See also: Gender and webcomics. This is a list of some of the many webcomics featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise LGBTQ content.
LGBTQ+ themes and characters were historically omitted intentionally from the content of comic strips and comic books, due to either censorship, the perception that LGBTQ+ representation was inappropriate for children, or the perception that comics as a medium were for children. In recent years, the number of LGBTQ+ characters in mainstream comics has increased greatly. There exist a large amount of openly gay and lesbian comic creators that self-publish their work on the Internet. These include amateur works, as well as more "mainstream" works, such as Kyle's Bed & Breakfast.[1] According to Andrew Wheeler from ComicsAlliance, webcomics "provide a platform to so many queer voices that might otherwise go undiscovered."[2]
| - | Year(s) | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Description | Created by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| –, – | Dykes to Watch Out For | Mo Testa | Lesbian | This webcomic features multiple lesbian characters,[3] including a principled lesbian named Mo Testa who graduates from library school.[4] | ||
| Lois MacGiver | Lois is drag king named Lois MacGiver who dates Jasmine and is the mother of a trans teen named Janis.[5] | |||||
| Clarice Clifford | College girlfriend of Mo and married partner of Toni Ortiz. | |||||
| Toni Ortiz | Married partner of Clarice. | |||||
| Dr. Sydney Krukowski | Current lover of Mo Testa. | |||||
| Thea | Lover of Sydney Krukowski in college. | |||||
| Jezanna | In a relationship with Audrey. | |||||
| Audrey | ||||||
| Harriet | Ex-girlfriend of Mo. | |||||
| Sparrow Pidgeon | A so-called "bisexual lesbian." | |||||
| Janis | Trans woman | Trans adolescent daughter of Jasmine. | ||||
| – | Bruno | Bruno | Bisexual | The titular character, Bruno, is a bisexual, and free-spirited woman.[6] In one comic, Bruno admits her bisexuality,[7] and in others, she goes on a date with Frank, has a one-night-stand with Patricia, and sleeps with her friend Donna. | ||
| Donna | Lesbian | Bruno and Donna have a passionate relationship, but due to Bruno's alcoholism and somewhat turbulent personality, they break up. After the breakup, Bruno expresses interest in a boy[8] and Donna is seen with a new girlfriend.[9] | ||||
| Sophia | Bruno later becomes involves with Sophia, who "has male and female lovers within the bounds of a polyamorous relationship."[10] | |||||
| Judi | Trans woman | In the comic, Baldwin offers "brief flashes inside Judi's private sexual life," even though most of the main characters don't know she is trans.[11] | ||||
| 1998 - 2018 | Jane's World | Jane Wyatt | Lesbian | In this "gay-themed comic strip," most of the central characters, are lesbians, including the titular Jane Wyatt,[12] who has a crush on the owner of the coffee shop, Margaret "Maggie" Valen. | ||
| Margaret "Maggie" Valen | Maggie has a number of ex (and current) girlfriends. She may have feelings for Dorothy.[13] | |||||
| Dorothy | Bisexual | Confirmed as a bisexual character,[14] she may have feelings for Maggie. Bisexual women are also included as characters, and the comic later featured a same-sex marriage between some of the comic's central characters in 2018.[15] | ||||
| 1998 - present | Kyle's Bed & Breakfast | Jeff Olsen | Gay | Olsen is a gay man with HIV.[16] Comic covers controversial LGBT topics such as same-sex marriage, HIV/AIDS, body fascism and conversion therapy.[17] | ||
| Mark Masterson | Masterson is a gay scholar. | |||||
| Kristian Janson | Janson is a Jamaican gay man. | |||||
| 1999 - present | Real Life Comics | Mae Dean | Trans Woman / Lesbian | Mae is a trans woman, based on the author of the comic, Maelyn Dean. Prior to June 2020, when a storyline revealed the character was trans feminine (and had been the entire time), this character was called "Greg".[18] | Maelyn Dean |
| - | Year(s) | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Description | Created by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 - 2014 | Venus Envy | Zoë Alexis Carter | Trans woman | The protagonist of this webcomic, she adjusts to school life as a girl and has severe depression. She is bisexual like her friend Nina.[19] | ||
