This is a list of dramatic television series (including web television and miniseries) that premiered in 2010–2015 which feature lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters. Non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and graysexual characters are also included. The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogue or mentioned.
Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
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2010–2013 | Lee | Lee is gay and has stage IV cancer, which he eventually succumbs to.[1] | |||
2010–2014 | Boardwalk Empire | Angela Darmody | Angela is bisexual, a housewife and mother, who falls in love with Louise.[2] | ||
Mary Dittrich | Lisa Joyce | Mary is bisexual, and a photographer's assistant to her husband. | |||
Louise Bryant | Kristen Sieh | Louise is a lesbian, and a bohemian from San Francisco. She is killed by a mobster. | |||
2010–2013 | Dance Academy | Sammy Lieberman | Sammy is a student at the fictional National Academy of Dance. Sammy is in a relationship with Ollie, until his death.[3] | ||
Ollie Lloyd | Ollie is in a relationship with Sammy until he dies, and then he dates Rhys O'Leary.[4] | ||||
Christian Reed | Christian is Sammy's roommate, they share a kiss in season one.[5] | ||||
Rhys O'Leary | Rhys dates Ollie, after Sammy dies. | ||||
2010–2015 | Downton Abbey | Thomas Barrow | Thomas is gay. He is a footman in the aristocratic Crawley household and hides his sexuality due to the criminality of the time period. He also appears in the movie adaption.[6] | ||
Duke of Crowborough | The Duke of Crowborough is Lady Mary's suitor and Thomas's lover in the opening of the show. | ||||
2010–2011 | Gigantic | Ryan Katins | Ryan is gay and the adoptive father of lead characters Piper and Finn. An action movie superstar, his children find him in bed with his boyfriend Charlie in the episode "Carpe Diem".[7] | ||
Charlie Maddock | Don O. Knowlton | Charlie is gay and Ryan's boyfriend. | |||
2010–2011 | Hellcats | Darwin | Jeremy Wong | Darwin is a gay cheerleader.[8] | |
2010–2011 | Lt. Arleen Gonzales | Arleen is a lesbian. In the episode "El Sereno", Gonzales is accused of racial bigotry in a murder investigation. At trial she comes out, testifying that the bigotry she has faced for being gay has led her to overcome her own bigotry.[9] | |||
2010–2012 | Lip Service | Cat McKenzie | Cat is a lesbian, and an architect whose girlfriend is a police officer.[10] | ||
Frankie Alan | Frankie is bisexual. | ||||
Tess Roberts | Tess is a lesbian. She is Cat's roommate and a struggling actor. | ||||
Sgt Sam Murray | Sam is a lesbian police officer, and Cat's girlfriend. | ||||
Sadie Anderson | Sadie is a lesbian, and a borderline criminal.[11] | ||||
Lexy Price | Lexy is lesbian, and a Doctor. In season 2 she has a crush on Sam. | ||||
Declan Love | Declan is gay and Lexy's best friend.[12] | ||||
Lou Foster | Lou is a closeted bisexual, who has a secret relationship with Tess. | ||||
Lauren | Lauren is lesbian, and an editor at a Scottish arts, culture and fashion magazine. Her partner is Jo. | ||||
Jo | Jo is a lesbian art dealer, and Lauren's long-term partner.[13] | ||||
2010–2015 | Lost Girl | Bo is a bisexual succubus, meaning she can and often does drain the life force of others through intimate contact.[14] [15] | |||
Lauren is lesbian, and a Doctor to the Fae. | |||||
Evony Fleurette Marquise | Evony (aka The Morrigain), is bisexual and queen of the dark Fae. She lost her powers after oral sex with Lauren. | ||||
Vex is bisexual, and ends up with Mark in the final episodes of the series. | |||||
Nadia | Nadia is lesbian, and Lauren's girlfriend. | ||||
Tamsin is a bisexual Valkyrie who works as a bounty hunter and mercenary for the Dark Fae. | |||||
Crystal | Crystal is a lesbian waitress. | ||||
Mark | Mark is bisexual, and ends up with Vex.[16] | ||||
Dagny | Olivia Scriven | Dagny is pansexual and Tamsin's daughter. | |||
2010–2019 | Luther | Emma Lane | Emma is lesbian and Luther's new partner (season four).[17] | ||
2010 | Outlaw | Lucinda Pearl | Lucinda is bisexual and a private investigator.[18] | ||
2010–2015 | Parenthood | Haddie Braverman | Haddie is bisexual, and dates a few boys before figuring out she is into girls. She eventually begins dating Lauren.[19] | ||
Lauren | Lauren is lesbian, and Haddie's girlfriend from college.[20] | ||||
2010–2017 | Pretty Little Liars | Emily realizes that she is a lesbian in Season 1 when she begins a romance with Maya and comes out to her father. She later marries Alison. | |||
Maya is lesbian, and Emily's first girlfriend.[21] | |||||
Paige McCullers | Paige is lesbian, and on the high school's swim team. She dates Emily for a while. | ||||
Samara Cook | Samara is a lesbian. She and Emily dated, but Samara did not want to be exclusive. | ||||
Alison DiLaurentis | Alison is bisexual, and manipulative, secretive, and vindictive. She ends up marrying Emily and they had twins.[22] | ||||
Shana Fring | Shana is a lesbian, and works at a Halloween themed store. She dated Jenna and briefly dated Paige. She died after falling off a stage from being hit in the head with a gun. | ||||
Talia Sandoval | Talia is lesbian, and she dated Emily for a while. | ||||
Jenna Marshall | Jenna is bisexual. She dated Shana for a while, but also forced herself on her step-brother. | ||||
Charlotte DiLaurentis | Charlotte is a trans woman, who is murdered after her reveal.[23] | ||||
Sabrina | Sabrina is a lesbian, and manager of a coffee shop, who also had cancer. | ||||
Sara Harvey | Dre Davis | Sara is bisexual, and is found dead in a hotel bathtub. | |||
Rachel | Amelia Leigh Harris | Rachel is lesbian, and Sabrina's girlfriend. | |||
2010–2015 | Rookie Blue | Gail Peck | Gail is lesbian. Although she has a history with men in the first three seasons, in season 4 she comes out to herself after she meets forensic pathologist Holly Stewart.[24] [25] [26] | ||
Holly Stewart | Holly is lesbian. She is a forensic pathologist from Toronto who ran off to San Francisco. She dates Gail Peck.[27] | ||||
Frankie Anderson | Frankie is lesbian. After Holly leaves for San Francisco, Frankie begins dating Gail.[28] | ||||
Alex | Katy Grabstas | Alex is a trans man. He gets kicked out of his house for being transgender, and gets beat up by his girlfriend's brother, and tries to kill himself.[29] | |||
Tabby Barnes | Tulsi Balram | Tabby is a trans woman. After she is arrested, she has to be searched. Since her drivers license says male, she is forced to be searched by a male officer.[30] | |||
Jen Luck | Jen is a lesbian police officer. She hits on Gail like a teenaged boy.[31] | ||||
Lisa | Lisa is a lesbian, and one of Holly's best friends since medical school.[32] | ||||
2010 | Rubicon | Kale Ingram | Kale is gay, and a director at an intelligence agency. His partner is Walter Carrington.[33] | ||
Walter Carrington | Jon Patrick Walker | Walter is gay and Kale's partner. | |||
Donald Bloom | Donald is an ex-lover and colleague of Kale Ingram.[34] | ||||
2010–2017 | Sherlock | Irene is bisexual. She identifies as a lesbian but becomes attracted to Sherlock.[35] | |||
Jim is gay and Sherlock's arch enemy.[36] | |||||
Eurus Holmes | Eurus is pansexual, and Sherlock's lost sister that has been locked up in an institution since a young age. She is smarter than her brothers, and incredibly manipulative.[37] | ||||
2010–2013 | Spartacus | Barca | Barca is gay, and Batiatus's bodyguard and sometimes hit man.[38] | ||
Pietros | Pietros is gay, and Barcas' lover.[39] | ||||
Auctus | Auctus is gay, and Barca' lover after Pietros is killed. | ||||
Agron | Agron is a gay rebel warrior, in a relationship with Nasir. | ||||
Nasir | Nasir is a gay rebel warrior, in a relationship with Agron.[40] | ||||
Saxa | Saxa is bisexual and one of a group of Germanic prisoners rescued from a slave ship. | ||||
Belesa | Luna Rioumina | Belesa is bisexual and a Thracian slave. | |||
Tiberius | Tiberius is gay.[41] | ||||
Castus | Blessing Mokgohloa | Castus is a gay pirate.[42] | |||
Gaia | Gaia is bisexual.[43] | ||||
Lucretia | Lucretia is bisexual. She died in Spartacus: Vengeance.[44] | ||||
2010–2015 | Strike Back | James Leatherby | Leatherby is gay, and a former SAS officer. He is also insanely jealous.[45] | ||
Fahran | Daniel Ben Zenou | Fahran is Leatherby's lover. James shoots Fahran in the hand when he suspects Fahran of cheating on him with a bartender. He shoots the bartender in the back. | |||
2010 | Thorne | Phil Hendricks | Phil is a gay forensic pathologist. The show is based on the novels of author Mark Billingham.[46] | ||
2010–2012 | Upstairs Downstairs | Blanche Mottershead | Blanche is lesbian, and is a patron of the British Museum and an expert Egyptologist. She has a relationship with Portia that ends badly.[47] | ||
Portia Alresford | Porits is lesbian, and Blanche's lover. She is a bohemian novelist.[48] | ||||
2010 | Alejo Salazar | Alejo is a gay attorney.[49] | |||
Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes | |
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2011– | Black Mirror | Yorkie | Mackenzie Davis (young Yorkie) | Yorkie is a lesbian and Kelly is her love interest, in episode "San Junipero", which is a simulated reality where the deceased can live and the elderly can visit, all inhabiting their younger selves' bodies in a time of their choice.[50] [51] | ||
Annabel Davis (elderly Yorkie) | Elderly Yorkie is comatose and living in an assisted living facility, she was in a car accident 40 years prior, after coming out to her religious parents.[52] | |||||
Kelly | Gugu Mbatha-Raw (young Kelly) | Kelly is bisexual and Yorkie's love interest, in episode "San Junipero". | ||||
Denise Burse (elderly Kelly) | Elderly Kelly sought refuge in San Junipero after her daughter died, and her husband killed himself. | |||||
Amy | Amy is bisexual, and in a dating simulation, trying to find her compatible other. | |||||
2011–2014 | Borgia | Francesc Gacet | In the second season it is revealed that Francesc Gacet is a homosexual (then they said sodomite).[53] | |||
Giuliano della Rovere | Giuliano della Rovere was condemned by the Council of Pisa as a sodomite. The Council said it was because of his fondness for Francesco Alidosi, and other young men.[54] | |||||
Matt Di Angelo | ||||||
2011–2013 | Micheletto is an assassin for the Borgias family. His lover is Angelino, and then later Pascal.[55] | |||||
Angelino | Angelino's lover is Micheletto Corella. Micheletto tells him that his impending marriage will be a lie. Angelino replies that he must proceed anyway, given the punishment for their homosexual relationship would be "disemboweled and burnt". | |||||
Pascal | Charlie Carrick | In season three, Pascal becomes Michelotto's lover.[56] | ||||
