This is a list of lesbian characters in fiction, i.e. characters that either self-identify as lesbian or have been identified by outside parties to be lesbian. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters. This page does not include lesbian characters in television, Western animation, anime, or film.

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

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

Graphic novels

Characters	Title	Year	Notes	Country
Donna Cavanagh	The Sandman	1989–2015	Donna and Judy are lovers. After Judy dies, Donna changes her name to Foxglove[1] and starts a relationship with Hazel. Foxglove and Hazel have a child, Alvie, the result of one heterosexual encounter by Hazel.	United States
Judy
Hazel McNamara
America Chavez	Young Avengers	2005–2014	America Chavez is an openly gay character, who has had relationships with a male personification of the Ultimate Nullifier and a female emergency medical technician named Lisa Halloran.[2][3][4]
Tomoyo Daidouji	Cardcaptor Sakura & Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card	1996–present	Tomoyo is in love with the protagonist of the show, Sakura. Sakura does not return Tomoyo's feelings. The creators intended for Tomoyo to have romantic feelings for Sakura.[5] At some point, Tomoyo confesses her love to Sakura, but Sakura misunderstands her, thinking she means "love" as a friend, and Tomoyo says that she'll explain when Sakura is older.[6] She simply doesn't have romantic feelings for Tomoyo in particular. Tomoyo's mother, Sonomi, confesses that she was in love with Sakura's mother.[7]	Japan
Sonomi Daidouji
Rei Hino (Sailor Mars)	Sailor Moon	1991-1997	Rei has expressed disinterest in romance with men due to the lack of respectable men in her life. She's also shown to be close with Minako Aino later on.	Japan
Haruka Tenoh (Sailor Uranus)			Haruka and Michiru are in a romantic relationship.[8][9]
Michiru Kaioh (Sailor Neptune)
Seiya Kou (Sailor Star Fighter)			Seiya falls in love with Usagi who does not reciprocate her feelings.[10] In the 90s anime, Seiya transforms into male when she's not in her sailor senshi form, while in the manga shes always female. [11]
Batwoman	52	2006–2007	The first appearance in this comic book series: 52 #7 (2006) and when DC Comics rebooted their universe with the series 52 in 2006, they reintroduced Batwoman as Kate Kane and identified her as a lesbian,[12] making her the highest profile lesbian in the DC universe.[13]	United States
	DC Comics Bombshells & Bombshells United	2015–present	The comics series is set in an alternate reality where DC Comics superheroines are depicted as 1940s pin-up style heroes during World War II.[14] Despite being set in the 1940s, the setting has no era-appropriate homophobia.[15] Kate Kane is a lesbian and lives with her girlfriend, Detective Maggie Sawyer, at the start of the series.[16] Kate Kane and Renee Montoya are revealed to be ex-lovers in issue #45.[17]
Maggie Sawyer
Renee Montoya
Karma	New Mutants	1980- present	Karma had been hinted to be a lesbian since her first introduction. In Uncanny X-Men #508 she is shown on panel with another woman.
Kya	The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars	2017–present	Kya's sexuality is not mentioned in the animated series The Legend of Korra. However, in the sequel graphic novel The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, she is shown to be lesbian and gives advice to Korra and Asami about coming out.[18]
Shuichi Nitori	Wandering Son	2002–2013	The protagonist of Wandering Son, Shu, is a transgender girl.[19] Shu is attracted to and dates women throughout the series and when she officially comes out as a girl, her girlfriend Anna states "I guess this means I'm a lesbian.".[20]	Japan
Anna Suehiro
Hothead Paisan	Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist	1991	Created by Diane DiMassa, Hothead Paisan's presentation was cathartic to lesbians, but so graphically violent that the strip was banned in Canada.[21]	United States
Resine de Poisson	Shiroi Heya no Futari	1971	Set in all-girls Catholic boarding school in France. Shiroi Heya no Futari tells the story of Resine de Poisson and Simone D'Arc. Simone is initially hostile towards the naïve Resine, the two girls gradually grow closer, with Simone going so far as to recite a love poem by Rainer Maria Rilke in front of their class that she dedicates to Resine. Considered the originating work of the yuri genre.[22]	Japan