| Larson Delgado | Trans man | A trans Latino boy who is, like Lisa, friends with Zoë, going to the same high school, and often wears chest binders.[20] | ||||
| Lisa van Gogh | Lesbian | Friends with Zoë and is on the soccer team, which is filled with other lesbians.[21] | ||||
| 2002–2009 | Oh My Gods! | Stan | Gay | Includes gay main characters like Stan (who is in a relationship with Vincent) and a lesbian named Vera, in this story which deals with the Neopagan, Pagan, and Wiccan faiths.[22] | ||
| Vera | Lesbian | |||||
| 2003 - 2010 | Girly | Otra | This webcomic is the sequel to Cutewendy, with two female protagonists (Otra and Winter) in a romantic relationship with one of them having lesbian parents.[23] [24] [25] [26] [27] | |||
| Winter | ||||||
| 2002 - present | El Goonish Shive | Sarah Brown | Bisexual | In a pair of Q&A strips and accompanying commentary in 2019, Shive described "the entire main cast and a lot of others" as LGBT+[28] and stated that "gender fluidity and bisexuality feel normal and like the default to [him]" and that he "grew up in the eighties and nineties wanting to see more LGBT+ characters"[29] | ||
| Tiffany Susan Pompoms | ||||||
| Ashley | ||||||
| Diane | ||||||
| Rhoda | ||||||
| Grace Sciuridae | Demisexual | |||||
| Justin Tolkiberry | Gay | |||||
| George | ||||||
| Luke | ||||||
| Elliot Dunkel | Genderfluid | |||||
| Tedd Drew Verres | ||||||
| Nanase Kitsune | Lesbian | |||||
| Lucy | ||||||
| Catalina Bobcat | ||||||
| Jay | ||||||
| Sam | Trans man | |||||
| Vladia | Trans woman | |||||
| Ellen Danielle Dunkel | Trans woman Bisexual homoromantic | |||||
| 2003 - present | Questionable Content | Claire Augustus | Trans woman | Includes characters of various sexualities, a trans woman named Claire, an asexual character named Hannelore, bisexual woman named Dora who is in a relationship with lesbian woman named Tai, gay man named Henry, and a professional dominatrix named Veronica, as well as various other themes of sexuality.[30] [31] Faye, who had previously only expressed sexual attraction to men, enters into a relationship with a female-presenting robot named Bubbles. Two bisexual male characters, Clinton and Elliot, are in a relationship with each other. | ||
| Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham | Asexual | |||||
| Dora Bianchi | Bisexual | |||||
| Faye Whitaker | ||||||
| Clinton Augustus | ||||||
| Elliot | ||||||
| Tai Hubbert | Lesbian | |||||
| Bubbles | ||||||
| Henry Reed | Gay | |||||
| 2004 - 2015 | Girls With Slingshots | Thea | Lesbian | This webcomic, by Danielle Corsetto, focuses on the adventures of Jaime, Hazel, and their friends, and at one point "Thea and Angel have the safe lesbian sex talk."[32] Corsetto also leads the readers through the "wonderful world of sex with girls," reminding readers that "sexuality comes in a number of flavors." | ||
| Angel |
| - | Year(s) | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Description | Created by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 - present | Gunnerkrigg Court | Kat | Lesbian | Features various LGBT characters, including Kat and Paz as a same-sex couple, are Zimmy and Gamma, Robot and Shadow.[33] | ||
| Paz | ||||||
| Zimmy | ||||||
| Gamma | ||||||
| Robot | Gay | |||||
| Shadow | ||||||
| 2008 - 2019 | Ménage à 3 | Suzi "Zii" Nielsen | Bisexual | Explores "themes of sexual awakening" The webcomic follows the lives and adventures of three roommates in their attempts to find love, success and the pleasures of life. One of these roommates is Suzi "Zii" Nielsen, who is bisexual,[34] [35] [36] | ||
| Désirée "Didi" Chastel | A roommate of Zii, Désirée "Didi" Chastel is bisexual.[37] [38] [39] | |||||
| Yuki Ōyama | Yuki is bisexual but has phallophobia so generally is not intimate with men. | |||||
| Matthieu "Matt" Lanteigne | Matt is bisexual and is shown in relationships with men and women. | |||||
| Senna Muniz | Trans woman | A roommate of Didi and Zii, Senna is a trans lingerie model[40] She later gets dumped by Gary.[41] | ||||
| Dillon | Gay | A gay man who is the protagonist of a spinoff comic titled Sticky Dilly Buns.[42] | ||||
