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Many science fiction and fantasy stories involve queer characters, or otherwise represent themes that are relevant to LGBT issues and the LGBT community. Below is a (by no means comprehensive) list.
Novels with LGBT Characters and Themes
Title | Author | Year | LGBT Content[1][2][3] |
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Empire of the Senseless | Kathy Acker | 1988 | Bisexual main character [4] |
The Dark Light Years | Brian Aldiss | 1964 | Gender-shifting aliens, gay male characters [4] |
The Gods Themselves | Isaac Asimov | 1972 | Alien species with three sexes [4] |
The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | 1985 | Lesbian character |
Shadowdance | Robin Wayne Bailey | 1991 | Gay protagonist |
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale | Holly Black | 2002 | Gay major characters |
Darkover Series | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1962-1988 | Gay and lesbian protagonists |
The Heritage of Hastur | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1975 | Gay male protagonist and antagonist [4] |
The Shattered Chain | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1976 | All female society, lesbian themes [4] |
Warrior Woman | Marion Zimmer Bradley | 1985 | Lesbian main characters, positive portrayal of lesbian relationships [4] |
Beauty Queens | Libba Bray | 2011 | Trans* and lesbian major characters |
A Civil Campaign | Lois McMaster Bujold | 1999 | Transgender character |
The Wanting Seed | Anthony Burgess | 1962 | Homophobic dystopia |
Dawn | Octavia Butler | 1987 | Alien race that has three sexes, polyamorous marriages [4] |
Fledgling | Octavia Butler | 2005 | Bisexual characters |
Patternmaster | Octavia Butler | 1976 | Bisexual female protagonist |
Songmaster | Orson Scott Card | 1980 | Gay characters |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | 2000 | Gay protagonist |
Motherlines | Suzy McKee Charnas | 1978 | All female world |
The Conqueror's Child | Suzy McKee Charnas | 1999 | All female world |
The Furies | Suzy McKee Charnas | 1994 | All female world |
Walk to the End of the World | Suzy McKee Charnas | 1974 | All female world |
The Mortal Instruments (series) | Cassandra Clare | 2007-2014 | One of the protagonists best friend is gay, and has a relationship with a warlock. |
Imperial Earth | Arthur C. Clarke | 1976 | Bisexual/gay male protagonist |
Sardia: A Story of Love | Cora Linn Morrison Daniels | 1891 | Bisexual female vampire is the protagonist [4] |
Babel-17 | Samuel R. Delany | 1966 | Gay major characters |
Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | 1975 | Bisexual major character and other LGBT characters |
Equinox | Samuel R. Delany | 1973 | Gay major character |
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand | Samuel R. Delany | 1984 | Gay major character |
The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R. Delany | 1967 | Gay major character |
Triton | Samuel R. Delany | 1976 | |
Blackthorns of the Forgotten | Bree T. Donovan | 2012 | Irish paranormal title with gay relationship between a mortal and an immortal> |
The Door Into Fire | Diane Duane | 1979 | Major bisexual characters |
Solitaire | Kelley Eskridge | 2002 | Lesbian protagonist |
Infinity's Web | Sheila Finch | 1985 | Lesbian protagonist [4] |
Luck in the Shadows | Lynn Flewelling | 1996 | Gay main characters |
Stalking Darkness | Lynn Flewelling | 1997 | Gay main characters |
Traitor's Moon | Lynn Flewelling | 1999 | Gay main characters |
Shadows Return | Lynn Flewelling | 2008 | Gay main characters |
The White Road | Lynn Flewelling | 2010 | Gay main characters |
Casket of Souls | Lynn Flewelling | 2012 | Gay main characters |
Shards of Time | Lynn Flewelling | 2014 | Gay main characters |
Daughters of a Coral Dawn | Katherine V Forrest | 1984 | All female world, lesbian protagonists |
Bouncing Off the Moon | David Gerrold | 2001 | |
The Man Who Folded Himself | David Gerrold | 1973 | |
Halfway Human | Carolyn Ives Gilman | 1998 | |
Herland | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1915 | All female utopic world |
The Gilda Stories | Jewelle Gomez | 1991 | Lesbian main character |
The Kappa Child | Hiromi Goto | 2001 | |
Ammonite | Nicola Griffith | 1992 | All female world with mainly lesbian characters |
Slow River | Nicola Griffith | 1995 | Lesbian main character |
The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | 1974 | Future society where homosexuality is the norm |
Accidental Creatures | Ann Harris | 1998 | |
The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse | Keith Hartman | 1999 | |
