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List of LGBTQ characters in modern written fiction

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Summary

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This is a list of LGBTQ characters in modern written fiction. This article covers notable characters who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, as well as characters who are pansexual, asexual, non-binary and intersex. Characters listed here should have verifiable third-party sources commenting on their sexuality or gender identity, with additional explanation as necessary. Only notable/significant characters from a given work (which may have multiple LGBTQ characters) need to be listed here.

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.

Scope

A number of different classification schemes have been used to describe sexual orientation and gender identity since the mid-19th century, and scholars have often defined these terms in divergent ways or have failed to define them at all. As such, characters may be described in different ways today than they were historically.

19th century

Characters	Work	Year	Author	LGBTQ+ identities in story	Notes
Amaro
Aleixo	Bom-Crioulo	1895		Gay
Bisexual	This story, which takes place in Brazil circa 1870, deals with an interracial same-sex relationship between Amaro, a formerly enslaved black man, and his white partner, Aleixo.
Joseph Asten
Philip Held	Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania	1870		Gay	Joseph and His Friend is considered to be the first gay-themed novel written by an American author.
Carmilla (AKA Millarca and Countess Mircalla Karnstein)	Carmilla	1872		Lesbian	last=Garber	first=Eric	author2= Lyn Paleo	title=Uranian Worlds: A Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror	chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/uranianworldsgui0000garb	chapter-url-access=registration	chapter=Carmilla	publisher=G. K. Hall	year=1983	isbn=978-0-8161-1832-8	page=126}} 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.
Jacques Collin a.k.a. Vautrin a.k.a. Trompe-la-Mort	Père Goriot
Illusions perdues
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes	1835
1837–1843
1838–1847		Gay	Appears in a total of five novels of Balzac's La Comédie humaine, two are cameo appearances; often considered the first openly homosexual character in French literature.
Basil Hallward
Dorian Gray	The Picture of Dorian Gray	1890		Gay	In this novel, Basil has a "repressed homosexuality" while Dorian has his own ambivalence, meeting with male prostitutes, even proposing to Sybil Vane in an attempt to suppress his homosexual feelings.
Arthur Ravener
Captain Dillington	A Marriage Below Zero	1889		Gay	last=Haggerty	first=George	title=Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures	publisher=Routledge	year=2000	isbn=978-0-8153-3354-8	page=482}}
Jack Saul	The Sins of the Cities of the Plain	1881	Anonymous	Gay	url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trebor-healey/early-gay-literature-redi_b_5373869.html	title=Early Gay Literature Rediscovered	first=Trebor	last=Healey	work=Huffington Post	date=May 28, 2014	access-date=May 31, 2014	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403094636/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trebor-healey/early-gay-literature-redi_b_5373869.html	archive-date=April 3, 2017	url-status=live}}
René Teleny
Camille de Grieux	Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal	1893	Anonymous; attributed to Oscar Wilde	Gay	last=Nelson	first=James	title=Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson	location=Philadelphia	publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press	year=2010	page=34}}

20th century

Characters	Work	Year	Author	LGBTQ+ identities in story	Notes
Francis Abernathy	The Secret History	1992		Gay	Francis is later revealed as a "mildly tormented homosexual," the only person who seems to have much of "a sexual existence" and is dressed for the part.
Carol Aird
Therese Belivet
Abby Gerhard	The Price of Salt (a.k.a. Carol)	1952		Lesbian	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, while Therese comes out to herself after meeting Carol, while Abby is also a lesbian character. Later made into a 2015 Hollywood film.
Akhenaten
Smenkhkara	A God Against the Gods
Return to Thebes	1976
1977		Bisexual	url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/allen-drury-3/return-to-thebes/	title=Return to Thebes by Allen Drury	work=Kirkus Reviews	access-date=January 20, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624075405/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/allen-drury-3/return-to-thebes/	archive-date=June 24, 2020	url-status=live}}
Alexander the Great
Hephaistion
Bagoas	Fire from Heaven
The Persian Boy	1969
1972		Bisexual
Gay	Alexander the Great is involved in a romantic sexual relationship with Hephaistion, and then the Persian slave Bagoas, but is also married three times and fathers a son.
Brigham Anderson	Advise and Consent	1959		Bisexual	url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/03/books/allen-drury-80-novelist-wrote-advise-and-consent.html	title=Allen Drury, 80, Novelist; Wrote Advise and Consent (Obituary)	access-date=January 19, 2015	last=Smith	first=Dinitia	date=September 3, 1998	work=The New York Times	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813010937/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/03/books/allen-drury-80-novelist-wrote-advise-and-consent.html	archive-date=August 13, 2020	url-status=live}}
Vanyel Ashkevron
Stefen	The Last Herald Mage trilogy	1989–1991		Gay	last=Lackey	first=Mercedes	author-link=Mercedes Lackey	title=Ask Misty Archive – Valdemar	work=The World of Mercedes Lackey	date=2005	url=http://www.mercedeslackey.com/am_valdemar.html	access-date=July 22, 2007	archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206004256/http://www.mercedeslackey.com/am_valdemar.html	archive-date=December 6, 2012	url-status=live	quote=...I had Talia reading about and daydreaming about someone---Vanyel....I mentioned his lover Stephan, which of course, meant that he was gay...The conscious decision was to make him a troubled and exceedingly misunderstood young man...and only make his sexual preferences as part of his character, rather than the focus of it...Because I had already said Vanyel was gay in the first chapter of Arrows of the Queen. Little hard to go back and undo that.}}
Pete Balkis	The Throne of Saturn	1971		Gay	Astronaut Pete harbors unrequited romantic feelings for his commander, Conrad Trasker.
Balthamos
Baruch	His Dark Materials	1995–2000		Gay	Balthamos and Baruch are old gay men, with their characters poking at existing gay stereotypes in literature, with their relationship growing over the course of the book.
Renly Baratheon
Loras Tyrell	A Song of Ice and Fire	1991–2011		Gay	url=http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/07/21/dance-with-dragons-shocking-twist-g/	title=George R.R. Martin on Dance With Dragons shocking twist	first=James	last=Hibberd	magazine=Entertainment Weekly	date=July 21, 2011	access-date=July 16, 2014	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721172651/http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/07/21/dance-with-dragons-shocking-twist-g/	archive-date=July 21, 2019	url-status=live}}
Berdine
Raina	Blood of the Fold
Temple of the Winds	1996
1997		Lesbian	In these books, the two Mord-Sith are in a relationship with each other. 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.
Frank Berry	The Hotel New Hampshire	1981		Gay
Molly Bolt	Rubyfruit Jungle	1973		Lesbian	Molly has numerous romantic and sexual relationships with other women. She confronts the "hypocrisies of both heterosexual and homosexual societies."
Beebo Brinker
Beth Ayers/Cullison
Laura Landon	The Beebo Brinker Chronicles	1957–1960		Lesbian	last=Yndigoyen	first=Rose	title=The Beebo Brinker Chronicles	date=July 16, 2006	url=http://www.afterellen.com/more/11720-the-beebo-brinker-chronicles	website =AfterEllen	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820144254/https://www.afterellen.com/more/11720-the-beebo-brinker-chronicles	archive-date=August 20, 2019	access-date=January 28, 2015}} 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. 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. The next book, Beebo Brinker looks back to the formative years of Beebo.
Anthony Blanche
Sebastian Flyte	Brideshead Revisited	1945		Gay	Sebastian is a flamboyant aristocrat, with Charles Ryder having an infatuation with him, with both kissing in the film. At the same time, Anthony Blanche is "openly homosexual, sarcastic and decadent."
Patrick "Kitten" Braden	Breakfast on Pluto	1998		Trans	Braden is an Irish trans woman (and drag queen), with "transvestism...a defiant rejection of bigotry, labels, and borders" as one reviewer put it, with Braden refusing to confirm to sexual stereotypes and even flirting with a cop. Later turned into a motion picture, another reviewer noted the prevalence of the "Irish Troubles", with Kitten wrongly arrested and charged after a "bombing in a London disco."
Dave Brandstetter	Dave Brandstetter Mysteries	1970–1991		Gay	A private investigator, he has been called "one of the few convincing gay (male) characters in crime writing."
Harlan Brown
Billy Sive
Vince Matti
Jacques LaFont	The Front Runner	1974		Gay	The book has been called a "gay sports classic," with Harlan Brown described as a homosexual "who longed for romantic love that fully integrated hot sex."