Florentine friar Savonarola accused Alexander VI of having same-sex affairs. He is generally considered by history as the most morally bankrupt pope in the church's history.[57] [58] | ||||||
2011 | Crownies | Janet is a lesbian who lives with her partner Ashleigh Larsson, and she becomes pregnant via IVF.[59] Her character continued in the Janet King spin-off. | ||||
Ashleigh Larsson | Aimee Pedersen | Ashleigh is lesbian, and Janet's partner. She was shot and killed between seasons.[60] | ||||
2011–2019 | Game of Thrones | Renly Baratheon | Renly is the gay brother of King Robert. He is in a secret relationship with Loras Tyrell.[61] | |||
Loras Tyrell | Loras is gay and the Knight of Flowers. He is in a secret relationship with Renly Baratheon.[62] | |||||
Oberyn Martell | Prince Oberyn Martell, also known as the Red Viper, was a member of House Martell, the ruling family of Dorne. He is bisexual and has eight illegitimate daughters, collectively known as the "Sand Snakes".[63] [64] | |||||
Ellaria Sand | Ellaria is the paramour to Oberyn Martell and mother to several of his bastard daughters, the Sand Snakes, later sent into deep mourning after the death of her lover, and is bisexual.[65] | |||||
Marei | Josephine Gillan | Marei is a bisexual prostitute in the brothel owned by Lord Petyr Baelish. She slept with men, but also Ellaria Sand.[66] | ||||
Olyvar | Olyvar is a gay sex worker and a spy working for Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish.[67] | |||||
Varys | Varys is asexual. He said before being castrated that he had no romantic or sexual feelings for men or women.[68] | |||||
Yara Greyjoy | Yara is pansexual, and the only daughter of Lord Balon Greyjoy of the Iron Islands.[69] [70] [71] | |||||
Doreah | Doreah is bisexual and a handmaiden to Daenerys Targaryen. She helps Dany learn how to seduce her new husband with a hands-on tutorial.[72] | |||||
Hodor | Hodor is asexual. He was originally named Wylis, and became Hodor after having a seizure due to Bran Stark losing control of his powers during a vision of the past. His name is derived from the phrase "hold the door", the words that Hodor heard during the seizure that mentally disabled him.[73] [74] | |||||
2011–2015 | Hart of Dixie | Crickett Watts | Crickett is a lesbian and the leader of the Bluebell Belles, a local women's group. She comes out as a lesbian in the season finale of Season 3. In Season 4, Crickett divorces her husband and begins a romance with Jaysene.[75] | |||
Jaysene Charles | Erica Piccininni | Jaysene is a lesbian who is a volunteer firefighter.[76] | ||||
2011–2016 | Hell on Wheels | Louise Ellison | Louise is bisexual and a newspaper reporter sent by the New York Tribune to cover the building of the Union Pacific Railroad; she reveals that the assignment was a punishment for exhibiting attraction toward the newspaper editors daughter.[77] | |||
2011–2014 | Regi Darnell | Regi marries her female partner in the first episode of season 3.[78] | ||||
Rachel "Bullet" Olmstead | Bullet is a homeless teenage lesbian. She helps the detectives in their search for the killer of young women (season 3). She was eventually murdered by the serial killer.[79] | |||||
Nicole is lesbian and in a relationship with Roberta Drays. She's the head of the Kalimish tribe and manager of the Wapi Eagle Casino.[80] | ||||||
Roberta Drays | Patti Kim | Roberta is lesbian and the girlfriend of Nicole Jackson. She's the security chief at the Wapi Eagle Casino.[81] | ||||
Ellen | Hilary Strang | Ellen is lesbian, and Regi's girlfriend, and then wife. | ||||
2011–2013 | Necessary Roughness | Rex Evans | Travis Smith | Evans is the quarterback for the New York Hawks. He comes out at the end of season 2, becoming the first openly gay active football player in the show's universe.[82] | ||
2011–2018 | Once Upon a Time | Mulan | Mulan, a warrior, is lesbian and in love with Aurora.[83] | |||
Ruby Lucas | Ruby aka Little Red Riding Hood, is bisexual and friends with everyone, Ruby's in love with Dorothy Gale.[84] | |||||
Dorothy Gale | Dorothy is a lesbian, and that girl from Kansas. She is cursed and only True Love's Kiss (from Ruby) can awaken her. | |||||
Alice | Alice is lesbian. In the cursed realm, she is Tilly. In Season 7 episode 10, "The Eighth Witch", she reveals that her true love is Robin. They begin a romantic relationship.[85] | |||||
Robin | Robin is a lesbian. She is the daughter of Robin Hook and Zelena (the Wicked Witch of the West). | |||||
2011–2016 | Person of Interest | Sameen Shaw | Sameen is bisexual, a physician and a former operative for the U.S. Army Intelligence Support Activity.[86] | |||
Root (Samantha Groves) | Root is a lesbian and a computer genius, contract killer, and psychopath.[87] | |||||
Amy Enright | Amy is a lesbian, a charity director, and married to Maddie.[88] | |||||
Madeleine Enright | Madeleine is a lesbian, a physician, and married to Amy.[89] | |||||
2011 | Bunny Alice | Alice is a Playboy Bunny and secretly lesbian. She is in a sham marriage with Sean, who is gay.[90] | ||||
Sean Beasley | Sean is gay. Alice and Sean are in a sham marriage.[91] [92] | |||||
Frances Dunhill | Frances is a closeted lesbian, who begins dating Nick Dalton to provide him with a politically acceptable public girlfriend and to make her appear heterosexual to her father.[93] | |||||
2011–2015 | Revenge | Nolan Ross | Nolan is bisexual dotcom billionaire, and rates himself a 3 on the Kinsey scale.[94] [95] | |||
Tyler Barrol | Tyler is a bisexual hustler, who suffers from bipolar disorder.[96] | |||||
Marco Romero | Marco is a past gay lover of Nolan Ross, and was CEO of NolCorp, owned by Ross. Marco appears in flashbacks and in present-day in Season 2.[97] | |||||
Patrick Osbourne | Patrick is gay and the illegitimate son of Victoria Greyson (Madeline Stowe). Patrick and Nolan had a relationship in season 3.[98] | |||||
Regina | Regina is a lesbian, and once kissed a girl while she was drunk.[99] | |||||
2011–2012 | Ringer | Olivia Charles | Olivia is a lesbian, and in a relationship with Catherine. She was previously married.[100] | |||
Catherine Martin | Catherine is bisexual and in a relationship with Olivia. | |||||
2011–2016 | Scott & Bailey | Helen Bartlett | Helen is a lesbian, and emotionally disturbed. She eventually commits suicide by slashing her wrists. | |||
Anna Ran | Anna is a lesbian, and a detective assigned to Syndicate 9. | |||||
Louise | Louise is lesbian, and was Helen Bartletts girlfriend.[101] | |||||
Shameless on Showtime (Seasons 1 - 11) | ||
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Character | Actor | Notes |
In the series pilot, Ian is a closeted gay, he comes out after his brother Lip (Jeremy Allen White), discovers his cache of gay pornography. Ian's first gay relationship in the series is with Kash Karib, owner of Kash and Grab, the neighborhood convenience store where Ian works. In season 1, episode 7, Ian has his first sexual encounter with Mickey Milkovich. Their relationship is on-and-off again throughout the series, with the two finally getting married in the series finale of season 10, in episode "Gallavich!". Ian's other sexual partners in the series run include, Lloyd Lishman, Caleb and Trevor. | ||
Monica Gallagher | Monica is bisexual, and the Gallagher clan mother. She ran off to be with a woman, and then came back and hooked up with a drug dealer. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage following a drunken night out. | |
Debbie Gallagher | Debbie's sexuality is undefined, she had a child with her boyfriend Derek Delgado, and has been in lesbian relationships as well. When she sleeps with Claudia Nicolo's underage daughter, she has to register as a sex offender.[102] [103] | |
Mickey Milkovich | In the beginning of the series, Mickey is a closeted gay. His first gay encounter is with Ian Gallagher. They maintain a secret relationship until season 3, when Mickey's dad catches them together. Mickey publicly comes out, and reveals his love for Ian in season 4, episode 11. His relationship with Ian is on-and-off again throughout the series, with the two finally getting married in the series finale of season 10, in episode "Gallavich!". Mickey has a brief relationship with Byron Koch, in order to make Ian jealous.[104] | |
Molly Milkovich | Madison Rothschild | Molly is a trans girl. She is the cousin of Mickey and Mandy Milkovich. |
Sandy Milkovich | Elise Eberle | Sandy is a lesbian, and is dating Debbie. |
Kash | Kash is involved in a sexual relationship with Ian, owner of the Kash and Grab, where Ian works.[105] | |
Jess | Missy Doty | Jess is a lesbian bartender at the neighborhood bar, The Alibi Room.[106] |
Lloyd Lishman | Lloyd is a closeted gay. He picks up Ian in a gay bar in season two.[107] | |
Svetlana Fisher | Svetlana is bisexual and a former sex worker. She was Mickey's wife, and then was in a polyamorous relationship with Veronica and Kev in season 6. | |
Veronica Fisher | Veronica is bisexual. Veronica and Kev enter a polyamorous relationship with Svetlana in season 6.[108] | |
Angela | Angela is a lesbian that frequents the diner Fiona works at, but later leaves town (season 5).[109] | |
Jasmine Hollander | Jasmine is a bisexual friend of Fiona who is interested in her. After Fiona refuses to offer her financial help, Jasmine gets angry and leaves, never speaking to her again. | |
Caleb | Jeff Pierre | Caleb is bisexual and was Ian's boyfriend. Caleb cheated on him with his high school girlfriend.[110] |
Trevor | Trevor is a trans man, and an LGBT+ activist. Trevor and Ian were in a relationship in season 7. | |
Abraham Paige | Abraham is a gay political activist. He is powerful, well-dressed and sophisticated.[111] | |
Nessa | Nessa is a lesbian, and Mel's girlfriend. | |
Mel | Mel is a lesbian, and Nessa's girlfriend. | |
Alex | Alex is lesbian, and briefly worked with Debbie for a while. She asks Debbie out for a drink. | |
Amanda | Amanda is a bisexual college student and in a relationship with Lip. She exposes Lip's affair with a professor. | |
Claudia Nicolo | Claudia is a bisexual, and sleeps with Debbie, thinking her to be a prostitute. After Debbie makes it clear she is not a prostitute, Claudia becomes her sugar mama. | |
Karen Jackson | Karen is bisexual. Her personality radically changed after a car accident almost killed her. | |
Barb | Barb is a lesbian, and was Lip' sponsor for Alcoholics Anonymous. | |
Liz | Liz is a lesbian, and was a customer of @DebbieHotLesbianConvict, Debbie's handyman company. | |
Roberta | Carlease Burke | Roberta is lesbian, and was Monica's girlfriend for a while. |
