Prompts: Are You Being Served through Bring It On
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Are You Being Served through Bring It On
412. Are You Being Served, Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, Homosexuality is still illegal in 1972-85 Britain, which is why Mr. Humphries never discusses his orientation with his fellow salespeople at Grace Brothers Department Store. Of course, with his mincing walk and high-pitched voice, Mr. Humphries is practically a gay stereotype--which is why none of his friends or colleagues from work have figured out that when he talks about a nameless live-in companion as 'my friend' that he might be talking about someone who doesn't fit that stereotype at all...or that, behavior aside, Mr. Humphries's sexuality might not be strictly binary.
413. Army Wives, Denise, the more freedom Denise has, the more she wants, but her marriage is already on the rocks and she doesn't know what to do. Now, she's figuring out she's bisexual and, remembering the allusions made to 'college experimentation, she goes to her friends for advice.
414. Arrested Development, Maeby Funke, Maeby comes to realize she's queer, but that does not make her anything like her dad. claimed by missdeanna
415. Artemis Fowl, any fairy, the LEP has a history of misogyny; how do they react to LGBT officers?
416. Artemis Fowl, Artemis, Growing up without the supervision made being a young FtM easier. But how does he explain it to his mother after she surfaces? And when he comes back from limbo with the mesmer, is it tempting to make them forget he was ever a girl?
417. Arthurian Legend, any knight, Being trans and part of the Round Table
418. Arthurian Legend, Arthur, Arthur wishes it wasn't a state crisis that he couldn't have a child with his queen. (Trans or Asexual Arthur)
419. Arthurian Legend, Galahad, What's it like to be trans and on the Grail quest?
420. Arthurian Legend, Gawain, Being Arthur's nephew and under constant scrutiny of the court (never mind that debacle with the Green Knight) makes it difficult for Gawain to be queer in Camelot.
421. As You Like It, Rosalind/Celia, Now that Rosalind is Ganymede, her relationship with Celia is changing
422. Ashes to Ashes, Alex Drake/Shaz Granger, Alex isn't sure what shagging the pretty young WPC at a nightclub means for her sexuality.
423. Ashes to Ashes, any character, we've seen the first beginnings of the AIDS epidemic on the show. What happens when it becomes a bit more personal than a teenage prostitute?
424. Ashes to Ashes, Ray Carling, he actually does know what Alex meant when she wrote that he was 'repressed' in her letter.
425. Astro City, Flying Fox, Give her a backstory beyond 'Mom was an ex-pseudo-Lois Lane, dad was a politician'. How did she come out to them, and did it affect her father's career? How did she decide to become a hero?
426. Atlas Shrugged, Francisco D'Anconia, a reputation as womaniser is useful when one wants to keep one's true inclinations private.
427. Au revoir les enfants, Julien/Jean or Julien & Jean, One or both is/are LGBT. How does that interact with Jean's secrecy about being Jewish?
428. Aubrey/Maturin series, any character, A story about molly houses and other aspects of the era's gay subculture.
429. Aubrey/Maturin series, Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin, Jack knows he's nothing like what sodomites are said to be, so he's having trouble understanding his feelings for Stephen
430. Aubrey/Maturin series, Stephen Maturin, Sodomy is said to be unnatural, yet it's not unknown among the animals; can natural history help Stephen cope with his own sexuality
431. Aubrey/Maturin series, Tom Pullings, Tom loves his wife dearly, but he doesn't desire her. Not the way he desires his dear William (or Jack, if you prefer).
432. Aubrey/Maturin series, William Marshall, He's neither a boy-lover nor a molly, just a man who wants other men, and even his fellow sodomites seem to find that odd.
433. Avatar (2009), any characters, How do the Na'vi view gender/sexual identity?
434. Avatar: The Last Air Bender, Mai/Ty Lee, Same sex relationships aren't rare in the Fire Nation, that's not the problem. The problem is what happens when Azula finds out she wasn't invited.
435. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang, He's always believed that a person's spirit matters more than the body that houses it--but he's having a hard time applying that belief to himself.
436. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang & Sokka, their different feelings about dressing in Kyoshi warrior drag
437. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang/anyone, discussing past lives and Aang's experience of sexuality/gender identity
438. Avatar: the Last Airbender, any Avatar, As the Avatar grows, they struggle to balance their duties and their real gender.
439. Avatar: The Last Airbender, any Freedom Fighter, no one here knows that his/her birth sex is not the same as the gender s/he is currently presenting
440. Avatar: The Last Airbender, any two characters from any two nations, comparing their experiences of growing up queer
441. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hama, Hama faces additional abuse in prison for being queer
442. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hama & Katara, Hama and Katara have something else in common besides waterbending
443. Avatar: the Last Airbender, Haru, In the Earth Kingdom, it's considered Fire Nation perversity for a man to love another man. Haru, as a bisexual, has to decide if he wants to deal with that.
444. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh, Iroh's sexual orientation is one reason why he is seen as being unfit to rule the Fire Nation.
445. Avatar: the Last Airbender, Jet, The Freedom Fighters don't give a damn whether their leader has a penis or not.
446. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Katara, She needs to start sorting out why she keeps getting crushes on her brother's girlfriends. claimed by ivy_chan
447. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kyoshi warriors, an all-female warrior group deals with the issue of transsexuality -- either a potential candidate is transgender, or a current Kyoshi warrior decides to start living as a man.
448. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Roku/Sozin/Ta Min, this arrangement is definitely not traditional but that's okay
449. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Toph, masculine and feminine shouldn't have to be an either/or thing.
450. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Toph, she may like women and present as butch but that doesn't mean she wants to be a man
451. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ty Lee, her family treats her bisexuality as a joke or thinks that she's making it up for attention/another way to differentiate herself from her sisters besides being a 'circus freak'
452. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ty Lee/Kyoshi Warriors, Flexibility is fun.
