This is a list of dramatic television series (including web television and miniseries) that premiered in 2016–2019 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–2020 | 3% | Joana Coelho | Vaneza Oliveira | Joana is bisexual and an orphan who survived on her own at the margins of society on the streets of the Inland.[1] | |
| Natália | Amanda Magalhães | Natalia is lesbian and Joana's partner. Joana and Natalia start a revolution against Maralto. | |||
| Ariel | Marina Matheus | Ariel is a trans woman. | |||
| Láis | Láis is bisexual. | ||||
| Samira | Samira is bisexual. | ||||
| 2016- | Addicted | Bai Luo Yin | Luo Yin is the main character and Gu Hai's love interest.[2] | ||
| Gu Hai | Gu Hai is the main character and Luo Yin's love interest. | ||||
| 2016 | American Gothic | Alison Hawthorne-Price | Alison Hawthorne-Price is bisexual.[3] | ||
| Naomi Flynn | Maureen Sebastian | Naomi Flynn is a lesbian.[4] | |||
| 2016–2022 | Animal Kingdom | Deran Cody | Deran Cody is gay.[5] | ||
| Lila Cole | Lila Cole is a lesbian.[6] | ||||
| Adrian Dolan | Adrian Dolan is gay.[7] | ||||
| Janine "Smurf" Cody | Janine "Smurf" Cody is bisexual.[8] | ||||
| Mark Liston | Andy Favreau | Mark Liston is gay.[9] | |||
| Linc | Damon Erik Williams | Linc is gay.[10] | |||
| 2016 | Barracuda | Danny Kelly | Elias Anton | Danny Kelly is gay.[11] | |
| Martin Taylor | Ben Kindon | Martin Taylor is Danny Kelly's love interest.[12] | |||
| Demet | Nicole Gulasekharam | Demet is a lesbian.[13] | |||
| 2016–2019 | Berlin Station | Hector DeJean | Hector DeJean is gay when it's a matter of national security.[14] | ||
| 2016–2022 | Better Things | Sil | Ser Anzoategui | Sil is non-binary.[15] | |
| Tressa | Rebecca Merz | Tressa is a lesbian.[16] | |||
| Frankie Fox | Hannah Alligood | Frankie Fox is gender queer.[17] [18] | |||
| Mer Kodis | Marsha Thomason | Mer Kodis is a lesbian.[19] | |||
| 2016– | Billions | Tara Mohr | Annapurna Sriram | Tara Mohr is a lesbian.[20] | |
| Donnie Caan | Donnie Caan and Walter are married.[21] | ||||
| Walter | Matthew Humphreys | ||||
| Taylor Mason | Taylor Mason is non-binary.[22] | ||||
| Lauren Turner | Lauren Turner is a lesbian.[23] | ||||
| Fiona | Michaela Sprague | Fiona is a lesbian.[24] | |||
| 2016–2022 | Bull | Chunk Palmer | Chunk Palmer is gay.[25] | ||
| 2016–2017 | Margot Bishop | Margot Bishop is bisexual.[26] | |||
| Felicity | Felicity is bisexual.[27] | ||||
| Shawn Sullivan | Caleb Smith | Shawn Sullivan is gay. Shawn Sullivan asks Danny Yoon out on a date. Danny Yoon declines. Sophie Novak tells Danny Yoon, "I knew he was gay this whole time".[28] | |||
| 2016 | The Cate Morland Chronicles | YouTube | Eleanor Monk | Erika Ovudoba | Eleanor is a lesbian. She is Cate Morland's best friend. Web series that is an adaption of Jane Austen's novel, Northanger Abbey.[29] [30] [31] [32] |
| 2016–2017 | Chance | Carl Allan | Carl is gay.[33] | ||
| 2016 | Class | Charlie Smith | Charlie Smith is gay. His boyfriend is Matteusz Andrzejewski.[34] | ||
| Matteusz Andrzejewski | Matteusz Andrzejewski is gay. His boyfriend is Charlie Smith.[35] | ||||
| 2016 | Claude Sabine | Claude Sabine is gay.[36] [37] | |||
| 2016 | Conviction | Hayes Morrison | Hayley Atwell | Hayes Morrison is bisexual.[38] | |
| Jackson Morrison | Jackson Morrison is gay.[39] | ||||
| Franklin "Frankie" Cruz | Franklin "Frankie" Cruz is in love with Rey Armas.[40] | ||||
| Rey Armas | Ian Paola | ||||
| Naomi Golden | Naomi Golden is bisexual and Hayes Morrison's ex-girlfriend.[41] | ||||
| 2016 | Crashing | Fred | Jonathan Bailey | Fred is gay.[42] [43] | |
| Will | Lachie Chapman | Will is Fred's boyfriend.[44] | |||
| 2016– | The Crown | Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon is bisexual.[45] | |||
| Patrick | |||||
| 2016–2017 | Eric Osborne | Miles is bisexual.[46] | |||
| Zoe is a lesbian. | |||||
| Lyle Lettau | Tristan is gay. | ||||
| Dante Scott | Vijay is gay. | ||||
| Jamie Bloch | Yael is non-binary/genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns. | ||||
| Dalia Yegavian | Rasha is a lesbian. | ||||
| Chelsea Clark | Esme and Frankie enter a polyamorous relationship with Zig. | ||||
| Sara Waisglass | |||||
| 2016 | The Deleted | Agatha | Agatha is bisexual.[47] | ||
| Sophie | Julia Kelly | Sophie is bisexual.[48] | |||
| 2016–2019 | Designated Survivor | Dontae Evans | Ben Watson | Dontae is gay.[49] | |
| Sasha Booker | Sasha is a trans woman. | ||||
| 2016–2019 | Sven | Ulric von der Esch | Sven is gay.[50] | ||
| 2016–2019 | Easy | Jo | Jo and Chase meet, fall in love, and become a lesbian couple in season 1 episode 2, "Vegan Cinderella".[51] | ||
| Chase | |||||
| 2016–2022 | El marginal | Juan Pablo "Diosito" Borges | Juan is bisexual. He is in love with Miguel Palacios/Osvaldo Peña.[52] [53] | ||
| Morcilla | Carlos Portaluppi | Morcilla is bisexual. | |||
| Fiorella | Guido Botto Fiora | Fiorella is gay. He is in a relationship with Morcilla. | |||
| 2016 | Eyewitness | Philip Shea | Philip Shea is gay, his lover is Lukas Waldenbeck.[54] | ||
| Lukas Waldenbeck | Lukas Waldenbeck is gay, his lover is Philip Shea.[55] [56] | ||||
| 2016–2018 | Falling Water | Alexis Simms | Sepideh Moafi | Detective Alexis Simms is lesbian. She lives with Christine.[57] | |
| Christine | Christine is lesbian and the girlfriend of Alexis. | ||||
| 2016 | Willa Warren | Willa Warren is a lesbian.[58] [59] | |||
| Bridey Cruz | Bridey Cruz is bisexual.[60] | ||||
| 2016 | The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo | YouTube | Caleb Gallo | Caleb and Benicio get married at the end of the series.[61] | |
| Benicio | Antonio Marziale | ||||
| Billy | Jon Ebeling | Billy has feeling for Caleb. | |||
| Freckle | Jason Greene | Freckle is non-cisgender/genderfluid. | |||
| 2016–2017 | Marcus 'Dizzee' Kipling | Dizzee and Thor are featured in a gay storyline. They go to an exclusive underground LGBT club and kiss.[62] [63] | |||
| Thor | Noah Le Gros | ||||
| 2016 | Michel Gerard | Michel Gerard is gay.[64] | |||
| Donald | Donald is gay.[65] [66] | ||||
| 2016– | Christine Reade | Christine Reade is bisexual.[67] | |||
| Avery Suhr | Avery Suhr is a lesbian.[68] [69] | ||||
| Darya Esford | Darya Esford is a lesbian.[70] | ||||
| Anna Garner | Anna Garner is a lesbian. | ||||
| Erica Myles | Erica Myles is a lesbian.[71] | ||||
| 2016–2021 | Goliath | Michelle McBride | Michelle McBride is bisexual.[72] | ||
| Callie Senate | Callie Senate is a lesbian.[73] | ||||
| 2016 | The Good Wife (South Korean) | Kim Dan | Kim Dan is bisexual, and an investigator for a law firm. Kim Dan is the first bisexual woman on a Korean drama.[74] [75] | ||
| 2016–2018 | Hap and Leonard | Leonard Pine | Leonard Pine is a gay black Vietnam vet.[76] | ||
| Raoul | Raoul is gay.[77] | ||||
| 2016 | Heartbeat | Max Eliott | Max Eliott is gay.[78] | ||
| 2016–2017 | I Love Dick | Devon | Devon is a queer. She is a butch cowboy who works as a groundskeeper at an artist colony.[79] [80] | ||
| Toby | Toby is a bisexual artist at the colony and has a brief fling with Devon.[81] [82] | ||||
| 2016–2017 | Incorporated | Theo Marquez | Eddie Ramos | Theo Marquez's boyfriend is Anthony.[83] | |
| Anthony | Matt Landry | ||||
| 2016–2022 | Jamie Johnson | Dillon Simmonds | Patrick Ward | Dillon Simmonds comes out as gay in season 5.[84] | |
| Elliot | Laquarn Lewis | Elliot is gay.[85] | |||
| Becky Walker-Cotton | Mali Tudno Jones | Becky Walker-Cotton is lesbian.[86] | |||
| Dawn Walker-Cotton | Tonya Smith | Dawn Walker-Cotton is lesbian.[87] | |||
| 2016–2022 | Legends of Tomorrow | Sara Lance is bisexual.[88] | |||
| Todd Rice is gay.[89] | |||||
| Ava Sharpe is a lesbian. Ava enters into a relationship with Sara.[90] | |||||
| Lindsay Carlisle | Lindsay Carlisle is a lesbian.[91] | ||||
| Queen Anne | Rebecca Eady | Queen Anne is bisexual. She sleeps with Sara in episode "Out of Time", and later consummates her marriage to the King of France.[92] | |||
| Guinevere | Guinevere is bisexual, and an English queen featured in episode "Camelot/3000" who develops a crush on Sara and they kiss.[93] | ||||
| Alex Danvers is a lesbian, and she has a one-night stand with Sara.[94] | |||||
| Citizen Cold is gay.[95] | |||||
| Ray is gay. | |||||
| John is bisexual.[96] | |||||
| Gary is bisexual.[97] | |||||
| Desmond | Christian Keyes | Desmond is queer and had a relationship with John Constantine.[98] | |||
| Kate Kane is lesbian.[99] | |||||
| Charlie is pansexual and genderfluid.[100] | |||||
| Nyssa al Ghul | Katrina Law | Nyssa al Ghul is bisexual.[101] | |||
| Miss Sinclair | Sophia Johnson | Miss Sinclair is a lesbian.[102] | |||
| 2016–2021 | Lucifer | Lucifer Morningstar | Lucifer is bisexual[103] | ||
| Mazikeen (Maze) | Maze is queer.[104] | ||||
| Eve | Eve is pansexual.[105] | ||||
| 2016–2018 | Luke Cage | Theo Rossi | Shades is bisexual.[106] [107] | ||
| Comanche is gay. | |||||
| 2016– | Marcella | Matthew Neil | Matthew Neil is Yann Hall's boyfriend.[108] | ||
| Yann Hall | Yann Hall is Matthew Neil's boyfriend.[109] | ||||
| Cara Thomas | Cara Thomas is bisexual.[110] | ||||
| Sascha Kyte | Victoria Broom | Sascha is a lesbian.[111] | |||
| Jojo Baines | Jojo Baines is lesbian. | ||||
| 2016–2018 | Major Lance "Corky" Corkoran | Lance is gay.[112] [113] | |||
| 2016–2017 | No Tomorrow | Kareema | Kareema is bisexual.[114] | ||
| Sofia | Marta Milans | Sofia is bisexual.[115] | |||
| 2016 | Notorious | Levi | Ramon de Ocampo | Levi admitted he was in love with Oscar, and then he committed suicide in front of Julia.[116] [117] | |
| 2016–2019 | Buck Vu | Ian Alexander | Buck Vu is transgender.[118] | ||
| Alfonso "French" Sosa | Brandon Perea | Alfonso is gay. | |||
| 2016–2017 | Pure Genius | Jess Wallace | Taylor Rose | Jess Wallace is a lesbian.[119] | |
| Ally (Ali) | Irene Choi | Ally (Ali) is a lesbian.[120] | |||
| Gloria | Gloria is a trans woman.[121] | ||||
| 2016 | Quarry | Buddy | Buddy is gay, and an assassin for hire.[122] [123] | ||
| 2016 | Recovery Road | Vern Testaverde | Vern Testaverde is gay and an ex-cocaine addict.[124] | ||
| 2016–2018 | Shades of Blue | Lieutenant Matt Wozniak | Wozniak is bisexual and the corrupt commander of the 64th Precinct.[125] [126] | ||
| Donnie Pomp | Donnie Pomp shares a kiss with Lieutenant Matt Wozniak, and has sex with him.[127] | ||||