| 2008 - Present | Oglaf | Ivan | Possibly bisexual | Explores various sexual themes and includes a person named Ivan, and various other characters. Specifically, Ivan has sex with various men, women, and an unnamed mistress, along with having sperm enchanted by the said mistress, named Sprite. The comic also includes two succubus who have sex with each other, kissing male zombies, masturbation, oral sex, and lesbian sex of unnamed characters. | ||
| Other characters | Gay | |||||
| Lesbian | ||||||
| 2009 - 2016 | Homestuck | Kanaya Maryam | Kanaya attempts to court female friends, and eventually dates and marries Rose.[43] | |||
| Rose Lalonde | Rose engages in a complex courtship ritual with Kanaya, and eventually dates and then marries her. | |||||
| Calliope | Ambiguous | These siblings are members of a sexually monomorphic species, and thus don't naturally express gender identity. In interacting with human and troll culture, they begin expressing themselves in gendered terms. | ||||
| Caliborn | ||||||
| Davepetasprite^2 | Non-binary | Davepetasprite^2 is the fusion of a former male and female, and they are identified as they/them.[44] | ||||
| Dirk Strider | Gay | Dirk, although rejecting the label on the basis of it being antiquated,[45] states discomfort when propositioned by Roxy, and develops a convoluted courtship plot to woo male friend Jake. | ||||
| Jake English | Bisexual | Jake is shown to have interest in women,[46] and dates Dirk for a time. | ||||
| Various | The alien race known as Trolls are predominately bisexual. | |||||
| 2009-2020 | Doc and Raider | Doc | Gay | Focuses on two gay men, Doc and Raider, originally in newspapers from 1987 to 1997,[47] Published in newspapers and magazines for LGBT audiences beginning in 1987,[48] then as a webcomic from 2009 to 2020.[49] [50] | ||
| Raider | ||||||
| 2009 - 2015 | The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ & Amal | Amal | Gay | One evening, Amal calls off his arranged marriage, coming out to his parents but gets disowned by them. The next morning, a boy named TJ is in his kitchen, and both decide to go on a roadtrip.[51] [52] | ||
| TJ |
| - | Year(s) | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Description | Created by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 - present | Dumbing of Age | Jennifer "Billie" Billingsworth | Bisexual | Large cast of characters attending college with various sexual orientations and gender identities.[53] This includes Jennifer "Billie" Billingsworth who had a tempestuous relationship with her RA Ruth Lessick and then began dating a boy named Asher.[54] [55] | ||
| Becky MacIntyre | Lesbian | Becky had an unrequited crush upon her childhood friend Joyce Brown and is now dating Dina Saruyama.[56] [57] | ||||
| Dina Saruyama | Gray-ace | Dina is not strongly inclined to sexual feelings, but she is more open to the possibility of making their relationship sexual than her partner Becky is, due to the latter's evangelical upbringing. | ||||
| Ethan Siegal | Gay | Ethan Siegal had sexual tension with his friend Danny Wilcox, leading Danny to discover he is bisexual.[58] | ||||
| Leslie | Lesbian | Leslie is a gender studies professor and a mentor to Becky.[59] | ||||
| Malaya Eugenio | Ambiguous | Malaya is still figuring out their gender identity.[60] | ||||
| Carla Rutten | Trans | Carla is an engineering wunderkind with an affection for rollerskates.[61] | ||||
| Booster Sanchez | Non-binary | Booster, introduced after the timeskip to the second semester, is a psychology major and photography hobbyist.[62] | ||||
| Unsounded | Roger Foi-Hellick | Gay | Features several characters shown involved in gay relationships. The most prominent example is Roger Foi-Hellick, shown to have previously had a male lover[63] as well as not being interested in intimate relationships with women.[64] | Ashley Cope | ||