453. Avenue Q, Rod/Ricky, Post-musical, Rod is living with his new boyfriend that his straight ex-roommate, Nicky, fixed him up with. Ricky's a great guy, and he looks just Nicky, who Rod was love with for ages. But Ricky doesn't want to be loved because he's the gay version of Nicky; he wants to be loved for being himself.
454. Avenue Q, Rod/Ricky, Post-musical, Everyone thinks it would be a great idea for Rod to come out by marching in New York's Pride Parade. Ricky thinks that if Rod doesn't, that means he isn't completely committed to their relationship. Rod thinks that the march would be a disaster for him, professionally and personally--and while he has no trouble with Ricky coming out, he doesn't see why he has to
455. AVP, Alexa Woods/OFC - Lex comes home and nothing is the same anymore.
456. Axis Powers Hetalia, America/Lithuania, Introducing Lithuania to the gay culture in Greenwich Village during the Outsourcing.
457. Axis Powers Hetalia, any Nation, What it means to be a Queer National Identity.
458. Axis Powers Hetalia, Austria/Hungary/Prussia -- Successful diplomatic negotiation is hard enough. Negotiating and setting up the boundaries of a functional triad is even trickier.
459. Axis Powers Hetalia, England, Section 28 really does not square well with decades of deeply repressed attraction to one’s ex-colony.
460. Axis Powers Hetalia, England/Queen Elizabeth I, 'When she married her Nation, she had not, perhaps, expected a sodomite. But she makes do, and so shall he.',
461. Axis Powers Hetalia, Germany/Italy or HRE/Chibitalia, In which Italy is not a girl and Germany does care.
462. Azumanga Daioh, any character, ten years down the road one of the girls is no longer a girl. When his parents tell him someone called about a class reunion, he struggles with whether or not to go, and what to say when he does
463. Azumanga Daioh, Kagura, She had always felt more comfortable with girls than with guys, but she never admited out loud that she bi/lesbian.
464. Azumanga Daioh, Kagura/Sakaki, Of course their friends knew, but no one ever made a point to go out of their way and point out how much Kagura liked Sakaki. Not until Tomo does, at least.
465. Babylon 5, Any character, Being lesbian or trans in the Centauri society.
466. Babylon 5, any character/pairing, in 2260 gay marriage is legal in the Earth Alliance. But how is your average gay couple treated by the different alien races on Babylon 5?
467. Babylon 5, any telepath, gender identity and sexual preference are a lot easier to understand when you don't need the labels to describe the feelings. How do you balance that awareness with being forced into heterosexual marriage?
468. Babylon 5, Delenn, finding a Human gender and sexual identity for herself that isn't completely female and heterosexual.
469. Babylon 5, Delenn, JMS originally planned that when Delenn went through her transformation at the end of S1, she wouldn't just change from minbari to human, but also from male to female (link). If this had happened (either male to female like in JMS's plan, or going AU after S1 and having her change from female to male), how would it have affected Delenn and his/her relationship with Sinclair/Sheridan claimed by vjs2259
470. Babylon 5, G'Kar/Londo, The Narns view homosexuality as a degenerate Centauri practice. It's bad enough that G'Kar is attracted to other species, let alone another man, let alone Londo Mollari. But G'Kar didn't fight for freedom just so he could spend his life stuck in a closet and doubting his own desires.
471. Babylon 5, John Sheridan/Delenn, his marriage to Anna worked out perfectly, since they were both asexual. Now he's fallen for Delenn, who's not only sexual but with an entirely alien viewpoint. How do they construct a fulfilling relationship that works for both of them?
472. Babylon 5, John Sheridan/Elizabeth Lochley, he was her last-ditch attempt at loving men, and she still feels a certain affection toward him for letting her try, even though it didn't work.
473. Babylon 5, Londo Mollari/G'Kar, Under stress conditions, Narn are capable of inducing a gender change. G'Kar is more than happy with his new body. Londo is thrown for a loop, and does not appreciate the confusion of suddenly finding G'Kar attractive.
474. Babylon 5, Londo Mollari/G'Kar, Londo loves women, but he falls in love with men. Not, usually, men of another species, though, let alone a Narn.
475. Babylon 5, Londo Mollari/Timov Mollari/G'Kar, working out just what the hell they should all be to each other, when Timov is little more than a trophy wife and finds that enough, Londo still wonders what he's even doing with G'Kar, and G'Kar finds them both attractive.
476. Babylon 5, Marcus Cole/Stephen Franklin, Stephen gets all the girls, but he rarely gets the guy. Now he's stuck on a dirty ship in the middle of nowhere heading into a war zone and undercover as Marcus' husband, who isn't taking the whole 'married' thing nearly as seriously as Stephen wishes he would.
477. Babylon 5, Marcus/Stephen, When Marcus and Stephen have to pretend to be married, Marcus takes such delight in it because he wishes it to be true. Stephen, at first unsettled, eventually comes to realize his own feelings on the matter.
478. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova, 'Most people would never believe that things such as sexism', racism, or homophobia still existed in this civilized time. Most people also missed the sarcasm she used when the word civilized' left her lips.''
479. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova, she thought she was straight before she fell in love with Talia. Now she's afraid if she lets herself get involved with Marcus it means Talia either meant nothing, or meant something incredible, either of which would be equally shattering.
480. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova, she misses Ganya the most because he understood what it was like, being queer in their family.
481. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters, Ivanova realizes too late that she loved Talia. But is it really too late, or was Bester lying about Talia's fate?
482. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Delenn, the best way to explain some aspects of a burgeoning Human sexuality is just to demonstrate.
483. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, an asexual telepathic romance. In Earthforce Susan can come out as a lesbian but not a telepath, so they can't really tell anyone that what they share emotionally and telepathically makes sex irrelevant for them.
484. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, just because they're both women and they're in a committed relationship does not make either of them less bisexual.
485. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, Susan has always known that if she let herself, she'd fall harder for a woman than she does for men. She just didn't realise how hard, or how scary and wonderful it would turn out to be.
486. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova+Delenn, Susan tries to explain the spectrum of Human sexuality and gender to Delenn.
487. Babylon 5, Timov, Timov is a lesbian trapped in a political marriage to a man she doesn't respect; no wonder she's angry all the time
488. Baby-Sitters Club, any characters, A baby-sitter discovers she is lesbian or bi and promptly comes out to all her clients. Some of them, naturally, are approving. Others, not so much. The Club considers policy, and the girl in question considers the expedience of honesty.
489. Baby-Sitters Club, any characters, A baby-sitter's dress and manner become increasingly genderqueer as ze goes through high school. Ze explains ideas about gender to charges of various ages.
490. Baby-Sitters Club, Dawn Schafer, California is supposed to be accepting of sexual minorities. Too bad that's not always true
491. Baby-Sitters Club, Kristy Thomas, People have always told Kristy that's she's immature because she's not interested in makeup or boys. Kristy has another interpretation. (claimed by doublel27)
492. Baby-Sitters Club, Kristy Thomas, in college, Kristy's no longer in the Babysitter's Club, but she does still babysit. When she gets a job sitting for a boy who insists he's a girl, she's forced to confront things about herself she'd repressed
493. Baby-Sitters Club, Mary Anne Spier, Okay, so she's married to the guy she's been on-again off-again dating since middle school. She totally dated girls during the off-agains. Isn't that enough bi cred?
494. Baby-Sitters Club, Stacey McGill, maybe it's the way she looks, maybe it's the way she dresses, but the first three times Stacey tries to come out, no one believes her. How can she get the point across without frenching a girl in the middle of the SHS cafeteria claimed by lefaym
495. Bakuman, Niizuma Eiji, Eiji doesn't hide the fact that he's trans; he just never saw it as something that needed to be mentioned, until someone (Yujiro/Fukuda/Moritaka/Nakai) sees his binder when he's changing and assumes that he's a girl posing as a boy in order to make it in the manga world
496. Band of Brothers, Lewis Nixon/Dick Winters, Nixon doesn't mind Winters knowing that Nixon's attracted to men, but knowing he's attracted to Winters specifically is another matter. claimed by caersmane
497. bare: a pop opera, Lucas, after the Jason/Peter fiasco, Lucas starts questioning his own feelings. (Lucas is gay or bi)
498. bare: a pop opera, Peter, finding a way to make being gay and being Catholic not contradictory
499. Bas Lag novels (China Mieville), Cutter, After the end of Iron Council, a grieving Cutter finds comfort in the queer community he'd previously rejected.
500. Bas-Lag novels (China Mieville), Lin or any khepri, what does it mean for gender and sexuality when the only sapient members of your species are female? How might interacting with human society change or affect those identities?
501. Battlefield: Bad Company, Preston Marlowe, Preston's joyride in the helicopter isn't what got him transferred to B-Company, getting caught fooling around with the General's son is. With the military as a tradition in his family and a little brother back home who looks up to him, Preston isn't sure getting sent to Bad Company to be cannon fodder with the other screw-ups is worse than facing a dishonorable discharge
502. Battlefield: Bad Company, Preston Marlowe, Preston is outed to the rest of Bravo-2 post Bad Company 2 while fighting the Russians in Alaska. To his immense surprise and relief, they don't think any differently of him. Which begs the question; if his fellow nincompoops can judge him on how good of a soldier he is instead of whether or not he's as queer as a three-dollar bill, why can't everyone
503. Battlestar Galactica, Aaron Doral and Felix Gaeta, The two reluctantly make lengthy small talk as they await rescue; Felix's orientation is more accepted in his society while the opposite is true of Aaron's, who keeps it hidden as best he can.
504. Battlestar Galactica, Felix Gaeta and Louis Hoshi, AU where Felix mutinies but is not killed, and they eventually decide they want children. claimed by kappamaki33
505. Battlestar Galactica, Helena Cain, Louis Hoshi and/or Noel Allison, Cain finds out there's gay-bashing going on on the Pegasus
506. Battlestar Galactica, Jean Barolay, Jean finds herself attracted to one of her female fans, which is a surprise for her and her non-originally-Caprican family.
507. Battlestar Galactica, Jean Baroley/Sam Anders/Kara Thrace, figuring out how to make it work isn't easy, even when everyone is totally on board.
508. Battlestar Galactica, Tom Zarek, dealing with being bisexual in a Sagittaron prison.
509. Battlestar Galactica, Tom Zarek, the Sagittarons attack Tom Zarek for having a male partner. How does he (and whichever president) respond?
510. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series), Athena, Athena tries to convince her father to overturn the ancient Kobolian laws forbidding homosexual relations and decides to tell him, finally, how much of a difference it will make for her personally
511. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series), Starbuck/Apollo, Starbuck built his entire persona around being a ladies man, and now, as he gets to know Apollo, he's not sure that's what he is anymore. claimed by marea67
512. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series--1978), Apollo/Starbuck, Kobolian religion expressly forbids same-sex relationships. Where does that leave Apollo and Starbuck, who have just realized their feelings for one another?
513. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series--1978), Apollo/Starbuck, Athena/Cassiopeia, A nice double-dating thing is going on with Apollo, Starbuck, Athena, and Cassiopeia, except that the public sees opposite-sex couples while the truth is, well, the opposite.
514. Battlestar Galactica: Any cylon, how do they reconcile being 'different' in a culture that values sameness? ,
515. Beautiful Thing, Jamie/Ste, civil partnership. The law has finally caught up with their love.
516. Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Belle, Belle was never comfortable with the roles society defined for her, whether it was who she should be attracted to, or the gender roles she should play. How does Beast/Adam react when he realizes his beautiful princess has more than a bit of prince in her?
517. Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Gaston, He suppressed his feelings over the year, believing that if he turned himself into the perfect man, he would finally be able to escape how he felt towards the other boys.