| Nate Wozniak | Cameron Scoggins | Nate Wozniak is gay.[128] | |||
| 2016–2017 | Eretria | Eretria is bisexual. She may have romantic feelings for Amberle in season 1.[129] [130] | |||
| Princess Lyria | Princess Lyria was in a relationship with Eretria in season 2. | ||||
| Zora | Zoe Robins | Zora is a lesbian.[131] | |||
| 2016–2017 | Kongpob | Kongpob and Arthrit are gay love interests.[132] | |||
| Arthrit | Krist Perawat | ||||
| 2016–2019 | Star | Simone Davis | Brittany O'Grady | Simone Davis is bisexual. She kissed her friend, Karen, in the fifth episode of season 2. | |
| Cotton Brown | Amiyah Scott | Cotton Brown is the transgender daughter of Carlota Brown. | |||
| Miss Bruce | Miss Lawrence | Miss Bruce is a trans woman. | |||
| Karen Williams | Imani Lewis | Karen Williams is a lesbian. | |||
| Nina Ferrera | Camila Banus | Nina Ferrera is bisexual. | |||
| Rachel Wallace | Paris Jackson | Rachel Wallace is a lesbian.[133] | |||
| 2016– | Stranger Things | Robin Buckley | Robin Buckley is lesbian.[134] [135] | ||
| Will Byers is gay.[136] | |||||
| 2016–2022 | This Is Us | William Hill | William Hill is bisexual and had a relationship with Jessie.[137] [138] | ||
| Jessie | |||||
| Tess Pearson | Eris Baker; Iantha Richardson | Tess comes out as a lesbian.[139] | |||
| Alex | Presley Alexander | Alex is non-binary and undefined orientation.[140] | |||
| Animal Shelter Clerk | Animal Shelter Clerk is a lesbian.[141] | ||||
| 2016–2018 | Timeless | Denise Christopher | Denise is a lesbian and a Special Agent. She's married to Michelle, with whom she has a son and daughter.[142] | ||
| 2016–2017 | Too Close to Home | Dax | Dax and Victor are a gay couple.[143] [144] | ||
| Victor | Charles Justo | ||||
| 2016–2018 | Travelers | Joanne Yates | Kimberley Sustad | Joanne Yates is lesbian.[145] | |
| Samantha Burns | Karen Holness | Samantha Burns is a lesbian. | |||
| Amanda Myers | Enid-Raye Adams | Amanda Myers is a lesbian.[146] | |||
| 2016–2021 | Van Helsing | Susan Jackson | Hilary Jardine | Susan Jackson is a lesbian. | |
| Vanessa Helsing | Vanessa Helsing is bisexual. | ||||
| Dracula | Tricia Helfer | Dracula is bisexual. | |||
| Jack | Nicole Muñoz | Jack is a lesbian. | |||
| Sarah "Doc" Carol | Rukiya Bernard | Sarah "Doc" Carol is a lesbian. | |||
| Bathory | Jesse Stanley | Bathory is a lesbian. | |||
| Ivory | Jennifer Cheon | Ivory is a lesbian. | |||
| Jolene | Caroline Cave | Jolene is a lesbian. | |||
| Michaela | Heather Doerksen | Michaela is a lesbian.[147] | |||
| 2016–2019 | Victoria | Lord Alfred Paget | Jordan Waller | Lord Alfred and Lord Edward have a romantic attraction for each other and share a kiss in season 2.[148] [149] | |
| Lord Edward Drummond | |||||
| 2016–2022 | Westworld | Logan | Logan is bisexual. He is seen having sex with both a man and a woman in episode 2 of season 1.[150] | ||
| Clementine Pennyfeather | Clementine Pennyfeather is pansexual. | ||||
| Elsie Hughes | Elsie Hughes is a lesbian. | ||||
| Marti | Bojana Novakovic | Marti is bisexual.[151] | |||
| 2016–2021 | Wynonna Earp | Waverly Earp | Waverly, the younger sister of Wynonna, is bisexual and had a boyfriend until she met Nicole Haught.[152] | ||
| Nicole Haught | Nicole Haught is a lesbian. | ||||
| Jeremy Chetri | Jeremy is gay.[153] | ||||
| Robin | Robin is gay.[154] | ||||
| Rosita Bustillos | Tamara Duarte | Rosita Bustillos is bisexual.[155] | |||
| Shae | Clark Backo | Shae is a lesbian.[156] | |||
| Ambrose "Fish" | Tyrell Crews | Fish is gay. He was in a relationship with Levi.[157] | |||
| Levi | Christian Goutsis | Levi is gay. He was in a relationship with Fish. | |||
| 2016 | The Young Pope | Cardinal Bernardo Gutierrez | Cardinal Bernardo Gutierrez comes out as gay in the first season's final episode.[158] | ||
| Cardinal Andrew Dussolier | Andrew is bisexual. He has sex with a man and a woman in episode 6 of season 1.[159] | ||||
| Cardinal Mario Assente | Maurizio Lombardi | Cardinal Mario Assente is gay.[160] | |||
| Ángelo Sanchez | Marcos Franz | Ángelo Sanchez is gay. He commits suicide after being rejected to becoming a priest.[161] | |||
| Freddy Blakestone | Alex Esola | Freddy is gay.[162] | |||
| Archbishop Kurtwell | Guy Boyd | Archbishop Kurtwell is gay. | |||
| Cardinal Michel Marivaux | Sebastian Roché | Cardinal Michel Marivaux is gay.[163] | |||
| Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–2020 | 13 Reasons Why | Courtney Crimsen | Michele Selene Ang | Courtney is a lesbian. She was closeted until the season 2 finale. episode "Bye", when she came out to her adoptive gay parents.[164] | |
| Todd Crimsen | Todd and Steve are gay and Courtney's parents. | ||||
| Steve Crimsen | Alex Quiojan | ||||
| Ryan Shaver | Ryan told Hannah he was gay in episode "Tape 4, Side B".[165] [166] | ||||
| Tony Padilla | Tony is openly gay. He used to date Ryan and Brad, but is now dating Caleb.[167] | ||||
| Brad | Brad is gay, and Caleb's boyfriend. | ||||
| Caleb | R.J. Brown | Caleb is gay and Tony's boyfriend.[168] | |||
| Tameka | Clarke Hollingsworth | Tameka is queer and Courtney's girlfriend. | |||
| Montgomery "Monty" de la Cruz | Monty is gay and closeted.[169] | ||||
| Winston Williams | Deaken Bluman | Winston is gay. He tells Alex in the final episode "Graduation", that he loved Monty but that he also loves him.[170] | |||
| Alex Standall | Alex is bisexual.[171] | ||||
| Charlie St. George | Charlie is bisexual. He dates Alex and comes out to his dad in episode "Prom".[172] | ||||
| Hansen Foundry | Hansen is gay. He is a member of staff at the school.[173] | ||||
| 2017 | 195 Lewis | 195 Lewis (series website) | Yuri | Rae Leone Allen | Yuri is lesbian.[174] |
| Camille | Sirita Wright | Camille is lesbian. | |||
| 2017 | 24 Legacy | Andy Shalowitz | Andy Shalowitz is openly gay. He is a communication analyst at CTU.[175] [176] | ||
| Thomas Locke | Thomas Locke is gay. He is a CTU agent and the head of field operations. | ||||
| 2017–2019 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | Charles | Charles is gay and used to be in a relationship with Sir.[177] | ||
| Sir | Sir is gay and used to be Charles' partner in both business and marriage.[178] | ||||
| Jerome Squalor | Jerome is bisexual. | ||||
| Babs | Babs is a lesbian.[179] | ||||
| Mrs Bass | BJ Harrison | ||||
| 2017–2022 | Ackley Bridge | Nasreen Paracha | Nasreen comes out to her mother as a lesbian and tells her she's in love with another woman (series 1, episode 5). | ||
| Lila Shariff | Anneika Rose | Lila is a lesbian and a science teacher.[180] | |||
| Naveed Haider | Gurjeet Singh | Naveed is gay. | |||
| Sam Murgatroyd | Megan Parkinson | Sam is lesbian and Nasreen's girlfriend.[181] | |||
| Cory Wilson | Cory is bisexual. Cory and Naveed kissed and slept together. Cory slept with a girl the day after he had sex with Naveed.[182] | ||||
| 2017–2021 | American Gods | Bilquis is pansexual and a goddess.[183] [184] | |||
| Jinn is gay. Jinn and Salim become romantically involved. | |||||
| Salim | Salim is gay. Jinn and Salim become romantically involved. | ||||
| Samantha ("Sam") Black Crow | Sam is lesbian. | ||||
| 2017–2019 | Andi Mack | Cyrus is gay and enters a relationship with TJ in the finale. Andi Mack is the first Disney Channel series with a character that comes out as gay.[185] [186] [187] | |||
| TJ Kippen | TJ is gay, and holds hands with Cyrus in the finale. Andi Mack made history with Disney's first character to say "I'm gay". | ||||
| 2017–2019 | Anne with an E | Josephine Barry | Josephine is a lesbian. She had a long-term partner, now deceased.[188] | ||
| Cole Mackenzie | Cory Grüter-Andrew | Cole is gay. | |||
| 2017–2021 | Atypical | Casey | Casey is bisexual.[189] | ||
| Izzie | Izzie is a lesbian. She attends the GSA and relates to a lesbian student telling her story. | ||||
| 2017– | The Bastards of Pizzofalcone | RAI | Alex Di Nardo | Simona Tabasco | Alex is lesbian. Alex and Rosaria are in a relationship.[190] [191] |
| Rosaria Martone | Serena Iansiti | Rosaria is lesbian. Alex and Rosaria are in a relationship. | |||
| 2017– | Black Spot | Martial "Nounours" Ferrandis | Hubert Delattre | Nounours is a gay police officer.[192] | |
| 2017 | Blood Drive | The Scholar | Darren Kent | The Scholar is queer. | |
| The Gentleman | Andrew James Hall | The Gentleman is queer.[193] | |||
| 2017–2021 | The Bold Type | Adena El-Amin | Adena is a lesbian Muslim feminist and professional photographer who begins a romance with Kat.[194] | ||
| Kat Edison | Kat is bisexual. When she falls in love with Adena she first thinks she is lesbian. However, she later has feelings for a man and realizes she is attracted to men and women.[195] [196] | ||||
| Leila | Katerina Tannembaum | Leila is lesbian and Adena's ex. | |||
| Tia Clayton | Alexis Floyd | Tia is lesbian and Kat's love interest. | |||
| Oliver Grayson | Stephen Conrad Moore | Oliver is gay.[197] | |||
| Andrew | Adam Capriolo | Andrew is gay and a drag queen. | |||
| Eva Rhodes | Eva is lesbian and Kat's love interest.[198] | ||||
| 2017 | Borderliner | Nikolai Andreassen | Nikolai is closeted and has a secret boyfriend, Kristoffer.[199] | ||
| Kristoffer Lund | Morten Svartveit | Kristoffer is gay and Nikolai's boyfriend. | |||
| 2017– | Charité | Sister Therese | Therese is lesbian. | ||
| Otto Marquardt | Otto is gay.[200] | ||||
| Martin Schelling | Martin is gay.[201] | ||||
| 2017–2022 | Claws | Quiet Ann | Quiet Ann is a lesbian.[202] | ||
| Uncle Daddy | Uncle Daddy is a bisexual crime boss.[203] | ||||
| Toby | Evan Daigle | Toby is gay.[204] [205] | |||
| 2017–2019 | Counterpart | Nadia Fierro/Baldwin | Nadia is a lesbian and classical violinist. Baldwin is a lesbian assassin.[206] [207] | ||
| Clare Quayle | Clare is a bisexual.[208] | ||||
| Greta | Liv Lisa Fries | Greta is a lesbian.[209] | |||
| 2017–2020 | Dark | Peter Doppler | Peter is gay and closeted.[210] [211] | ||
| Agnes Nielsen | In 1953, Agnes and Doris were secret lovers.[212] | ||||
| Doris Tiedemann | |||||
| Bernadette Wöller | Bernadette is a trans woman.[213] [214] | ||||
| 2017 | Daytime Divas | Kibby Ainsley | Kibby is bisexual.[215] | ||
| Ella | Will Buie Jr. | Ella is an eight year old trans girl, introduced in the series "Pilot".[216] [217] [218] | |||