Richard Brown
Louis Waters
Clarissa Vaughan
Sally Seton	The Hours	1998		Gay
Lesbian	last=Young	first=Tory	title=Michael Cunningham's The Hours: A Reader's Guide	publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group	year=2003	url=https://archive.org/details/michaelcunningha0000youn	url-access=registration	isbn=978-0-8264-1476-2	page=37-40}} 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.
Kitty Butler	Tipping the Velvet	1998		Bisexual	Has a sexual/romantic relationship with the main character and marries a man.
Nancy "Nan" Astley
Florence Banner
Diana Leathaby	Lesbian	Nan has sexual/romantic relationships with Florence and Diana; all three have also been with other women.
Luis Carruthers	American Psycho	1991		Gay	url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/ellis_be.html	title=Ellis, Bret Easton (b. 1964)	first=Steven	last=Cordova	publisher=glbtq.com	access-date=February 6, 2015	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206212350/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/ellis_be.html	archive-date=February 6, 2015 }}
M. Charlus
Jupien
Sodom and Gomorrah	1921–1922
	Gay	This book, which has strong homosexual themes, first coming about in the Combray section of Swann's Way, where the daughter of the piano teacher and composer Vinteuil is seduced, and the narrator observes her having lesbian relations in front of the portrait of her recently deceased father. Critics have often observed that while the character of the narrator is ostensibly heterosexual, Proust intimates that the narrator is a closeted homosexual. There is much debate as to how great a bearing Proust's sexuality has on understanding these aspects of the novel. In response to Gide's criticism that he hid his actual sexuality within his novel, Proust told Gide that "one can say anything so long as one does not say 'I'." In 1949, the critic Justin O'Brien published an article in the PMLA called "Albertine the Ambiguous: Notes on Proust's Transposition of Sexes" which proposed that some female characters are best understood as actually referring to young men. This theory has become known as the "transposition of sexes theory" in Proust criticism, which in turn has been challenged in Epistemology of the Closet (1990) by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and in Proust's Lesbianism (1999) by Elisabeth Ladenson.
Claudine
Rézi	Claudine at School	1902	Colette	Bisexual	Claudine is unfaithful to her husband, Renaud, having an affair with her friend Rézi, who herself has a secrete liaison with Renaud.
Clay	Less than Zero
Imperial Bedrooms	1985
2010		Bisexual	last1=Nelson	first1=Emmanuel S.	title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States [2 volumes]	date=2009	publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group	isbn=978-0313348594	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmhFCQAAQBAJ	access-date=June 8, 2020	page=205}}
Clarissa Dalloway
Doris Kilman	Mrs Dalloway	1925		Lesbian	editor1-last=Barrett	editor1-first=Eileen	editor2-last=Cramer	editor2-first=Patricia	title=Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings	date=1997	publisher=NYU Press	isbn=9780814712634	page=162	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JNQyMMwYVCwC&pg=162}}
Septimus Warren Smith	Gay	Septimus is haunted by the image of his dear friend Evans, his commanding officer, with implied homosexual relations to them as noted by scholar Jean E. Kennard. [improve source] Septimus later dies in the novel without revealing the secret: that he is gay.
David
Giovanni
Jacques
Guillaume	Giovanni's Room	1956		Gay	David, a protagonist of the book, escapes death from the guillotine since his "homosexual urges were experimental in nature" while the narrator is cited as a gay character as well.
Nicholas Dawson	City of God: A Novel of the Borgias	1979		Gay	url=http://www.historicalnovels.info/City-of-God.html	title=City of God by Cecelia Holland	first=David	last=Maclaine	website=Historicalnovels.info	access-date=September 5, 2014	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522205239/http://www.historicalnovels.info/City-of-God.html	archive-date=May 22, 2020	url-status=live}}
Nicolas de Lenfent	The Vampire Lestat	1985		Gay	While human, Nicolas shares a romantic sexual relationship with Lestat de Lioncourt.
{{Plainlist		The Vampire Chronicles	1976–2014		Bisexual	last=Haggerty	first=George E.	title=Anne Rice and the Queering of Culture	journal=Novel: A Forum on Fiction	volume=32	issue=1	pages=5–18	year=1998	jstor=1346054	doi=10.2307/1346054 }}
Edgar Deacon	A Dance to the Music of Time	1951–1975	Anthony Powell	Gay	Powell excavates the secret gay history in his earlier novels in the sequence and in the final volume, Hearing Secret Harmonies, a gay-themed exhibition of Deacon's work is a centerpiece.
Paul Denton	The Rules of Attraction	1987		Bisexual	In this book, set in Camden like Ellis's other books, Paul lusts for another character, Sean Bateman, saying he slept with him, while Bateman "never admits as much." This book ended up fortifying Ellis's reputation as a "nihilistic authorial presence who reports action but seldom comments on it."
Albus Dumbledore	Harry Potter series	1997–2007		Gay	Though not stated explicitly in the novels, author Rowling said in various interviews that the character is gay, creating controversy in the process.
Elinor "Lakey" Eastlake	The Group	1954		Lesbian	Elinar is a lesbian and graduate from Vassar College in 1933, with the lives of the stories' protagonists involving the men in their lives. The Baroness is her lesbian lover, which her fellow seven female graduates realize when she returned from Europe. It was later adapted into a film in 1966.
Alluvia (Alice) Fairfax
Stella	Gut Symmetries	1997		Bisexual	last=Griffin	first=Gabriele	title=Romancing the Margins?: Lesbian Writing in the 1990s	publisher=Haworth Press	year=2000	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VORNs6PvKPMC&pg=PA73	isbn=978-1-56023-133-2	page=73}}
Lucy Farinelli	Kay Scarpetta novels	1994–2003		Lesbian	Lucy has romantic relationships and casual sexual encounters with other women. Lucy is not well accepted due to her suspected sexual orientation, has occasionally 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.
Courtney Farrell
Barry Cabot	Chocolates for Breakfast	1956		Bisexual	url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2013/06/26/chocolates-for-breakfast/2459137/	work=USA Today	title=I love this book: Chocolates for Breakfast	last=Matheson	first=Whitney	date=June 26, 2013	access-date=March 2, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809054026/https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2013/06/26/chocolates-for-breakfast/2459137/	archive-date=August 9, 2019	url-status=live}}
Jack Forster	What Happened to Mr. Forster?	1989
1995		Gay	A sixth-grade teacher who is fired for being gay.
Simon Foster
Axel Nillson	A Fairly Honourable Defeat	1970		Gay	last=Grimshaw	first=Tammy	title=Sexuality, Gender, And Power In Iris Murdoch's Fiction	publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press	year=2005	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fnt5baazkgC&pg=PA9	isbn=978-0-8386-4061-6	page=37}}
George	A Single Man	1964		Gay	url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/isherwood_c,3.html	title=Isherwood, Christopher (1904–1986): Isherwood's Masterpiece, A Single Man	first=Claude J.	last=Summers	page=3	publisher=glbtq.com	access-date=February 6, 2015	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206190619/http://www.glbtq.com/literature/isherwood_c%2C3.html	archive-date=February 6, 2015 }}
Gilda	The Gilda Stories	1991		Lesbian	Composed of six vignettes, this speculative novel follows the heroine across her seven lives in the years of 1850, 1890, 1921, 1955, 1981, 2020, and 2050.
The previously unnamed heroine assumes the name Gilda and becomes a vampire in her first life. In those she leads after, her sexuality is explored with numerous women.
Joan Gilling
Esther Greenwood	The Bell Jar	1963		Lesbian	last1=Inness	first1=Sherrie A.	title=The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life	date=1997	publisher=University of Massachusetts Press	isbn=9781558490918	page=48	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mgHAy-vEJZIC&pg=PA48}} 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" while highlighting the problems with oppressive patriarchal society in mid-20th century America. There was the 1979 film adaption of the book, and a lawsuit by Jane V. Anderson, claiming that she was not a lesbian and did not have a relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Jess Goldberg	Stone Butch Blues	1993		Trans	The narrative follows the life of Jess Goldberg, who grows up in a working class area of upstate New York in the 1940s to the 1950s, and explores her gender identity as a trans woman.
Stephen Gordon
Valérie Seymour	The Well of Loneliness	1928		Lesbian	last1=Machlin	first1=Sherri	url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/09/26/banned-books-week-well-loneliness	title=Banned Books Week: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall	website=The New York Public Library	date=September 26, 2013	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417015333/https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/09/26/banned-books-week-well-loneliness	archive-date=April 17, 2020	url-status=live}} 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 in the UK until 1959 when the Obscene Publications Act was amended. However, it was published in the U.S. in April 1929 when New York State courts agreed that "lesbianism in and of itself was neither obscene nor illegal," meaning the book was not either."