518. Beezus & Ramona (Cleary's bookverse), Both, One's a dyke, the other's trans, and nothing's ever easy between them.
519. Being Human, Annie Sawyer/Nina Pickering, one of them realizes she’s attracted to the other, but she’s never been attracted to a woman before.
520. Being Human, any character, how does becoming a ghost change one's gender expression? Do all ghosts look exactly as they did when they died, or is the body of a ghost defined by zir gender identity, regardless of assigned sex?
521. Being Human, any character, what's it like to be an LGBT vampire? How do the personality changes that a new vampire experiences affect zir identity as LGBT? I'd love to see a queer vampires support group here.
522. Being Human, any character, being LGBT was bad enough. Now zhe's supernatural as well. Zie feels zie must hide part of zir identity to express the other, because the gay community doesn't know vampires exist, and the vampires don't give a damn. How does zie navigate this conflict?
523. Being Human, George Sands/John Mitchell, Mitchell is upset when George moves out to live with his new girlfriend because he and George were in a relationship and now George wants to try to be straight.
524. Being Human, George/Mitchell, George feels like dealing with the implications of his attraction to Mitchell is just one more problem than he can handle right now - but ignoring it doesn't seem to make it go away.
525. Being Human, John Mitchell, bisexuality over the decades
526. Bend It Like Beckham, Jesminder 'Jess' Bhamra/Juliette 'Jules' Paxton, Jules takes her L/B/T/Q status harder than Jess.
527. Bend it Like Beckham, Jess/Jules, Jess hates lying to her parents, but when Tony makes up the story about their engagement, she decides to play along, thinking it's the best option for both of them. But when she realizes her feelings for Jules go beyond friendship, does she just add on another lie, or does she finally admit who she really is and risk outing Tony as well?
528. Bernard and the Genie, Josephus, He doesn't see much of queer life in early-1990s London, but it's definitely more visible than anything he could get away with in first-century Palestine. (Bonus points if he asks Jesus about it afterward, since he'd have the opportunity.)
529. Berserk, any member of the Band of the Hawk (OCs applicable), Other reasons that people have signed on to the Band of the Hawk: Griffith's charisma, or his permissiveness, which is usually absent from mercenary culture.
530. Beyond Good & Evil, Jade!Shauni, On Hillys, Jade identifies as female, but the being inside named Shauni identifies with more than one static label. Jade discusses her confusion with Pey'j post-game.
531. Bible (Hebrew Bible), David/Jonathan, His song of lament wasn't the first time David had admitted that Jonathan's love was more to him than the love of women.
532. Bible (Hebrew Bible), Ruth/Naomi, Ruth is marrying Boaz because it's necessary, just like she'd married Mahlon because it had been necessary. Naomi is her constant
533. Bible (New Testament), any disciple, A disciple struggles to make sense of his love for Jesus in terms of Jesus' teachings?
534. Bible (New Testament), Jesus/John, 'The disciple Jesus loved' has to reconcile his old understanding of the law with what Jesus teaches about love.
535. Big Love, Any sister wives, Two of the sister wives fall in love -- how do they deal with it? What are the ramifications for their marriage?
536. Big Love, Hendrickson wives, two of the Hendrickson wives fall in love and decide they want to be together.
537. Big Wolf on Campus, Tommy Dawkins, Merton is the one who faces the insults at school, but Tommy is the one who is actually gay
538. Biggles book series (W.E. Johns), Biggles/Algy, falling for your wingman
539. Black Books, Bernard, Not liking gay clubs (i.e. 'the prohibitive standards of hygiene and all that dancing') doesn't actually make you straight. claimed by lorannah
540. Black Books, Bernard/Manny or gen, There was a picture of Oscar Wilde stuck in the corner of a picture frame behind Bernard's desk that disappeared between 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'The Big Lockout.' What happened to make him take it down?
541. Black Books, Manny/Bernard. Bernard once thought he was gay, Manny certainly is. They can't live without one another and Bernard finally acknowledges that.
542. Black Donnellys, Joanie, it's not like she didn't know about homophobia and LGBT prejudice. She just didn't realize people would be more upset over the word 'bisexual' than they were over 'junkie'
543. Black Donnellys, Joey Ice Cream, Joey's identity has always been malleable, so how does he deal when the neighborhood reacts badly to the word 'gay'
544. Black Donnellys, Kevin Donnelly, Kevin knows that boys who don't like girls are called gay. But what is he supposed to call himself when he doesn't like girls but he doesn't like boys either?
545. Black Donnellys, Matthew Farrell, it's hard enough being queer in his neighborhood. When everybody else expects you to take over that neighborhood one day, being queer is damn near impossible
546. Black Donnellys, Sean Donnelly, 'I don't know how to tell you guys this, but I think I'm a lesbian.' Sean is MTF trans
547. Black Ships, Ashterah, What is life like for a between-gendered priest/ess at Byblos, what happened to Ashterah before the events of the book, what changes when Xandros arrives
548. Blackadder Goes Forth, George, George never felt more himself than when he was pretending to be a woman.
549. Blackie Ryan series (Andrew M. Greeley), Bp. John Blackwood Ryan/Sean Cardinal Cronin, The attraction has always been there, their vows have always stood in the way -- how does the relationship change?
550. Blades of Glory, Jimmy and Chazz: Jimmy and Chazz are together, have been out of the closet for a little while, skate at an LGBT event. Along the way Jimmy finds the fans that used to idolize him as a sweet, innocent straight orphan aren't so friendly anymore
551. Blake's 7, any characters, Homosexuality is one of many things illegal under Federation law - show us canon characters participating in the underground LGBT scene.
552. Blake's 7, Avon/Vila, Avon has always measured his sexual prowness by the number of attractive women he can seduce and sleep with. It is completely against everything he understands about himself to be attracted to a middle-aged, balding Delta-class male, and yet after four years of denying it, he finally realizes that all he needs to be happy is Vila.