| 2017–2021 | Dear White People | Lionel Higgins | DeRon Horton | Lionel is gay.[219] | |
| Silvio Romo | D.J. Blickenstaff | Silvio is gay and Lionel's love interest.[220] | |||
| Neika Hobbs | Neika and Monique are a lesbian couple.[221] | ||||
| Monique | Zee James | ||||
| Connor | Luke O'Sullivan | Connor and his "not exactly" girlfriend Becca, try to seduce Lionel into a threesome. Connor is using Becca as a buffer to cover up his primary interest in men.[222] [223] | |||
| Kelsey Phillips | Nia Jervier | In season 2, episode 4, Kelsey tells Coco that she's a lesbian.[224] | |||
| Wesley Alvarez | Rudy Martinez | Wesley is gay and Lionel's love interest.[225] | |||
| P. Ninny | P. Ninny is a lesbian. | ||||
| Genifer | Quei Tann | Genifer is transgender. | |||
| 2017–2019 | The Deuce | Paul | Paul is gay and a bartender at Vincent Martino's bar, the Hi-Hat.[226] | ||
| 2017 | Dimension 404 | Beth Lee | Melanie Thompson | Beth and Jane are married.[227] [228] | |
| Jane Lee | |||||
| 2017–2022 | Dynasty | Steven has a one-night stand with Sam in the pilot episode.[229] | |||
| Sam is gay.[230] | |||||
| It's revealed in Season 5 that Kirby is bisexual and the girlfriend of Amanda Carrington. | |||||
| Amanda is a lesbian. She confides in Kirby in Season 5 that she is in love with her, and they begin a relationship soon after. | |||||
| 2017 | Emerald City | The Witch of the West | West is a lesbian who runs a brothel.[231] [232] | ||
| 2017–2019 | The End of the F***ing World | Eunice Noon | Eunice Noon is a lesbian. Noon and Darego are police force partners.[233] | ||
| Teri Darego | Teri Darego is a lesbian. | ||||
| 2017–2018 | Famous in Love | Alexis Glenn | Niki Koss | Alexis is bisexual and has an affair with Rachel.[234] | |
| Rachel Davis | Rachel is a lesbian.[235] | ||||
| 2017– | Feud | Victor is gay.[236] | |||
| 2017 | The Frozen Dead | Irène Ziegler | Ziegler is openly lesbian and the captain of the St. Martin detective squad.[237] | ||
| Greta | Greta is Ziegler's partner and owner of a local inn where they reside together.[238] | ||||
| 2017 | Godless | Marie Agnes MacNue | Mary Agnes is bisexual. The widow of the town's mayor, she wears her husband's clothes and is in a same-sex relationship with the town's schoolteacher, Callie Dunne.[239] | ||
| Callie Dunne | Callie is a lesbian and the town's teacher. She was a prostitute in La Belle's brothel before it was turned into a school.[240] | ||||
| 2017–2018 | Gone | James | James was kicked out of his home after his father found out that he was gay and later got kidnapped because of it.[241] | ||
| 2017–2022 | Maia Rindell | Maia is lesbian. Amy is lesbian and Maia's girlfriend.[242] [243] | |||
| Amy Breslin | |||||
| 2017 | Gypsy | Jean Holloway | Jean is bisexual, married to a man, and becomes obsessed with Sidney.[244] | ||
| Sidney Pierce | Sidney is bisexual and the former girlfriend of one of Jean's male patients.[245] | ||||
| Dolly Holloway | Maren Heary | Dolly is Jean's daughter and may be lesbian or transgender.[246] | |||
| 2017 | Toby Hamilton | Toby is secretly gay.[247] | |||
| Adil Joshi | Akshay Kumar | Adil is having a secret gay affair with Toby.[248] | |||
| 2017– | Moira | Moira had a girlfriend before.[249] | |||
| Emily | Emily and Sylvia were married and had a kid before.[250] [251] | ||||
| Sylvia | |||||
| Peter | Peter is gay.[252] | ||||
| Dan | Dan is gay, and lynched because of his sexuality.[253] | ||||
| Odette | Odette is a lesbian.[254] | ||||
| 2017–2019 | Harlots | Margaret Wells | Margaret is bisexual. She and William North are common law wife and husband, and she reciprocates Nancy Birch's interest in her.[255] | ||
| Charlotte Wells | Charlotte is bisexual. | ||||
| Nancy Birch | Nancy is a lesbian. | ||||
| Violet Cross | Rosalind Eleazar | Violet and Amelia are in a romantic relationship.[256] | |||
| Amelia Scanwell | Jordon Stevens | ||||
| Prince Rasselas | Prince Rasselas is a gay sex worker and lives with his male partner.[257] | ||||
| Lady Isabella Fitzwilliam | Lady Isabella is Charlotte's love interest in season two. | ||||
| 2017– | HIStory | Mai Ying-Shiung "Hero" | Aaron Lai | Si-Ren is an unlucky lonely boy who has a crush on Hero.[258] | |
| Gu Si-Ren | Chiang Yun-lin | ||||
| Cheng Ching | Duke Wu | Feng He is Cheng Ching's older step brother and his love interest. | |||
| Feng He | Edison Song | ||||
| Chiang Chin-teng | Bernard Ho | Chin-teng was Yi-chen's lover in his previous life. After discovering a few pages from Yi-chen's diary, he grows curious about him and feigns amnesia to get closer to him. Yi-chen is determined to start a new life but finds it difficult to avoid Chin-teng, whom he still loves. | |||
| Shao Yi-chen | Teddy Jen | ||||
| Shih Yi-jie | Steven Chiang | Xiao Fei's presence at home brings huge changes to Yi-jie's life, and he falls in love. | |||
| Fei Sheng-che ("Xiao Fei") | Hunt Chang | ||||
| Chiu Tzu-hsuan | Zach Lu | Yu-hao gradually falls in love with Tzu-hsuan. | |||
| Hsia Yu-hao | Fandy Fan | ||||
| Meng Shao-fei | Jake Hsu | Shao-fei and Tang Yi become entangled in a deadly game of wits – a game that becomes all the more complicated after Tang Yi baits a love trap for Shao-fei. | |||
| Tang Yi | Chris Wu | ||||
| Hsiang Hao-ting | Wayne Song | Hsi-ku is Hao-ting's love interest who assists him in his studies. | |||
| Yu Hsi-ku | Huang Chun-chih | ||||
| 2017–2020 | Las chicas del cable (Cable Girls) | Carlota Rodríguez de Senillosa | Carlota is bisexual. | ||
| Oscar Ruiz | Ana Polvorosa | Oscar is a bisexual trans man who falls in love with Carlota.[259] Carlota and Sara have a polyamorous relationship together with Carlota's husband, Miguel.[260] | |||
| 2017 | Man in an Orange Shirt | Thomas March | The story of two gay relationships set in different eras: Thomas and Michael during the 1940s, and Adam and Steve in the present.[261] | ||
| Michael Berryman | |||||
| Adam Berryman | |||||
| Steve | |||||
| 2017–2019 | Mary Kills People | Jess | Abigail Winter | Jess is lesbian.[262] [263] [264] | |
| Naomi | Katie Douglas | Naomi is lesbian.[265] | |||
| 2017–2019 | Mindhunter | Wendy Carr | Dr. Wendy Carr, a psychologist at a Boston university, is a lesbian in a relationship with Dr. Stilman.[266] | ||
| Annaliese Stilman | Annaliese is a lesbian.[267] | ||||
| Kay Manz | Kay is lesbian and works as a bartender.[268] | ||||
| 2017 | The Mist | Adrian Garf | Russell Posner | Adrian is gay/pansexual.[269] | |
| Tyler Denton | Christopher Gray | Tyler is a bully and a closeted gay jock. He ends up in a relationship with Adrian, the boy he used to bully for being gay.[270] | |||
| 2017–2021 | Money Heist | Helsinki is gay.[271] | |||
| Palermo is gay. | |||||
| Tokyo | Tokyo is bisexual. | ||||
| Manila is transgender.[272] | |||||
| Berlin is bisexual.[273] | |||||
| 2017–2019 | Mr. Mercedes | Audience | Lou Linklatter | Breeda Wool | Lou is a lesbian.[274] |
| 2017 | My Dear Loser | In | Purim Rattanaruangwattana (Pluem) | In and Sun become a gay couple.[275] | |
| Sun | Wachirawit Ruangwiwat (Chimon) | ||||
| 2017–2020 | One Day at a Time | Elena Alvarez | Elena is lesbian, she comes out during the series first season.[276] [277] | ||
| Ramona | Ramona is lesbian. | ||||
| Syd | Sheridan Pierce | Syd is non-binary. Syd is befriended by Elena and they eventually date.[278] | |||
| 2017– | The Orville | Bortus | Bortus and Klyden are partners and members of an alien race, the Moclans, where homosexuality is the norm among their species.[279] | ||
| Klyden | |||||
| Charly Burke | Charly reveals that she was in love with her best friend Amanda in 3x06. | ||||
| 2017–2022 | Ozark | Roy Petty | Roy is gay.[280] | ||
| Russ Langmore | Russ is a repressed gay man.[281] | ||||
| Trevor Evans | Trevor is Roy's ex-boyfriend and his FBI agent partner. | ||||
| Scotty | Dennis Flanagan | Scotty is Roy's ex-boyfriend. | |||
| Jim Rattelsdorf | Jim is gay. | ||||
| 2017 | Sid | Kunal Sharma | Sid is gay.[282] | ||
| Emily Blake | Emily Blake is a lesbian.[283] | ||||
| 2017–2018 | Prison Playbook | Yoo Han Yang | Lee Kyu Hyung | Han Yang is gay.[284] | |
| Song Ji Won | Kim Joon Han | Ji Won is gay and Han Yang's boyfriend. | |||
| 2017–2019 | The Punisher | David Schultz | Todd Alan Crain | David is a U.S. senator and closeted homosexual.[285] | |
| 2017– | Riverdale | Kevin is openly gay and had a relationships with Moose.[286] [287] | |||
| Moose Mason | Cody Kearsley | Moose is bisexual.[288] | |||
| Joaquin DeSantos | Rob Raco | Joaquin is gay. He becomes romantically involved with Kevin.[289] | |||
| Toni Topaz | Toni is bisexual and in a relationship with Cheryl.[290] [291] | ||||
| Cheryl is a lesbian and in a relationship with Toni.[292] [293] | |||||
| Fangs is gay. Fangs and Kevin went to the prom together.[294] [295] [296] | |||||
| Chic | Hart Denton | Chic may be pansexual.[297] | |||
| Charles Smith | Charles is gay. He's in a relationship with Chic.[298] | ||||
| Peaches 'N Cream | Peaches is queer.[299] | ||||
| 2017–2019 | Runaways | Karolina is a lesbian and an alien descendant with superpowers.[300] | |||
| Nico Minoru is bisexual. Formerly in a relationship with Alex Wilder, now reciprocates Karolina's attraction for her.[301] | |||||
| 2017–2019 | She's Gotta Have It | Nola Darling | Nola is a pansexual.[302] | ||
| Opal Gilstrap | Opal is a lesbian in a relationship with Nola.[303] | ||||
| 2017–2021 | The Sinner | Heather Novack | Detective Novack is an out lesbian.[304] | ||
| 2017 | Slam Dance | GMM One | Pob | Sattabut Laedeke (Drake) | Pob and Nick are a gay couple.[305] |
| Nick | Harit Cheewagaroon (Sing) | ||||
| 2017– | CBS (formerly) Netflix (formerly) Paramount+ | Paul Stamets | Paul and Hugh are gay men and in a loving relationship.[306] [307] [308] | ||
| Hugh Culber | |||||
| Adira Tal | Adira, the first non-binary character in the Star Trek universe, is a highly intelligent character on the U.S.S. Discovery and unexpectedly becomes friends with Lt. Commander Paul Stamets and Dr. Hugh Culber.[309] Adira is also an introvert who does not originally tell the crew they are non-binary, using she/her pronouns until episode 8 when Adira comes out as non-binary and asks to be referred to as they or them.[310] | ||||
| A trans man and orphan, who joined Trill living aboard a generational starship with his human partner Adira. | |||||