Simone D'Arc
Quanxi	Chainsaw Man	2018–present	Kishibe's former partner in Public Safety and crush, Quanxi is a Chinese devil hunter and one of the assassins sent to steal Denji's heart. She is in a polyamorous relationship with four female Fiends: Long, Pingtsi, Tsugihagi, and Cosmo.[23] Quanxi is regarded to be one of few openly gay characters in mainstream shonen.	Japan
Long
Pingtsi
Tsugihagi
Cosmo
Roxanne "Roxie" Richter	Scott Pilgrim	2004–2010	The book's protagonist, Ramona Flowers has seven evil exes: six ex-boyfriends and her ex-girlfriend Roxie. Ramona repeatedly corrects him by pointing out that "exes" is correct, not "ex-boyfriends", but she does not actually tell him about her ex-girlfriend until Scott meets Roxie in person.[24] While Ramona says that dating a girl was just a phase,[25] she Ramona later spends the night at Roxie's house and they make out offscreen.[26]	Canada
Doctor Aphra	Star Wars: Darth Vader #3	March 25, 2015	A human female archaeologist recruited by Darth Vader, but ends up in prisons of the Empire and the Rebel Alliance.[27] She only shows attraction to other women, such as her lover, Magna Tolvan, Kieron Gillen, the creator of Doctor Aphra, in a conversation with the comic's co-writer, Si Spurrier, and Bria LaVorgna, said, "I normally say Aphra’s a lesbian. I’ve never written her with any romantic interest in men."[28] Gillen also argued that "homophobia...doesn't really exist in the Star Wars universe."	United States
	Star Wars: Doctor Aphra	2016-2019
	Doctor Aphra	2020–present
Holly Robinson	Catwoman vol. 3	2002–2010	Issue where her open lesbian identity begins: Catwoman vol. 3 #1 (2002). Holly Robinson is a friend of Catwoman and was one of the few openly lesbian characters in the early 2000s DC world.[29]
Scandal Savage	Villains United	2005	The Villains United miniseries is the first appearance of Scandal. In this comic, she becomes a member of the Secret Six, says at one point "Lawton, do you know what the word 'lesbian' means?"[30] and later calls Knockout "beloved" as they hug after a battle.[31]
Knockout
Mo Testa	Dykes to Watch Out For	1983–2008	Mo is a semi-autobiographical representation of the creator Alison Bechdel who started the strip in 1983 because she wanted to see representations of her life that were not available in the media at the time.[32]
Maggie Thrash	Honor Girl	2015	Honor Girl is a graphic novel memoir recounting writer Maggie Thrash's experience of falling in love with an older female camp counselor during a summer all-girls' camp.[33]
Raven Xingtao	Princeless	2012–present	Raven, a character in Princeless and the protagonist in the spin-off Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess, is a lesbian.[34][35]	Canada
	Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess
Ymir	Attack on Titan	2009–present	The official website mentions Ymir is in love with Historia (Krista Lenz)[36] Also at the series panel for Animagic 2014, producer George Wada confirmed that Ymir and Krista are a couple.[37]	Japan

Literature

Characters	Work	Author	Year	Description
Aisling "Ash"	Ash	Malinda Lo	2009	This story tells the classic Cinderella story, but Ash falls in love with a beautiful woman, rather than a prince, named Kaisa, who saves her "from her oppressive new existence."[38] The twist to this story is described by some as important, especially for "those looking for a girl romance."
Kaisa
Nancy "Nan" Astley	Tipping the Velvet	Sarah Waters	1998	Nan has sexual/romantic relationships with Florence and Diana; all three have also been with other women.[39][40]
Florence Banner
Diana Leathaby
Therese Belivet	The Price of Salt  (a.k.a. Carol)	Patricia Highsmith	1952	A married woman, Carol Aird, meets and falls in love with Therese Belivet, which results in her sexuality being used against her and relinquishing custody of her daughter, with Therese Comes out to herself after meeting Carol, while Abby is also a lesbian character.[41] Later made into a 2015 Hollywood film.
Abby Gerhard
Berdine	Blood of the Fold &Temple of the Winds	Terry Goodkind	1996 & 1997	In these books, the two Mord-Sith are in a relationship with each other.[42] Berdine comes out as a lesbian in the third book of this series and says she loves Raina. This was later turned into a TV series, The Legend of the Seeker.