553. Blake's 7, Space Commander Travis(/Roj Blake), He's had his head 'adjusted' more times than he can remember, yet no matter what he does, Travis's homosexuality keeps coming back. In the end, he decides to channel it into something useful--hunting Blake.
554. Blake's 7, Vila Restal, On Earth, no one cared too much about what Deltas did amongst themselves. On the Liberator, though, Vila's not sure he's prepared to deal with what his Alpha crewmates think about his sexuality.
555. Blake's 7, Vila Restal, Nobody would ever *dream* of giving a Delta grade sexual reassignment surgery, so Vila's anatomy doesn't match his gender identity. He's managed to keep most people--and definitely his crewmates--unaware of that, but the cramped quarters on Scorpio mean that someone's bound to find out
556. Blake's 7, Vila/Avon, Vila's been on the 'wrong side' of far too many same-sex encounters during his times in juvenile detention and prison, so it comes as quite a shock when he discovers just how nice it can be with the right person.
557. Bob and Rose, Bob Gossage, what is it like being a man happily married to a woman you're in love with but being gay at the same time? What does that make him and how does he continue to face the community he'd spent all those years a part of.
558. Bones, Angela Montenegro, Angela finds herself explaining to Brennan/Booth why an MtF case hits too close to home.
559. Bones, Jack Hodgins/Zack Addy, Hodgins doesn't like anyone at work to know about his private life but Zack wants to make their relationship public.
560. Bones, Parker Booth and Seeley Booth and Temperance Brennan. When Parker confesses to her father that she's always felt like a girl, her dad has trouble understanding. Parker isn't sure if he's angry at her or at himself. But his friend Temperance seems to get it, so Parker enlists her help in showing Booth that this has nothing to do with how good of a dad he's been and everything to do with how much Parker needs him to be a good dad *now*.
561. Bones, Russ Brennan, When their parents went into hiding it wasn't Kyle who became Russ, it was Kylie. How does Russ feel about Booth and his sister digging up his past--and will Tempe cut off contact with him (again) if/when she finds out he's trans? (right after they find their mother's body, late season 1/early season 2)
562. Bones, Seeley Booth, His military history, FBI job, and struggle with his faith never gave Booth the space to get comfortable with his bisexuality. How does he explain the unexplainable to someone else when he doesn't know the answers himself?
563. Bones, Temperance Brennan, Of course Brennan is bisexual. Restricting romantic feelings to one gender is a very recent and culturally constructed notion, and Brennan can't see why Booth is making such a big deal out of this
564. Bones, Temperance Brennan, She didn't expect Booth's Catholicism to be an issue when she mentioned a past girlfriend, but she really should have (Bones is bi) claimed by cadenzamuse
565. Bones, Temperence Brennan/Seeley Booth, Brennan and Booth learn to balance their relationship and Booth learns that not all romance is sexual (Asexual Brennan)
566. Boondock Saints, Connor MacManus, He knows Murphy has always thought Connor won't get a girlfriend or sleep around because he's too busy looking out for Murphy, but there's a boy back in Ireland who keeps Connor's true secret close to his heart
567. Boondock Saints, Paul Smecker, Agent Smecker has been out a long time (not the easier thing to be in a conservative organization like the FBI) and certainly doesn't seem ashamed of being gay --- yet he has no problem calling other gay men fags and queers. What is with that?
568. Boondock Saints, Smecker/Conner (or Murphy), The brothers get word that Smecker has been hurt during an investigation and rush back to sit vigil and provide protection. One of them (writer's choice) realizes his reaction to the news is more than fear of losing a good man to the criminal scum. Can he still be a Saint if he has these feelings for another man? And how in the hell does he tell his brother?
569. Boondock Saints II, Eunice Bloom, Eunice is like her mentor in more ways then one. She doesn't know if the boys know about either of them, but she does know she's not about to take shit about being a lesbian from anyone
570. BOSS, Osawa Eriko/Kimoto Mami, It's almost impossible to hide anything from Osawa, and Kimoto isn't sure that she wants to keep her crush from her any longer
571. Boston Legal, Alan Shore, it would have been easier to come out before he pissed off the LGBT establishment by getting fake-gay-married. But since when has Alan done anything the easy way?
572. Boston Legal, Alan/Denny, Alan and Denny are madly in love, but they've never *really* discussed sexuality. Now that they're married, is Denny prepared to handle the revelation that Alan is bi?
573. Boston Legal, Carl/Shirley, The last time Carl dated Shirley, his body was female
574. Boston Legal, Claire/Clarence(Clarice), any story whatsoever about them.
575. Boston Legal, Denny and Alan, even though Alan identified as bisexual before marrying Denny, he never realized how complicated it would be to marry someone who wasn't even out to himself
576. Boston Legal, Katie Lloyd, Katie thinks Jerry is a dear, but she isn't attracted to men, and therefore dating him would be misleading at best and so she won't do it. Right?
577. Boy Meets World, Shawn, Shawn spent most of his adolescence thinking about being a girl. In New York, he tries it out again.
578. Boys In the Band, Bernard, Bernard's phonecall turns out to be a blessing in disguise when he discovers his recipient actually had mutual feelings for him all along.
579. Boys In the Band, Hank, Hank coming to terms with his bisexuality, and the decision that leads to him ending his marriage and moving in with another man in 1968 New York.
580. Boys In the Band, Michael/Donald post-movie, Donald finally helps Michael realize he doesn't have to hate himself for being homosexual--and he doesn't even have to give up his faith to do it.
581. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam, Pre-movie: Sam wants Eric to move in with him. Eric, still in the closet, struggles with being in a serious relationship with a man.
582. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam, Sam deals with Eric's need to stay in the closet.
583. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam, Scot wants Eric and Sam to get married. Sam would like that, too, but for Eric getting gay married is like locking the door to the closet from the outside and throwing away the key.
584. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam and Scot/OMC, Scot's first boyfriend's parents are not happy with their son being gay. Eric and Sam have to mediate.