| 2017– | S.W.A.T | Christina "Chris" Alonso | Officer III Alonso comes out as bisexual in episode "Homecoming" (1.07)[311] | ||
| 2017–2020 | Alberto "Spadino" Anacleti | Giacomo Ferrara | Spadino is a gay man whose traditional family forces him into accepting a sham straight marriage.[312] | ||
| 2017 | Taboo | Michael Godfrey | Michael Godfrey is probably gay, and is the secretary at the East India Company and lives in a London Molly House.[313] | ||
| 2017–2018 | Valor | Thea | Thea is a closeted bisexual CIA agent. She has two short-term relationships with Zoe Cho, and Leland Gallo.[314] | ||
| Zoe Cho | Chelle Ramos | ||||
| 2017 | When We Rise | Cleve Jones is gay and an AIDS activist. The miniseries is about the growth of the LGBT civil rights movement in San Francisco, from the 1970s until the 2010s, with characters based on actual persons.[315] [316] | |||
| young Cleve Jones | |||||
| Roma Guy is a feminist lesbian and social justice activist. | |||||
| young Roma Guy | |||||
| Diane | Diane is a lesbian nurse. | ||||
| young Diane | |||||
| Ken Jones is a gay activist. | |||||
| young Ken Jones | |||||
| Matt | Matt is gay and has a relationship with young Cleve. | ||||
| Michael | Michael is a gay sailor.[317] | ||||
| Pat Norman is a lesbian activist, founder of the Lesbian Mothers Union and first openly gay employee of the San Francisco Health Department. | |||||
| Del Martin is a feminist lesbian and activist, and co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis. | |||||
| Phyllis Lyon is a feminist lesbian and activist, and co-founder of Daughters of Bilitis.[318] | |||||
| Jean | Jean is a lesbian.[319] | ||||
| Cecilia Chung is a trans woman and political activist. | |||||
| Scott | Scott is gay, living in a treehouse. | ||||
| José Sarria is a gay political activist and founder of the Imperial Court System. | |||||
| Bobbi Jean Baker is a transgender activist. | |||||
| Anne Kronenberg is the campaign manager for Harvey Milk and his aide on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. | |||||
| Sally Gearhart is a feminist lesbian and political activist. | |||||
| Jim Foster | Denis O'Hare | Jim Foster is the first openly gay man to ever speak at a Democratic convention. | |||
| 2017 | Will | Christopher is probably gay.[320] | |||
| Thomas Walsingham | Edward Hayter | Thomas is allegedly Marlowe's homosexual lover.[321] | |||
| 2017 | Queers | BBC | Perce | Ben Wishaw | Perce is a gay WW1 soldier. |
| Andrew | Fionn Whitehead | Andrew is a young gay man who took part in the protests after the defeat of a proposed amendment that would've equalized the age of consent of same-sex sexual activities to 16. | |||
| Phil | Russell Tovey | Phil is a gay actor living in the time of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. | |||
| Jackie | Ian Gelder | Jackie is a gay tailor. | |||
| Fredrick | Kadiff Kirwan | Fredrick is a gay immigrant from the West Indies. | |||
| Bobby | Gemma Whelan | Bobby is a trans man living in the 1920s. | |||
| Steve | Alan Cumming | Steve is a gay man about to get married. |
| Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018– | 9–1–1 | Michael Grant | Michael is gay, he comes out in the first episode of the show, he later marries a man named David.[322] | ||
| Henrietta "Hen" Wilson | Henrietta is lesbian and married to Karen.[323] | ||||
| Evan "Buck" Buckley | Buck is a bisexual man. He kissed women and men. | ||||
| Karen Wilson | Karen is lesbian. She and Henrietta are raising the son of Hen's ex-girlfriend. | ||||
| Josh Russo | Josh is gay.[324] | ||||
| Eva Mathis | Eva is Hen's ex and an incarcerated criminal. | ||||
| David Hale | La Monde Byrd | Michael's love interest. | |||
| 2018–2022 | A Discovery of Witches | Sarah Bishop | Sarah and Emily are a lesbian couple.[325] | ||
| Emily Mather | Valarie Pettiford | ||||
| 2018– | A Million Little Things | Daniel Dixon | Chance Hurstfield | Daniel is gay. He came out to his mother and sister in season 1.[326] | |
| Katherine Saville | Katherine is bisexual.[327] | ||||
| 2018 | A Very English Scandal | Jeremy Thorpe was the leader of the Liberal Party for nine years. He was a closeted homosexual who had affairs with men and was in a secret relationship with Norman Scott.[328] | |||
| Ben Whishaw | |||||
| 2018–2022 | After Forever | Brian | Brian is gay. Brian and Jason were in a relationship until Jason's death.[329] [330] [331] [332] | ||
| Jason | Jason is gay. | ||||
| David Taylor | Mike McGowan | David is gay and Brian's boyfriend. | |||
| Brenda | Erin Cherry | Brenda is lesbian. | |||
| 2018– | All American | Tamia "Coop" Cooper | Bre-Z | Tamia is lesbian. She is the cousin of the main character.[333] | |
| 2018–2020 | Altered Carbon | Isaac Bancroft | Antonio Marziale | Isaac Bancroft has a male lover, Sergei Brevlov.[334] [335] | |
| Sergei Brevlov | Chris McNally | ||||
| 2018 | American Crime Story (season 2) | Gianni Versace was gay, and murdered by spree killer Andrew Cunanan. | |||
| Andrew Cunanan was a gay spree killer. He murdered Gianni Versace, Lee Miglin, Jeffrey Trail and David Madson.[336] | |||||
| Antonio D'Amico is gay and Versace's partner at the time of his death. | |||||
| Lee Miglin was bisexual and married to the same woman for 38 years before he was murdered by Andrew Cunanan, his former escort.[337] | |||||
| Jeffrey Trail | Jeffrey Trail was gay and murdered by Andrew Cunanan.[338] | ||||
| David Madson | David Madson was gay, and witnessed Jeffrey Trail's murder, and was also killed by Andrew Cunanan. | ||||
| 2018–2020 | Anne+ | Anne | Hanna van Vliet | Anne is lesbian.[339] [340] | |
| 2018–2020 | Baby | Fabio Fedeli | Fabio is gay and comes out to his father near the end of the first season. Fabio and Brando are attracted to each other in season two.[341] | ||
| Brando De Santis | Mirko Trovato | Brando is gay and comes out in the final season. | |||
| 2018–2021 | Black Lightning | Anissa Pierce | Anissa is a lesbian superhero.[342] [343] | ||
| Grace Choi is bisexual and Anissa's love interest.[344] | |||||
| Chenoa | Shein Mompremier | Chenoa is a lesbian and was Anissa's girlfriend. They were together for one year before Anissa became involved with Grace.[345] | |||
| 2018–2021 | Burden of Truth | Molly Ross | Sara Thompson | Molly is lesbian. Luna is lesbian and a First Nation native. Molly and Luna are in a relationship and attend the same high school. In season 1 episode "Witch Hunt" they go to the prom as a couple, holding hands as they enter and afterwards dance together.[346] | |
| Luna Spence | Star Slade | ||||
| 2018 | 'Cause You're My Boy | GMM One | Mork | Drake Sattabut | Mork and Tee are the main gay couple. Morn and Gord are the supporting gay couple. A Thai romance drama depicting relationships between male characters, known as boys love, it tells the love story of four young boys in a high school setting.[347] [348] [349] |
| Tee | Frank Thanatsaran | ||||
| Morn | Phuwin Tangsakyuen | ||||
| Gord | Neo Trai Nimtawat | ||||
| 2018–2022 | Charmed | Melanie "Mel" Vera | Melanie "Mel" Vera is a lesbian witch. She's a Women's Studies graduate student. Niko Hamada is lesbian and a police detective. Mel and Nico are in a relationship.[350] [351] | ||
| Nico Hamada | Ellen Tamaki | ||||
| 2018– | Class T1T5 | YouTube | Melissa | Melissa Poh | Melissa is a lesbian student.[352] |
| 2018 | Collateral | Jane Oliver | Jane is a vicar in a lesbian relationship with an illegal immigrant, Linh Xuan Huy.[353] | ||
| Linh Xuan Huy | Kae Alexander | ||||
| 2018– | Condor | Sarah Tan | Sarah Tan is a lesbian.[354] | ||
| Sharla Shepard | Sharla Shepard is a lesbian FBI agent.[355] | ||||
| 2018– | Das Boot | Carla Monroe | Carla and Simone are lovers.[356] [357] | ||
| Simone Strasser | |||||
| 2018 | Deutschland 86 | Tim Avery | Chris Veres | Tim Avery is a closeted gay American G.I.[358] | |
| Rose Seithathi | Rose Seithathi is lesbian and in a relationship with Lenora Rauch. Lenora is openly bisexual, having been seen kissing a man in the previous season. | ||||
| Lenora Rauch | Maria Schrader | ||||
| Alex Edel | Alex Edel is gay. He slept with Tobias Tischbier in the previous season.[359] Tobias Tischbier is gay. He tries to make a move on Alex in the first season, and later becomes sexually involved with him even though he was in a relationship with a man named Felix.[360] | ||||
| Tobias Tischbier | Alexander Beyer | ||||
| 2018– | Dogs of Berlin | Erol Birkan | Erol Birkan is gay. Guido Mack is gay and Erol's partner.[361] | ||
| Guido Mack | Sebastian Achilles | ||||
| 2018–2022 | Druck | Matteo Florenzi | Michelangelo Fortuzzi | Matteo is gay.[362] | |
| David Schreibner | Lukas von Horbatschewsky | David Schreibner is a gay trans teen-aged boy and Matteo's boyfriend.[363] | |||
| Mia Winter | Milena Tscharntke | Mia is bisexual. | |||
| Victoria | Victoria is a lesbian.[364] | ||||
| Fatou Jallow | Sira-Anna Faal | Fatou is lesbian. | |||
| Kieu My Vu | Nhung Hong | Kieu is bisexual. | |||
| Isi Inci | Eren M. Güvercin | Isi is non-binary and uses all pronouns. They are in a relationship with Sascha Belin. | |||
| 2018– | Élite | Ander Muñoz | Ander Muñoz is gay and in a relationship with Omar Shanaa. Omar is gay but has to hide his sexuality from his parents due to their Muslim faith.[365] [366] [367] [368] | ||
| Omar Shanaa | |||||
| Polo Benavent | Polo Benavent is bisexual and polyamorous. He has a relationship with Carla and Christian in season 1 and later has a relationship with Cayetana and Valerio in season 3. He has also hooked up with Ander in season 2. Valerio Montesinos is bisexual and polyamorous. He has a relationship with Cayetana and Polo.[369] | ||||
| Valerio Montesinos | Jorge López | ||||
| Rebeka "Rebe" de Bormujo | Claudia Salas | Rebeka "Rebe" de Bormujo is bisexual. She confesses to Ander that she is attracted to girls and guys. She was attracted to Samuel and dated him, but also said she was sexually attracted to Carla. | |||
| Malick D | Leïti Sène | Malick is gay. | |||
| 2018 | Everything Sucks! | Kate Messner | Kate Messner spends the season struggling with her sexual identity, before coming to terms that she's a lesbian. Emaline Addario might be bisexual. She is seen dating a male classmate, but then she and Kate reveal their attraction towards one another and later share a kiss.[370] | ||