Lord John Grey	Lord John series	1998–2011		Gay	last=Silverberg	first=Robert	author-link=Robert Silverberg	title=Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy	chapter=Intro: Lord John and the Succubus	date=December 30, 2003	publisher=Del Rey Books	isbn=978-0345456441	url-access=registration	url=https://archive.org/details/legendsiinewshor0000unse	access-date=June 23, 2020}}
Darvish Shayrif Hakem	The Fire's Stone	1990		Bisexual	Darvish is willing to have sex with anyone, whether men or women.
Maurice Hall
Clive Durham
Alec Scudder	Maurice	1913–1914
(1971)		Gay	last=Hunter	first=Richard	title=Plato's Symposium	publisher=Oxford University Press	year=2004	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0AnvceBAq4C&q=Plato%27s+Symposium&pg=PA3	isbn=978-0-19-516079-6	page=115}}
Vladimir Harkonnen	Dune	1965		Gay	Harkonnen's sexual preference for men is implied in Dune and Children of Dune (1976), and presented more explicitly in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
Bill Haydon	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	1974	{{Sortname	John	le Carré	John le Carre}}	Bisexual
Herewiss
Freelorn
The Goddess	The Tale of the Five series	1979–1992		Bisexual	This book is a fantasy with a "bisexual male protagonist whose main love interest is male", and is set in a world with normalized polyamory, with bisexuality and polyamory seeming to "be the default".
Harold Hutchins	Captain Underpants series	1997–2015		Gay	When the two protagonists Harold and George meet their future selves, Harold's marriage to a man is presented in a matter-of-fact way, which some critics praised.
Jeanette	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	1985		Lesbian	This book is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian girl named Jeanette who grows up in an English Pentecostal community. 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.
Sgt. Sean Jennison/Betty	King Rat	1962		Trans	A British POW plays the role of a female in a play, and ultimately starts living as a female full-time.
Kasia	The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma	1932	Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz	Lesbian	Kasia is a lesbian who is having an affair with Kunicki's wife, Nina.
Annie Kenyon
Liza Winthrop	Annie on My Mind	1982		Lesbian	This book is a retrospective 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. 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 the ACLU, ordering the book to be returned to library shelves. The book is well-regarded as "canonical lesbian-coming-of-age novel."
Keren
Vanyel	Arrows of the Queen	1987		Lesbian
Gay	Keren, a minor character, is life bonded to Ylsa and then Sherrill. Lackey, in making this book, took a stand, refusing the demand of an editor that Vanyel be "straight, or single, or not in the story," and as such he is a gay character.
Joel Harrison Knox
Randolph	Other Voices, Other Rooms	1948		Gay	Joel is an "effeminate adolescent," with the narrative showing him have a desire for his cousin, Randolph.
Kochan	Confessions of a Mask	1949		Gay	This novel tells the story of Kochan's childhood and adolescence in imperialistic Japan, where he struggles with his closeted sexuality, masculinity and keeping up his mask of heterosexuality.
Seregil i Korit
Alec i Amasa
Ilar i Sontir	The Nightrunner series	1996–2014		Bisexual	last=Jamneck	first=Lynne	title=An Interview with Lynn Flewelling	publisher=Writing-World.com	date=2005	url=http://www.writing-world.com/sf/flewelling2.shtml	access-date=July 7, 2007	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622141540/https://www.writing-world.com/sf/flewelling2.shtml	archive-date=June 22, 2020	url-status=live}}
Renee LaRoche	Along the Journey River	1996		Lesbian	Originally published in 1996, it is the first detective novel to have "an openly out Indigenous lesbian", the protagonist, Renee.
Lark
Becker	The Beauty of Men	1996		Gay	Lark and Becker are gay characters.
North McAllister
Amos Wilson and Joel	University series	1990–1998		Gay	url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/allen-drury-4/toward-what-bright-glory/	title=Toward What Bright Glory? by Allen Drury	work=Kirkus Reviews	access-date=January 20, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224320/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/allen-drury-4/toward-what-bright-glory/	archive-date=March 3, 2016	url-status=live}}
René Suratt	Bisexual	url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/21/reviews/990221.21tarl.html	title=Before Monica: Allen Drury's last novel revisits some old political battlefields and ends a trilogy	first=Erik	last=Tarloff	work=The New York Times	date=February 21, 1999	access-date=January 23, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623150036/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/21/reviews/990221.21tarl.html	archive-date=June 23, 2020	url-status=live}}
Dirk McDonald
Duck	Weetzie Bat
Baby Be-Bop	1989
1995		Gay	last=Day	first=Frances Ann	title=Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature	publisher=Greenwood Press	year=2000	location=Korea	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AICD7lXohOYC&q=Lesbian+and+Gay+Voices&pg=PP1	isbn=978-0-313-31162-8	page=16}}
Anna Madrigal
Jake Greenleaf	Tales of the City series	1978–2014		Trans
url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/06/tales-of-the-city-netflix-anna-madrigal-olympia-dukakis-jen-richards	title=How Tales of the City Avoided a Trans Casting Controversy	first=Joseph	last=Longo	date=June 6, 2019	website=Vanity Fair	access-date=November 7, 2019	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114222401/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/06/tales-of-the-city-netflix-anna-madrigal-olympia-dukakis-jen-richards	archive-date=November 14, 2020	url-status=live}}
Michael "Mouse" Tolliver
Jon Fielding
Ben McKenna	Gay	Michael is a tolerant gay man, as is Jon and Ben.
Beauchamp Day
DeDe Halcyon Day
Mona Ramsey	Bisexual	While the original series featured gay and bisexual characters, in the Netflix adaption of this series, Shawna is an "explicitly bisexual character."
Anthony Malone
Andrew Sutherland	Dancer from the Dance	1978		Gay	last=Bergman	first=David	title=The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture	publisher=Columbia University Press	year=2004	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzjQWxw0K4EC	isbn=978-0-231-13050-9	page=78 }}
{{Plainlist		It	1986		Gay	Mellon and Hagarty are openly gay lovers. Mellon was the first of the 1984-85 killings that indicate the return of It. Phil and Tony Tracker are two brothers who are presumed to be gay by Eddie Kaspbrak's mother. Kasprak and Tozier are described as questioning their sexualities as children.
Christopher Metcalfe	Now and Then	1995		Gay	The main character has a sexual/romantic relationship as a boy with another boy at school; later he has sexual and romantic relationships with other men.
Paul Michel
The Protagonist	Hallucinating Foucault	1996		Gay	Openly homosexual writer, said to have many male lovers, including relationship with male main character/narrator.
Luis Molina	Kiss of the Spider Woman	1976		Gay	last=Puig	first=Manuel	title=Kiss of the Spider Woman	date=1987	publisher=Norton	location=New York	isbn=978-0-393-31148-8	page=18	url=https://archive.org/details/kissofspiderwoma0000puig/page/18}}
Roberta Muldoon	The World According to Garp	1978		Trans	One of the story's main characters is Roberta Muldoon, a trans woman and former player for the Philadelphia Eagles who has gender re-assignment surgery. She becomes the bodyguard of Jenny and one of the best friends of Garp.
Mr. Benson	Mr. Benson	1983		Gay	Mr. Benson is "a groundbreaking leatherman and S/M Top."
Myron	Myra Breckinridge	1968		Trans	Myra Breckinridge is a transgender woman with a fascination for the Golden Age of Hollywood. The novel is the first written whose protagonist has undergone sexual reassignment surgery. Myra is more or less bisexual in that she pursues sexual relations with men and women.
Hélène Noris
Tamara Soulerr	The Illusionist (Le rempart des Béguines)	1951		Bisexual	last=Lo	first=Malinda	title=13 Lesbian and Bi Characters You Should Know (page 1)	website=AfterEllen.com	date=May 22, 2007	url=http://www.afterellen.com/books/2007/5/lesbianbicharacters	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080806151107/http://www.afterellen.com/books/2007/5/lesbianbicharacters	archive-date=August 6, 2008	access-date=January 25, 2015}}
Jeff O'Brien
Lloyd Griffith
David Javitz
Eduardo
Henry Weiner
Luke West	The Men from the Boys
Where the Boys Are
Men Who Love Men	1997
2003
2007		Gay	Jeff is a gay character whose sexual identity is explored outside the confines of a relationship and what it means to "set boundaries for yourself and your partner."