Raina
Beebo Brinker	The Beebo Brinker Chronicles	Ann Bannon	1957-1960	These books focus on gay and lesbian love, sexual adventure, with a positive, "yet still complicated look at lesbian relationships," in all five of the books in this series.[43] In the first book, Odd Girl Out, a college girl named Laura gets seduced by Beth, and in the next book, I Am A Woman, Laura goes to a bar and meets a butch lesbian, Beebo Brinker, and talks about coming out to her father. In the following book, Women In The Shadows, the relationship between Laura and Beebo continues, while Laura's first girlfriend returns in Journey To A Woman, leading to a "drama-laden lesbian love triangle" of Beebo, Beth, and Laura. In the next book, Beebo Brinker looks back to the formative years of Beebo.
Beth Ayers[a]
Laura Landon
Molly Bolt	Rubyfruit Jungle	Rita Mae Brown	1973	Molly has numerous romantic and sexual relationships with other women.[44] In this novel, she confronts the "hypocrisies of both heterosexual and homosexual societies."[45]
Calixte	Strange the Dreamer series	Laini Taylor	2017-2018	Calixte and Tzara are in a long-term lesbian relationship with each other at the start of the series.[46] Thyon Nero has never been romantically or sexually attracted to a woman, but finds himself drawn to Ruza, who seems to reciprocate his interest, making them both gay or in Ruza's case at least bisexual.
Tzara
Carmilla	Carmilla	Sheridan Le Fanu	1872	Carmilla, published as part of the book, In a Glass Darkly, is considered the first lesbian vampire story.[47][48] In this story, Laura, who lives with her father, meets Carmilla, and they form a close relationship, with Laura becoming ill as Carmilla draws nourishment from her.
Clarissa Dalloway	Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	1925	This novel tells the day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional woman in post–war, and she is strongly attracted to Sally Seton,[49] with both sharing a kiss. Clarissa also recognizes that Septimus dies without revealing his homosexuality, perceiving his failure to speak out as "protecting her private lesbian passion," while Doris later encourages Clarissa to name, at least privately, her "lesbian desires."[50]
Doris Kilman
Anne Damer	Life Mask	Emma Donoghue	2004	This book is set in late 18th century London, telling the story of three women caught in a love triangle, one of whom is Anna, whose "lesbian side" is not realized until the end of the book.[51]
Elinor "Lakey" Eastlake	The Group	Mary McCarthy	1954	Elinar is a lesbian,[52] and graduate from Vassar College in 1933, with the lives of the stories proatgonists involving the men in their lives. The Baroness is her lesbian lover, which her fellow seven female graduates realize when she returned from Europe.[53] It was later adapted into a film in 1966.
Lucy Farinelli	Kay Scarpetta novels	Patricia Cornwell	1994–2003	Lucy has romantic relationships and casual sexual encounters with other women.[54] Lucy is not well accepted due to her suspected sexual orientation, has occasional one-night stands, mostly with women and occasionally with men, but she is seduced by Carrie Grethen, early in her career, a relationship which haunts her and those close to her across several books.
Stephen Gordon	The Well of Loneliness	Radclyffe Hall	1928	This book, a candid novel about "coming to terms with a lesbian identity," was challenged as obscene, under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857, for its "frank portrayal of lesbianism."[55] Although the book has no language that is explicitly sexual, the lesbian themes were seen as a threat to the existing social order, seen as unpalatable, remained banned until 1959 when the Obscene Publications Act was amended, and was published in the U.S. in April 1929 when courts agreed that "lesbianism in and of itself was neither obscene nor illegal," meaning the book wasn't either.
Valérie Seymour
Joan Gilling	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	1963	The novel has a central relationship between Joan and Esther,[52] and it addresses the question of socially acceptable identity, examining Esther's "quest to forge her own identity, to be herself rather than what others expect her to be"[56] while highlighting the problems with oppressive patriarchal society in mid-20th-century America.[57] There was the 1979 film adaption of the book, and a lawsuit by Jane V. Anderson claiming that she was not a lesbian and didn't have a relationship with Sylvia Path.[58]
Esther Greenwood
Rosemary Harper	The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet	Becky Chambers	2015	Rosemary Harper and Sissix are either lesbians or bisexuals as the two women enter a relationship with each other over the course of the novel.[59] In her review, Casey Stepaniuk describes the book as "Star Trek but with lesbians and more aliens."
Sissix
Hurley	The Adventure Zone	Carey Pietch	2018–present	In the third graphic novel, Petals to the Metal, there are two secondary female characters named Hurley and Sloane who have a relationship/feelings for each other.[60] The Hurley-Sloane lesbian couple survived to the end of the story, surviving a near-death experience.