Calista | Paula Andrea Placido | Calista is a lesbian, and along with her ex-wife Haley, they are opening up a new queer bar in the Gallagher's neighborhood. She hires Debbie to do a handyperson job. |
Haley | Mary Alexis Cruz | Haley is a lesbian, and she is opening up a new queer bar in the Gallagher's neighborhood, with her ex-wife Calista. |
Jill | Jill is a lesbian, and was Monica's friend at the drug clinic, where they escape from. | |
Miss June | Roxy Wood | Miss June is a trans woman, busted by the police for selling loose cigarettes. |
Geneva | Juliette Angelo | Geneva is a lesbian. She was involved in the Gay Jesus movement along with Ian, who portrayed Gay Jesus. |
The Two Lisas | A lesbian couple, both named Lisa, who were buying up numerous properties in the Gallagher's neighborhood for a gentrification project. | |
Lee Stark | ||
Byron Koch | Adam Farabee | Byron is gay, and has a brief relationship with Mickey, who is trying to make Ian jealous. Ian ends up beating Byron up after hearing him bad mouth Mickey, in season 10, episode 10.[112] |
Cole | Cole is gay, and has a hook up with Ian; he found Cole on Grindr and invites him along on a date to make Mickey jealous. Cole ends up getting beat up by Mickey in season 10, episode 10. | |
Tim | Michael Sasaki | Tim is gay and his partner is Brendan. Ian and Mickey meet them while shopping, in their quest to make new gay friends, in episode "Two at a Biker Bar, One in the Lake".[113] |
Brendan | Brian Dare | Brendan is gay and his partner is Tim. Ian and Mickey meet them while shopping, in their quest to make new gay friends, in episode "Two at a Biker Bar, One in the Lake".[114] |
Jon | Giancarlo | Jon is gay and his partner is Travis. Ian and Mickey meet them at a dinner party, in their quest to make new gay friends, in episode "Two at a Biker Bar, One in the Lake".[115] |
Travis | Travis is gay and his partner is Jon. Ian and Mickey meet them at a dinner party, in their quest to make new gay friends, in episode "Two at a Biker Bar, One in the Lake". | |
Kevin's Hookup | Chris Prascus | Kevin's Hookup (Don Wessels's kid), is gay. When Kevin starts to question his sexuality, he attempts to give oral sex to his hookup, but discovers that he is not turned on, and realizes he is not gay, not even part gay. In season 8, episode "Icarus Fell And Rusty Ate Him".[116] [117] |
Tony is gay. He was the Gallagher's neighbor and a police officer. He had a thing for Fiona, but in season six, he comes out as gay to Ian Gallagher.[118] [119] | ||
Tommy and Kermit are regulars at The Alibi Room, Kev and Veronica's bar. When they start selling marijuana for medicinal purposes, they encourage Tommy and Kermit to try some. The duo each consume a marijuana brownie, and when Kev and Veronica aren't looking, Tommy and Kermit consume all of the brownies and all of the marijuana gummies. Later in the men's bathroom, Tommy and Kermit are sharing a sink, when Kermit makes a reach for Tommy's butt and instead of pulling away, Tommy slowly leads Kermit into the stall for a hookup. | ||
Jim Hoffmaster | ||
Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
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2011 | Skins | Tea Marvelli | Tea is a bisexual cheerleader. She sleeps with Tony, but ends up with Betty.[120] | ||
Betty Nardone | Blaine Morris | Betty is lesbian, and Tea's lover.[121] | |||
2011–2017 | Switched at Birth | Matthew | Matthew is revealed as gay and has a crush on Emmett.[122] | ||
Renzo | Renzo is gay and Kathryn's friend. Her husband John, has been openly bigoted towards Renzo.[123] | ||||
Natalie Pierce | Natalie is lesbian, and comes out to Bay in season two. She and her girlfriend Hillary are not allowed into prom because Hillary is wearing a suit and pants.[124] | ||||
Hilary | Abby Walla | Hilary is a lesbian, and Natalie's girlfriend. She refuses to wear a dress at prom, having not worn one since she was 2.[125] | |||
2011–2015 | Waterloo Road | Martin Dunbar | Martin is a shy trans girl who appears in one episode, resulting in her being bullied by classmates, but still makes some friends.[126] [127] | ||
Nate Gurney | Scott Haining | Nate is a former student at Waterloo Road, and openly gay. He falls in love with Josh.[128] | |||
Colin Scott | Chris Finch | Colin is gay and works for a capital management company. He is the boyfriend of Matt Wilding.[129] | |||
Josh Stevenson | Josh came out as gay, and is Nate's boyfriend.[130] | ||||
Matt is a closeted gay musician.[131] | |||||
Jo Lipsett | Jo is a lesbian, and head of the languages department. Her career is threatened when a student falls for her.[132] | ||||
Nikki Boston | Nikki is lesbian, and a teacher at the school. She and Vix left the show together. | ||||
Ros McCain | Ros is a lesbian, and falls in love with her teacher, Jo Lipsett. | ||||
Kacey Barry | Brogan Ellis | Kacey is a trans boy, and student at the school. After disguising himself as a boy to play in a soccer match, he realizes how much more comfortable he is as a male. Kacey decides to postpone any medical changes until after school. | |||
Lorraine Donnegan | Lorraine is a lesbian, and philanthropist and businesswoman. She is a former pupil at the school. | ||||
Vix Spark | Kristin Atherton | Vix is a lesbian, and has a homemade jewellery business. She and Nikki leave to be together. | |||
Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes | |
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2012–2020 | Arrow | Caity Lotz (Jacqueline Wood) | Sara is bisexual and Nyssa's ex-lover. Jacqueline Wood played Sara in her first appearance on Arrow. | |||
Nyssa is bisexual, and ex-lover to Sara. When Sara died, Nyssa had her resurrected.[133] | ||||||
Curtis is the show's first openly gay character.[134] | ||||||
Paul Holt | Chenier Hundal | Paul is gay, and was Curtis' husband. He left Curtis after finding out he had been working with the Green Arrow.[135] | ||||
Nick is a gay police officer, and was in a relationship with Curtis.[136] | ||||||
William | In a flash-forward, William is joking about his frequently absent father, and retorts: "And my ex-boyfriend wonders why I have commitment issues". In season 7, episode "The Longbow Hunters".[137] | |||||
Ruby Rose (Wallis Day) | Kate is lesbian, and cousin of Bruce Wayne (aka Batman). At the beginning of season two, her plane crashes and she is presumed dead, but actually she is alive but unrecognizable due to injuries she sustained in the crash. At this point, Wallis Day took over the role of Kate.[138] | |||||
Alex was a closeted lesbian, and then came out to herself and then finally everyone. | ||||||
John is bisexual and was brought in to deal with the fallout of the resurrection of Sara Lance, in episode "Haunted".[139] | ||||||
2012–2013 | Bomb Girls | Betty McRae | Betty is a closeted lesbian with an unrequited love for her best friend. After being rejected by her, Betty meets Teresa and they become romantically involved. She is a bomb builder for the Victory Munitions factory.[140] | |||
Teresa | Teresa is lesbian and a Canadian Women's Army Corps sergeant. She is in a relationship with Betty.[141] | |||||
2012– | Call the Midwife | Patience "Patsy" Mount | Patsy is a closeted lesbian, and a midwife. She is in a relationship with Delia, and they later move to Scotland.[142] | |||
Delia Bubsy | Delia is a lesbian nurse, and in a relationship with Patsy. Delia is struck by a vehicle while riding a bicycle and awakens with amnesia, not remembering who Patsy is to her. She recovers and they are reunited.[143] [144] | |||||
2012– | Chicago Fire | Leslie Shay | Leslie is a lesbian, and a paramedic on Ambulance 61. | |||
Clarice Carthage | Clarice is bisexual and the pregnant ex-girlfriend of Leslie. She leaves Leslie to go back to her husband.[145] | |||||
Devon | Vedette Lim | Devon is a lesbian. In season 2 Leslie briefly dates Devon, who robs her apartment and disappears. | ||||
Emily Foster | Emily is bisexual, and a paramedic. | |||||
Darren Ritter | Darren is gay, and a firefighter.[146] | |||||
2012–2015 | Continuum | Jasmine Garza | Jasmine is bisexual, and a lethal paramilitary soldier.[147] | |||
2012 | Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves | Rasmus | Rasmus is 19 and gay. After graduation. he moves from rural Värmland to Stockholm to attend college. As soon as he arrives in Stockholm he begins to seek out the gay community. He begins a relationship with Benjamin. Rasmus is later found to be HIV-positive and eventually dies.[148] | |||
Paul | Paul is gay, and is portrayed as the life and soul of Stockholm's gay underworld. Paul eventually contracts AIDS and dies. An early scene in the miniseries shows two nurses dressed in bio-protective clothing caring for a patient suffering from AIDS. As the nurses tend to the dying man, one nurse wipes a tear from his eye, which leads to the second nurse scolding her afterwards: "Don't ever wipe tears without gloves".[149] | |||||
Benjamin | Benjamin is young and struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality and faith as a Jehovah's Witness. Benjamin begins a relationship with Rasmus, and stays by his side the entire time he is dying. Benjamin is the only one out of the three characters to survive the AIDS crisis, and is seen in the last episode reflecting about that period in his life 20 years later. | |||||
2012–2013 | Emily Owens, M.D. | Tyra Dupre | Tyra is a first-year surgical intern and daughter of the chief resident, who quickly befriends Emily. She is openly lesbian.[150] | |||
Jake Reeser | 3 different babies portray Jake | Jake is an intersex baby who has a penis as well as ovaries. The parents discuss raising the child gender neutral and allowing them to decide when they are older.[151] | ||||
2012 | GCB | Blake Reilly | Blake is a closeted gay and in a marriage of convenience with Cricket, who is aware that he is gay.[152] | |||
2012–2017 | Girls | Elijah Krantz | Elijah is openly gay, and dates several men throughout the series, never really having a serious boyfriend. | |||
George | Billy Morrissette | George is gay and one of Elijah's ex-boyfriends.[153] | ||||
Dill Harcourt | Dill is gay, and a famous news anchor. He is the former boyfriend of Elijah.[154] [155] | |||||
Pal | Pal is gay and a condescending prick. He is a former boyfriend of Elijah.[156] | |||||
2012 | Kaldrick King | Kaldrick King is a closeted gay black rapper. He is in a secret relationship with Tariq.[157] | ||||
Tariq Muhammad | Tariq is gay and an aspiring rapper working at the production company where Kaldrick records. The two start a secret relationship. | |||||
Christopher Taylor | Christopher is Kaldrick's openly gay lover who works as a lawyer.[158] | |||||
2012–2016 | Last Tango in Halifax | Caroline is lesbian. Caroline and Kate were married before Kate's untimely death.[159] | ||||