Laurie Odell
Ralph Lanyon
Andrew	The Charioteer	1953		Gay	last=Slide	first=Anthony	author-link=Anthony Slide	title=Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works from the First Half of the Twentieth Century	publisher=Routledge	year=2003	page=152	title-link=Lost Gay Novels }}
Gabriel Okimasis	Kiss of the Fur Queen	1998		Gay	last=Highway	first=Tomson	author-link=Tomson Highway	title=Kiss of the Fur Queen	date=1998	publisher=DoubleDay Canada	location=Toronto	isbn=9780385256520	page=18}}
Orlando	Orlando: A Biography	1928	Virginia Woolf	Trans	The titular character lives for over 300 years as both a man and a woman, before marrying a non-binary captain near the end of the novel. In addition to a semi-permanent metamorphosis from man to woman, Orlando frequently chooses to present as one gender or another by intentionally changing attire, hairstyle and/or speech.
Patrick	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	1999		Gay	url=http://www.scriptmag.com/features/writer-profiles/screenwriter-noveliststephen-chbosky-rebel-with-a-cause-2#sthash.5A0hhOxk.dpuf	title=Screenwriter and Novelist Stephen Chbosky: Rebel with a Cause	date=September 21, 2012	work=Script Magazine	access-date=January 28, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312022133/http://www.scriptmag.com/features/writer-profiles/screenwriter-noveliststephen-chbosky-rebel-with-a-cause-2	archive-date=March 12, 2018	url-status=dead}}
Margaret Prior
Selina Dawes	Affinity	1999		Lesbian	Margaret, also called "Peggy" and "Aurora", is an unmarried woman from an upper-class family, becomes a visitor at the prison, and meets Selina, but she is a prisoner in her life, "dictated by gender rules and societal expectations, as Selina is in her physical cell." 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. Like her first novel, Affinity contains overarching lesbian themes, and was acclaimed by critics on its publication, and later turned into a feature film.
Pyrrhus
Philoctetes	An Arrow's Flight	1998		Gay	Pyrrhus, the 21-year-old son of Achilles, and Philoctetes, who has a magic bow, are gay characters.
Reggie	The Leather Boys	1961		Bisexual
Gay	Tells the story of a gay relationship between two young working-class London men, Reggie and Pete, one married and the other a biker.
Scratch, Winc	Nearly Roadkill	1996	and Caitlin Sullivan	Trans	Scratch and Winc are two lovers with ambiguous gender identity, with the plot is told through cyberchats and emails between each other, while the FBI is engaged in a nationwide manhunt to find them.
Danny Slocum	The Confessions of Danny Slocum	1980		Gay	Danny is the titular character, a gay athlete gay men, and is "sexually broken."
Milo Sturgis	Alex Delaware series	1985–2017		Gay	last= Gibson	first=Dick	date=April 1994	title=Headshrinker, Gay Cop, Culture Thief: New Role Models in Tony Hillerman and Jonathan Kellerman	url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED380810.pdf	publisher=Educational Resources Information Center	access-date=January 28, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711173341/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED380810.pdf	archive-date=July 11, 2020	url-status=live}}
The Narrator	Written on the Body	1992		Ambiguous	Narrator of unspecified gender who has sexual/romantic relationships with men and women. Some reviewers describe the narrator as a lesbian.
Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode
Ruth Jamison	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe	1987		Lesbian
Bisexual	last=Greenhill/Tye	title=Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada	publisher=McGill-Queen's Press	year=1998	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGuxrI4lDJoC&pg=PP143	isbn=978-0-7735-1615-1	page=143 }} At the same time, Ruth is married to a man and bears his child, but subsequently has long-term romantic relationship with another woman. 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, while in the film adaptation, a story of Southern female friendship and love, Ruth had been in love with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother.
Aud Torvingen	The Blue Place	1998		Lesbian	last=Lo	first=Malinda	title=13 Lesbian and Bi Characters You Should Know (page 3)	website=AfterEllen.com	date=May 22, 2007	url=http://www.afterellen.com/books/2007/5/lesbianbicharacters?page=0%2C2	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030185022/http://www.afterellen.com/books/2007/5/lesbianbicharacters?page=0%2C2	archive-date=October 30, 2007	access-date=June 20, 2020}} 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."
Arnold Turner
Ewing Baird
Wayne	The Wrong People	1967		Gay	The novel follows Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Tangier, who gives in to his long-suppressed homosexual desires and subsequently becomes embroiled in a dangerous sex trafficking scheme devised by a wealthy and manipulative American expatriate, Ewing Baird.
Jack Twist
Ennis del Mar	"Brokeback Mountain" (short story)	1997		Gay	last=Phillips	first=Richard	author2=Diane Watt	title=De-Centering Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis	publisher=Routledge	year=2000	pages=2–5	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E12_RAKMz6sC	isbn=978-0-415-19465-5}}
Jaret Tyler
Peggy Danziger	Happy Endings Are All Alike	1978		Lesbian	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." 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.
Raymond Tyler, Jr.
Basil Henderson	{{Plainlist		1991
1995
1999
2001		Bisexual	Raymond is torn between his girlfriend Nicole and his married male lover; Basil leaves his fiancée Yancey at the altar and pursues a gay lifestyle.
Dr. Ethan Urquhart	Ethan of Athos	1986		Gay	url=https://archive.org/details/ethanofathos00lois	title=Reviews: Ethan of Athos	publisher=Buffalo & Erie County Public Library	access-date=September 7, 2014	isbn=9780671656041	date=1986-12-15 }}
Clodagh Unwin
Alice Meadows	A Village Affair	1989		Lesbian
Bisexual	last=Lo	first=Malinda	title=13 Lesbian and Bi Characters You Should Know (page 2)	website=AfterEllen.com	date=May 22, 2007	url=http://www.afterellen.com/books/2007/5/lesbianbicharacters?page=0%2C1	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211111628/http://www.afterellen.com/books/2007/5/lesbianbicharacters?page=0%2C1	archive-date=December 11, 2007	access-date=January 25, 2015}}
Villanelle	The Passion	1987		Bisexual	In this book, Villanelle is an androgynous and bisexual daughter of a boatman from Venice who crosses paths with Henri, who also has an "ambivalent sexuality."
Wes	The Arizona Kid	1988		Gay	Wes is a gay character.
Patience White
Sarah Dowling	Patience and Sarah	1969		Lesbian	last=Katz	first=Jonathan	title=Writing and Publishing Patience and Sarah	url=http://www.patienceandsarah.com/Routsong.html	access-date=July 22, 2007	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314150730/http://www.patienceandsarah.com/Routsong.html	archive-date=March 14, 2008 }}
Jim Willard
Ronald Shaw
Paul Sullivan	The City and the Pillar	1946		Gay	author=Slide	url=https://archive.org/details/lostgaynovelsref00slid	title=Lost Gay Novels	publisher=Harrington Park Press	year=2003	isbn=9781560234142	page=2	url-access=registration}}
X
Andrew
Joe	Boy Culture	1995		Gay	X (narrator's pseudonym) has sexual and romantic relationships with Andrew, Joe and other men.

21st century

Characters	Work	Year	Author	LGBTQ+ identities in story	Notes
Aisling "Ash"
Kaisa	Ash	2009		Lesbian		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." The twist to this story is described by some as important, especially for "those looking for a girl romance."
Apollo
Piper McLean
Hemithea
Josephine
Lavina Asimov
Poison Oak	The Trials of Apollo series	2016–2020	Rick Riordan	Bisexual
Lesbian	Apollo was the god of the Sun, archery, healing, and prophecy and is bisexual. Piper initially dated Jason Grace, a male, but near the end of the series was found kissing a girl by Apollo, proving that she is bisexual. Hemethea and Josephine left the Hunters of Artemis to pursue a romantic relationship with one another and are the current caretakers of the Waystation. Lavina is a Roman demigod at Camp Jupiter who is a lesbian, and she ends up with the tree nymph poison oak.
Chuck Bass	Gossip Girl	2002–2011		Bisexual	In this series, Chuck was bisexual, although this was never explored in the Gossip Girl TV show, which creator Joshua Safran said he regretted.