| Emaline Addario | Sydney Sweeney | ||||
| 2018–2019 | For the People | Kate Littlejohn | Susannah Flood | Kate Littlejohn is lesbian and a prosecutor. Anya Ooms is lesbian and an ATF agent. Kate and Anya are involved romantically.[371] | |
| Anya Ooms | |||||
| 2018 | Giri/Haji | Rodney | Rodney is a gay sex worker, and was in a relationship with Tiff.[372] | ||
| Tiff | Tiff is Rodney's ex-boyfriend. | ||||
| Taki | Aoi Okuyama | Taki is Kenzo's daughter, who befriends Rodney and eventually begins a relationship with his friend Annie. | |||
| Annie | Ellie James | Annie is Rodney's friend and Taki's love interest. | |||
| 2018 | Here and Now | Ramon Bayer-Boatwright | Ramon Bayer-Boatwright and Henry are a gay couple.[373] | ||
| Henry | Andy Bean | ||||
| Navid Shokrani | Marwan Salama | Navid Shokrani is a non-binary transgender.[374] [375] | |||
| 2018–2019 | Homecoming | Jacqueline Calico / Alex Eastern | Calico and Temple are a couple.[376] | ||
| Audrey Temple | |||||
| 2018–2020 | The House of Flowers | Julián de la Mora | Julián de la Mora is bisexual. He was in a relationship with a woman while secretly dating Diego Olvera. Diego is gay.[377] [378] [379] [380] [381] | ||
| Diego Olvera | Juan Pablo Medina | ||||
| María José Riquelme | María José (formerly José María Riquelme) is a transgender woman that was married to Paulina de la Mora before transitioning. She remarried Paulina in the final episode of season 3. Paulina is pansexual. She was married to María José before she transitioned. After splitting up, she dated Alejo Salvat before reuniting with, and remarrying, María José. Kim is pansexual. She starts a relationship with María José. | ||||
| Cecilia Suárez | |||||
| Kim | Cristina Umaña | ||||
| Pato Lascuraín | Pato Lascuraín is a gay man and a drag queen. He is murdered for his sexuality. Agustín Corcuera is a closeted gay man. He kills Pato after the latter tries to expose their relationship. | ||||
| Agustín Corcuera | Emilio Cuaik | ||||
| 2018–2019 | Impulse | Jenna Faith Hope | Sarah Desjardins | Jenna comes to term with the realization that she's lesbian, then is outed to her parents by her friend (season 2). Kate is a young woman that Jenna meets at a college party during a poetry performance and Kate kisses Jenna afterwards. Megan Linderman is queer.[382] | |
| Kate | Sarah Swire | ||||
| Megan Linderman | Lauren Collins | ||||
| 2018 | The Innocents | Lil | Lil kisses June. (She may be lesbian or bisexual.) Kam has a boyfriend, but is also involved with women. (She appears to be bisexual.) Sigrid has feelings for a woman back home. (She may be lesbian or bisexual.)[383] | ||
| Kam | Abigail Hardingham | ||||
| Sigrid | Lise Risom Olsen | ||||
| 2018–2019 | Insatiable | Bob Barnard | Bob Barnard claims to enjoy sex with women but self-identifies as gay. He has been in love with Bob Armstrong since they were teenagers. | ||
| Bob Armstrong | Bob Armstrong self-identifies as bisexual.[384] | ||||
| Nonnie Thompson | Kimmy Shields | Nonnie is a closeted lesbian.[385] | |||
| Deborah "Dee" Marshall | Ashley D. Kelley | Dee is a lesbian.[386] | |||
| 2018–2019 | Instinct | Dylan Reinhart | Dylan Reinhart is gay. A former CIA operative-turned-university professor and best-selling author now helping the New York Police Department. Andy Wilson is gay. Dylan and Andy are married.[387] | ||
| Andy Wilson | Daniel Ings | ||||
| 2018–2022 | Killing Eve | Villanelle | Villanelle is a bisexual assassin. She has sex with women and men, had a brief relationship with her neighbor Sebastian, fake married a woman, and is in love with Eve. In episode "You're Mine" (season 2, episode 8), Villanelle asks Eve to run away with her. When Eve rejects her, Villanelle shoots Eve. They finally end up together in the last season finale. | ||
| Eve Polastri | Eve Polastri appears to be bisexual. While married to her husband, she reveals an attraction towards Villanelle, even though they are rivals and that their cat-and-mouse relationship contains violence and obsession. In episode "Meetings Have Biscuits" (season 3, episode 3), Eve finally kisses Villanelle for the first time. Late in Season 4, Eve and Villanelle finally have sex. | ||||
| Bill Pargrave | Bill Pargrave is pansexual. He said he just falls in love with whoever he falls in love with. He chose to enter into a heterosexual marriage by arrangement because he wanted to father a child, and occasionally has sex with his wife who knows about his history with men.[388] [389] [390] | ||||
| Hélène | Hélène is one of the high-ranking members of the Twelve organization, she is a lesbian with a child. She's seen going on dates with women, before she starts a mind-game dynamic with Eve that ends with them kissing in episode "It's Agony and I'm Ravenous" (season, 4, episode 4). | ||||
| 2018–2019 | Krypton | Adam Strange is quite likely bisexual. In season 1, episode "House of Zod", Adam Strange appreciates the view of the bare ass of a tattooed male Sagitari.[391] [392] | |||
| Nyssa-Vex | Wallis Day | Nyssa is bisexual and was in a same-sex relationship in the past.[393] | |||
| 2018–2022 | Legacies | Josie Saltzman | Josie is pansexual. She was in a relationship with Penelope. Afterwards, she had a crush on Rafael and kissed him. She later dates Landon Kirby. She also had a crush on Hope. After this, she develops a crush on Jade.[394] [395] | ||
| Penelope Park | Penelope is bisexual. She was in a relationship with Josie, and before Penelope left to attend a witches school she and Josie acknowledged that they loved each other. She also kissed MG.[396] [397] [398] | ||||
| Hope Mikaelson | Hope is bisexual. She was in a relationship with Landon and in season two admits that she had a crush on Josie when they were fourteen.[399] [400] | ||||
| Lizzie Saltzman | Lizzie is attracted to women. During episode 12 of season 1, when Josie confesses her crush on Hope, she tells Lizzie "Every time I ever liked anyone, you go for them, and you always win." This implies that Lizzie showed attraction to Josie's past romantic interests, and that Josie was afraid Lizzie would do the same with Hope. | ||||
| Jade | Jade is bisexual. She has a budding romance with Josie.[401] | ||||
| Maya Machado | Bianca A Santos | Maya is a lesbian. She was in a relationship with Finch. She also had a crush on both Hope and Josie.[402] [403] | |||
| Finch Tarrayo | Courtney Bandeko | Finch is a lesbian. She dated Maya and is now dating Josie.[404] | |||
| 2018 | Life Sentence | Ida Abbott | Ida is bisexual. She leaves her husband to be with her friend, Poppy.[405] | ||
| Poppy | Claudia Rocafort | ||||
| 2018–2019 | Light as a Feather | Alex Portnoy | Alex is lesbian.[406] | ||
| Peri | Peri is lesbian.[407] | ||||
| 2018– | Manifest | Bethany Collins | Mugga | Bethany is lesbian and a flight attendant on Flight 828.[408] | |
| Georgia Collins | Eva Kaminsky | Georgia is lesbian and married to Bethany.[409] | |||
| Thomas | Sheldon Best | Thomas is gay and smuggled on Flight 828 to escape homophobic persecution in Jamaica.[410] | |||
| 2018 | McMafia | Semiyon Kleiman | Semiyon is gay. He had a younger male lover.[411] | ||
| 2018 | My Brother's Husband | Mike Flanagan | Mike is the Canadian husband of Yaichi's dead brother Ryōji, who visits Japan to learn about his late husband's past and family. Mike is kind and gentle, contrasting with his muscular and bearish appearance. He is proudly gay and frequently wears t-shirts that feature LGBT iconography, such as the rainbow flag and pink triangle.[412] | ||
| 2018– | New Amsterdam | Iggy Frome | Iggy Frome and Martin McIntyre are married and have adopted three children from Bangladesh.[413] | ||
| Martin McIntyre | Mike Doyle | ||||
| Leyla Shinwari | Shiva Kalaiselvan | Leyla, a practicing doctor who immigrated to the United States, is a resident at New Amsterdam hospital. Leyla & Lauren were in a relationship. They broke up when it was revealed that Lauren paid New Amsterdam a bribe to create Leyla a resident spot at the hospital.[414] | |||
| Lauren Bloom | Janet Montgomery | Lauren is the director of the New Amsterdam ED, and her sexuality has not been directly stated. However, she was in a committed relationship with resident Leyla Shinwari. | |||
| Margot | Lauren Ridloff | Margot is a deaf woman who is having issues with her girlfriend since getting a cochlear implant.[415] | |||
| 2018 | The Novelist | Kazumi Haruhiko | Izuka Kenta | Kazumi Haruhiko and Kijima Rio are a gay couple.[416] | |
| Kijima Rio | Takezai Terunosuke | ||||
| 2018 | Origin | Agnes "Lee" Lebachi | Agnes "Lee" Lebachi is a lesbian. | ||
| Baum Arndt | Philipp Christopher | ||||
| Evelyn Rey | Evelyn Rey is bisexual.[417] | ||||
| 2018 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Michael Fitzhubert | Michael Fitzhubert is in love with Albert Crundall. Irma Leopold kisses Miranda Reid. Greta McGraw is a geography teacher whose father exiled her from home for being a lesbian. Marion Quade is lesbian. Greta and Marion are in a relationship.[418] | ||
| Irma Leopold | Samara Weaving | ||||
| Miranda Reid | Lily Sullivan | ||||
| Greta McGraw | Anna McGahan | ||||
| Marion Quade | Madeleine Madden | ||||
| 2018–2019 | Playing for Keeps | Rusty O'Reilly | Rusty O'Reilly is gay. He and Jack Davies were having an affair before Jack's death.[419] [420] | ||
| Jack Davies | James Mason | ||||
| Tahlia Woods | Tahlia Woods is bisexual.[421] | ||||
| Hayley Fawkner | Hayley Fawkner is a lesbian.[422] | ||||
| 2018–2021 | Pose | Blanca Rodriguez-Evangelista | Blanca is a transgender woman.[423] | ||
| Angel Evangelista | Angel is a transgender woman. | ||||
| Elektra Abundance | Elektra is a transgender woman.[424] | ||||
| Pray Tell | Pray is gay. | ||||
| Damon Richards-Evangelista | Damon is gay. | ||||
| Ricky Evangelista | Ricky is gay and Damon's boyfriend.[425] | ||||
| Candy Abundance | Candy is a transgender woman.[426] | ||||
| Lulu Abundance | Lulu is a transgender woman. Lil Papi described himself as an "equal opportunity lover".[427] | ||||
| 2018 | Rise | Simon Saunders | Ted Sutherland | Simon Saunders is a closeted gay student raised by a very conservative religious family. Jeremy is Simon's co-star in the play, and potential love interest. Michael Hallowell is transgender.[428] [429] | |