The Salt Roads | Nalo Hopkinson | 2003 | Lesbian major characters |
The Wild Swans | Peg Kerr | 1999 | |
Murder of Angels | Caitlin R. Kiernan | 2004 | |
Maximum Light | Nancy Kress | 1997 | |
Swordspoint | Ellen Kushner | 1987 | Gay protagonists, bisexual characters |
Magic's Pawn | Mercedes Lackey | 1989 | Gay main characters |
Magic's Promise | Mercedes Lackey | 1990 | Gay main characters |
Magic's Price | Mercedes Lackey | 1990 | Gay main characters |
Carmilla | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1872 | Lesbian vampire story |
The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 | Genderqueer main and major characters |
The Telling | Ursula K. Le Guin | 2000 | Lesbian protagonist |
Dark Water's Embrace | Stephen Leigh | 1998 | |
Ash | Malinda Lo | 2009 | |
Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα | Lucian | 125-180 CE (c) | All male world, male hero is given the king's son in marriage |
Itineraria | Jean de Mandeville (pseudonym) | 1357-1371 | "Traveler encounters many things including an amazon island and an island of the 'third sex.'" [1] |
Out of Time | Paula Martinac | 1990 | Lesbian protagonist is haunted by lesbians from the 1920s. |
China Mountain Zhang | Maureen F. McHugh | 1992 | Gay major character |
Starfarers | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1989 | Bisexual main characters, poly relationship [4] |
The Painter Knight | Fiona Patton | 1998 | |
2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | Genderqueer major characters, society in which nonbinary and fluid gender and sexuality is embraced |
And Chaos Died | Joanna Russ | 1970 | Gay protagonist |
The Female Man | Joanna Russ | 1975 | Lesbian major characters, partially about an all female world |
Was | Geoff Ryman | 1992 | Gay main characters |
The Pyramid Waltz (Series) | Barbara Ann Wright | 2012 | Lesbian protagonists |
A Choice of Destinies | Melissa Scott | 1986 | Gay male protagonists |
Burning Bright | Melissa Scott | 1993 | Bisexual major characters, lesbian protagonist |
Dreamships | Melissa Scott | 1993 | Many gay characters |
Mighty Good Road | Melissa Scott | 1990 | Lesbian protagonist |
Night Sky Mine | Melissa Scott | 1996 | Lesbian and gay main characters |
Shadow Man | Melissa Scott | 1995 | |
The Jazz | Melissa Scott | 2000 | Bisexual protagonist |
Trouble and Her Friends | Melissa Scott | 1994 | Lesbian protagonists |
Sword of the Guardian | Merry Shannon | 2006 | Lesbian fantasy romance with crossdressing protagonist |
The Porcelain Dove | Delia Sherman | 1993 | Lesbian fairy tale |
Venus Plus X | Theodore Sturgeon | 1960 | Set in a future utopia where everyone is one neuter gender [4] |
Queen of the Amazons | Judith Tarr | 2004 | Bisexual protagonist |
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? | James Tiptree Jr. | 1976 | Set in a future where all men have died off. |
Palimpsest | Catherynne M. Valente | 2009 | |
The House at Pelham Falls | Brenda Weathers | 1986 | Lesbian protagonists and main characters [4] |
Orlando: A Biography | Virginia Woolf | 1928 | Genderqueer themes, gender-switching |
Briar Rose | Jane Yolen | 1992 | Gay major character |
Short fiction with LGBT Characters and Themes
Title | Author | Year | First Published In | LGBT Content [1][2][3] | |
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"Desire" | Kim Antieau | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"The Stars Are Tears" | Robin Wayne Bailey | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Love's Last Farewell" | Richard A. Bamberg | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"In Memory Of" | Don Bassingthwaite | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Who Plays With Sin" | Don Bassingthwaite | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Sun-Drenched" | Stephen Baxter | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Tangents" | Greg Bear | 1986 | Omni | Gay male protagonist, positive uplifting story about a nonsexual relationship [4] | |
"Magicked Tricks" | K. L. Berac | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"In the House of the Man in the Moon" | Richard Bowes | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Enigma Variations" | Lela E. Buis | 1996 2014 |
Cyber-magick: Lesbian SF Competitive Fauna |
Lesbian protagonist | |
"Ascension" | Lela E. Buis | 1997 2013 |
Icarus & Angels Storm and Shadow |
Gay protagonist | |
"Anthem" | Lela E. Buis | 1997 2014 |
Sex Crime Competitive Fauna |
Lesbian protagonist | |
"A Study of Competitive Fauna" | Lela E. Buis | 2014 | Competitive Fauna | Lesbian protagonist | |
"My Little Town" | Lela E. Buis | 2014 | Competitive Fauna | Lesbian protagonist | |