Sloane
Ijeoma	Under the Udala Trees	Chinelo Okparanta	2015	Ijeoma and Amina fall in love with each other as children and keep loving each other way into adulthood.[61]
Amina
Wilma Irrling	Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe	Cornelia Funke	2003	Wilma comes out as lesbian to her friends. She falls in love with a girl from her theatre group who is called Leonie.[62]
Leonie
Ashlinn Järnheim	Godsgrave[b]	Jay Kristoff	2017	Mia Corvere is an infamous assassin and fugitive slave fleeing from the Blades of the Red Church and Luminatii legion, with her family wanting her to die and her mentor in hands of her foes.[63] She works with many individuals, like her lover, Ashlinn, to find out the "final answer to the riddle of her life."
Holland Jeager	Keeping You a Secret	Julie Anne Peters	2003	In this coming out novel, Holland is intrigued by a student transferring to her school who "wants to start a Lesbigay club at school."[64] In the process, Holland faces homophobia, and begins a relationship with Cece, adjusting to her new sexuality quickly.[65]
Cece
Jeanette	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Jeanette Winterson	1985	This book is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian girl named Jeanette who grows up in an English Pentecostal community.[66] Key themes of the book include transition from youth to adulthood, complex family relationships, same-sex relationships, and religion. A television adaptation of the book was made and aired by the BBC in 1990, starring Charlotte Coleman and Geraldine McEwan, which won the Prix Italia in 1991.[67]
Jo	Ukiah Oregon series	Wen Spencer	2001–2004	In this series of books, Jo and Lara are the mothers of Ukiah Oregon, the story's protagonist. In the first book, Alien Taste, it is revealed that Ukriah was raised first by wolves, then by Jo and Lara.[68] Jo and Lara also appear in the three other books in the series, Tainted Trail, Bitter Waters, and Dog Warrior, but only as minor characters.
Lara
Annie Kenyon	Annie on My Mind	Nancy Garden	1982	This book is a retrospect by Liza, remembering her first semester at MIT, how she met Annie, struggled to recognize her lesbian identity, and they reaffirm their love for each other on the phone at the end of the book.[69] Due to these themes, religious fundamentalists burned a copy of the book, a Kansas superintendent removed it from school libraries, and a lawsuit ensued, with a judge ruling on the side of the ACLU, ordering the book to be returned to the libraries shelves. The book is well-regarded as a "canonical lesbian-coming-of-age novel."[70]
Liza Winthrop
Keren	Arrows of the Queen	Mercedes Lackey	1987	Keren, a minor character,[71] is life bonded to Ylsa and then Sherrill.
Daja Kisubo	The Will of the Empress	Tamora Pierce	2005	Daja is a main character who realizes she is gay and begins a relationship with a woman throughout the course of the novel while Lark is a mostly off screen character in a long-term lesbian relationship who appears more in other books.[72] Daja's relationship in this book ends badly, when she is forced to choose between her lover and her chosen family, and chooses the latter.
Lark
Renee LaRoche	Along the Journey River	Carole LaFavor	1996	In this novel, originally published in 1996, and re-released in 2017, it is the first detective novel to have "an openly out Indigenous lesbian," the protagonist, Renee.[73]
Anna Lightwood	The Shadowhunter Chronicles	Cassandra Clare	2007–present	Anna is a genderqueer lesbian, as confirmed by author Cassandra Clare,[74] who has had many lovers but has never truly gotten over her first love,[75] Ariadne Bridgestock, a closeted lesbian[76] who entered a lavender engagement with Charles, becoming his fiancé.[77] Anna also, according to the author, outright rejects the gender binary but uses female pronouns because the book is set in 1903.[78]
Ariadne Bridgestock
Helen Blackthorn
Aline Penhallow
Maiju Montevideo Claude Singapore	Carnival	Elizabeth Bear	2006	This story revolves around two spies sent to steal alien tech from Amazonia, a "planet ruled by man-enslaving lesbians" like Claude and Maiju.[79] Additionally, the two spies, Vincent and Michelangelo are homosexuals from a world with "regressive and repressive mores."[80]
Moff Delian Mors	Star Wars: Lords of the Sith	Paul S. Kemp	2015	Moff, the first LGBT character in the Star Wars canon, was introduced in this book.[c] She is an Imperial officer who makes mistakes, is very capable, and happens to be a lesbian as well, with those who included it saying that Star Wars should be diverse, apart from stories about "straight, white males."[81] Reviewers for the New York Daily News stated her sexuality is not a major concern in the novel, suggesting that "homophobia isn't an issue in the Empire," and something the Imperial Army doesn't worry about, even as they fight rebels.[82][83]
Cassie Peskin-Suso Nadine Suso	Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda	Becky Albertalli	2015	Abby's cousin Cassie Peskin-Suso, a principal character in the sequel novel The Upside of Unrequited, is a lesbian and Mina is her pansexual girlfriend while Cassie also has two mothers Nadine, who is a lesbian, and Patty, who is bisexual.[84]
Margaret Prior	Affinity	Sarah Waters	1999	Margaret also called "Peggy" and "Aurora" is an unmarried woman from an upper-class family. She becomes a visitor at a prison and meets Selina. Margaret is a prisoner in her life being "dictated by gender rules and societal expectations, as Selina is in her physical cell."[85] This novel is set in a women's prison in London, explores the "Victorian world of spiritualism," and won the Somerset Maugham Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction.[86] Like her first novel, Affinity contains overarching lesbian themes and was acclaimed by critics on its publication. Later it was turned into a feature film.