Darla / "Chardonnay"	Final Destination: Looks Could Kill	2005	Nancy A. Collins	Lesbian
Tori Beaugrand	Quicksilver	2013	R. J. Anderson	Asexual	author=Stubby the Rocket	title=Five Books With Asexual Protagonists	url=https://www.tor.com/2016/04/11/asexual-ace-characters-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy/	website=Tor.com	publisher=Macmillan Publishers	access-date=June 21, 2020	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621174847/https://www.tor.com/2016/04/11/asexual-ace-characters-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy/	archive-date=June 21, 2020	date=April 11, 2016	url-status=live	df=mdy-all }} Her friend Milo wants their relationship to be sexual but he respects the sexual orientation of Tori. In a post on Livejournal, the author explained how Tori being asexual "adds a layer of complication and delicacy to her relationships with her parents and her best (male) friend," Milo, while explaining some of her choices.
Ben	The Darkest Part of the Forest	2015		Gay	Ben is a gay brother of the book protagonist, Hazel, and he also loves the sleeping prince.
Sadie Kane
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles)	2012	Rick Riordan	Polyamorous	Sadie had crushes on both Walt and Anubis who also liked her. In The Serpent's Shadow they merge bodies but still keep separate thoughts. Both Walt and Anubis are still aware of everything around them so when Sadie starts dating, she is essentially in a polyamorous relationship.
Elizabeth Bennett
Caroline Bingley
Charlotte Lucas	Gay Pride and Prejudice	2012		Lesbian	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."
Goran Beviin
Medrit Vasur	Star Wars: Legacy of the Force series	2006–2008		Gay	url=http://bigshinyrobot.com/58601/star-wars-introduces-lgbt-character-canon/	title=Star Wars Introduces an LGBT Character Into Canon	first=Bryan	last=Young	work=Big Shiny Robot	date=March 6, 2015	access-date=March 6, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621184012/https://bigshinyrobot.com/books/star-wars-introduces-lgbt-character-canon/	archive-date=June 21, 2020	url-status=live}} Traviss, in a post on her website, described them as a gay couple in a same-sex marriage, saying it was important for Star Wars to have "its first gay characters," writing that these characters are gay as a detail rather than a major plot point because it is just a normal part of their lives.
Brandon
Angel	Freakboy	2013		Trans	The protagonists of the story, Angel and Brandon, are struggling to find their identity and where they fit in.
Cade
Dylan	The Love Interest	2017	Cale Dietrich	Gay	Caden is gay, while Dylan is either gay or bisexual.
Calixte
Tzara
Thyon Nero
Ruza	Strange the Dreamer series	2017–2018	Laini Taylor	Lesbian
Bisexual
Gay	Calixte and Tzara enter a long-term lesbian relationship with each other at the start of the series, while 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.
Jason Carrillo
Kyle Meeks
Nelson Glassman	Rainbow Boys	2001		Gay	last=Emert	first=Toby	title=An Interview with Alex Sanchez, Author of Rainbow Boys	journal= The ALAN Review	year=2002	url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/v30n1/pdf/emert.pdf	access-date=January 27, 2015	volume=30	issue=1	doi=10.21061/alan.v30i1.a.3 }}
Riley Cavanaugh	Symptoms of Being Human	2016		Genderfluid	Riley is the daughter of a prominent Southern Californian politician, navigates being genderfluid "and experiencing panic attacks," while running a blog, and even Andie Gingham, a trans girl, reaches out to her for advice.
Emily Christina	Being Emily	2012		Trans	Never comfortable with being seen as a boy, they originally hide themselves as a girl, until they can no longer stand it anymore, with a psychologist later helping them in the coming-out process.
Alice Chu
Selwyn Kane
Greer Taylor
Victoria Morgan
Sarah
William	Legendborn	2020	Tracy Deonn	Lesbian
Bisexual
Nonbinary
Gay	Alice, the best friend of the protagonist Bree, is a lesbian. Selwyn, one of Bree's love interests, previously had a crush on Nick, another of Bree's love interests, and has had sexual relationships with both men and women. Greer, Bree's friend, is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. Victoria is bisexual as she once had a one-night stand with Selwyn but is now dating Sarah, who is a lesbian. William, another of Bree's friends, mentions that he has a boyfriend.
Clariel	Clariel	2014		Asexual, aromantic	The protagonist "stands out for her assured asexuality" as she does not see the appeal of sex, wanting to live alone in the woods as a forest ranger. But at her current age her parents try to push her to marry a man who is the son of "an unpleasant political ally."
Cooper Clay
Kris Greene
Mikhail Powers	One of Us Is Lying	2017		Gay	Cooper was a promising baseball star who was accused of steroid use by one of Simon Kelleher's post, but it was later revealed that the original post was edited. This post revealed that he was gay and in a relation with Kris Greene. Later, Mikhail shows anger about it, since he is also gay and was forced out of the closet, as Bronwyn Rojas remembers.
Click	Roving Pack	2012		Trans	This is a story of "transgender gutterpunks" as one reviewer calls it, with Click, and the other young protagonists fighting for "the right to have a future, and, furthermore, the future they themselves choose." This story focuses on youth near Portland, many of which are parentless, homeless, and "without mooring."
Mia Corvere
Ashlinn Järnheim	Godsgrave
(The Nevernight Chronicle series)	2017		Bisexual
Lesbian	Mia Corvere, is an infamous assassin and fugitive slave, is 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. She works with many individuals, like her lover, Ashlinn, to find out the "final answer to the riddle of her life."
Fever Crumb	Fever Crumb Series	2009–2011		Bisexual	Fever first falls in love with the male Arlo Thursday, and later with the female Cluny Morvish.
Anne Damer	Life Mask	2004		Lesbian	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.
Ambassador Dannyl
Tayend of Tremmelin	The Black Magician trilogy	2001–2003		Gay	last=Canavan	first=Trudi	title=The Novice	publisher=Orbit	year=2002	isbn=978-1-904233-67-1	page=480}}
David/Daniela	The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy	2012	and Suzy Malik	Trans	David is granted a wish by the story's protagonist, Tulip, to live as a girl named Daniela.
David/Kate, Leo	The Art of Being Normal	2015		Trans	David is a 14-year-old kid who struggles with their gender identity which most of his fellow students do not understand, and neither do his parents, becomes isolated until he meets Leo Denton, who becomes one of his fast friends.
Nico di Angelo
Will Solace	Camp Half-Blood Chronicles	2013–2023
Mark Oshiro (The Sun and the Star)	Gay
Bisexual	Nico is gay, and Will is bisexual as revealed in The Sun and the Star. They become a couple in between The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo with The Sun and the Star revealing the history of their relationship and exploring it more. Nico is also revealed to have had a crush on Percy Jackson and was previously extremely closeted. In turn, Will is depicted as having a crush on the goddess Persephone.
William Day	Where the Dead Wait	2023		Gay	William Day is a closet gay in love with Jesse Stevens during two expeditions to the Arctic.
Ella	Just Girls	2014		Trans	Ella is a fully-transitioned, but closeted, trans woman who deals with a lot of transphobia while she explores her gender identity with a cisgender lesbian named Jess Tucker.
Emily	The Butterfly and the Flame	2005		Trans	This book focuses on Emily, a trans girl in her teens, who is in a relationship with a boy, the son of the person who owns the farm their family lives on.
Emras	Banner of the Damned	2013	Sherwood Smith	Asexual	In this book, there are a variety of sexual orientations, with Emras choosing to be asexual. Despite the problematic element that she can decide her own sexual orientation, she realizes that this "choice" is actually a "way of being."
Tamar Kir-Bataar Tolya Kir-Bataar
Jesper Fahey
Wylan Van Eck
Nina Zenik
Hanne Brum	Grishaverse	2012–2021		Lesbian
Bisexual
Gay
Asexual
Pansexual
Trans	Tamar is lesbian and married to a woman, Nadia Zhabin. Tolya is asexual - when asked about his lovers, he says he isn't interested. Jesper is bisexual, and Wylan is gay; they begin dating each other by the end of the duology. Nina has also been confirmed to be pansexual. Hanne is trans, expressing unhappiness about their female body and feeling more comfortable when ending up in a man's body.
Alex Fierro
Magnus Chase	Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor	2016	Rick Riordan	Genderfluid
Pansexual	Alex is Magnus Chase's love interest. She is genderfluid and identifies as either a girl or a boy depending on the present moment, changing pronouns as appropriate. She goes by she/he pronouns, but has specified she uses she/her unless she says otherwise. Magnus' crush on her regardless of gender means that he is most likely pansexual, but also possibly polysexual or bisexual.