"Expression of Desire" | Dominick Cancilla | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
The Bane Chronicles | Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan | 2013-2014 | Short e-books | Main character is bisexual | |
"Aye, and Gomorrah" | Samuel R. Delany | 1967 | Dangerous Visions | Genderqueer characters | |
"The Cage" [1] | A. M. Dellamonica | 2010 | Tor.com | Lesbian protagonists | |
"A Plant (Whose Name is Destroyed)" [2] | Seth Dickinson | 2013 | Strange Horizons | Gay protagonists | |
"Dance at the Edge" | L. Timmel Duchamp | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"A Hollow Play" | Amal El-Mohtar | 2013 | Glitter & Mayhem Anthology | Lesbian protagonist, transgender and genderqueer characters | |
"Catman" | Harlan Ellison | 1974 | Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology | Society where bisexuality is the norm, most of the characters are gay or bisexual. [4] | |
"Eye of the Storm" | Kelley Eskridge | 1998 | Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers | ||
"Frost Painting" | Carolyn Ives Gilman | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"It Takes Two" | Nicola Griffith | 2010 | Eclipse Three | Lesbian protagonist | |
"Free in Asveroth" | Jim Grimsley | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" | Radclyffe Hall | 1934 | Lesbian protagonist, gender-switching themes | ||
"Sex, Guns, and Baptists" | Keith Hartman | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Lonely Land" | Denise Lopes Heald | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"-All You Zombies-" | Robert A. Heinlein | 1959 | Fantasy and Science Fiction | Intersex protagonist | |
"Self Reflection | Tobi Hill-Meyer | 2011 | Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica | Trans women protagonists, themes dealing with transphobia | |
"Fisherman" | Nalo Hopkinson | 2001 | Skin Folk | ||
"In Mysterious Ways" | Tanya Huff | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Bleaker Collegiate Presents an All-Female Production of Waiting for Godot" [3] | Claire Humphrey | 2011 | Strange Horizons | Bisexual protagonist | |
"Cloudmaker" | Charlee Jacob | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"The Rendez-Vous" | Nancy Johnston | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Sex with Ghosts" [4] | Sarah Kanning | 2008 | Strange Horizons | ||
"Bonehouse" | Keffy M. Kehrli | 2011 | Writers of the Future Volume 27 | ||
"Full Moon and Empty Arms" | M. W. Keiper | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Galapagos" | Caitlin R. Kiernan | 2009 | Eclipse Three | Lesbian main characters | |
"Time Gypsy" | Ellen Klages | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | Lesbian protagonist | |
"State of Nature" | Nancy Kress | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"A Wild and Wicked Youth" | Ellen Kushner | 2009 | Fantasy and Science Fiction | ||
"The Fall of the Kings" | Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"The Ghost Party" | Richard Larson | 2011 | Subterranean | ||
"Nine Lives" | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1969 | Playboy | Bisexual protagonists [4] | |
"A Real Girl" | Shariann Lewitt | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Love, Trouble, and Time" | Linda Mannheim | 2000 | New Amazons | Lesbian protagonists | |
"Water Snakes" | Holly Wade Matter | 1997 | Bending the Landscape:Fantasy | ||
"Sea of Cortez" | Sandra McDonald | 2011 | Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica | ||
"Useless Things" | Maureen F. McHugh | 2009 | Eclipse Three | ||
"Bridesicle" | Will McIntosh | 2010 | Asimov's Science Fiction | Lesbian major character | |
"Looking for Satan" | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1981 | Thieves' World III | Lesbian/bisexual love story [4] | |
"Powertool" | Mark McLaughlin | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Prince of the Dark Green Sea" | Mark McLaughlin | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland" | Sarah Monette | 2002 | Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet | ||
"The King's Folly" | James A. Moore | 1997 | Bending the Landscape:Fantasy | ||
"Silent Passion" | Kathleen O'Malley | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Half in Love with Easeful Rock and Roll" | Rebecca Ore | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
Lesbian Fairy Tales; Wicked Women of Myth and Legend | C.D. Overstreet | 2014 | Lesbian Fairy Tales | ||
"The Beautiful People" | Wendy Rathbone | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"The City in Morning" | Carrie Richerson | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Proserpine When It Sizzles" | Tansy Rayner Roberts | 2009 | New Ceres Nights | ||