Selina Dawes
Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe	Fannie Flagg	1998	This novel weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home, while her sister-in-law, Idgie, and her friend, Ruth, ran a café. Idgie is a lesbian and has a long-term romantic relationship with another woman, and sexual encounters with one other woman.[87] Although it is not explicitly labeled as a lesbian relationship, every resident both knows about and accepts Idgie and Ruth's relationship, making lesbianism a theme in the novel[88] while in the film adaptation, a story of Southern female friendship and love, Ruth had been in love with Buddy Threadgoode, Idgie's brother.[89][90]
Aud Torvingen	The Blue Place	Nicola Griffith	2007	Aud Torvingen, an 18-year-old coming to the U.S., who is the daughter of a rich diplomat, rents an apartment near Atlanta, and becomes an Atlanta cop, but falls into passionate encounters.[91] One of these encounters is with Julia. She remains a protagonist in the book's two sequels, Stay and Always, and becomes "one of the most human and intriguing lesbians in crime fiction."[91]
Jaret Tyler	Happy Endings Are All Alike	Sandra Scoppettone	1978	This young adult book is the first one with a "clearly lesbian main character," named Jaret Taylor who comes out in the book's first line: "Even though Jaret Tyler had no guilt or shame about her love affair with Peggy Danziger she knew there were plenty of people in this world who would put it down."[41] Jaret, a future lawyer, endures hardship and discrimination but remains strong even as Peggy, her girlfriend, "wavers in the face of family and small-town prejudices." Scoppettone would go on to write a popular mystery novel series featuring a lesbian detective named Lauren Laurano.
Peggy Danziger
Clodagh Unwin	A Village Affair	Joanna Trollope	1989	In this story, Alice Meadows questions her identity, having an affair with a lesbian woman named Clodagh Unwin, while she remains married, with her awakening depending on "a heart-wrenching choice between her lover and her family."[92]
Clarissa Vaughan	The Hours	Michael Cunningham	1998	In this novel, which has strong parallels with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Clarissa rejects a relationship with Richard, a gay man, for the love of her life, Sally, who is invigorated by this love.[93] Louis is also Richard's former lover, with Richard later taking his own life, while Clarissa comes to a full realization of her own identity.
Sally
Patience White	Patience and Sarah	Isabel Miller	1969	This book, which captures "Lesbian-feminist consciousness" in the U.S. in the 1960s, is not only a love story of Patience and Sarah but also became important in the "lesbian literary-political tradition," with Miller's experience as a woman and lesbian shaping the book itself.[94]
Sarah Dowling
Felicity Worthington	Gemma Doyle Trilogy	Libba Bray	2003	Felicity is an "alpha girl," who becomes friends with the protagonist, Gemma, and has an "obsession with power," and has a tortured lesbian relationship with Pippa [95] Felicity is revealed to be either bisexual or a lesbian (although most likely lesbian as she seemed to use men as a cover-up) in the last book when she shares a passionate kiss with Pippa, before leaving the corrupt Pippa behind forever.

Video games

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Characters	Title	Year	Notes	Developer
A ghost couple	Kindred Spirits on the Roof	2012	In the English release of this Japanese visual novel, the main character Toomi Yuna helps a female ghost couple, create other lesbian couples at her school. This game is notable for being the first erotic visual novel released on Steam not to be censored.[96]	Liar-soft
Other couples