Kate McKenzie | Kate is lesbian, and married to Caroline. | |||||
Olga | Olga is a lesbian, and the owner of a winery.[160] | |||||
Judith | Judith is bisexual and an international megastar of a film franchise.[161] | |||||
2012– | Line of Duty | BBC Two BBC One (2017) | DCI Joanne Davidson | Joanne is lesbian and the SIO of "Operation Lighthouse" (season 6). She was accused by her ex, Farida, of cheating on her with Kate Fleming. | ||
PC/PS Farida Jatri | Farida is lesbian and was in a secret relationship with Joanne, her superior on the force.[162] [163] | |||||
2012–2018 | Major Crimes | Rusty Beck | Rusty comes out as gay in the season two finale.[164] | |||
Gustavo Wallace | Rene Rosado | Gus is gay, he begins a relationship with Rusty.[165] | ||||
TJ Shaw | Patrick Stafford | TJ is gay, but he is deeply closeted.[166] | ||||
2012–2015 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Dr. Elizabeth 'Mac' MacMillan | Mac is a lesbian. She doesn't conceal her orientation and sports menswear.[167] | |||
Daisy Murphy | Maria Coviello | Daisy is a lesbian, and Dr. Mac's lover, she is murdered by her ex-lover, Hetty.[168] | ||||
Hetty | Hetty is a lesbian, and a factory worker with Daisy. She is love with Daisy and kills her when rejected for Dr. Mac. She also frames Dr. Mac for another murder. | |||||
Sarah Norden | Sarah is a lesbian, and a contortionist, she was in a relationship with Pearl. | |||||
Pearl Dyson | Madeleine Vizard | Pearl is a lesbian, and an assistant for a magician. She is accidentally killed by a malfunctioning guillotine. | ||||
2012–2018 | Nashville | Will Lexington | Will is a closeted up-and-coming country singer. | |||
Brent McKinney | Derek Krantz | Brent is an openly gay record executive.[169] | ||||
Kevin Bicks | Kevin is an openly gay songwriter, stationed in Nashville.[170] | |||||
Zach Welles | Cameron Scoggins | Zach is gay and a young Silicon Valley entrepreneur, involved with Will Lexington.[171] | ||||
Jakob Fine | Jakob is gay and a fashion designer for a commercial that Will appears in.[172] | |||||
Allyson Del Lago | Allyson is a trans woman, and a physical therapist. Her character is the first transgender to ever appear on a CMT show and the first out transgender actor on the network.[173] | |||||
Jeff | Aaron Cavette | Jeff is gay and Zach's ex-boyfriend.[174] | ||||
2012 | Political Animals | T.J. Hammond | T.J. is the first openly gay son of an American President.[175] | |||
Diane Nash | Justice Nash is the first openly gay Justice of the United States Supreme Court.[176] | |||||
Sean Reeves | Reeves is a married, closeted Congressman with whom T.J. has had an affair.[177] | |||||
2012–2017 | Saving Hope | Shahir Hamza | Shahir is gay and a neurosurgeon. His partner is Victor.[178] | |||
Victor Reis | Victor is gay and an OR nurse. Shahir and Victor are in a long-term relationship. | |||||
Maggie Lin | Maggie is bisexual. She is an OB/GYN attending at Hope Zion Hospital. At the end of the series, Maggie and Sydney enter into a relationship. | |||||
Sydney Katz | Sydney is lesbian, and an obstetrics and gynecology resident.[179] | |||||
Bree Hannigan | Bree is lesbian, and was admitted to the hospital following a car accident. Scans reveal that Bree has cancer. | |||||
Neshema | Hannah Miller | Neshema is a lesbian, and married to Ruth. She is pregnant. | ||||
Violet Jackson | Violet is lesbian, and Bree's fiancé. | |||||
Riley Stiles | Riley is intersex and is transitioning to male. When he comes to the hospital for surgery, he learns he had a gender assignment surgery as a baby. | |||||
Ruth | Ruth is lesbian, and married to Neshema. | |||||
2012–2018 | Scandal | Cyrus is the White House Chief of Staff. He is openly gay and in a long-term relationship with James. | ||||
James Novak | James is married to Cyrus Beene, but eventually leaves him.[180] | |||||
Michael Ambruso | Michael is gay and a former prostitute. He marries Cyrus in a sham marriage.[181] | |||||
Fenton Glackland | Fenton is a gay billionaire, and an ex-boyfriend of Cyrus.[182] | |||||
Annalise is bisexual, and in a guest appearance in episode "Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself", she teams up with Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) to work on a class action lawsuit regarding the mass incarceration of black people in the United States.[183] | ||||||
Rose | Rose is a lesbian, who hires Olivia to help find her ex-lover Lois, but Lois had already been murdered. | |||||
Lois Moore | Lois is lesbian, and Olivia's neighbor. After Olivia was kidnapped, she was held hostage in Lois' apartment and the hostage takers eventually killed her. | |||||
Gillian | Lauren Gaw | Gillian is lesbian, and Yasmeen's girlfriend. | ||||
Yasmeen | Yasmeen is a lesbian, and the niece of the Bashranian president. She is killed when her plane leaving the U.S. explodes on the runway, in episode "Adventures in Babysitting". | |||||
2012–2013 | Smash | Tom Levitt | Tom is an openly gay composer.[184] | |||
Dennis | Phillip Spaeth | Dennis is gay, and an ex-lover of Tom.[185] | ||||
Bobby | Bobby is gay and was selected to be as part of the ensemble cast.[186] | |||||
Sam Strickland | Sam is gay and Tom is his boyfriend.[187] | |||||
John Goodwin | John is a gay lawyer. He and Tom dated briefly.[188] | |||||
Ellis Boyd | Jaime Cepero | Ellis began as Tom's personal assistant, who he slept with, before becoming assistant to Broadway producer Eileen Rand. He left the series after season one and an ex-girlfriend later outed him as gay. | ||||
Kyle Bishop | Kyle is gay, and was in relationships with Blake, Tom and Jimmy.[189] | |||||
Blake | Daniel Abeles | Blake is the lighting director for Hit List and he and Kyle became involved. | ||||
2012–2013 | Underemployed | MTV | Sophia Swanson | Sophia is a lesbian, and an aspiring writer. | ||
Laura | Angel M. Wainwright | Laura is lesbian, and Sophia's girlfriend for a short while. | ||||
Natalie | Katherine Cunningham | Natalie is a lesbian, and hooks up with Sophia a few times.[190] | ||||
Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
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2013–2018 | James Bligh | James is married but gay. He has experienced family disapproval and even horrific treatments including electroshock. The series was set in 1950s Australia, when homosexuality was illegal, and men were "held against their will in hospitals, electrocuted, pumped full of drugs and mentally abused".[191] | |||
Harry Polson | Dominic Allburn | Harry is gay, and James Bligh's ex-lover.[192] | |||
Dr. Henry Fox | Henry is gay, and has a relationship with James Bligh. | ||||
Carolyn Bligh | Carolyn is bisexual, and had an affair with Delia a long time ago.[193] | ||||
Delia Craig | Delia is a lesbian, and had an affair with Carolyn years ago, but now back from London, they happen to be housemates.[194] | ||||
2013–2020 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Joey Gutierrez | Joey is a gay Inhuman who can melt metals, he previously had a boyfriend. Joey is the first openly gay character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.[195] | ||
Marcus Benson | Benson is a gay scientist recruited to help with the S.H.I.E.L.D science team in season 6. | ||||
Victoria Hand | Victoria is a lesbian, she was eventually shot and killed in the series. | ||||
Isabelle Hartley | Isabelle is a lesbian, and was killed when her SUV was flipped over by the Absorbing Man. | ||||
Olga Pachinko | Jolene Andersen | Olga is a lesbian and demolitions expert.[196] | |||
2013–2024 | Amar es para siempre (To Love is Forever) | Amelia Ledesma | Amelia is a lesbian. During the day she works at a hotel, and then she sings at night. She is in a secret relationship with Luisita Gómez, as the show takes place in the 1970s. | ||
Luisita Gómez | Luisita Gómez is bisexual, but in a lesbian relationship with Amelia Ledesma.[197] | ||||
Isabel Vegas | Silvia Maya | Isabel is a lesbian, and an LGBT activist.[198] | |||
Ana Rivas | Ana is a lesbian, and married to Teresa García. | ||||
Teresa García | Teresa is a lesbian, and married to Ana. They both die, along with their child in a fire. | ||||
Sara Martín | Belén González | Sara is a lesbian, and a political activist for women's rights.[199] | |||
Juanma | Enrique Gimeno | Juanma is gay and Gonzalo is his boyfriend. | |||
Gonzalo | Nacho Casalvaque | Gonzalo is gay and Juanma is his boyfriend.[200] | |||
2013–2015 | Atlantis | Pythagoras | Pythagoras and Icarus are romantically involved in the second series.[201] | ||
Icarus | Joseph Timms | ||||
2013–2016 | Banshee | Job | Job is a cross-dressing hairdresser who moonlights as a computer hacker. His sexuality is never explicitly defined, but actor Hoon Lee described the character as "someone who is exploring identity, he feels free to explore whatever direction his identity follows".[202] | ||
2013–2014 | Betrayal | Jules Whitman | Jules is a lesbian, and computer hacker, who has a relationship with Valerie.[203] | ||
Valerie McAllister | Valerie is lesbian, and falls for Jules.[204] | ||||
2013–2014 | Adriana Perez | Adriana is a lesbian newspaper reporter.[205] | |||
Lucy | Lucy is a lesbian nurese and Adriana's girlfriend, introduced in season 2.[206] | ||||
2013–2017 | Broadchurch | Maggie Radcliffe | Maggie is a lesbian, and a newspaper editor, in love with Jocelyn.[207] | ||
Jocelyn Knight | Jocelyn is a lesbian, and a semi-retired barrister, in love with Maggie.[208] [209] | ||||
2013 | Camp | Todd | Todd and Raffi are an interracial couple raising an adopted child. They get married in season 1, episode 7, "The Wedding".[210] [211] | ||
Raffi | Christopher Kirby | ||||
2013–2014 | Walt Reynolds | Walt is in the closet at first but after meeting Bennet, who is openly gay, he comes out and they are in a relationship.[212] [213] | |||
Bennet Wilcox | Jake Robinson | Bennet is openly gay and Walt's boyfriend.[214] [215] | |||
Larissa Loughlin | Larissa is bisexual, a style editor at a magazine and party girl. She slept with Samantha. | ||||
Samantha "Sam" Jones | Lindsey Gort | Sam is bisexual and slept with Larissa. | |||
Jill "Mouse" Chen | Mouse is a bisexual nerd. She slept with Donna. | ||||
Donna LaDonna | Donna is bisexual and leader of the mean girls clique in school, and generally not very nice. She slept with Mouse while drunk.[216] | ||||
Blake | Ian Quinlan | Blake is gay and asks Walt out on a date, but when they arrive at the restaurant, Bennet intervenes and tells Walt he wants them to be an exclusive couple.[217] | |||
2013–2015 | Da Vinci's Demons | Leonardo da Vinci is bisexual. The shows creator, David S. Goyer, confirmed his bisexuality, along with actor Tom Riley who said: "He is, in my mind, canonically bisexual. He is attracted to men and he is attracted to women on the show."[218] [219] Da Vinci's Demons is a fictional account of Leonardo da Vinci's early life. | |||