Gabe (Elizabeth)	Beautiful Music for Ugly Children	2012		Trans	A DJ and lover of music, he hides his true identity as a trans boy in public, only being himself (Gabe) on air. He is forcibly outed, dealing with much backlash, but is supported en masse by his listeners.
Joanna "Jo" Gordon
Mary Carlson	Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit	2016	Jayde Robin Brown	Lesbian	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. 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."
Will Grayson
Tiny Cooper	Will Grayson, Will Grayson	2010
David Levithan	Gay	One of the book's co-prostagonists, named Will Grayson is gay and is "struggling with coming out," while the other is a major character in a "one-man gay-freedom-day band named Tiny Cooper."
Basilton Grimm-Pitch
Simon Snow	Carry On	2015		Gay
Bisexual	Basilton and Simon are in a romantic relationship, in this book which borrows themes from Harry Potter, with Simon as bisexual and Basilton as gay, with some reviewers saying the book engaged in bisexual erasure.
Nick Guest
Wani Ouradi
Leo Charles	The Line of Beauty	2004		Gay	title=Alan Hollinghurst wins prestigious Booker Prize	url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/entertainment-news/2004/10/21/alan-hollinghurst-wins-prestigious-booker-prize	work=The Advocate	date=October 21, 2004	access-date=February 8, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813211318/http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/entertainment-news/2004/10/21/alan-hollinghurst-wins-prestigious-booker-prize	archive-date=August 13, 2020	url-status=live}}
Rosemary Harper
Sissix	The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet	2015	Becky Chambers	Lesbian
Bisexual	Rosemary Harper and Sissix are both either lesbian or bisexual as the two women enter a relationship with each other over the course of the novel. In her review, Casey Stepaniuk describes the book as "like Star Trek but with lesbians and more aliens."
Sage Hendrix	Almost Perfect	2009		Trans	url=http://www.glaad.org/2011/01/26/touching-teen-novel-about-transgender-girl-wins-2011-ala-stonewall-award	title=Touching Teen Novel About Transgender Girl Wins 2011 ALA Stonewall Award	publisher=GLAAD	date=January 26, 2011	access-date=January 27, 2015	first=Angela	last=Dallara	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019020938/https://www.glaad.org/2011/01/26/touching-teen-novel-about-transgender-girl-wins-2011-ala-stonewall-award	archive-date=October 19, 2020	url-status=live}}
Ijeoma
Amina	Under the Udala Trees	2015	Chinelo Okparanta	Lesbian	Ijeoma and Amina fall in love with each other as children and keep loving each other way into adulthood.
Wilma Irrling	Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe	2003		Lesbian	Wilma is one of the five main characters. She falls in love with Leonie, a girl from her theatre group and eventually comes out to her friends.
J	I Am J	2011		Trans	J, who lives with his parents in a Manhattan apartment, and struggles with his gender identity.
Jackdaw	I Am Princess X	2015		Gay
Jackson	Call Me Home: A Novel	2015	Megan Kruse	Gay
Jared
Nathan	The Rest of Us Just Live Here	2015	Patrick Ness	Gay
Bisexual	Jared is gay, while Nathan is either bisexual or gay. They start seeing each other over the course of the novel.
Holland Jeager
Cece	Keeping You a Secret	2003		Lesbian	In this coming out novel, Holland is intrigued by a student transferring to her school who "wants to start a Lesbigay club at school." In the process, Holland faces homophobia, and begins a relationship with Cece, adjusting to her new sexuality quickly.
Griffin Jennings
Theo McIntyre
Jackson
Wade	History is All You Left Me	2017	Adam Silvera		Griffin is a gay teenager dealing with OCD and the recent loss of his ex-boyfriend, Theo. He then meets Theo's current boyfriend (before he died), Jackson. In the end of the book, Griffin and Wade are dating.
Jo
Lara	Ukiah Oregon series	2001–2004		Lesbian	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. 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.
Josh	Holding Still For As Long As Possible	2009		Trans	Josh is a trans man and EMT who struggles with his identity.
Jude
Willem
JB
Caleb	A Little Life	2015		Gay
Bisexual	JB and Caleb are gay. Willem is bisexual and has had relationships with women prior to his relationship with Jude. Jude is implicitly stated to be asexual, given that he does not enjoy engaging in sexual activities and does not understand the appeal of sex, even when he is in a healthy relationship with Willem.
Suruga Kanbaru	Monogatari Series	2006–present	Nisio Isin	Lesbian	Kanbaru's first arc in Bakemonogatari revolves around her unrequited love for Hitagi Senjougahara.
	Carnival	2006		Lesbian
Gay	url=http://io9.gizmodo.com/387818/environmental-fascists-fight-gun-loving-lesbians-for-alien-technology	title=Environmental Fascists Fight Gun-Loving Lesbians for Alien Technology	publisher=io9	first=Annalee	last=Newitz	author-link=Annalee Newitz	date=May 6, 2008	access-date=January 19, 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809203149/https://io9.gizmodo.com/environmental-fascists-fight-gun-loving-lesbians-for-al-387818	archive-date=August 9, 2019	url-status=live}} Additionally, the two spies, Vincent and Michelangelo are homosexuals from a world with "regressive and repressive mores."
Grady (Angela) Katz-McNair	Parrotfish	2011		Trans	Angela, a teenage trans girl, transitions from a man to a woman, deals with a bully who wants to humiliate her, and struggles with her new identity.
Kevin	Guardian of the Dead	2011	Karen Healey	Asexual	Although he is not the protagonist, Kevin is a key part of the book, and he comes out as asexual to his friend, and the book's heroine, Ellie Spencer. This conversation is handled delicately, with Ellie offering support to Kevin when remembering how her sister, a lesbian, has a tough time trying to tell her parents. Unfortunately, as one reviewer puts it, he does not explore his asexual identity much after this point.
	The Stormlight Archive series	2010-present	Brandon Sanderson		Renarin is gay, and is implied to be attracted towards Rlain, a non-human male character. The author has stated that this will be explored further in later entries of the series. Shallan is Bisexual, although this is barely explored in the text. Jasnah is asexual and heteroromantic, with a neutral opinion towards physical intimacy. Ral-Na is a minor character who initially appears as a woman but is later shown having changed his body into a male one using magic.
Daja Kisubo
Rizuka fa Dalach "Rizu"
Lark	The Will of the Empress	2005		Lesbian	Daja is the main character who begins a relationship with Rizu, while Lark (a more minor character) is in a long-term lesbian relationship. In this story, the relationship between Daja and Rizu ends sadly, making the point you should choose your chosen family over "a partner who's not good enough for you."
Denise Lambert	The Corrections	2001		Bisexual	last=Franzen	first=Jonathan	author-link=Jonathan Franzen	title=The Corrections	year=2001	publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux	location=New York, New York	isbn=978-0-374-12998-9	page=568	title-link=The Corrections}} and though the restaurant is successful, she is fired when this is discovered.
August Landry
Biyu "Jane" Su
Niko Rivera
Isaiah
Wes	One Last Stop	2021		Bisexual
Lesbian
Transgender
Gay		August is bisexual and Biyu, who goes by the name of Jane throughout this sapphic romance, is described as a "punk butch lesbian." They quickly become each other's love interests, with August mulling over her feelings towards Biyu throughout the novel.
Niko is a transgender man. He is dating Myla.
Isaiah and Wes, who are revealed to have been pining for each other, are gay.
