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Many science fiction and fantasy stories involve LGBT characters, or otherwise represent themes that are relevant to LGBT issues and the LGBT community. This is a list of notable stories, and/or stories from notable series or anthologies, and/or by notable authors; it is not intended to be all-inclusive.
Timothy Murphy writes that LGBT themes are often ignored by "heterosexist scholars", and even early investigations into sexual minorities in Hindu culture failed to analyse stories or artwork depicting same-sex sexual acts between mythological beings. Murphy describes the study of LGBT topics in Hindu culture as "still in their infancy". [46]
LGBTQ themes in speculative fiction include lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer themes in science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres. Such elements may include an LGBTQ character as the protagonist or a major character, or explorations of sexuality or gender that deviate from the heteronormative.
Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors series: Book 1: The Warrior's Path, 2: A Journey of the Heart, and 3: A Hero's Tale; Malinda Lo's Ash and Huntress; Women on the Edge of Space, a space-opera anthology published by Circlet Press; Gay male author Geoff Ryman's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning The Child Garden features a lesbian ...
The Tale of the Five series 1979–1992 Diane Duane: Bisexual This book is a fantasy with a "bisexual male protagonist whose main love interest is male", and is set in a world with normalized polyamory, [85] with bisexuality and polyamory seeming to "be the default". [86] Harold Hutchins Captain Underpants series 1997–2015 Dav Pilkey: Gay
For fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community, see the lists of trans, bisexual, lesbian, non-binary, pansexual, aromantic, 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.
Portrayal of LGBT themes in comics is recognized by several notable awards, including the Gaylactic Spectrum Award and GLAAD Media Awards for outstanding comic book and comic strip. Since the 1990s, LGBT themes have become more common in mainstream US comics, including in a number of titles in which a gay character is the star.
The Sailor-Boy’s Tale "Isak Dinesen" (Karen Blixen) Denmark One of the short stories included in the collection entitled Winter’s Tales. Is a coming-of-age story, told in the style of a fairy tale, in which a young man, Simon, must go through a rite of passage to make the transition from boyhood to manhood.