Christopher Elson | Jacopa is a gay 17-year-old goldsmith apprentice, and prostitute. Da Vinci had sex with him and was later put on trial for sodomy, with Jacopa testifying against him. The charges were eventually dropped against Da Vinci.[220] | ||||
Andrea del Verrocchio | In season 2, episode 5, "The Sun and the Moon", it is implied that Andrea has a sexual relationship with a handsome young man (Benedetto), who works as a picture framer in his workshop.[221] | ||||
2013 | Dates | Erica | Erica is a closeted lesbian. Erica goes on a blind date with Kate.[222] | ||
Kate | Kate is a lesbian, and has a one-night stand with Erica, which results in a second date.[223] | ||||
2013–2015 | Defiance | Stahma Tarr | Jaime Murray | Stahma is bisexual, and a wealthy alien. | |
Kenya Rosewater | Kenya is a bisexual bartender and brothel owner.[224] | ||||
Doc Meh Yewll | Meh is a lesbian and is a Doctor in the town of Defiance. | ||||
Lev | Lev is a lesbian and Doc Yewll's wife.[225] | ||||
Niles Pottinger | Pottinger attended the same boarding school as Connor Lang, and had an unrequited gay crush on him.[226] | ||||
2013–2016 | Devious Maids | Alejandro Rubio | Alejandro is a closeted gay Latin music star.[227] [228] | ||
2013–2017 | East Los High | Camila Barrios | Camila is bisexual and been friends with Jocelyn since high school and begin a romantic relationship.[229] | ||
Jocelyn Reyes | Andrea Sixtos | Jocelyn is lesbian, and hooked up with Camila after smoking pot together. | |||
Daysi Cantu | Daysi is a queer, and a new student at East Los High. | ||||
Ms. Alvarez | Catherine Lazo | Ms. Alvarez is a lesbian, and the school principal. | |||
Veronica | Jacqueline Grace Lopez | Veronica is a lesbian, and went out with Jocelyn. | |||
2013–2016 | Danielle Ferrington | Dani is a lesbian.[230] | |||
Stella is bisexual. | |||||
2013–2018 | Stef Adams-Foster | Stef and Lena are a married lesbian couple. Stef has a son from a previous marriage. Stef and Lena also serve as adoptive and foster parents to additional children.[231] | |||
Lena Adams-Foster | |||||
Jude is gay and develops romantic feelings for his best friend Connor Stevens, and they begin dating.[232] [233] | |||||
Connor Stevens | In season 2, Connor comes out as gay, shares a kiss with Jude and the two begin dating. | ||||
Cole | Tom Phelan | Cole is a trans boy, and a teen runaway who lives at a group foster home. | |||
Noah Walker | Kalama Epstein | Noah is gay and Jude's second boyfriend.[234] | |||
Monte Porter | Monte is bisexual and becomes the school principal of Lena's charter school in Season 2. She later gets in trouble for kissing a student.[235] | ||||
Aaron Baker | Aaron is a trans man who becomes Callie's boyfriend.[236] | ||||
Ximena Sinfuego | Ximena is a lesbian, and captain of the roller-derby team. | ||||
Jack Downey | Jack shares a kiss with Jude to make him feel better after his breakup with Connor. Jack is later beaten to death by an abusive foster father.[237] [238] | ||||
Carmen Cruz | Carmen is a lesbian living at Girls United who has been involved with gangs, drugs, and kidnapping. | ||||
Jenna Paul | Jenna is a lesbian, and an old friend of Stef and Lena. | ||||
Sally Benton | Sally is a lesbian, and accuses the principal of kissing her. | ||||
Tess Bayfield | Kristen Ariza | Tess is bisexual and Steph's high-school crush. | |||
Kelly Paul | Alice Dodd | Kelly is a lesbian, and Jenna's ex-wife. | |||
Lara | Brit Manor | Lara is lesbian, and makes a pass at Tess. | |||
2013–2015 | Hannibal | Will Graham | Will and Hannibal are in love with each other.[239] [240] [241] [242] [243] [244] [245] [246] [247] | ||
Hannibal Lecter | Mads Mikkelsen | ||||
Alana Bloom | Alana is bisexual and Margot is homosexual. They are married.[248] [249] [250] | ||||
Margot Verger | Katharine Isabelle | ||||
2013–2015 | Hit the Floor | Jude Kinkade | Jude is gay and Zero is a closeted bisexual basketball player, Jude is also Zero's agent. Jude and Zero begin having casual sex in season 2. In season 3, Zero comes out by kissing Jude in public, and the two are now in a committed relationship.[251] [252] [253] | ||
Zero (real name Gideon) | Adam Senn | ||||
Lucas | Lucas is a gay basketball agent, and had an affair with Jude, making Zero jealous.[254] | ||||
Noah | Kristian Kordula | Noah is gay and Jude's boyfriend in season 4.[255] | |||
2013–2018 | House of Cards | Frank has been shown to have sexual encounters with both men and women. The series creator, Beau Willimon, said that Frank ignores the label of being bisexual or gay, and is simply attracted to people regardless of their gender.[256] | |||
Edward Meechum | Meechum is a Secret Service agent assigned to Frank Underwood, and has a threesome with him and Claire Underwood in season 2, episode "Chapter 24". | ||||
Rachel Posner | Rachel is a bisexual prostitute. | ||||
Lisa Williams | Lisa is lesbian, and Rachel's lover.[257] | ||||
Michael Corrigan | Michael is a gay rights activist, imprisoned by the Russian government. He eventually hangs himself in his cell, refusing a deal to be released if he apologizes to Russia for his unlawful actions, in season 3, episode "Chapter 32".[258] | ||||
John Pasternak | Todd Alan Crain | John is Michael Corrigan's husband. | |||
2013-2014 | In the Flesh | Kieren Walker | Kieren is pansexual and the protagonist of the show. Kieren was implied to have been in a romantic relationship with Rick Macy, who died in Afghanistan before the events of the show, ending their relationship. In series 2, Kieren begins dating Simon Monroe.[259] | ||
Jemima Walker | Jem is Kieren's younger sister. While never explicitly stated or explored in the series, series creator Dominic Mitchell stated on Twitter that Jem is bisexual.[260] | ||||
Betty DeMillo | Betty is a lesbian sex worker and an early research subject in Masters and Johnson's study.[261] | ||||
Helen | Helen is lesbian. Betty and Helen are in a long-term relationship. Helen gets pregnant and dies during childbirth.[262] | ||||
2013–2016 | Masters of Sex | Barton Scully | Barton is a closeted gay and the provost at the university where Masters initiates his study. | ||
Dale | Dale is gay and a hustler whom Scully patronizes.[263] | ||||
Carl | Carl is gay and a hustler, and has sex with Dale. | ||||
Guy | Nick Clifford | Guy is a closeted gay.[264] | |||
Sarah | unknown baby | Sarah is intersex. The blood work suggests Sarah is a boy.[265] | |||
2013 | Murder in Passing | YouTube | Epicene | Epicene is a trans woman detective assigned to investigate the murder of Mars Brito, a trans man bike courier. The show was originally broadcast as a series of 30-second episodes on advertising video screens in the Toronto Transit Commission's subway system.[266] | |
Mars Brito | Mars Brito is a trans man bike courier, whose murder sparks an investigation into his death.[267] The noirish black and white series is now on YouTube.[268] | ||||
2013–2015 | My Mad Fat Diary | Archie | Dan Cohen | Archie is revealed to be gay when he is caught spying on the men's changing room in the leisure centre where he works.[269] | |
2013–2019 | Orange Is the New Black | Piper is bisexual and the protagonist of the series. She was in a relationship with Alex before breaking up with her and becoming engaged to Larry Bloom.[270] | |||
Alex Vause | Alex is lesbian, and an ex-drug dealer.[271] [272] | ||||
Sophia Burset | Sophia is a trans woman. (Laverne Cox is transgender in real life. The Advocate suggested that Orange is the New Black is the first women-in-prison series that includes a real transgender woman playing the role of a transgender person.[273]) | ||||
Nicky Nichols | Nicky is a lesbian.[274] | ||||
Crazy Eyes is a lesbian. | |||||
Carrie "Big Boo" Black | Big Boo is a lesbian.[275] | ||||
Tricia Miller | Tricia is a lesbian. | ||||
Poussey Washington | Poussey is a lesbian. | ||||
Lorna Morello | Lorna is bisexual and has been involved with men and women.[276] | ||||
Brook Soso | Brook is pansexual. She revealed that she is attracted to people, not genders.[277] | ||||
Artesian McCullough | Artesian is a lesbian correctional officer.[278] | ||||
Maureen Kukudio | Emily Althaus | Maureen is a lesbian.[279] | |||
Shani Abboud | Shani is a lesbian.[280] | ||||
Stella Carlin | Stella is a lesbian.[281] | ||||
Zelda | Zelda is a lesbian.[282] [283] | ||||
Desi Piscatella | Desi is an openly gay correctional officer.[284] | ||||
Dayanara "Daya" Diaz | Dayanara is "gay for the stay". She is dating Dominga.[285] | ||||
Dominga "Daddy" Duarte | Dominga is lesbian.[286] | ||||
2013–2017 | Orphan Black | Space BBC America | Cosima Niehaus | Cosima is lesbian and a graduate student in biology, and one of the clones.[287] | |
Felix Dawkins | Felix is gay and the foster brother and confidant of Sarah, the show's main protagonist.[288] | ||||
Delphine Cormier | Delphine is bisexual and in a relationship with Cosima.[289] | ||||
Tony Sawicki | Tatiana Maslany | Tony is a transgender clone introduced in Season 2.[290] | |||
Shay Davydov | Shay is a lesbian and had a brief relationship with Cosima.[291] | ||||
Sarah Manning | Sarah is bisexual. This was later confirmed as true by Tatiana Maslany at Comic Con 2016.[292] | ||||
Camilla Torres | Tatiana Maslany | Camilla is a lesbian.[293] | |||
2013– | Peaky Blinders | James | James is a gay writer who lives with Ada Shelby and her son, Karl.[294] | ||
2013–2016 | Please Like Me | ABC | Josh | Josh is openly gay, and dates several men throughout the series. | |
Geoffrey | Wade Briggs | Geoffrey was Josh's first boyfriend.[295] | |||
Patrick | Patrick is gay and had a brief fling with Josh.[296] | ||||
Arnold | Arnold was Josh's boyfriend through most of the series.[297] | ||||
Hannah | Hannah is a lesbian, and lives with Josh's mother.[298] | ||||
Ben | Ben is bisexual and was a one-night stand of Josh's.[299] [300] | ||||
Kyah | Kyah is lesbian, and Hannah's ex-girlfriend.[301] | ||||
2013–2020 | Ray Donovan | Lena | Lena is lesbian, and a personal assistant working for titular character Ray.[302] | ||
Tommy Wheeler | Tommy is a closeted gay actor.[303] | ||||
Justine | Alexandra Turshen | Justine is bisexual and was Lena's girlfriend.[304] | |||
Chloe Hunter | Alex Saxon | Chloe is a trans woman and a sex worker.[305] | |||
Jeannie | Rya Kihlstedt | Jeannie is lesbian, and Lena's ex-girlfriend.[306] | |||
2013–2018 | Elise is bisexual and has had sex with men out of practical necessity and has not experienced emotional involvement with any sex partner. Until she met Eryka Klein, Elise had never felt romantic attraction for someone. She falls in love with Eryka.[307] [308] | ||||