Alec Lightwood
Magnus Bane
Raphael Santiago
Lily Chen
Helen Blackthorn
Aline Penhallow
Kieran
Mark Blackthorn
Michael Wayland
Diana Wrayburn
Woolsey Scott
Anna Lightwood
Ariadne Bridgestock
Charles Fairchild
Alastair Carstairs
Thomas Lightwood
Matthew Fairchild
Hypatia Vex
Claude Kellington
Kit Rook
Ty Blackthorn	The Shadowhunter Chronicles	2007–present		Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Asexual
Pansexual
Genderqueer	Alec is gay and Aline is a lesbian, and they are two of the first openly homosexual Shadowhunters. Alec eventually marries his longtime boyfriend Magnus Bane, a bisexual warlock who has had many relationships with both men and women. Raphael, Magnus's close friend, was confirmed to be asexual and aromantic by Cassandra Clare. Lily, Raphael's second in command, is pansexual and secretly in love with Raphael, although this does not stop her from having flings with Anna Lightwood and Helen Blackthorn. Helen, Aline's wife, her younger brother Mark and his ex-boyfriend Kieran are all bisexual and of faerie descent, with Clare describing faeries as, "being, in general, bisexual". Michael, the parabatai of Alec's father Robert, was a closeted bisexual who developed feelings for Robert but later married Eliza Rosewain. Diana is the series's first openly transgender character. Woolsey, one of Magnus's ex-lovers, was gay. Anna, a distant relative of Alec, was a genderqueer lesbian who despite her womanizing nature has never been able to move on from her first love Ariadne Bridgestock, who is a closeted lesbian. Ariadne enters a lavender engagement with Charles, a closeted gay man, to hide her own homosexuality even though Charles is in love with Alastair, another closeted gay man. Alastair later develops feelings for Anna's gay cousin Thomas Lightwood, who reciprocates his feelings. Matthew, Charles's younger brother, is bisexual. Hypatia, one of Anna's ex-lovers, is bisexual. Claude is bisexual and has had sexual relationships with both Matthew and Hypatia. While it is yet to be confirmed that Kit and Ty are queer it is heavily implied that the two have romantic feelings towards one another, with Kit most likely being bisexual (as he is of faerie descent and seems to also display attraction to women) and Ty most likely being gay (as he only shows attraction to Kit).
Ronan Lynch
Adam Parrish
Kavinsky	The Raven Cycle	2012–2016		Bisexual	url=http://booksofamber.com/2014/10/guest-post-queer-representation-in-the-raven-cycle.html	title=QUEER REPRESENTATION IN THE RAVEN CYCLE	publisher=BooksofAmber.com	date=October 16, 2014	access-date=January 28, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101185944/http://booksofamber.com/2014/10/guest-post-queer-representation-in-the-raven-cycle.html	archive-date=November 1, 2019	url-status=live}}
Rhy Maresh
Alucard Emery	Shades of Magic trilogy	2015–2017		Gay
Bisexual	url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/16/authors-fury-russian-censorship-gay-scene-schwab-shades-magic	title=Authors voice fury at Russian publisher cutting gay scene from novel	first=Alison	last=Flood	date=August 16, 2017	newspaper=The Guardian	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107202105/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/16/authors-fury-russian-censorship-gay-scene-schwab-shades-magic	archive-date=November 7, 2019	url-status=live}} Lila has also been described a genderfluid pickpocket.
Maxine	Maxine Wore Black	2014		Trans	Maxine is a lesbian trans girl who is a high school dropout and a babysitter, and cannot afford gender reassignment surgery, while in a romance with a cisgender woman.
Melissa	George	2015		Trans	Melissa is a transgender girl whom the world sees as a boy named George.
Aristotle Mendoza
Dante Quintana	Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe /Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World	2012		Gay	Early in the novel Dante reveals he's attracted to boys and as the novel progresses, falls in love with his best friend Aristotle. At the end, Aristotle accepts his own love for Dante and they begin a relationship. In the sequel, both Aristotle and Dante explicitly identify as gay while in the first book, aside from being in love with Dante, Aristotle's exact sexuality was never specified.
Russel Middlebrook
Min Wei	Geography Club	2003		Gay
Bisexual	Russel is a gay man, while Min is a bisexual character in this novel.
Henry "Monty" Montague
Felicity Montague
Percy	The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue	2017	Mackenzi Lee	Bisexual
Asexual	Henry Montague is bisexual and has romantic feelings towards Percy. His sister Felicity is asexual.
Mordred
Lancelot	Mordred, Bastard Son	2006		Gay	url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55583-899-7	title=Fiction Book Review: Mordred, Bastard Son: Book One of the Mordred Trilogy by Douglas Clegg	work=Publishers Weekly	access-date=June 24, 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116221531/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55583-899-7	archive-date=November 16, 2018	url-status=live}}
Jonathan Morgan	All the White Spaces	2022	Ally Wilkes	Trans	A trans man who joins an expedition to Antarctica in 1920.
Moff Delian Mors	Star Wars: Lords of the Sith	2015		Lesbian	Mors, the first LGBT character in the Star Wars canon, was introduced in this book, 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". Reviewers for the New York Daily News stated that while her sexuality is not a major concern in the novel, suggesting that "homophobia isn't an issue in the Empire," and something that the Imperial Army does not worry about, even as they fight the Rebels.
Nancy
Kade	Every Heart a Doorway	2016		Asexual
Trans	url=https://www.npr.org/2016/04/09/471619427/every-heart-is-a-doorway-to-winning-fantasy	title='Every Heart' Is A Doorway To Winning Fantasy	newspaper=NPR	access-date=2020-06-17	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920205640/https://www.npr.org/2016/04/09/471619427/every-heart-is-a-doorway-to-winning-fantasy	archive-date=September 20, 2020	url-status=live}}
Newt	The Maze Runner (book series)	2009-2016		Gay	In the maze runner, they have to escape the maze, and try not to die from a deadly virus. In the movie adaptation Newt was played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
Izumu Niounomiya	Zaregoto Series, Ningen Series	2002–2005, 2004–2010 (respectively)	Nisio Isin	Trans	Izumu and his sister Rizumu work as a team of professional killers.
Phèdre nó Delaunay
Moirin	Kushiel's Legacy series	2001–2011		Bisexual	Phèdre and Moirin are bisexual characters in this novel.
Jeff O'Brien
Lloyd Griffith	Where the Boys Are	2003		Gay	Jeff and Lloy are gay men in this novel.
Nora O’Malley	The Girls I've Been	2020		Bisexual	Nora is a con artist who is caught in a bank robbery with her ex-boyfriend and girlfriend.
Luna (Liam) O'Neill	Luna	2004		Trans	title=10th Annual Report on Banned and Challenged Books in Texas Schools	url=http://www.aclutx.org/reports/bannedbooks/bb2k6.pdf	publisher=ACLU foundation of Texas	access-date=April 11, 2012	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410144346/http://www.aclutx.org/reports/bannedbooks/bb2k6.pdf	archive-date=April 10, 2012	url-status=live}} Later she considers transitioning and fights for her right to be the person she feels that she was meant to be, helped by her sister, Regan, in the process.
Oshima	Kafka on the Shore	2002		Trans
Gay	Oshima is a 21-year-old intellectual gay trans man who is a librarian and owner of a cabin in the mountains near Komura Memorial Library. He becomes the mentor of Kafka as he guides him to the answers that he's seeking on his journey.
Benji Ovich	Beartown series	2017–2018	Fredrik Backman	Gay	Benji is a gay hockey player who "has an awakening".
Paul, Noah, Tony
Kyle
"Infinite Darlene"/Daryl Heisenberg	Boy Meets Boy	2003		Gay	title=Boy Meets Boy description	publisher=David Leviathan's official website	year=2007	url=http://www.davidlevithan.com/bmb_landing.html	access-date=2008-02-16	url-status=dead	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207042134/http://www.davidlevithan.com/bmb_landing.html	archive-date=2008-02-07 }}
Patroclus
Achilles	The Song of Achilles	2011	Madeline Miller	Gay
Bisexual	Achilles is gay, showing no interest in girls. Patroclus is bisexual, saying he would fall in love with Briseis if not for Achilles.
Emi Price
Ava	Everything Leads to You	2015	Nina LaCour	Lesbian	In this novel, 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."
Millie Quint
Flora Baird	Her Royal Highness	2019	Rachel Hawkins	Bisexual
Lesbian	The story centers on the developing romantic relationship between Millie and Flora.
Reese	Detransition, Baby	2021	Torrey Peters	Trans	Reese is a trans woman who has relationships with both men and women, significantly Amy. Through flashbacks, the book shows Amy (originally James) living as a trans woman, while presenting as Ames in the present after detransitioning. Ames still considers himself a trans woman after his official detransition, which he did because of the threat of violence and hardships from living as a trans woman. In both the past and present, Ames is shown dating women.
Richie	The Slap	2008		Gay	Male main character who has a sexual attraction to Hector.
Sal	Mask of Shadows duology	2017–2018		Genderfluid	Sal is genderfluid and signals by that day's clothing whether they want to be called "he", "she", or "they".
Lisbeth Salander	Millennium series	2005–2007		Bisexual	Lisbeth has gender ambiguity, specifically "a mix of attributes within her identity as a woman" and she has various bisexual "relationships, sex with friends in non-exclusive relationships, recreational sex."
Arthur Seuss
Ben Alejo	What If It's Us Series	2018
2021	Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli	Gay	The two main characters are teenage boys in a relationship, who later reconnect as adults.