| Michael Hallowell | Ellie Desautels | ||||
| Jeremy | Sean Grandillo | ||||
| 2018– | The Rookie | Jackson West | Titus Makin | Jackson West is gay. He's a rookie police officer and the son of a high-ranking police official. Gino Brown is gay. He is a nurse and in a relationship with Jackson West.[430] [431] Jackson: 54 episodes, S01 - S03Gino: 3 episodes | |
| Gino Brown | Cameron J. Armstrong | ||||
| Sterling Freeman | Daniel Lissing | 4 episodes | |||
| Simone Clark | 4 episodes => (main cast) | ||||
| Casey Fox | 2 episodes | ||||
| 2018 | Safe | Pete Mayfield | Pete is gay.[432] | ||
| 2018 | Seven Seconds | Kadeuce Porter | Corey Champagne | Kadeuce Porter and Brenton Butler were in a relationship before Brenton was killed by a white cop who ran over him in a hit and run.[433] [434] | |
| Brenton Butler | Daykwon Gaines | ||||
| 2018–2020 | Siren | Ryn | Ryn is a bisexual mermaid. She is attracted to both Maddie and her boyfriend Ben. Maddie Bishop is revealed to be bisexual, as she is receptive to Ryn's attraction for her.[435] | ||
| Maddie Bishop | Fola Evans-Akingbola | ||||
| 2018–2019 | SKAM Austin | Shay Dixon | La'Keisha Slade | Shay Dixon is a lesbian. Tyler Nunez is gay and Shay's best friend.[436] [437] | |
| Tyler Nunez | Giovanni Niubo | ||||
| 2018– | Skam Italia | TIMVision, Netflix | Martino Rametta | Federico Cesari | Martino is gay. Season 2 centers around him and his coming-out journey. |
| 2018–2019 | Sorry for Your Loss | Jules Shaw | Jules falls in love with a girl named Tommy.[438] | ||
| 2018– | Station 19 | Travis Montgomery | Travis is a gay firefighter.[439] | ||
| Emmett Dixon | Lachlan Buchanan | Emmett Dixon is gay, and is in an off-and-on relationship with Travis.[440] | |||
| Maya Bishop | Maya is a bisexual firefighter.[441] Maya later meets, falls in love, marries and have kids with doctor Carina DeLuca | ||||
| Dr. Carina DeLuca | Stefania Spampinato | Carina is a bisexual doctor. Carina later meets, falls in love, marries and have kids with firefighter Maya Bishop | |||
| 2018– | Tal Baker | Petrice Jones | Tal Baker is gay. Keiynan Lonsdale took over the role in season 3.[442] [443] | ||
| Keiynan Lonsdale | |||||
| 2018–2019 | Sweetbitter | Ariel | Eden Epstein | Ariel is a lesbian and a womanizer.[444] Sasha is a gay Russian immigrant.[445] | |
| Sasha | Daniyar | ||||
| 2018– | This Close | Michael | Josh Feldman | Michael is a graphic novelist, and Ryan is a real estate agent. The series starts after their engagement to be married is broken.[446] [447] [448] | |
| Ryan | Colt Prattes | ||||
| 2018– | Titans | DC Universe (seasons 1–2) HBO Max (season 3–present) | Tim is bisexual.[449] [450] | ||
| 2018–2020 | Vida | Emma Hernandez | Emma is bisexual.[451] | ||
| Eddy Martínez | Eddy is a lesbian. | ||||
| Cruz | Maria-Elena Laas | Cruz is lesbian. | |||
| Sam | Michelle Badillo | Sam is non-binary.[452] | |||
| 2018– | You | Peach Salinger | Peach Salinger is a lesbian.[453] [454] [455] [456] [457] | ||
| Forty | Forty is sexually fluid and an aspiring but troubled filmmaker. | ||||
| Lucy | Marielle Scott | Lucy is lesbian and a literary agent in L.A. married to Sunrise. Sunrise, Lucy's wife, is lesbian and a stay-at-home lifestyle blogger. | |||
| Sunrise | Melanie Field | ||||
| Sherry | Sherry and Cary are a bisexual couple who have polyamorous relationships with various people. | ||||
| Cary | Travis Van Winkle | ||||
| Dante | Ben Mehl | Dante is gay and a former war veteran who lives in Madre Linda with his husband Lansing and their two children. | |||
| Lansing | Noel Arthur | ||||
| Andrew | Andrew is gay and a stay-at-home dad in Madre Linda married to Jackson. Jackson, Andrew's husband, is gay and a tech attorney. | ||||
| Jackson | Bryan Safi | ||||
| Adam | Adam is pansexual and is dating Phoebe. | ||||
| Year | Show | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 Will Be Free | Shin | Shin is gay. | ||
| Neo | Neo is bisexual. | ||||
| Mae | Mae is a trans woman.[458] | ||||
| 2019– | All Rise | Judge Lisa Benner | Lisa is lesbian and mentor of Judge Lola Carmichael. She waited until same-sex marriage became legal to implement Wedding Day at the courthouse. Lisa had been in a four-year relationship when her girlfriend left her on that special day.[459] | ||
| 2019–2021 | Another Life | Zayne | JayR Tinaco | Zayne is non-binary.[460] | |
| Bernie Martinez | A.J. Rivera | Bernie dates Zayne. | |||
| 2019–2022 | Batwoman | Kate Kane is the lesbian cousin of Bruce Wayne.[461] | |||
| Sophie Moore is lesbian and Kate's former girlfriend. After breaking up with Kate and denying her sexuality, she married Tyler. Sophie comes to terms with being lesbian, tells her husband about her past relationship with Kate, ends her marriage, and comes out to her mother.[462] | |||||
| Christina Wolfe | Julia Pennyworth is lesbian, Kate's ex-girlfriend, and a British spy.[463] Batwoman is the first lesbian superhero to forefront a prime time series.[464] | ||||
| Ryan Wilder is a black lesbian. Javicia Leslie took over the role of Batwoman is season two.[465] | |||||
| Bevin Bru | Angelique Martin is a lesbian. She is Ryan's drug-dealing ex-girlfriend.[466] | ||||
| Safiyah Sohail is a lesbian. She is Queen of the pirate nation of Coryana. | |||||
| Tatiana | Tatiana is a lesbian. She is an assassin known as The Whisper.[467] | ||||
| Evan Blake | Lincoln Clauss | Evan Blake is a non-binary queer. They are an art thief known as Wolf Spider.[468] | |||
| Reagan | Reagan is a lesbian. She is a bartender.[469] | ||||
| Gina | Favour Onosemuede | Gina is a lesbian. She is Parker Torres' girlfriend.[470] | |||
| Parker Torres | Malia Pyles | Parker Torres is a lesbian. She becomes the Terrier and blackmails Gotham.[471] | |||
| Sara Lance | Sara Lance is bisexual. She had a guest appearance in 2019, episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths".[472] | ||||
| 2019– | Bob Hearts Abishola | CBS | Morenike | Tori Danner | Morenike is a lesbian. |
| 2019 | Bluff City Law | Della Bedford | Della is lesbian. She comes out after ending her 15-year marriage.[473] | ||
| 2019–2021 | Bonding | Pete | Brendan Scannell | Pete is an openly gay man who becomes an assistant to his dominatrix friend.[474] | |
| Josh | Theo Stockman | Josh is gay and Pete's boyfriend.[475] | |||
| 2019– | The Boys | Amazon Prime Video | Ezekiel | Ezekiel is a closeted homosexual.[476] [477] | |
| Queen Maeve is bisexual. She had romances with Elena and Homelander; however, she was closeted.[478] | |||||
| Elena | Elena is lesbian and Maeve's ex-girlfriend.[479] [480] | ||||
| Frenchie | Frenchie is bisexual and has had relationships with men and women. | ||||
| 2019– | Carnival Row | Vignette Stonemoss | Vignette Stonemoss is bisexual and a fairy. Tourmaline Larou is either bisexual or lesbian, and a fairy. Vignette and Tourmaline were once lovers and are now close friends.[481] | ||
| Tourmaline Larou | Karla Crome | ||||
| Costin Finch | Gregory Gudgeon | Costin Finch was a closeted gay and the Headmaster of an orphanage. Dr. Morange was a closeted gay and the coroner for the Constabulary. Costin and Morange were longtime lovers and would meet in secret at the fairy brothel.[482] | |||
| Dr. Morange | John Malafronte | ||||
| 2019 | The Club | Santiago Caballero | Santiago is gay. Max is gay. Santiago and Max are dating.[483] [484] [485] | ||
| Max | Martín Saracho | ||||
| 2019– | Coroner | Ross Khalighi | Ehren Kassam | Ross Khalighi is gay and the teenage son of coroner Jenny Cooper. Matteo is gay and Ross's boyfriend. Ross and Matteo are dating.[486] | |
| Matteo | Graeme Jokic | ||||
| Alison Trent | Tamara Podemski | Alison Trent is lesbian and Cooper's assistant.[487] [488] | |||
| Sabina | Sabina is lesbian. Alison and Sabina are dating.[489] | ||||
| Taylor Kim | Alli Chung | Taylor Kim is lesbian and a detective. She told her colleague that she left home when she was 16, and lives with her girlfriend and their three dogs.[490] | |||
| River Baitz | Kiley May | River is Two Spirit. They are in a relationship with Dennis Garcia | |||
| Alphonse Usmani | Shawn Ahmed | Alphonse is gay and Cooper's assistant. He begins seeing Ross in Season 4 | |||
| 2019 | Dark Blue Kiss | Pete | Pete and Kao are boyfriends. Non has a same-sex crush on Kao. Sun and Mork are gay love interests. Thai boys' love series.[491] [492] [493] | ||
| Kao | New Thitipoom | ||||
| Non | AJ Chayapol | ||||
| Sun | Podd Suphakorn | ||||
| Mork | Fluke Gawin | ||||
| 2019– | David Makes Man | Mx. Elijah | Travis Coles | Mx. Elijah is gender nonconforming.[494] | |
| Femi | Femi is a trans woman. | ||||
| Star Child | Logan Rozos | Star Child is a trans man. | |||
| 2019 | Daybreak | Turbo "Bro Jock" Pokaski | Turbo is gay and is in a relationship with Wesley Fists.[495] | ||
| Wesley Fists | Wesley is gay and is in a relationship with Turbo. | ||||
| 2019–2021 | Dickinson | Emily Dickinson is lesbian and an aspiring poet. She is in love with Sue Gilbert, her best friend, who is bisexual.[496] | |||
| Ella Hunt | |||||
| 2019– | Doom Patrol | Jane is a lesbian.[497] [498] | |||
| Shelley Byron / The Fog | Wynn Everett | ||||
| Larry Trainor is a gay superhero. Larry and John Bowers were in a relationship before Larry's accident. When Larry is all bandaged up, he is played by actor Matthew Zuk.[499] [500] | |||||
| John Bowers | Kyle Clements | John Bowers is gay. He was having an affair with Larry Trainor before the accident.[501] [502] | |||
| Maura Lee Karupt | Maura Lee Karupt is a trans woman.[503] | ||||
| Mr. 104 | Sendhil Ramamurthy | ||||
| Danny the Street is a sentient gender-queer street with the power to teleport themselves and their residents to any location in the world. They communicate through street signs, napkins, neon signs, and anything else they can create letters on.[504] | |||||
| 2019– | Euphoria | Rue Bennett | Rue Bennett is queer and has a crush on Jules.[505] | ||
| Jules | Jules is a transgender young woman. | ||||
| Cal Jacobs | Eric Dane | Cal Jacobs is bisexual. He is married but has a secret Grindr profile.[506] | |||
| TC | TC is non-binary. | ||||
| Anna | Anna is non-binary and hooks up with Jules.[507] | ||||
| 2019– | Five Bedrooms | Network Ten | Harry | Roy Joseph | Harry is a gay surgeon. He lives with his mother, who doesn't know he is gay.[508] [509] |