Eryka Klein | Laura De Boer | Eryka (lesbian) falls in love with Elise. | |||
2013–2015 | Under the Dome | Carolyn Hill | Hill and Calvert are raising a daughter, Norrie Calvert-Hill, together.[309] | ||
Alice Calvert | Alice is a lesbian. | ||||
2013–2020 | Vikings | Ragnar Lothbrok | Ragnar is bisexual and on multiple occasions, has asked Athelstan to join him and Lagertha in bed.[310] | ||
Lagertha | Lagertha is bisexual. In the season 4 time jump, she has been with Astrid for about 7 years.[311] | ||||
Astrid | Astrid is bisexual. In season 4, she has been in a relationship with Lagertha for 7 years. In season 5, after being kidnapped by King Harald, she marries him and grows to become fond of him.[312] | ||||
2013– | Wentworth | Franky Doyle | Franky is lesbian.[313] [314] | ||
Erica Davidson | Erica is bisexual.[315] | ||||
Kim Chang | Ra Chapman | Kim is bisexual.[316] | |||
Joan Ferguson | Joan is lesbian.[317] | ||||
Maxine Conway | Socratis Otto | Maxine is a transgender woman.[318] | |||
Bridget Westfall | Bridget is lesbian.[319] | ||||
Lucy Gambaro | Sally-Anne Upton | Lucy is lesbian.[320] | |||
Allie Novak | Allie is lesbian.[321] | ||||
Bea Smith | Bea is bisexual.[322] | ||||
Jodie Spiteri | Jodie is bisexual.[323] | ||||
Sean Brody | Rick Donald | Sean is gay and had a sexual relationship with Jake in the past.[324] | |||
Jake Stewart | Jake was in a sexual relationship with Sean. | ||||
Lou Kelly | Kate Box | Lou is lesbian.[325] | |||
Ruby Mitchell | Rarriwuy Hick | Ruby is lesbian.[326] | |||
Marie Winter | Susie Porter | Marie is bisexual.[327] | |||
Maxine Conway | Socratis Otto | Maxine is a trans woman. | |||
Reb Keane | Zoe Terakes | Reb is a trans man.[328] | |||
Spike Baxter | Kate Elliott | Spike is lesbian.[329] | |||
Zara Dragovich | Zara is lesbian.[330] | ||||
Dana Malouf | Daniielle Alexis | Dana is a trans woman.[331] | |||
Jianna Riley | Jianna is lesbian.[332] | ||||
Shelley Hayes | Alinta Chidzey | Shelley is lesbian.[333] | |||
Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
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2014– | Lexa is a lesbian.[334] | ||||
Clarke Griffin is bisexual. In season 1, Clarke has a relationship with Finn; in season 2 Clarke and Lexa kiss and consummate their relationship in season 3.[335] | |||||
Niylah | Niylah is a lesbian.[336] | ||||
Nathan Miller | Jarod Joseph | Nathan Miller is gay.[337] | |||
Bryan | Jonathan Whitesell | Bryan is gay.[338] | |||
Eric Jackson | Sachin Sahel | Eric Jackson is gay.[339] | |||
2014–2019 | The Affair | Showtime | Trevor Solloway | Jadon Sand | Trevor Solloway is a gay teen. He is the son of the main couple.[340] |
2014–2017 | Black Sails | James Flint | James Flint is bisexual and was in a past relationship with Thomas (revealed in season two) and his wife, Miranda. Flint and Thomas's separation was the reason for Flint waging war against the British empire.[341] | ||
Eleanor Guthrie | Eleanor Guthrie is bisexual. In season one, she is in a relationship with Max.[342] | ||||
Max | Max is a lesbian. She is Eleanor's lover, then has a romantic relationship with Anne.[343] | ||||
Anne Bonny | Anne Bonny is bisexual. She starts a relationship with Max in season two.[344] | ||||
Thomas Hamilton | Thomas Hamilton was Flint's lover.[345] | ||||
2014– | Bosch | Amazon Prime Video | Grace Billets | Grace Billets has a lesbian affair with a Black female colleague in the LAPD, Kizmin Rider.[346] [347] [348] She is a lieutenant who is a supervisor of the show's protagonist, Harry Bosch, at Hollywood Station.[349] [350] | |
Kizmin Rider | The girlfriend of Grace Billets and detective with the LAPD.[351] | ||||
2014–2016 | Carmilla | Carmilla Karnstein | Carmilla Karnstein is a 100+ year old lesbian vampire. | ||
Laura Hollis | Laura Hollis is a lesbian. Carmilla and Laura are in a relationship. | ||||
Danny Lawrence | Danny Lawrence is a lesbian. | ||||
S. LaFontaine | LaFontaine is non-binary.[352] | ||||
2014–2015 | Chasing Life | Brenna Carver | Brenna Carver is bisexual. She begins a relationship with Greer, despite the fact that Brenna already had a boyfriend. Later she chooses Greer over her boyfriend and they begin a relationship.[353] | ||
Greer Danville | Greer Danville is a lesbian.[354] | ||||
Margo | Margo is a lesbian.[355] | ||||
Juliet | Leisha Hailey | Juliet is a lesbian.[356] | |||
2014–2016 | Faking It | Amy Raudenfeld | Amy Raudenfeld is a lesbian.[357] | ||
Shane Harvey | Shane Harvey is openly gay.[358] | ||||
Lauren Cooper | Lauren Cooper is intersex.[359] | ||||
Reagan | Reagan is lesbian and Amy's girlfriend in season 2.[360] | ||||
Noah | Elliot Fletcher | Noah is a trans man.[361] | |||
Sabrina | Sophia Ali | Sabrina is a lesbian.[362] | |||
2014–2015 | Finding Carter | Bird | Bird is bisexual and Madison is her love interest.[363] | ||
Madison | Molly Kunz | Madison is lesbian.[364] | |||
2014– | David Singh is openly gay and the Central City police commander. He is married to Rob.[365] | ||||
Rob | Jeremy Schuetze | Rob is gay. | |||
Hartley Rathaway is openly gay.[366] | |||||
Nora West-Allen is queer.[367] | |||||
Kate Kane is lesbian. | |||||
Marlize DeVoe | Kim Engelbrecht | Marlize DeVoe is bisexual.[368] | |||
Alex Danvers | Chyler Leigh | Alex Danvers is lesbian (guest appearance - 2017).[369] | |||
2014 | Glue | James Warwick | James Warwick and Caleb "Cal" Bray were romantically involved. | ||
Caleb "Cal" Bray | Caleb "Cal" Bray and James Warwick were romantically involved, before Cal was murdered.[370] | ||||
2014–2019 | Gotham | Renee Montoya is lesbian, and is the ex-girlfriend of Barbara Kean. | |||
Barbara Kean is bisexual.[371] | |||||
Tabitha Galavan is bisexual.[372] | |||||
The Lady | The Lady is bisexual.[373] | ||||
Oswald Cobblepot is in love with Edward Nygma.[374] | |||||
2014– | Grantchester | Leonard Finch | Leonard Finch is gay. | ||
Daniel Marlowe | Daniel Marlowe is gay.[375] | ||||
Alex Simms | Tom Turner | Alex Simms is gay.[376] | |||
2014–2017 | Halt and Catch Fire | Joe MacMillan | Joe MacMillan is bisexual and a main character of the show.[377] | ||
Malcolm "Lev" Levitan | Lev is openly gay.[378] | ||||
Haley Clark | Susanna Skaggs | Haley Clark is revealed to be lesbian in season 4.[379] | |||
2014–2015 | Heartless | Sofie | Julie Zangenberg | Sofie is a succubus lesbian that feeds on the life force of humans. She falls in love with Emilie. | |
Emilie | Julie Christiansen | Emilie is lesbian and falls in love with Sofie.[380] | |||
2014– | How to Get Away with Murder | Annalise Keating is pansexual. She teaches law at college.[381] [382] | |||
Eve Rothlo | Eve Rothlo is lesbian.[383] | ||||
Connor Walsh is a gay law student. Connor Walsh and Oliver Hampton begin to date on and off throughout the seasons, culminating in their marriage in season 5. | |||||
Oliver Hampton is gay and an I.T. specialist whom Connor Walsh first seduced to get information. Over time, the two develop feelings for each other. They marry in season 5, and remain happy.[384] | |||||
Bonnie Winterbottom is bisexual.[385] | |||||
Aiden Walker | Aiden Walker is bisexual. He slept with Connor and was engaged to a woman.[386] | ||||
Simon Drake | Behzad Dabu | Simon Drake is gay.[387] | |||
Tegan Price | Tegan Price is lesbian.[388] | ||||
Jeff Walsh | Jeff Walsh is gay. He is Connor's dad. | ||||
Ted | Jim Abele | Ted is gay and married to Jeff Walsh.[389] | |||
Jill Hartford | Jill Hartford is a trans woman.[390] | ||||
Claire Telesco | Melinda Page Hamilton | Claire Telesco is a lesbian.[391] | |||
Cora | Mercedes Mason | Cora is bisexual. She is Tegan's ex-wife.[392] | |||
Nanda Hashim | Ramona DuBarry | Nanda Hashim is bisexual.[393] | |||
Dani Alvodar | Alyssa Diaz | Dani Alvodar is a lesbian.[394] | |||
2014–2019 | Jane the Virgin | Luisa Alver | Luisa Alver is lesbian. | ||
Rose Solano | Rose Solano is lesbian. | ||||
Wesley Masters | Brian Jordan Alvarez | Wesley Masters is an openly gay writer attending grad school with Jane.[395] | |||
Krishna | Shelly Bhalla | Krishna is lesbian and Petra's secretary.[396] | |||
Adam Alvaro | Adam Alvaro is bisexual.[397] | ||||
Jane Ramos | Jane Ramos is openly lesbian and a shady lawyer. | ||||
Petra Andel | Petra Andel is queer.[398] | ||||
Eileen | Elisabeth Röhm | Eileen is lesbian.[399] | |||
Marlene Donaldson | Melanie Mayron | Marlene Donaldson is lesbian.[400] | |||
Susanna Barnett | Megan Ketch | Susanna Barnett is lesbian.[401] | |||
Allison | Iyari Limon | Allison is lesbian.[402] | |||
Dana | A Leslie Kies | Dana is lesbian.[403] | |||
Leona | Zelda Williams | Leona is lesbian.[404] | |||
2014– | Janet King | Janet King and Ashleigh Larsson are a lesbian couple.[405] | |||
Ash Larsson | Aimee Pedersen | Ash Larsson is lesbian. | |||
Bianca Grieve | In Season 3, Janet King and Bianca Grieve enter into a relationship.[406] | ||||
2014–2017 | Kingdom | Nate Kulina | Nate Kulina is a closeted gay MMA fighter.[407] | ||
Will | Will is gay and Nate's love interest.[408] | ||||
2014–2018 | Alisha Granderson | Alisha Granderson is lesbian.[409] | |||
Kelsi Baker | Caitlin Gerard | Kelsi Baker is lesbian.[410] | |||
2014–2018 | Cassandra Killian | Cassandra Killian is bisexual.[411] | |||
2014–2015 | Looking | Patrick Murray | Patrick Murray is gay and a video-game developer.[412] [413] | ||
Agustín Lanuez | Agustín Lanuez is gay.[414] | ||||
Dom Basaluzzo | Dom Basaluzzo is gay.[415] | ||||
Kevin Matheson | Kevin Matheson is gay.[416] | ||||
Ricardo "Richie" Donado Ventura | Ricardo "Richie" Donado Ventura is gay.[417] | ||||
Frank | Frank is gay. | ||||
Lynn | Lynn is gay. | ||||
Eddie | Eddie is gay.[418] | ||||
2014– | Madam Secretary | Blake Moran | Blake Moran comes out as bisexual at the end of season 3.[419] | ||
Kat Sandoval | Kat Sandoval is bisexual.[420] [421] | ||||
Ali Krieger | Ali Krieger is a lesbian. She does a public service announcement for equal pay. She is a member of the World Cup Champion U.S. Women's Soccer team.[422] [423] | ||||
Ashlyn Harris | Ashlyn Harris is a lesbian. She does a public service announcement for equal pay. She is a member of the World Cup Champion U.S. Women's Soccer team. | ||||
Maryam Gagulia | Amanda M. Rodriguez | Maryam Gagulia is a lesbian.[424] | |||
Ana Ivanba | Anastasia Baranova | Ana Ivanba is a lesbian.[425] | |||
2014 | Matador | Reyna Flores | Reyna Flores is a lesbian. She is a sideline news reporter.[426] [427] | ||
Silda Patel | Mouzam Makkar | Silda Patel is a lesbian. She is Reyna Flores' secret girlfriend.[428] | |||
2014–2016 | Max Carnegie | Max Carnegie is gay.[429] | |||
2014– | Tammy Gregorio is a lesbian.[430] | ||||
Eva Azarova | Cassidy Freeman | Eva Azarova is a lesbian.[431] | |||
Hannah Lee | Meghan Ory | Hannah Lee is a lesbian.[432] | |||