Shori	Fledgling	2005		Bisexual	The novel tells the story of Shori, a 53-year-old member of the Ina species, who appears to be a 10-year-old African-American girl, biting a construction worker named Wright because she finds his scent irresistible, and they begin their relationship.
Jerico Soberanis	The Toll
(Arc of a Scythe trilogy)	2019		Genderfluid	Jerico is a "hypercompetent, genderfluid sea captain" who is given space to shine in the novel.
Aaron Soto	More Happy Than Not	2015	Adam Silvera	Gay	Aaron Soto is a sixteen-year-old dealing with his father's suicide, his own recent suicide attempt, and his growing feelings for a boy and accepting his sexuality despite having a girlfriend and seemingly homophobic friends. He tries to "forget" that he's gay by suppressing his memories through a procedure at Leteo.
	Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda	2015	Becky Albertalli	Gay
Lesbian
Pansexual	There are multiple LGBTQ+ characters in this story. For instance, Simon is a closeted gay teenager in love with his pen pal 'Blue', who is also a closeted gay teenager. Simon later discovers that Blue is his classmate Bram Greenfeld and the two start dating. Cal is Simon's bisexual classmate who initially shows an interest in Simon, but later dates Simon's younger sister Nora. Peter is an older guy who flirts with Simon at a gay bar and Carter is the gay older brother of Simon's classmate Martin. Leah and Abby, two of Simon's best friends, are both bisexual but do not come out until the sequel novel Leah on the Offbeat, when they start dating each other. Cassie, Abby's cousin and a major character in the novel The Upside of Unrequited, is a lesbian and Mina is her pansexual girlfriend. Cassie also has two mothers, Nadine, who is a lesbian, and Patty, who is bisexual. Julian, a former crush of Cassie's twin sister Molly, is gay and dating Carter Addison.
April Spink
Miriam Forcible	Coraline	2002		Lesbian	April, a retired burlesque dancer who may know about magic and fairies, and another retired burlesque actress, Miriam, are lovers. On multiple occasions, Neil Gaiman, who wrote the novel the movie is based on, stated that they are an elderly couple and are together, relating to the many lesbians he put in his other works like Sandman, Death: The Time of Your Life, Neverwhere, American Gods, and Miracleman. He also confirmed that this was reflected in the movie, noting a review on the movie adaptation in 2009, stating that they had been called "thespians" in a Coraline musical in 2007, and stated that he did not call them a couple in the text because he wanted readers to have the same experience he had "with the couple that Spink and Forcible were based on."
Dana Stevens	Trans-Sister Radio	2000		Trans	Dana, the protagonist of this book, is a Vermont professor who is prepared to have a gender reassignment surgery to transition from male to female, leading Allison Banks, a teacher who has been divorced, to be even more attracted to Dana.
Corny Stone
Luis
Modern Faerie Tales trilogy (Tithe, Valiant, Ironside)	2002–2007		Gay	In this story, there are a number of LGBTQ+ characters. For one, Corny Stone is the gay brother of the childhood friend of the story's protagonist, Kaye Fierch, who tries to straddle the Faerie and human worlds. Luis is also gay, which the author confirmed, and has a relationship with Corny. Reportedly, in Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, Ruth is Val's lesbian best friend.
	Wings of Fire	2012-present	Tui T. Sutherland	Lesbian	Sundew and Willow are in a lesbian relationship together. Umber is gay and had a romantic attraction to Qibli, another male character. Anemone and Tamarin are in a lesbian relationship as well.
Noah Sweetwine
Brian Connelly	I'll Give You the Sun	2014		Gay	Noah is shown to be gay from the beginning, and later starts a relationship with Brian who is also gay.
Taako Taaco
Lup Taaco
Kravitz
Hurley
Sloane	The Adventure Zone graphic novel series	2018–present		Gay
Lesbian
Trans	Taako is one of the three main characters, and canonically a gay man. In the books it has not yet been explicitly been stated, but in The Adventure Zone Podcast, he is confirmed to have a gay relationship. The third graphic novel, Petals to the Metal, features two secondary female characters named Hurley and Sloane who have a relationship/feelings for each other. The Hurley-Sloane lesbian couple survived to the end of the story, surviving a near-death experience, while Taako got a boyfriend (the Grim Reaper, known as Kravitz) and Lup, Taako's sister, is a trans woman.
Tamaru	1Q84	2009–2010		Gay	last=Murakami	first=Haruki	title=1Q84	year=2011	publisher=Shinchosa	location=Tokyo, Japan	isbn=978-0-307-59331-3	page=928	url=https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_n2l1/page/928}}
Mike Tate	Whatever: or how junior year became totally f$@ked	2016		Bisexual	Mike has a girlfriend who breaks up with him and he becomes close with a "classmate who used to torment him."{{Cite web	last1=Goslee	first1=S.J.
Ryan Thomson	The Sidekicks	2016–2017		Gay	Ryan is a gay man in this "super gay book" and is set at an "all-boys, sports-centric school."
Tommy
Ozzie
Calvin	At the Edge of the Universe	2017		Gay	Ozzie had a long-term relationship with Tommy before he vanished. Calvin is gay.
Mateo Torrez
Rufus Emeterio	They Both Die at the End	2017	Adam Silvera	Gay
Bisexual	Although Mateo's sexuality is never outwardly discussed in the book, he is presumed to be gay. Towards the end of the book he kisses Rufus, who is a bisexual teenager.
Danny Tozer/Dreadnought
Sarah Callisto/Calamity
Kinetiq	Nemesis series(Dreadnought, Sovereign)	2017	April Daniels	Trans
Lesbian
Bisexual
Genderqueer	Danny is a transgender lesbian who, when given the powers of the world's greatest superhero, also gained the feminine body she wanted. Calamity is a bisexual graycape(masked vigilante in contrast with professional hero). Kinetiq is a genderqueer Iranian-American superhero who had been working upstream for a couple years prior to the story.
Sue Trinder
Maud Lilly	Fingersmith	2002		Lesbian	last=Gilling	first=Tom	title=Our Mutual Attraction	newspaper=The New York Times	date=February 24, 2002	url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/books/our-mutual-attraction.html	access-date=July 7, 2007	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607141352/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/books/our-mutual-attraction.html	archive-date=June 7, 2020	url-status=live}}
Andrej "Tschick" Tschichatschow	Why We Took the Car	2010	Wolfgang Herrndorf	Gay	Tschick reveals his homosexuality to the main character Maik after they went on a roadtrip to Romania. To hide his homosexuality, Tschick took on a personality that he thought was very "male".
Various	The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (anthology)	2012	and Riley MacLeod (editors)	Trans	url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/09/30/the-collection-short-fiction-from-the-transgender-vanguard-edited-by-tom-leger-and-riley-macleod/	title=Review: The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard edited by Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod	publisher=Lambda Literary	first=Rachel	last=Wexelbaum	date=September 30, 2012	access-date=January 27, 2015	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811232450/https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2012/09/the-collection-short-fiction-from-the-transgender-vanguard-edited-by-tom-leger-and-riley-macleod/	archive-date=August 11, 2020	url-status=live}}
Various	A Safe Girl to Love	2014		Trans	The story's protagonists, and many other unnamed characters, are all trans women, but this detail is not the main factor in their connections between each other, as they work to determine what paths are ahead for themselves in their lives.
Sinjir Rath Velus		2015–2017		Gay	last=Breznican	first=Anthony	url=http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/04/star-wars-aftermath-gay-character	title=Star Wars: Aftermath: Gay hero introduced in new story	magazine=Entertainment Weekly	date=September 4, 2015	access-date=January 2, 2016	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108185052/https://ew.com/article/2015/09/04/star-wars-aftermath-gay-character/	archive-date=November 8, 2020	url-status=live}}
Seth Wearing
Gudmund	More Than This	2013	Patrick Ness	Gay
Bisexual	Seth is gay and secretly dated Gudmund until they got outed. Gudmund appears to be bisexual or in denial of his homosexuality.
Jude Winter
Dallas
Stevie	Jude Saves the World	2023		Non-binary/Bisexual
Gay
Lesbian	Jude is a twelve-year old middle-school student who has chosen this name to replace their deadname. Jude has two school friends: Dallas comes out to Jude as being gay while Stevie has a crush on another girl but feels she must hide her feelings. The book sparked political backlash in Texas in 2025.
Felicity Worthington	Gemma Doyle Trilogy	2003–2007		Lesbian	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. 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.

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