| Pete Portelli | Adam Fiorentino | Pete Portelli is a gay cop in the neighborhood.[510] | |||
| 2019– | For All Mankind | Larry Wilson | Nate Corddry | Larry is gay and works at NASA. He marries Ellen Waverly, who is a lesbian, to save his career.[511] | |
| Ellen Waverly | Jodi Balfour | Ellen Waverly is a lesbian astronaut. She likes Pam, but marries Larry, who is gay, to save her career.[512] | |||
| Pam Horton | Meghan Leathers | Pam is a lesbian. She owns the bar where most of the NASA employees hang out.[513] | |||
| Elise | Mele Ihara | Elise is a lesbian and Pam's girlfriend. Guest appearance.[514] | |||
| 2019– | Four More Shots Please! | Umang Singh | Umang is bisexual.[515] | ||
| 2019– | The Game of Keys | Valentín Lombardo | Valentín Lombardo is gay. | ||
| Daniel | Daniel is gay and Valentín Lombardo's lover.[516] [517] [518] | ||||
| 2019– | Gentleman Jack | Anne Lister and Ann Walker are a couple. Ann admits that she loves Anne.[519] [520] [521] | |||
| Sophie Rundle | |||||
| 2019– | Ghosts | BBC One | The Captain | Ben Willbond | A stern, closeted World War II Army officer. |
| 2019–2020 | Girls from Ipanema | Thereza Soares | Set in the 1950s, Thereza Soares is bisexual and married to Nelson, with whom she has an open relationship. She has an affair with female journalist Helô. Helô is lesbian.[522] [523] | ||
| Helô | Thaila Ayala | ||||
| 2019– | Good Omens | Prime Video | Aziraphale | Michael Sheen | Aziraphale is a genderless angel who presents as a man. In the season two finale, it is confirmed that he is in love with the demon Crowley. |
| Crowley | David Tennant | Crowley is a genderfluid demon who presents masculinely in the present day, but has been shown to change gender presentations over time.[524] In the season two finale, he confesses his love to Aziraphale. | |||
| Pollution | Lourdes Faberes | Uses singular they/them pronouns and is described by book co-author and series writer Neil Gaiman as non-binary. | |||
| Maggie | Maggie Service | Maggie is a record store owner and one of Aziraphale's tenants in Soho. She is a lesbian and is in love with Nina, another shopkeeper. | |||
| Nina | Nina Sosanya | Nina is a coffee shop owner in Soho. She is a lesbian and is romantically interested in Maggie by the end of season two. | |||
| 2019– | Good Trouble | Alice Kwan | Alice Kwan is lesbian.[525] [526] | ||
| Gael | Tommy Martinez | Gael is bisexual.[527] | |||
| Bryan | Michael Galante | Bryan is gay. He and Gael date.[528] | |||
| Elijah Adrieux | Denim Richards | Elijah Adrieux is Gael's ex-boyfriend.[529] | |||
| Jazmin Martinez | Hailie Sahar | Jazmin Martinez is a trans woman.[530] | |||
| Joey | Daisy Eagan | Joey is non-binary.[531] | |||
| Lena Adams Foster | Sherri Saum | Lena Adams Foster is a lesbian.[532] | |||
| Lindsay Brady | River Butcher | Lindsay Brady is non-binary and queer.[533] | |||
| Meera Mattei | Briana Venskus | Meera Mattei is a lesbian.[534] | |||
| Stef Adams Foster | Teri Polo | Stef Adams Foster is a lesbian.[535] | |||
| Sumi | Kara Wang | Sumi is a lesbian.[536] | |||
| Shaun | Kye Tamm | Shaun is a trans man. | |||
| Ruby | Shannon Chan-Kent | Ruby is a lesbian.[537] | |||
| Sydney | Caitlin Kimball | Sydney is a lesbian. | |||
| Shai Floraz | Anisha Jagannathan | Shai Floraz is queer. | |||
| 2019 | Grand Hotel | Yolanda ("Yoli") Renna | Justina Adorno | Yolanda ("Yoli") Renna is queer. She was in a relationship with Sky Garibaldi before Marisa.[538] | |
| Sky Garibaldi | Sky Garibaldi is a lesbian and a cook at the hotel. She was murdered during a hurricane. | ||||
| Marisa | Sabrina Texidor | Marisa is a lesbian and also works at the hotel. | |||
| 2019 | Handsome Stewardess | Meng | Meng falls in love with another member of cabin crew — a stewardess. Singapore's first TV series to feature a lesbian couple.[539] | ||
| 2019– | Disney+ | Big Red | Big Red is bisexual.[540] | ||
| Ashlyn Caswell | Caswell is bisexual.[541] | ||||
| Carlos Rodriguez | Frankie Rodriguez | Carlos and Seb are boyfriends.[542] | |||
| Seb Matthew-Smith | Joe Serafini | ||||
| Carol Salazar-Roberts | Nicole Sullivan | Carol and Dana are Nini's mothers.[543] | |||
| Dana Salazar-Roberts | Michelle Noh | ||||
| 2019 | The I-Land | Blair | Blair was married to a woman.[544] [545] | ||
| 2019–2022 | In the Dark | Jess Damon | Brooke Markham | Jess is a lesbian veterinarian. She's the roommate and best friend of Murphy Mason. Jess and Vanessa are in a romantic relationship and they admit that they love each other. Vanessa is either lesbian or bisexual. They break up after Jess cheats on Vanessa.[546] [547] | |
| Vanessa | Humberly Gonzalez | ||||
| Sam | Cortni Vaughn Joyner | Sam is a butch lesbian henchwoman and liquidator. | |||
| Sterling | Natalie Liconti | Sterling is lesbian and Sam's girlfriend. She infiltrates Guiding Hope as a kennel assistant and dates Jess to gain her trust while keeping an eye on everyone. | |||
| 2019 | The InBetween | Tom Hackett | Tom Hackett is a gay detective in the Seattle police department and married to Brian Currie, a gay therapist.[548] [549] | ||
| Brian Currie | Michael B. Silver | Brian Currie is a gay therapist, married to Tom Hackett. | |||
| 2019– | Bette is lesbian.[550] [551] [552] | ||||
| Shane is lesbian. | |||||
| Alice is bisexual. | |||||
| Dani Núñez | Arienne Mandi | Dani is lesbian.[553] | |||
| Sophie Suarez | Sophie is lesbian. Dani and Sophie are engaged. | ||||
| Gigi Ghorbani | Sepideh Moafi | Gigi is lesbian. | |||
| Micah Lee | Micah is a trans man. | ||||
| Sarah Finley | Sarah is lesbian. | ||||
| José | Freddy Miyares | José is gay.[554] | |||
| Angelica Porter-Kennard | Jordan Hull | Angelica Porter-Kennard is not straight.[555] | |||
| Felicity Adams | Latarsha Rose | Felicity Adams is a lesbian.[556] | |||
| Jordi | Sophie Giannamore | Jordi is not straight.[557] | |||
| Lena | Mercedes Mason | Lena is a lesbian.[558] | |||
| Natalie Bailey | Stephanie Allynne | Natalie Bailey is a lesbian. | |||
| Pierce Williams | Brian Michael Smith | Pierce Williams is a trans man.[559] | |||
| Quiara Thompson | Lex Scott Davis | Quiara Thompson is a lesbian.[560] | |||
| Rebecca | Olivia Thirlby | Rebecca is bisexual. | |||
| Tess Van De Berg | Jamie Clayton | Tess Van De Berg is a lesbian. | |||
| Heather | Fortune Feimster | Heather is a lesbian.[561] [562] | |||
| Roxane Gay | Roxane Gay is bisexual. Guest character. | ||||
| Maya Stevenson | Tamara Taylor | Maya Stevenson is not straight. Guest character. | |||
| Tina Kennard | Laurel Holloman | Tina Kennard is bisexual. Guest character. | |||
| Megan Rapinoe | Megan Rapinoe is a lesbian. Guest character. | ||||
| Zoe | Ashley Gallegos | Zoe is a lesbian. Guest character. | |||
| 2019 | Limetown | Lia Haddock | Lia is a lesbian journalist investigating the disappearance of the population of a small Appalachian town. Lia's girlfriend is lesbian.[563] | ||
| Lia's girlfriend | Kandyse McClure | ||||
| 2019– | Made In Heaven | Amazon Prime Video | Karan Mehra | Arjun Mathur | Karan is a gay wedding planner in Delhi.[564] [565] |
| 2019–2021 | Pol Rubio | Pol Rubio comes out as bisexual. Bruno Bergeron is gay. Pol and Bruno have a complicated romance, extended from the previous TV series, Merlí.[566] [567] | |||
| Bruno Bergeron | David Solans | ||||
| Otilia | Clàudia Vega | Otilia is a lesbian. Amy O'Connor is a lesbian. Otilia and Amy hook up at a party.[568] | |||
| Amy O'Connor | Lesley Grant | ||||
| Axel | Jordi Coll | Pol and Axel start dating in season 2.[569] | |||
| 2019– | The Morning Show | Bradley Jackson | Bradley Jackson is bisexual and in the closet.[570] | ||
| Laura Peterson | Laura Peterson is a lesbian who begins dating Bradley in Season 2.[571] | ||||
| 2019– | Nancy Drew | Bess Marvin | Bess Marvin is a lesbian and a waitress at The Bayside Claw. She develops a romantic interest in Lisbeth. | ||
| Lisbeth | Lisbeth is a lesbian and a state police officer working undercover as a driver and transporter. Lisbeth tells Bess that she really likes her.[572] | ||||
| Addy Soctomah | Rachel Colwell | (Season 3) Addy is a lesbian and a STEM counselor working at the Horseshoe Bay youth center. She becomes involved in a relationship with Bess. | |||
| 2019 | No Good Nick | Jeremy Thompson | Kalama Epstein | Jeremy is gay. He kisses Eric and comes out as gay to his family.[573] | |
| Eric | Gus Kamp | Eric is gay. He tells Jeremy that his family already knew he was gay before coming out to them. | |||
| 2019 | Now Apocalypse | Ulysses Zane | Ulysses is bisexual or gay. Stoned and paranoid is pretty much his default mode.[574] [575] | ||
| Gabriel | Gabriel is gay. Gabriel goes on a date with Ulysses and then they swap handjobs in an alleyway.[576] [577] | ||||
| Isaac | Isaac is gay, and hooks up with Ulysses.[578] [579] | ||||
| 2019 | Osmosis | Lucas Apert | Stéphane Pitti | Lucas is gay. He uses Osmosis, a beta dating app, in the hope that it will help him with his boyfriend and to stop cheating.[580] | |
| Billie Tual | Yuming Hey | Billie is a genderqueer scientist that uses the pronouns she/her.[581] [582] | |||
| 2019–2020 | Pandora | Jacqueline "Jax" Zhou | Priscilla Quintana | Jax is bisexual. | |
| Cordelia Fried | Isabelle Bonfrer | Cordelia Fried is a lesbian.[583] | |||
| Atria Nine | Raechelle Banno | Atria Nine is pansexual. | |||
| Aleka | Elizabeth Hammerton | Aleka is pansexual. | |||
| 2019–2020 | The Politician | Payton Hobart | Payton Hobart is bisexual. He initially identifies as straight and dates his classmate Alice Charles, but he develops a romantic relationship with his male classmate River Barkley and even has a threesome with River and his girlfriend Astrid Sloan. He and Alice later enter a short-lived polyamorous relationship with Astrid before getting married.[584] | ||
| River Barkley | David Corenswet | ||||
| Astrid Sloan | Astrid describes herself and her boyfriend River Barkley as kinda fluid, and enegages in a threeway with River and his male lover Payton Hobart. After River's death she has a brief sexual relationship with a man named Ricardo and also engages in a short term polyamorous relationship with Payton and his girlfriend Alice Charles.[585] | ||||
