ Part of The Nevernight Chronicle series
  3. ^ There were same gender relationships in Star Wars: The Old Republic online roleplaying game after an outcry, introduced in 2015.
  4. ^ See for example the comics, "Hit by a Train" (where they kiss), "Dancing Like Footballers" (where they note they had sex the previous night), "Baseball Bats" (Bruno asks Donna if they want to have sex again), "Maybe Not Right Away" (a romantic dance between Bruno and Donna), "A Happy Relationship" (Bruno thinking of Donna as fantastic and saying she enjoys spending time with her), "Drinking After News" (alcoholism of Bruno pointed out, cracks in the Bruno-Donna relationship begin forming), "More Than You" (Bruno calls Donna her "lesbian lover"), and "The Nature of Change" (Bruno and Donna breakup).
  5. ^ Apart from writing by Ellis and Watters, Noelle Stevenson, Kat Leyh, and Faith Erin Hicks wrote stories for this series.
  6. ^ Also known as Color LES
  7. ^ As noted by Yuri Mother

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