| Go Get a Roomie! | Rommie | Bisexual or pansexual | Features a protagonist named "Roomie" and explores sexual themes.[65] Roomie is a free-spirited and sexually active young woman who goes by the nickname of "Roomie", as her real name is as yet unknown.[66] Roomie lives on no apparent income by staying with various friends and partners, with most of the comic's material prior to chapter 14 stemming from such ventures, particularly in the first two chapters. She has described herself as "not the romantic type,"[67] although she has close relations with Lillian, her roommate as shown on various occasions, and she has said she has been sexual with men and women, implying she may be bisexual or pansexual.[68] [69] | |||
| Jak | Trans boi | Jak is a "transboi friend" who has a girlfriend named Gulden.[70] | ||||
| Aggie | Intersex | Aggie was Roomie's past lover who was born intersex as she stated in a radio interview.[71] | ||||
| 2010 - 2022 | Rain | Rain | Trans woman | This comic features a trans girl, Rain, as the main character and other LGBT+ characters. The author has stated that her goal is to include at least one of every LGBT identity. | ||
| Fara Fyer | Bisexual | A bisexual woman.[72] | ||||
| Maria Strongwell | Lesbian | A lesbian woman. | ||||
| Rudy Strongwell | Gay | A gay man. | ||||
| Chanel Montoya | Asexual | An asexual woman. | ||||
| 2011 - 2012 | Bucko | Gyp | Lesbian | This webcomic features an "uninhibited" lesbian main character who is the housemate of the protagonist, Rich "Bucko" Richardson.[73] | ||
| 2011 - present | Cucumber Quest | Peridot | Lesbian | This comic features two girls, Peridot and Almond, who have crushes on each other, and a complex trans woman character named Rosemaster, who is a villain in this story.[74] [75] | ||
| Almond | ||||||
| Sunstone | Ally | Focuses on the BDSM relationship between two women, Ally and Lisa.[76] | ||||
| Lisa | ||||||
| 2012 - 2015 | Nimona | Nimona | Butch lesbian | The series protagonist, Nimona, is a stocky woman, and shapeshifter, who wears pink and is "kind of butch."[77] Nimona is a sidekick of villainous Lord Ballister Blackheart, with both fighting the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics. Blackheart's former lover and childhood friend, Sir Goldenloin, is part of the institute.[78] [79] [80] | ||
| 2012 - present | Kate or Die | Kate | Bisexual | Covers issues including bisexuality and feminism, in occasionally autobiographical issues.[81] | ||
| Kill Six Billion Demons | Allison Ruth | Bisexual | Allison has romantic and sexual relationships with both Zaid, a human man, and Cio, a female-presenting devil, at different points in the comic.[82] [83] [84] [85] | |||
| Ciocie Cioelle | Bisexual | Cio has dated and married male-presenting devils in the past and has a romantic and sexual relationship with Allison, a human woman, later in the comic.[86] | ||||
| Incubus | Gay | Parkinson-Morgan has stated that he is "pretty sure Incubus is gay, but he's gay for ambition the most of all."[87] | ||||
| White Chain | Trans woman | White Chain transitions to using she/her pronouns over the course of the comic and takes the form of a human female after her apotheosis, contrasting with the majority of angels, who while technically genderless default to masculine presentation and consider other forms of gender presentation to be "human" traits.[88] | ||||
| O Human Star | Brendan | Gay | Main characters include gay men, Brendan and Al, and a MtF trans robot named Sulla.[89] [90] [91] | |||
| Al | ||||||
| Sula | Trans woman | |||||
| 2013 - 2020 | Check, Please! | Eric "Bitty" Bittle | Gay | Centers around a gay protagonist, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, on a college hockey team.[92] | ||
| Jack Zimmerman | Unspecified | Has a romantic relationship with Bitty and a past relationship with Kent Parson. Also had relationships with women in the past.[93] | ||||
| Kent Parson | Unspecified | Had a romantic relationship with Jack as teenagers. | ||||
| Connor "Whiskey" Whisk | Unspecified | Bitty's teammate in years 3 and 4 of the comics who has a girlfriend, but is seen kissing another boy. Near the end of the comic, he tells Bitty that he's still figuring himself out. | ||||
| Shruti | Lesbian | Samwell women's rugby captain and a friend of Bitty's who is open about being a lesbian. | ||||
| Edgar | Gay | Samwell men's volleyball captain who is mentioned to be gay. | ||||