"Existence" | Joanna Russ | 1975 | Epoch | ||
"Nobody's Home" | Joanna Russ | 1972 | Women of Wonder | ||
"The Second Inquisition" | Joanna Russ | 1970 | More Women of Wonder | ||
"When It Changed" | Joanna Russ | 1972 | Again, Dangerous Visions | Lesbian protagonist | |
"Young Lady Who Loved Caterpillars" | Jessica Amanda Salmonson | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" | Kenneth Schneyer | 2013 | Clockwork Phoenix 4 | Lesbian protagonist | |
"Brooks Too Broad for Leaping" | Charles Sheffield | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Gary, in the Shadows" | Mark Shepherd | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"There Are Things Which Are Hidden from the Eyes of the Everyday" | Simon Sheppard | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"The Faerie Cony-Catcher" | Delia Sherman | 1998 | Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers | ||
"The Sound of Angels" | Lisa S. Silverthorne | 1997 | Bending the Landscape : Fantasy | ||
"Pirate Solutions" | Katherine Sparrow | 2008 | Fast Ships, Black Sails | ||
"On Vacation" | Ralph A. Sperry | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"The Flying Triangle" | Allen Steele | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"The World Well Lost" | Theodore Sturgeon | 1953 | Universe | ||
"Another Coming" | Sonya Taaffe | 2004 | Not One of Us | ||
"The Home Town Boy" | B. J. Thrower | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"The Night Train" [5] | Lavie Tidhar | 2010 | Strange Horizons | Trans* protagonist | |
"Gestures Too Late on a Gravel Road" | Mark W. Tiedemann | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"Surfaces" | Mark W. Tiedemann | 1998 | Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled with Light" | James Tiptree Jr. | 1976 | Aurora: Beyond Equality | Woman from an all-female society is the protagonist [4] | |
"Mahu" | Jeff Verona | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"… Suspends ton vol" | Élisabeth Vonarburg | 1992 | Translated as "Stay Thy Flight" in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | ||
"Beside the Well" | Leslie What | 1997 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | ||
"The Metamorphosis Bud" | Liu Wen Zhuang (pen name of Cynthea Liu) | 1996 | Genderflex |
Anthologies
Title | Editors | Year | Publisher |
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Cyber-magick: Lesbian SF | Gary Bowen | 1996 | Obeliesk Books |
Icarus & Angels, Flights of Fantasy: Gay SF | Gary Bowen | 1996 | Obeliesk Books |
Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy | Camilla Decarnin, Eric Garber, and Lyn Paleo | 1986 | Alyson |
Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories | Jeffrey M. Elliot | 1984 | Alyson |
Swords of the Rainbow: Science Fiction and Fantasy | Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez | 1996 | Alyson |
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel | 1997 | White Wolf Publishing |
Bending the Landscape: Horror | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel | 2001 | White Wolf Publishing |
Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction | Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel | 1998 | White Wolf Publishing |
Gay City 5: Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam[5] | Vincent Kovar and Evan J. Peterson | 2013 | Minor Arcana Press and Gay City Health Project |
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction | Brit Mandelo | 2013 | Lethe Press |
Grave Passions: Tales of the Gay Supernatural | William J. Mann | 1997 | Badboy |
Flying Cups & Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy | Debbie Notkin and the Secret Feminist Cabal | 1998 | Edgewood Press |
Queer Dimensions | James EM Rasmussen | 2009 | Queered Fiction |
Brothers of the Night: Gay Vampire Stories | Michael Rowe and Thomas S. Roche | 1997 | Cleis Press |
Things Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism | Lawrence Schimel | 1998 | Circlet Press |
Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Histories[6] | Connie Wilkins | 2009 | Lethe Press |
Awards
See also
References
- ^ a b c http://feministsf.org/bibs/lgbt.html
- ^ a b http://www.lambdascifi.org/books/recommend.html
- ^ a b http://www.mamohanraj.com/altsex.html
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Uranian Worlds: a guide to alternative sexuality in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. 2nd Edition. Ed. Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1990
- ^ Minor Arcana Press descriptive listing for "Ghosts in Gaslight..." (bottom of page)
- ^ ISFDB Listing for 'Time Well Bent'