585. Breakfast with Scot (movie), Scot Latour and Eric McNally/Sam Miller, 10-15 years post-canon, Scot identifies as genderqueer and pansexual, but doesn't know how to tell his fathers. They'll probably just going to think that he's 'confused', and Eric would blame it on himself and Sam
586. Brideshead Revisited, Bridey, Bridey thought that marriage was his duty to the family, and that wedding an experienced and decisive woman who wanted him was the best way to avoid the illegal urges that he felt would lead him, as they led his brother Sebastian, to alcoholism and poverty. A few years after the end of the Second World War, Bridey finds that his Catholic faith and his devotion to duty aren't enough to stifle what he wants or how he feels.
587. Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder, After his failed marriage to Celia Mulcaster, Charles finally admits that he's gay, and that his love for Sebastian Flyte wasn't just a 'passing phase.' How does he reconnect with the gay community that he has rejected? This could be an AU fic, or you could incorporate his canon relationship with Julia Flyte
588. Brideshead Revisited, Charles/Sebastian, his second relationship wasn't with Julia, but with Sebastian who returned and took on a female identity to deal with his Catholic guilt and internalized homophobia.
589. Brideshead Revisited, Sebastian Flyte &Anthony Blanche, Alternate point-of-view: what doesn't Charles know about Sebastian, Anthony, and their involvement with 1920's gay culture?
590. Bridge to Terabithia, Jesse/Leslie, They each find out the other is LGBT, but with very different experiences with, and ideas about how this relates to, society/religion/family
591. Bridgerton series, any characters, one of the numerous Bridgerton children is completely uninterested in marriage, much preferring dalliances with members of the same sex. What's it like to keep a secret like that in a large and loving family that insists that marriage is the only route to happiness?
592. Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn, Eloise Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington, Eloise is greatly taken with the thought of being a spinster with Penelope.
593. Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Sharon and Jude, the three best friends get very smashed and fool around a little (a lot). For two of them it's just a bit of a lark, but for one of them, it's a revelation about herself claimed by sfaith
594. Bring It On, Missy Pantone/Isis, Missy is out, because she can afford to be. Isis isn't, because she can't
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412. Are You Being Served, Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, Homosexuality is still illegal in 1972-85 Britain, which is why Mr. Humphries never discusses his orientation with his fellow salespeople at Grace Brothers Department Store. Of course, with his mincing walk and high-pitched voice, Mr. Humphries is practically a gay stereotype--which is why none of his friends or colleagues from work have figured out that when he talks about a nameless live-in companion as 'my friend' that he might be talking about someone who doesn't fit that stereotype at all...or that, behavior aside, Mr. Humphries's sexuality might not be strictly binary.
413. Army Wives, Denise, the more freedom Denise has, the more she wants, but her marriage is already on the rocks and she doesn't know what to do. Now, she's figuring out she's bisexual and, remembering the allusions made to 'college experimentation, she goes to her friends for advice.
414. Arrested Development, Maeby Funke, Maeby comes to realize she's queer, but that does not make her anything like her dad. claimed by missdeanna
415. Artemis Fowl, any fairy, the LEP has a history of misogyny; how do they react to LGBT officers?
416. Artemis Fowl, Artemis, Growing up without the supervision made being a young FtM easier. But how does he explain it to his mother after she surfaces? And when he comes back from limbo with the mesmer, is it tempting to make them forget he was ever a girl?
417. Arthurian Legend, any knight, Being trans and part of the Round Table
418. Arthurian Legend, Arthur, Arthur wishes it wasn't a state crisis that he couldn't have a child with his queen. (Trans or Asexual Arthur)
419. Arthurian Legend, Galahad, What's it like to be trans and on the Grail quest?
420. Arthurian Legend, Gawain, Being Arthur's nephew and under constant scrutiny of the court (never mind that debacle with the Green Knight) makes it difficult for Gawain to be queer in Camelot.
421. As You Like It, Rosalind/Celia, Now that Rosalind is Ganymede, her relationship with Celia is changing
422. Ashes to Ashes, Alex Drake/Shaz Granger, Alex isn't sure what shagging the pretty young WPC at a nightclub means for her sexuality.
423. Ashes to Ashes, any character, we've seen the first beginnings of the AIDS epidemic on the show. What happens when it becomes a bit more personal than a teenage prostitute?
424. Ashes to Ashes, Ray Carling, he actually does know what Alex meant when she wrote that he was 'repressed' in her letter.
425. Astro City, Flying Fox, Give her a backstory beyond 'Mom was an ex-pseudo-Lois Lane, dad was a politician'. How did she come out to them, and did it affect her father's career? How did she decide to become a hero?
426. Atlas Shrugged, Francisco D'Anconia, a reputation as womaniser is useful when one wants to keep one's true inclinations private.
427. Au revoir les enfants, Julien/Jean or Julien & Jean, One or both is/are LGBT. How does that interact with Jean's secrecy about being Jewish?
428. Aubrey/Maturin series, any character, A story about molly houses and other aspects of the era's gay subculture.
429. Aubrey/Maturin series, Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin, Jack knows he's nothing like what sodomites are said to be, so he's having trouble understanding his feelings for Stephen
430. Aubrey/Maturin series, Stephen Maturin, Sodomy is said to be unnatural, yet it's not unknown among the animals; can natural history help Stephen cope with his own sexuality
431. Aubrey/Maturin series, Tom Pullings, Tom loves his wife dearly, but he doesn't desire her. Not the way he desires his dear William (or Jack, if you prefer).
432. Aubrey/Maturin series, William Marshall, He's neither a boy-lover nor a molly, just a man who wants other men, and even his fellow sodomites seem to find that odd.
433. Avatar (2009), any characters, How do the Na'vi view gender/sexual identity?
434. Avatar: The Last Air Bender, Mai/Ty Lee, Same sex relationships aren't rare in the Fire Nation, that's not the problem. The problem is what happens when Azula finds out she wasn't invited.
435. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang, He's always believed that a person's spirit matters more than the body that houses it--but he's having a hard time applying that belief to himself.
436. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang & Sokka, their different feelings about dressing in Kyoshi warrior drag
437. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang/anyone, discussing past lives and Aang's experience of sexuality/gender identity
438. Avatar: the Last Airbender, any Avatar, As the Avatar grows, they struggle to balance their duties and their real gender.
439. Avatar: The Last Airbender, any Freedom Fighter, no one here knows that his/her birth sex is not the same as the gender s/he is currently presenting
440. Avatar: The Last Airbender, any two characters from any two nations, comparing their experiences of growing up queer
441. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hama, Hama faces additional abuse in prison for being queer
442. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hama & Katara, Hama and Katara have something else in common besides waterbending
443. Avatar: the Last Airbender, Haru, In the Earth Kingdom, it's considered Fire Nation perversity for a man to love another man. Haru, as a bisexual, has to decide if he wants to deal with that.
444. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh, Iroh's sexual orientation is one reason why he is seen as being unfit to rule the Fire Nation.
445. Avatar: the Last Airbender, Jet, The Freedom Fighters don't give a damn whether their leader has a penis or not.
446. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Katara, She needs to start sorting out why she keeps getting crushes on her brother's girlfriends. claimed by ivy_chan
447. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kyoshi warriors, an all-female warrior group deals with the issue of transsexuality -- either a potential candidate is transgender, or a current Kyoshi warrior decides to start living as a man.
448. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Roku/Sozin/Ta Min, this arrangement is definitely not traditional but that's okay
449. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Toph, masculine and feminine shouldn't have to be an either/or thing.
450. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Toph, she may like women and present as butch but that doesn't mean she wants to be a man
451. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ty Lee, her family treats her bisexuality as a joke or thinks that she's making it up for attention/another way to differentiate herself from her sisters besides being a 'circus freak'
452. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ty Lee/Kyoshi Warriors, Flexibility is fun.
453. Avenue Q, Rod/Ricky, Post-musical, Rod is living with his new boyfriend that his straight ex-roommate, Nicky, fixed him up with. Ricky's a great guy, and he looks just Nicky, who Rod was love with for ages. But Ricky doesn't want to be loved because he's the gay version of Nicky; he wants to be loved for being himself.
454. Avenue Q, Rod/Ricky, Post-musical, Everyone thinks it would be a great idea for Rod to come out by marching in New York's Pride Parade. Ricky thinks that if Rod doesn't, that means he isn't completely committed to their relationship. Rod thinks that the march would be a disaster for him, professionally and personally--and while he has no trouble with Ricky coming out, he doesn't see why he has to
455. AVP, Alexa Woods/OFC - Lex comes home and nothing is the same anymore.
456. Axis Powers Hetalia, America/Lithuania, Introducing Lithuania to the gay culture in Greenwich Village during the Outsourcing.
457. Axis Powers Hetalia, any Nation, What it means to be a Queer National Identity.
458. Axis Powers Hetalia, Austria/Hungary/Prussia -- Successful diplomatic negotiation is hard enough. Negotiating and setting up the boundaries of a functional triad is even trickier.
459. Axis Powers Hetalia, England, Section 28 really does not square well with decades of deeply repressed attraction to one’s ex-colony.
460. Axis Powers Hetalia, England/Queen Elizabeth I, 'When she married her Nation, she had not, perhaps, expected a sodomite. But she makes do, and so shall he.',
461. Axis Powers Hetalia, Germany/Italy or HRE/Chibitalia, In which Italy is not a girl and Germany does care.
462. Azumanga Daioh, any character, ten years down the road one of the girls is no longer a girl. When his parents tell him someone called about a class reunion, he struggles with whether or not to go, and what to say when he does
463. Azumanga Daioh, Kagura, She had always felt more comfortable with girls than with guys, but she never admited out loud that she bi/lesbian.
464. Azumanga Daioh, Kagura/Sakaki, Of course their friends knew, but no one ever made a point to go out of their way and point out how much Kagura liked Sakaki. Not until Tomo does, at least.
465. Babylon 5, Any character, Being lesbian or trans in the Centauri society.
466. Babylon 5, any character/pairing, in 2260 gay marriage is legal in the Earth Alliance. But how is your average gay couple treated by the different alien races on Babylon 5?
467. Babylon 5, any telepath, gender identity and sexual preference are a lot easier to understand when you don't need the labels to describe the feelings. How do you balance that awareness with being forced into heterosexual marriage?
468. Babylon 5, Delenn, finding a Human gender and sexual identity for herself that isn't completely female and heterosexual.
469. Babylon 5, Delenn, JMS originally planned that when Delenn went through her transformation at the end of S1, she wouldn't just change from minbari to human, but also from male to female (link). If this had happened (either male to female like in JMS's plan, or going AU after S1 and having her change from female to male), how would it have affected Delenn and his/her relationship with Sinclair/Sheridan claimed by vjs2259
470. Babylon 5, G'Kar/Londo, The Narns view homosexuality as a degenerate Centauri practice. It's bad enough that G'Kar is attracted to other species, let alone another man, let alone Londo Mollari. But G'Kar didn't fight for freedom just so he could spend his life stuck in a closet and doubting his own desires.
471. Babylon 5, John Sheridan/Delenn, his marriage to Anna worked out perfectly, since they were both asexual. Now he's fallen for Delenn, who's not only sexual but with an entirely alien viewpoint. How do they construct a fulfilling relationship that works for both of them?
472. Babylon 5, John Sheridan/Elizabeth Lochley, he was her last-ditch attempt at loving men, and she still feels a certain affection toward him for letting her try, even though it didn't work.
473. Babylon 5, Londo Mollari/G'Kar, Under stress conditions, Narn are capable of inducing a gender change. G'Kar is more than happy with his new body. Londo is thrown for a loop, and does not appreciate the confusion of suddenly finding G'Kar attractive.