2014–2017 | Drew Allister | Drew Allister is gay. | |||
Rick | Rick is Drew's boyfriend, introduced in season 1, episode 6 when he is involved in a bus accident.[433] | ||||
2014 | Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files | YouTube | Nikki Beaumont | Liz Vassey | Nikki Beaumont is a lesbian private detective in New Orleans. She investigates cases with her partner Nora, who is also her lover.[434] [435] |
Nora Delaney | Christina Cox | Nora Delaney is a lesbian, and a private investigator. Her partner is Nikki, who is also her lover. | |||
2014– | Nord bei Nordwest | Hannah Wagner | Hannah Wagner is lesbian. The police officer arrives in the fictional village Schwanitz to succeed the deceased Lona Vogt. She answers the question of when her husband will come by stating: "I don't have a husband. I like women."[436] [437] | ||
2014– | Outlander | Duke of Sandringham | The Duke of Sandringham is queer.[438] | ||
Jonathan Randall (aka Black Jack) | Black Jack is queer.[439] [440] | ||||
Lord John Grey | Lord John Grey is gay.[441] | ||||
2014 | Øyevitne | Philip | Axel Bøyum | Philip and Henning are 15-year-old boys secretly in love. After witnessing a murder at a quarry, they vow to never tell anyone in order to keep their relationship a secret.[442] [443] | |
Henning | Odin Waage | ||||
2014–2015 | Red Band Society | Sarah Souders | Sarah Souders is bisexual.[444] | ||
Kenji Gomez-Rejon | Kenji Gomez-Rejon is a gay nurse.[445] | ||||
Daniella | Tricia O'Kelley | Daniella is a lesbian.[446] | |||
2014 | Star-Crossed | Sophia | Sophia is pansexual and has a crush on Taylor.[447] | ||
Nikki | Nikki is lesbian.[448] | ||||
2014–2019 | Transparent | Maura Pfefferman | Maura Pfefferman is a trans woman. She was killed off in the series finale.[449] [450] | ||
Sarah Pfefferman | Sarah Pfefferman is bisexual. She is the oldest of the Pfefferman children.[451] | ||||
Tammy Cashman | Tammy Cashman is a lesbian.[452] | ||||
Sydney Feldman | Sydney Feldman is bisexual.[453] | ||||
Ali Pfefferman | Ali Pfefferman is bisexual. Ali is the youngest of the Pfefferman children.[454] | ||||
Davina | Davina is a trans woman.[455] | ||||
Shea | Shea is a trans woman.[456] | ||||
Tanta Gittel | Tanta Gittel is a trans woman.[457] | ||||
Leslie Mackinaw | Leslie Mackinaw is a lesbian. Leslie was introduced in the second season.[458] | ||||
Vicki | Vicki has an emotional sexual relationship with Maura.[459] | ||||
Barb | Barb is a lesbian. She was a very minor character.[460] | ||||
Lila | Lila is bisexual.[461] | ||||
Marcy | Marcy is a cross-dresser and went to trans camp, where they were free to express their femininity, with Maura.[462] | ||||
Adriana | Hailie Sahar | Adriana is a trans woman.[463] | |||
Carmen | Mariana Marroquin | Carmen is a trans woman.[464] | |||
Eleanor | Zackary Drucker | Eleanor is a trans woman.[465] | |||
Lorena | Harmony Santana | Lorena is a trans woman.[466] | |||
Zelda | Becky Thyre | Zelda is a lesbian.[467] | |||
Celeste | Jill Soloway | Celeste is a lesbian.[468] | |||
Elizah Edwards | Alexandra Grey | Elizah Edwards is a trans woman.[469] | |||
Omar | Rocco Kayiatos | Omar is a trans man.[470] | |||
Bella | Bobbi Salvör Menuez | Bella is a lesbian.[471] | |||
Dale | Ian Harvie | Dale is a trans man.[472] | |||
Pony | Jiz Lee | Pony is queer.[473] | |||
2014– | True Detective | Paul Woodrugh | Paul Woodrugh is a closeted gay detective and war veteran (season 2). He had an intimate relationship with a squadmate. He's in relationship with a woman but has to take viagra to have sex with her.[474] | ||
Tom Purcell | Tom Purcell is gay and closeted. He's the father of two missing children.[475] | ||||
2014–2016 | Tyrant | Sammy Al-Fayeed | Noah Silver | Sammy Al-Fayeed is gay, living in the fictional Middle Eastern country of Abbudin, where homosexuality is illegal. His boyfriend is killed by ISIS.[476] [477] | |
Abdul | Mehdi Dehbi | Abdul is a closeted young man whose family has long served as security for the Al-Fayeed family.[478] | |||
Haitham El-Amin | Raphael Acloque | Professor Haitham El-Amin has a secret relationship with Samy.[479] | |||
Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
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2015–2018 | 12 Monkeys | Oliver Peters | Ramon de Ocampo | Oliver Peters is a gay widow. In season 1, episode 10, Oliver makes reference to his dead husband.[480] | |
2015–2017 | American Crime (season 2) | Eric Tanner | Eric Tanner is a closeted gay high school basketball player accused of sexual assaulting Taylor Blaine at a party. He is forced to come out after being questioned by the police, by showing them sexually explicit texts between him and Taylor. During one scene in the show Eric says, "I'm gay but I'm not a faggot", which was the first time that word was said on ABC.[481] [482] | ||
Taylor Blaine | Taylor Blaine is a closeted gay teen who accuses members on the high school basketball team of sexually assaulting him, and posting photos of the assault online. He too is forced to come out when Eric reveals the sexually explicit text messages between the two, which show Taylor actually went to the party to hook up with Eric. Meanwhile, Taylor's mom gets the police involved, which Taylor really doesn't want.[483] | ||||
Luke | Taylor John Smith | Luke is gay and shares a passionate kiss with Taylor.[484] | |||
2015–2016 | Aquarius | Charles Manson is bisexual. He had sex with Ken in exchange for giving him money for living. John McNamara, the creator of the show, said the story about Manson is historical fiction.[485] [486] | |||
Ken Karn | Ken Karn is gay and came out to his daughter.[487] | ||||
2015 | Backstrom | Gregory Valentine | Gregory Valentine is gay, an ex-hustler, and an entrepreneurial crook.[488] | ||
2015 | Banana | Freddie Baxter | Freddie Baxter is bisexual/pansexual (though it is never named), and is completely "hardwired to fuck", according to actor Freddie Fox.[489] [490] | ||
Dean Monroe | Fisayo Akinade | Dean Monroe is gay.[491] | |||
Henry Best | Henry Best is a gay middle-aged insurance salesman, happily settled with his boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan.[492] | ||||
Lance Sullivan | Lance Sullivan is gay. | ||||
Vivienne "Scotty" Scott | Vivienne "Scotty" Scott is a lesbian.[493] | ||||
Vanessa Moore | Lynn Hunter | Vanessa Moore is a lesbian.[494] | |||
Sian Moore | Sian Moore is a lesbian.[495] | ||||
Violet | Violet is a lesbian, and likes to party.[496] | ||||
Amy | Charlie Covell | Amy is a neurotic lesbian.[497] | |||
Helen Brears | Bethany Black | Helen Brears is a trans woman.[498] | |||
Kay | T'Nia Miller | Kay is a lesbian.[499] | |||
2015– | Blindspot | Bethany Mayfair | Bethany Mayfair is a lesbian, and assistant Director In Charge of the FBI's New York Field Office.[500] | ||
Sofia Varma | Sophia Varma is a lesbian, and former girlfriend of Bethany. She faked her death.[501] | ||||
Alexandra | Alexandra is a lesbian, she was in a relationship with Bethandy until she got stabbed.[502] | ||||
Rich Dotcom | Rich Dotcom is bisexual.[503] | ||||
2015–2018 | Casual | Laura Meyers | Laura Meyers is a bisexual teenage girl who is continually exploring her sexual orientation.[504] | ||
Aubrey | Aubrey is bisexual. Her boyfriend is Max, and she has casual sex with Laura.[505] | ||||
Tathiana | Tathiana is a lesbian, and Laura's girlfriend for a while.[506] | ||||
Emmy | Emmy is bisexual. Her boyfriend is Alex, and he breaks up with her after discovering she had sex with his sister.[507] | ||||
Alyssa | Teri Andrez | Alyssa is bisexual. She was invited for a threesome with Alex and Emmy, but Alex gets cold feet.[508] | |||
2015– | Cheetah In August | August Chandler | Andre Myers | August Chandler struggles to understand his mental condition or sexual power. The series is described as a black gay web series.[509] | |
2015– | Club de Cuervos | Aitor Cardoné | Alosian Vivancos | Aitor Cardoné is a pansexual soccer player.[510] | |
2015–2018 | Code Black | Malaya Pineda | Malaya Pineda is lesbian and a second year resident as of season 2.[511] | ||
Carla Niven | Carla Niven is bisexual and Malaya's former girlfriend.[512] | ||||
Noa Kean | Noa Kean is bisexual, and works in the ER.[513] | ||||
2015 | Complications | Gretchen Polk | Gretchen Polk is a lesbian.[514] | ||
2015–2019 | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | White Josh Wilson | White Josh is gay.[515] | ||
Darryl Whitefeather | Darryl Whitefeather is bisexual, and in a relationship with White Josh but eventually marries a woman.[516] | ||||
Maya | Maya is bisexual.[517] | ||||
Valencia Perez | Valencia Perez becomes aware that she is bisexual when she starts dating a woman named Beth (Emma Willmann) late in Season 3.[518] | ||||
2015 | Cucumber | Freddie Baxter | Freddie Baxter is bisexual, and is completely "hardwired to fuck", according to actor Freddie Fox. | ||
Dean Monroe | Fisayo Akinade | Dean Monroe is gay. | |||
Henry Best | Henry Best is a gay middle-aged insurance salesman, happily settled with his boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan. | ||||
Lance Sullivan | Lance Sullivan is gay. | ||||
Vivienne "Scotty" Scott | Letitia Wright | Vivienne "Scotty" Scott is a lesbian. | |||
Vanessa Moore | Lynn Hunter | Vanessa Moore is a lesbian. | |||
Sian Moore | Sian Moore is a lesbian. | ||||
Violet | Violet is a lesbian, and likes to party. | ||||
Amy | Charlie Covell | Amy is a neurotic lesbian. | |||
Helen Brears | Bethany Black | Helen Brears is a trans woman. | |||
Kay | T'Nia Miller | Kay is a lesbian. | |||
2015 | Cuffs | Jake Vickers | Jake Vickers is gay.[519] [520] | ||
Simon Reddington | Andrew Hawley | Simon Reddington is gay.[521] | |||
Donna Prager | Donna Prager is a lesbian.[522] | ||||
Alice Gove | Alice Gove is a lesbian.[523] | ||||
2015–2017 | Dark Matter | Two | Two is bisexual.[524] | ||
Dr. Irena Shaw | Irena Shaw is a lesbian.[525] | ||||
2015 | Deutschland 83 | Alexander Edel | Alexander Edel is the rebellious son of General Edel and has sex with Tobias.[526] [527] [528] | ||
Tobias Tischbier | Tobias Tischbier is gay and works as a professor at the University of Bonn. | ||||
Felix von Schwerin | Florian Bartholomäi | Felix von Schwerin is gay. | |||
2015 | Dig | Detective Golan Cohen | Ori Pfeffer | Detective Golan Cohen is a gay detective. He lives with his son and with Udi.[529] | |
Udi | Tsahi Halevi | Udi is Golan's boyfriend.[530] | |||
2015–2018 | È arrivata la felicità | Valeria Camilli | Valeria Camilli and Rita Nardelli are lesbians.[531] [532] | ||
Rita Nardelli | Federica De Cola | ||||
2015– | Empire | Jamal Lyon is gay, he is the middle son of the Lyon family, and a talented singer-songwriter.[533] [534] | |||
Michael Sanchez | Michael Sanchez is gay and Jamal's ex-boyfriend.[535] | ||||