| Georgina Hobart | In season 1 Georgina leaves her husband Keaton for her female horse trainer, Brigitte. She later has relationships with Alison and Tino McCutcheon.[586] [587] | ||||
| Brigitte | Martina Navratilova | ||||
| McAfee Westbrook | Throughout the series McAfee has relationships with men and women.[588] | ||||
| Skye Leighton | Rahne Jones | Skye Leighton is a gender non-conforming lesbian.[589] | |||
| James Sullivan | Theo Germaine | James Sullivan is a trans man.[590] | |||
| Marcus Standish | For over ten years Marcus and his wife Dede were involved in a polyamorous relationship with a man named William Ward, although William dumps them after falling in love with another woman. Marcus and Dede briefly engage in a sexual relationship with a different man before dumping him and divorcing each other.[591] | ||||
| William Ward | For over ten years Teddy was engaged in a polyamorous relationship with married couple Marcus and Dede Standish, but eventually leaves them for a woman named Hadassah Gold. | ||||
| Alice Charles | Julia Schlaepfer | Alice initially only has relationships with men, including a long time relationship with her classmate Payton Hobart, an affair with Payton's best friend James Sullivan, and a brief engagement to a male classmate. She later develops a short term polyamorous relationship with Payton and Astrid Sloan before eventually dumping Astrid and marrying Payton.[592] [593] [594] | |||
| Andi Mueller | Robin Weigert | Andi Mueller is a lesbian.[595] | |||
| Susan | Liv Mai | Susan is a lesbian.[596] | |||
| 2019 | Alison is bisexual. She was in a relationship with Emily Fields in the first series.[597] | ||||
| Dylan Walker | Eli Brown | Dylan is gay.[598] [599] | |||
| Andrew Villareal | Evan Bittencourt | Andrew is gay.[600] | |||
| Nolan Hotchkiss | Chris Mason | Nolan is bisexual. | |||
| 2019 | Proven Innocent | Madeline Scott | Madeline is bisexual. She was with Wren during her time in prison. Wren is a lesbian.[601] | ||
| Wren | Candice Coke | ||||
| 2019 | The Red Line | Dr. Harrison Brennan | Dr. Harrison Brennan is gay. He is married to Daniel Calder. He is shot while unarmed by a white cop. | ||
| Daniel Calder | Daniel Calder is gay. He is a high school history teacher mourning the death of his husband, Dr. Harrison Brennan, a black man who is shot while unarmed by a white cop.[602] [603] | ||||
| Liam Bhatt | Vinny Chhibber | Liam is a gay Muslim American teacher.[604] | |||
| Riley Hooper | J.J. Hawkins | Riley is a trans-masculine high school student.[605] [606] | |||
| 2019– | The Righteous Gemstones | HBO | Kelvin Gemstone | Adam DeVine | Kelvin kisses Keefe.[607] |
| Keefe Chambers | Tony Cavalero | ||||
| 2019–2022 | Roswell, New Mexico | Michael Guerin | Michael is a bisexual alien.[608] | ||
| Alex Manes | Alex is gay.[609] [610] | ||||
| Isobel Evans | Isobel Evans-Bracken is pasexual.[611] | ||||
| Charlie Cameron | Jamie Clayton | Charlie Cameron is a trans woman, and an FBI agent. She uses the alias Agent Grace Powell.[612] | |||
| Blair | Sarah Minnich | Blair is a lesbian, and a bartender at the local gay bar.[613] | |||
| 2019– | Sex Education | Eric Effiong | Eric is openly gay.[614] | ||
| Anwar | Chaneil Kular | Anwar is gay.[615] | |||
| Adam Groff | Adam Groff is bisexual. He's in a relationship with Aimee at the start of season 1 but later kisses and pursues Eric.[616] | ||||
| Ruthie | Ruthie is lesbian.[617] | ||||
| Tanya | Tanya is lesbian. | ||||
| Sofia Marchetti | Sofia and Roz Marchetti are Jackson's lesbian mothers.[618] | ||||
| Roz Marchetti | Sharon Duncan-Brewster | ||||
| Rahim | Sami Outalbali | Rahim is gay. He is introduced in season 2 and is in a relationship with Eric.[619] | |||
| Florence | Mirren Mack | Florence is asexual.[620] | |||
| Ola Nyman | Patricia Allison | Ola is pansexual.[621] | |||
| Cal Bowman | Dua Saleh | Cal is a non-binary student.[622] | |||
| 2019 | The Society | Sam | Sam is gay and deaf. Grizz is gay and learns sign language so he can communicate with Sam. They are romantically and sexually involved with each other.[623] [624] [625] | ||
| Grizz | Jack Mulhern | ||||
| 2019–2021 | Special | Ryan Hayes | Ryan is openly gay.[626] [627] | ||
| Carey | Carey is a gay journalist. He has a boyfriend, but befriends Ryan.[628] | ||||
| 2019 | The Stranded | Krit | Perth Tanapon | Krit and Jack are a gay couple.[629] [630] | |
| Jack | Mark Siwat | ||||
| Arisa | Chaleeda Gilbert | Arisa is a lesbian.[631] | |||
| Ying | Ticha Wongtipkanon | Ying is bisexual. | |||
| 2019–2020 | Stumptown | Dexadrine "Dex" Parios | Dex is bisexual.[632] [633] | ||
| 2019 | Tales of the City | Shawna Hawkins | Shawna is bisexual.[634] | ||
| Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver | Michael is gay.[635] | ||||
| Ben Marshall | Ben is Michael's boyfriend.[636] | ||||
| Anna Madrigal | Anna is a transgender woman.[637] | ||||
| Jake Rodriguez | Garcia | Jake is a transgender male. | |||
| Margot Park | Margot is lesbian. | ||||
| Samuel Garland | Samuel is gay.[638] | ||||
| DeDe Halcyon Day | DeDe is lesbian. | ||||
| Claire Duncan | Claire is Shawna's love interest. | ||||
| Ida Best | Ida is gay and a drag queen.[639] | ||||
| Harrison | Matthew Risch | Harrison is gay.[640] | |||
| Flaco Ramirez | Juan Castano | Flaco is gay.[641] | |||
| Mateo | Dickie Hearts | Mateo is gay and deaf.[642] | |||
| Inka Gisladottior | Inka is bisexual. | ||||
| 2019–2020 | Tharn | Mew Suppasit | Tharn is gay. Tharn and Type are love interests. Thai boys love television series. | ||
| Type | Gulf Kanawut | Type is gay.[643] | |||
| Lhong | Kaownah Kittipat | Lhong is gay.[644] | |||
| Tar | Kokliang Parinya | Tar is Tharn's ex-boyfriend. | |||
| Tum | Hiter Natthad | Tum is gay. | |||
| Khlui | Mawin Tanawin | Khlui is gay. | |||
| 2019 | Theory of Love | Third | Gun Atthaphan | Third originally has a secret crush on Khai but they eventually become a gay couple.[645] | |
| Khai | Off Jumpol | ||||
| 2019– | Toy Boy | Jairo | Carlos Constanzia | Jairo is openly gay. Andrea is gay. Jairo and Andrea develop a romantic relationship.[646] | |
| Andrea Norman Medina | Juanjo Almeida | ||||
| 2019–2020 | Trinkets | Elodie Davis | Elodie Davis is lesbian and a kleptomaniac. Sabine is a queer singer who shows interest in Elodie. This is reciprocated, and they kiss.[647] | ||
| Sabine | Katrina Cunningham | ||||
| 2019– | The Umbrella Academy | Klaus Hargreeves | Klaus (aka The Séance, Number Four) is pansexual.[648] [649] [650] | ||
| Viktor Hargreeves | Viktor (aka The White Violin, Number 7) is a bisexual trans man.[651] | ||||
| Dave | Cody Ray Thompson | Dave is gay. He and Klaus were together during the Vietnam War when Klaus travels back in time.[652] [653] | |||
| Sissy Cooper | Sissy is bisexual. | ||||
| 2019 | The Untamed | Wei Wuxian | Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji have a romantic friendship. The original web novel depicted a romantic relationship between the two main male characters, but it was changed for the television adaptation due to media censorship of LGBT portrayals.[654] | ||
| Lan Wangji | Wang Yibo | ||||
| 2019–2020 | Until We Meet Again | Dean | Ohm Thitiwat | Dean and Pharm are a gay couple. Thai boys love television series.[655] [656] [657] | |
| Pharm | Fluke Natouch | ||||
| In | Earth Katsamonnat | In and Korn are a gay couple. | |||
| Korn | Kao Noppakao | ||||
| Team | Prem Warut | Team and Win are a couple. | |||
| Win | Boun Noppanut | ||||
| Alex | Mean Phiravich | Alex is bisexual. He initially had a crush on Pharm but later dates Del. | |||
| 2019 | Watchmen | Will Reeves is gay or bisexual, and had an affair with Nelson Gardner.[658] | |||
| Jovan Adepo | |||||
| 2019 | Weird City | Stu | Stu and Burt are in a sexual and romantic relationship. They are assigned to be together after an app determines they are meant for one another.[659] [660] | ||
| Burt | Ed O'Neill | ||||
| Liquia | Liquia and Jathryn are in a committed romantic and sexual relationship.[661] [662] | ||||
| Jathryn | Sara Gilbert | ||||
| 2019–2023 | What Did You Eat Yesterday? | Shiro Kakei | Shiro and Kenji are the main characters and they have been together for three years.[663] | ||
| Kenji Yabuki | Seiyō Uchino | ||||
| 2019 | What/If | Marcos | Juan Castano | Marcos and Lionel are a couple.[664] | |
| Lionel | John Clarence Stewart | ||||
| Kevin | Derek Smith | Kevin was a one time hook-up for the couple, but became a good friend.[665] | |||
| 2019– | What We Do in the Shadows | Laszlo Cravensworth | Laszlo is married to Nadja. In the pilot, he admits to a secret affair with Baron Afanas. He also has had multiple sexual encounters with men[666] | ||
| Nandor the Relentless | It is revealed in Season 4 that some of the 37 wives Nandor had in the past were men, he just calls all of them wives,[667] he has also hooked up with Laszlo at least twice. | ||||
| Nadja of Antipaxos | Nadja is Laszlo's wife. Although she's mostly shown an interest in men, Nadja passionately made love to a female reincarnation of a resurrected lover. | ||||
| Guillermo de la Cruz | Harvey Guillén | Guillermo comes out as gay in Season 4.[668] | |||
| 2019–2021 | Why Women Kill | Karl Grove | Karl is Simone's husband who is using their relationship to conceal his homosexuality.[669] | ||
| Taylor Harding | Taylor is a bisexual feminist attorney in an open marriage. | ||||
| Jade | Jade is the mistress of Taylor.[670] | ||||
| 2019 | The Witcher | Jaskier | Jaskier is sapioromantic, sapiosexual,[671] panromantic and pansexual,[672] and Radovid is gay.[673] They have a crush on each other, kiss, and make love (off screen, implied by Radovid asking Jaskier to "take him") in Season 3.[674] | ||
| Radovid | |||||
| 2019– | World on Fire | Webster O'Connor | Webster O'Connor is a gay American doctor. Albert Fallou is a gay Parisian saxophonist. They are in a romantic relationship.[675] | ||
| Albert Fallou | |||||
| 2019 | Years and Years | Daniel Lyons | Daniel is gay. He was married to Ralph and is in a relationship with Viktor.[676] [677] [678] [679] | ||
| Ralph Cousins | Ralph is gay. He is Daniel's ex-husband. | ||||
| Viktor Goraya | Viktor is gay. He is in a relationship with Daniel. | ||||
| Edith Lyons | Edith Lyons is a lesbian. Fran Baxter is a lesbian. They are in a relationship.[680] | ||||
| Fran Baxter | Sharon Duncan-Brewster |