| Ollie O'Meara | Gay | One of Bitty's teammates who is revealed to have married fellow teammate Pacer "Wicky" Wicks after graduation in the comics extras. | ||||
| Pacer "Wicky" Wicks | Gay | One of Bitty's teammates who is revealed to have married fellow teammate Ollie O'Meara after graduation in the comics extras. | ||||
| 2013 - present | Trans Girl Next Door | Kylie Wu | Trans woman | Autobiographical comic about the author's transition as a transgender woman.[94] | ||
| Up and Out | Julia Kaye | This autobiographical comic is about the author's transition as a transgender woman.[95] [96] | ||||
| 2014 - 2020 | Lumberjanes | Mal | Lesbian or bisexual | This series features various LGBTQ characters. Two campers, Mal and Molly, discover they have mutual crushes for each other, with their friends accepting their relationship.[97] [98] | ||
| Molly | ||||||
| Jo | Trans woman | Jo is a trans woman of color with two dads, and acts as an "expert on what it means to be a Lumberjane" to the fellow campers.[99] [100] | ||||
| Artemis | Asexual | In issue #68, when Artemis confesses her love for Diane, she says: "...I like you too. But I don't have any interest in kissing or junk like that" and has never had an interest in kissing anyone.[101] | ||||
| 2014 - present | Agents of the Realm | Norah Tanner | Bisexual | Features a predominantly Black main cast with a variety of sexual orientations, with the story focusing on the "vibrant transformation of five young women into interdimensional warriors," such as a Black woman named Norah Tanner, and four others: Adele, Kendall, Paige, and Jordan.[102] Norah specifically is attracted to a woman dressed as Snow White and a man dressed as Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon. | ||
| Assigned Male | Stephie | Trans woman | This comic follows life through the eyes of a middle schooler named Stephie who alternately makes light of, and chafes under the realities of growing up a transgender child in a cisgender world.[103] It also features a non-binary girl named Ciel, a trans girl named Brianna, three trans men (Ryder, Aidan, and Myrick), with Ryder calling himself a "gender smoothie."[104] This long-running webomic counters "misconceptions about transgender people," with Stephie and Ciel exploring their "gender identity, relationships, and just life in general."[105] It has been published under the name "Serious Trans Vibes" on Webtoon. | |||
| Ciel | Non-binary | |||||
| Brianna | Trans woman | |||||
| Ryder | Trans man | |||||
| Aidan | ||||||
| Myrick | ||||||
| Eth's Skin | Eth | Non-binary | Follows the adventures of a non-binary fisherman living in British Columbia.[106] [107] | |||
| Rock Cocks | Elizabeth | Bisexual | Features the NSFW adventures of traveling rockstars and their roadies on a quest for fame. | Leslie Brown. | ||
| Coral | Lesbian | |||||
| Dakota | Trans man | |||||
| Seth | Gay | |||||
| Witchy | Prill | Trans woman | This comic features a trans girl named Prill, a witch who is in the main character Nyneve's class. Prill is introduced as a bully, and later becomes an ally.[108] [109] |
| - | Year(s) | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Description | Created by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 - 2020 | Hooky | Gay | The webcomic features a relationship between male witch Damien Wytte and a prince named William. Will begins the story betrothed to, and in love with, a princess named Monica.[110] | Míriam Bonastre Tur | ||
| William | Bisexual | |||||
| 2015 - present | Never Satisfied | Lucy Marlowe | Non-binary | Features a varied LGBT cast, like a non-binary teenager and one-eyed apprentice, named Lucy Marlowe,[111] and others within the diverse cast,[112] some of which are also non-binary.[113] The latter may refer to characters like Tetsu and Rascal who both use they/them pronouns.[114] | ||
| 2016 | My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness | Kabi Nagata | Lesbian | Autobiographical manga by a lesbian author.[115] | ||
| 2016–2017 | On a Sunbeam | Mia | Later turned into a set of graphic novels, this story revolves around a crew in charge of rebuilding structures, with Mia, the newest member, gets to know her team, and opens up about her reasoning for joining their ship - to find the love she lost, specifically her girlfriend Grace.[116] [117] | |||