Tiana Brown | Tiana Brown is bisexual.[536] | ||||
India Spring | Elizabeth Whitson | India Spring is lesbian, and had an affair with Tiana Brown. | |||
Ryan Morgan | Ryan Morgan is an openly gay filmmaker. He hooks up with Jamal.[537] | ||||
Mimi Whiteman | Mimi Whiteman is a lesbian.[538] | ||||
D-Major (aka Derek) | D-Major is Jamal Lyon's secret lover. He is a music producer.[539] [540] | ||||
Tory Ash | Tory Ash was flirting and soaking in a hot tub with Tiana.[541] | ||||
Rhonda Lyon | Kaitlin Doubleday | Rhonda Lyon is bisexual.[542] | |||
Freda Gatz | Freda Gatz is a lesbian.[543] [544] | ||||
Melody Barnes | Alexandra Grey | Melody Barnes is a trans woman. She is the victim of transphobia when Lucious finds out she is transgender, and he refuses to let her sing.[545] | |||
Camilla Marks-Whiteman | Naomi Campbell | Camilla Marks-Whiteman is bisexual.[546] | |||
2015– | The Expanse | Anna Volovodov | Anna Volovodov is a lesbian and has a wife and daughter.[547] | ||
Julie Mao | Julie Mao is pansexual, according to her dating profile.[548] | ||||
Camina Drummer | Camina Drummer is pansexual.[549] | ||||
Oksana | Sandrine Holt | Oksana is pansexual.[550] | |||
Namono Volovodov | Raven Dauda | Namono Volovodov is a lesbian.[551] | |||
2015 | Eye Candy | Connor North | John Garet Stoker | Connor North is gay and dates Oliver in Season 1.[552] | |
Oliver | Parker Pogue | ||||
2015– | Fear The Walking Dead | Victor Strand | Victor Strand and Thomas Abigail are gay and were in a relationship.[553] | ||
Thomas Abigail | Dougray Scott | ||||
Althea ("Al") Szewczek-Przygocki | Althea ("Al") Szewczek-Przygocki is lesbian.[554] | ||||
Isabelle | Sydney Lemmon | Isabelle is lesbian. | |||
2015 | Flesh and Bones | Paul Grayson | Paul Grayson is bisexual. | ||
Trey | Karell Williams | Trey is gay.[555] | |||
Eduardo | Anthony Lee Medina | Eduardo is a rent boy.[556] | |||
2015– | Glitch | Charlie Thompson | Charlie Thompson is gay and one of the characters who rises from the dead with no memory. Through a series of flashbacks he regains his memory and we learn that he was in love and in a relationship with one of his fellow soldiers.[557] | ||
Gay Man #1 | Nick Hedger | Gay Man #1, Gay Man #2, Gay Older Man; characters that appeared in season 3, episode "First Times".[558] | |||
Gay Man #2 | Ben Nicholson | ||||
Gay Older Man | Damian Oehme | ||||
2015 | Home Fires | Teresa Fenchurch | Teresa Fenchurch is a closeted lesbian.[559] | ||
Connie Ward | Rachael Elizabeth | Connie Ward is a lesbian and died on a ship sunk by German U-boats. | |||
2015–2018 | Humans (aka HUM∀NS) | Niska | Niska is pansexual, and a synth (synthetic human). She falls in love with Astrid who is a human.[560] | ||
Astrid | Astrid is bisexual, and falls in love with Synth Niska.[561] | ||||
2015–2019 | Into the Badlands | Tilda | Tilda is queer. Her brief love interest is Odessa.[562] | ||
Odessa | Maddison Jaizani | Odessa is a lesbian, and have a brief relationship with Tilda.[563] | |||
2015–2019 | Jessica Jones | Jeri Hogarth is lesbian. In season 2, she finds out that she has ALS and deals with the diagnosis by having an orgy with female sex workers.[564] [565] [566] [567] | |||
Wendy Ross-Hogarth is lesbian and Jeri's wife. They are divorcing.[568] | |||||
Susie Abromeit | Pam is lesbian, and Jeri's assistant and mistress.[569] | ||||
Kith Lyonne | Kith Lyonne is bisexual.[570] | ||||
Gillian | Gillian is a trans woman, and Jessica's tough as nails assistant. Gillian is portrayed by an openly trans actress.[571] | ||||
Inez Green | Inez Green is bisexual.[572] | ||||
Wendy Ross-Hogarth | Wendy Ross-Hogarth is a lesbian, and Jeri's ex-wife.[573] [574] | ||||
Makayla | Cece King | Makayla is a bisexual sex worker.[575] | |||
Pam | Susie Abromeit | Pam is a lesbian, and Jeri's former lover.[576] | |||
2015–2019 | Killjoys | Prima "Pree" Dezz | Thom Allison | Prima "Pree" Dezz is gay, and promoted to governor.[577] | |
Kendry Delle Seyah | Kendry Delle Seyah is a lesbian.[578] | ||||
Aneela Kin Ritt | Aneela Kin Ritt is a lesbian. | ||||
Dutch | Hannah John-Kamen | Dutch is pansexual.[579] | |||
2015 | London Spy | Danny Holt | Danny Holt is gay, and a warehouse worker. Alex is his boyfriend, until he is found dead.[580] | ||
Alex | Alex is a gay spy, and Danny's boyfriend. He is found dead locked in a trunk.[581] | ||||
Scottie | Scottie is gay, and Danny's best friend. He scolds Alex for being secretive all the time.[582] | ||||
2015–2020 | Eliot Waugh | Eliot Waugh is a gay king of a fantasy realm.[583] | |||
Quentin Coldwater | Quentin Coldwater is bisexual. He slept with Eliot and Margo.[584] | ||||
Dark King | The Dark King is gay.[585] | ||||
Margo Hanson | Margo Hanson is bisexual.[586] | ||||
Marina Andrieski | Marina Andrieski is lesbian.[587] | ||||
2015–2021 | Master of None | Denise | Denise is the lesbian best friend of main character Dev.[588] | ||
Alicia | Alicia is Denise's wife.[589] | ||||
2015–2018 | Merlí | Bruno | Bruno is gay and hasn't come out of the closet. He is in love with Pol, with whom he made out at a party.[590] | ||
Oliver | Iñaki Mur | Oliver is gay. | |||
Pol | Pol's sexual preference has been questioned In the second season Bruno and Pol have sex. | ||||
Quima | Manel Barceló | Quima is a trans woman. | |||
2015–2019 | Mr. Robot | Gideon Goddard | Gideon Goddard is gay, and the boss of the main character, Elliot.[591] | ||
Tyrell Wellick | Tyrell Wellick is bisexual and sleeps with Anwar Raziz. | ||||
Whiterose | Whiterose, the leader of a hacking collective, is a transgender woman.[592] | ||||
Harry Davis | Harry Davis is gay and Gideon's partner.[593] | ||||
Anwar Raziz | Mitchell Winter | Anwar Raziz is gay. | |||
Carla | Carla is transgender.[594] | ||||
Dominique DiPierro | Dominique DiPierro is lesbian, and an FBI agent.[595] | ||||
Darlene Alderson | Darlene Alderson is bisexual, and a computer programmer and hacker.[596] | ||||
2015–2017 | Narcos | Hélmer "Pacho" Herrera is a gay Colombian drug lord.[597] | |||
2015 | Olympus | Prince Lykos | Wade Burns | Prince Lykos is gay. Kimon is his lover. | |
Kimon | Kimon is gay and Prince Lykos' scribe and lover.[598] | ||||
Adriadne | Sophia Lauchlin Hirt | Adriadne is bisexual.[599] | |||
2015–2018 | The Path | Hawk Lane | Kyle Allen | In the third season, Hawk Lane is sexually involved with a closeted gay Christian youth named Caleb Matthews.[600] | |
Caleb Matthews | Titus Makin Jr. | Caleb Matthews is gay, and has a relationship with Hawk Lane. | |||
Mary Cox | Mary Cox is bisexual. | ||||
Betsy | Whitney Crowder | Betsy is a lesbian.[601] | |||
2015–2018 | Quantico | Elias Harper | Elias Harper is an openly gay intelligence analyst trainee at the FBI Academy.[602] | ||
Hannah Wyland | Hannah Wyland is bisexual and is Ryan Booth's ex-wife.[603] | ||||
Harry Doyle | Harry Doyle is an openly gay MI6 agent and CIA trainee. | ||||
Will Olsen | Will Olsen is a gay computer hacker.[604] | ||||
Sebastian Chen | Sebastian Chen is gay.[605] | ||||
2015 | Dr. Julie Han | Dr. Julie Han is a lesbian. | |||
Deputy Nikki Banks | Nikki Banks is a lesbian.[606] | ||||
2015 | River | Jordy Merton | Jordy and Sasha had a secret relationship. | ||
Sasha Mischenko | Alec Utgoff | ||||
2015–2017 | Rosewood | Pippy Rosewood | Pippy Rosewood is a lesbian. She has a relationship with TMI (Tara Milly Izikoff).[607] | ||
Tara Milly Izikoff | Anna Konkle | Tara Milly Izikoff is bisexual, and in a relationship with Pippy.[608] | |||
Cassie | Tia Mowry | Cassie is a lesbian, and Pippy's ex-girlfriend.[609] | |||
2015–2018 | Eleanor Henstridge | Eleanor Henstridge is bisexual, and formerly involved with her bodyguard, Jasper.[610] | |||
Samantha Cook | Samantha Cook is bisexual and ex-girlfriend of Jasper.[611] | ||||
2015–2018 | Sense8 | Wolfgang Bogdanow | Wolfgang Bogdanow is bisexual. | ||
Sun Bak | Sun Bak is pansexual.[612] | ||||
Nomi Marks | Nomi Marks is a pansexual trans woman.[613] | ||||
Kala Dandekar | Kala Dandekar is pansexual.[614] | ||||
Riley Blue | Riley Blue is pansexual.[615] | ||||
Capheus Onyango | Aml Ameen (season 1) | Capheus Onyango is bisexual.[616] | |||
Lito Rodriguez | Lito Rodriguez is gay. | ||||
Will Gorski | Will Gorski is bisexual.[617] | ||||
Hernando | Hernando is gay and Lito's boyfriend. | ||||
Amanita Caplan | Amanita Caplan is bisexual and Nomi's girlfriend.[618] | ||||
Raoul Pasquale | Raoul Pasquale is Lito's first gay lover.[619] | ||||
Zakia Asalache | Zakia Asalache is pansexual.[620] | ||||
Angelica Turing | Angelica Turing is pansexual.[621] | ||||
Lila Facchini | Valeria Bilello | Lila Facchini is pansexual. | |||
Bodhi | Sarah Kants | Bodhi is pansexual. | |||
George | Arly Jover | George is a lesbian. | |||
Sara Patrell | Margot Thorne | Sara Patrell is pansexual. | |||
Carol Cumberland | Janet Ulrich Brooks | Carol Cumberland is pansexual. | |||
The Mother | The Mother is pansexual. | ||||
2015–2017 | Skam | Eskild Tryggvasson | Carl Martin Eggesbø | Eskild Tryggvasson is gay. | |
Isak Valtersen | Isak Valtersen is gay.[622] | ||||
Even Bech Næsheim | Henrik Holm | Even Bech Næsheim is gay. | |||
2015–2017 | Stitchers | Camille Engelson | Camille Engelson is bisexual. | ||
Amanda Weston | Amanda Weston is a lesbian.[623] | ||||
2015– | Supergirl | Alex Danvers comes out as a lesbian. She is the adopted sister of Supergirl.[624] | |||
Maggie Sawyer is a lesbian and a police detective.[625] | |||||
Nia Nal(Dreamer) | Nicole Maines | Nia Nal is a transgender woman working at CatCO.[626] | |||
Kelly Olsen is a lesbian. | |||||
2015–2016 | This Life | Oliver Lawson | Oliver Lawson is gay and the brother of the main character.[627] | ||
2015– | Unforgotten | Eric Slater | Eric Slater is bisexual.[628] | ||
Jimmy Sullivan | Jimmy Sullivan was Eric's gay lover. | ||||
Colin Osborne | Colin Osborne is gay. | ||||
Simon Osborne | Simon Osborne is gay and Colin's husband.[629] | ||||
2015–2018 | UnREAL | Jay | Jay is a gay TV producer.[630] | ||
Faith | Breeda Wool | Faith is a lesbian.[631] | |||
Alexi Petrov | Alexi Petrov is gay.[632] | ||||
Xavier | Jaime Callica | Xavier is gay.[633] | |||
Fiona | Fiona is a lesbian.[634] | ||||
2015–2018 | Versailles | Philippe d'Orléans | Philippe d'Orléans is gay.[635] | ||
Chevalier de Lorraine | Chevalier de Lorraine is gay.[636] | ||||
2015–2016 | Wayward Pines | Frank Armstrong | Michael Garza | Frank Armstrong is gay.[637] | |
2015– | Westside | Bjelke "Bilkey" van Heeder | Todd Emerson | Bjelke "Bilkey" van Heeder is gay.[638] | |
2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Scotty McNeil | Scotty McNeil is gay. | ||
Arnold Gaines | Arnold Gaines is gay.[639] | ||||
2015– | Younger | Maggie | Maggie is lesbian. | ||
Lauren Heller | Lauren Heller is lesbian.[640] | ||||