| Grace | ||||||
| 2016 - present | Brave Series | Series | Bisexual | Perhaps what she is lesbian refers to her quote.[118] | Yellow Book | |
| Immortal love | The two are inspired by Love God. [119] [120] | |||||
| New Moon | ||||||
| 2018–2023 | Mage & Demon Queen | Malori "Mal" Crowett | Lesbian | This webcomic is focused on Malori, a young female mage, who is supposed to kill the Demon Queen, Velverosa, but is deeply in love with her. As such, the queer relationship between them is a central part of the story.[121] | Kuru | |
| Queen "Vel" Velverosa | Pansexual | |||||
| Axel Dronvar | In the first season of the comic, Cerik shows a romantic interest in lamia and their queen Melathia, remaining oblivious to all others in love with him. In the second season of the comic, legendary hero Axel Dronvar attempts to convince Malori, Cerik and Princess Leora for form a harem with him; Axel subsequently brings Cerik on a nonromantic date in Folstina after learning he too came from Earth, as do Princess Leora and Malori.[122] [123] | |||||
| Cerik Aldebrandt | ||||||
| King Albert Siegwald | In the second season, Albert is shown to have seduced and slept with prospective party members to recruit them to his dragon hunting party in his youth, regardless of their gender, believing it to be the polite thing to do due to a miscommunication. | |||||
| Princess Leora Siegwald | Pansexual trans woman | It is shown that Leora has a crush on Malori and Axel,[124] Leora is also shown to be transgender, as she mentions that she used to be the prince, Leopold. | ||||
| 2019–2021 | Senpai wa Otokonoko | Saki Aoi | Bisexual | A romance manga following a love triangle involving the bisexual woman Saki Aoi, the cross-dressing man Makoto Hanaoka, and Makoto's friend Ryūji Taiga, who initially is unsure about being with another man.[125] [126] | Pom | |
| Ryūji Taiga | Queer | |||||
| 2019–present | I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend into a Girl | Kenshirou Midou | Queer | Hobbyist make-up artist Kenshirou Midou and his childhood friend Hiura Mihate are attracted to each other. After Kenshirou practices applying make-up on Hiura, the latter realizes he enjoys being feminine, and starts cross-dressing regularly.[127] [128] | ||
| Hiura Mihate | ||||||
| 2019–present | Aurora | Caliban | Non-binary | According to the character sheet, the Ignan god Caliban uses he/him, she/her, and they/them pronouns, the primordial entity Life uses she/her and they/them pronouns, and the primordial entity known as the Void Dragon uses he/him and they/them pronouns.[129] | Red | |
| Primordial Life | ||||||
| Void Dragon | ||||||
| Dainix | Trans man | According to the character sheet, Dainix uses he/him pronouns, and transitioned in the past. |
| - | Year(s) | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Description | Created by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazbin Hotel | Alastor | Asexual | The comic, which is based on the namesake animated web series, features the show's multiple LGBTQ characters. Vivziepop announced a prequel comic focusing on the characters prior to the events of the series.[130] As of July 2020, the first chapter of the webcomic titled "Dirty Healings" has been completed containing twenty-two pages and hosted on the official website. Another comic titled "A Day in the After Life" which focused on Alastor's daily life in hell was uploaded on the website on October 19, 2020. | |||
| 2020–present | I Cross-Dressed for the IRL Meetup | Satoshi "Cocoa" Morinaga | Queer | A manga following three cross-dressing men – Cocoa, Opera, and Lemon – and one trans woman, Kantentarou, who are part of a monthly meet-up. The main character, Cocoa, is attracted to Opera.[131] [132] [133] | Kurano | |
| Kantentarou | Trans woman | |||||
| Iron Nail Afternoon | Big | Bisexual | Follows the story of supernatural fighters in a world of monsters. Against this background, star-crossed lovers and estranged family members must come to terms with their relationships.[134] | LJ Phillips | ||
| Rachel | Bisexual | |||||
| Skollina | Intersex | |||||
| Whithers | Gay |