474. Babylon 5, Londo Mollari/G'Kar, Londo loves women, but he falls in love with men. Not, usually, men of another species, though, let alone a Narn.
475. Babylon 5, Londo Mollari/Timov Mollari/G'Kar, working out just what the hell they should all be to each other, when Timov is little more than a trophy wife and finds that enough, Londo still wonders what he's even doing with G'Kar, and G'Kar finds them both attractive.
476. Babylon 5, Marcus Cole/Stephen Franklin, Stephen gets all the girls, but he rarely gets the guy. Now he's stuck on a dirty ship in the middle of nowhere heading into a war zone and undercover as Marcus' husband, who isn't taking the whole 'married' thing nearly as seriously as Stephen wishes he would.
477. Babylon 5, Marcus/Stephen, When Marcus and Stephen have to pretend to be married, Marcus takes such delight in it because he wishes it to be true. Stephen, at first unsettled, eventually comes to realize his own feelings on the matter.
478. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova, 'Most people would never believe that things such as sexism', racism, or homophobia still existed in this civilized time. Most people also missed the sarcasm she used when the word civilized' left her lips.''
479. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova, she thought she was straight before she fell in love with Talia. Now she's afraid if she lets herself get involved with Marcus it means Talia either meant nothing, or meant something incredible, either of which would be equally shattering.
480. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova, she misses Ganya the most because he understood what it was like, being queer in their family.
481. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters, Ivanova realizes too late that she loved Talia. But is it really too late, or was Bester lying about Talia's fate?
482. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Delenn, the best way to explain some aspects of a burgeoning Human sexuality is just to demonstrate.
483. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, an asexual telepathic romance. In Earthforce Susan can come out as a lesbian but not a telepath, so they can't really tell anyone that what they share emotionally and telepathically makes sex irrelevant for them.
484. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, just because they're both women and they're in a committed relationship does not make either of them less bisexual.
485. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, Susan has always known that if she let herself, she'd fall harder for a woman than she does for men. She just didn't realise how hard, or how scary and wonderful it would turn out to be.
486. Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova+Delenn, Susan tries to explain the spectrum of Human sexuality and gender to Delenn.
487. Babylon 5, Timov, Timov is a lesbian trapped in a political marriage to a man she doesn't respect; no wonder she's angry all the time
488. Baby-Sitters Club, any characters, A baby-sitter discovers she is lesbian or bi and promptly comes out to all her clients. Some of them, naturally, are approving. Others, not so much. The Club considers policy, and the girl in question considers the expedience of honesty.
489. Baby-Sitters Club, any characters, A baby-sitter's dress and manner become increasingly genderqueer as ze goes through high school. Ze explains ideas about gender to charges of various ages.
490. Baby-Sitters Club, Dawn Schafer, California is supposed to be accepting of sexual minorities. Too bad that's not always true
491. Baby-Sitters Club, Kristy Thomas, People have always told Kristy that's she's immature because she's not interested in makeup or boys. Kristy has another interpretation. (claimed by doublel27)
492. Baby-Sitters Club, Kristy Thomas, in college, Kristy's no longer in the Babysitter's Club, but she does still babysit. When she gets a job sitting for a boy who insists he's a girl, she's forced to confront things about herself she'd repressed
493. Baby-Sitters Club, Mary Anne Spier, Okay, so she's married to the guy she's been on-again off-again dating since middle school. She totally dated girls during the off-agains. Isn't that enough bi cred?
494. Baby-Sitters Club, Stacey McGill, maybe it's the way she looks, maybe it's the way she dresses, but the first three times Stacey tries to come out, no one believes her. How can she get the point across without frenching a girl in the middle of the SHS cafeteria claimed by lefaym
495. Bakuman, Niizuma Eiji, Eiji doesn't hide the fact that he's trans; he just never saw it as something that needed to be mentioned, until someone (Yujiro/Fukuda/Moritaka/Nakai) sees his binder when he's changing and assumes that he's a girl posing as a boy in order to make it in the manga world
496. Band of Brothers, Lewis Nixon/Dick Winters, Nixon doesn't mind Winters knowing that Nixon's attracted to men, but knowing he's attracted to Winters specifically is another matter. claimed by caersmane
497. bare: a pop opera, Lucas, after the Jason/Peter fiasco, Lucas starts questioning his own feelings. (Lucas is gay or bi)
498. bare: a pop opera, Peter, finding a way to make being gay and being Catholic not contradictory
499. Bas Lag novels (China Mieville), Cutter, After the end of Iron Council, a grieving Cutter finds comfort in the queer community he'd previously rejected.
500. Bas-Lag novels (China Mieville), Lin or any khepri, what does it mean for gender and sexuality when the only sapient members of your species are female? How might interacting with human society change or affect those identities?
501. Battlefield: Bad Company, Preston Marlowe, Preston's joyride in the helicopter isn't what got him transferred to B-Company, getting caught fooling around with the General's son is. With the military as a tradition in his family and a little brother back home who looks up to him, Preston isn't sure getting sent to Bad Company to be cannon fodder with the other screw-ups is worse than facing a dishonorable discharge
502. Battlefield: Bad Company, Preston Marlowe, Preston is outed to the rest of Bravo-2 post Bad Company 2 while fighting the Russians in Alaska. To his immense surprise and relief, they don't think any differently of him. Which begs the question; if his fellow nincompoops can judge him on how good of a soldier he is instead of whether or not he's as queer as a three-dollar bill, why can't everyone
503. Battlestar Galactica, Aaron Doral and Felix Gaeta, The two reluctantly make lengthy small talk as they await rescue; Felix's orientation is more accepted in his society while the opposite is true of Aaron's, who keeps it hidden as best he can.
504. Battlestar Galactica, Felix Gaeta and Louis Hoshi, AU where Felix mutinies but is not killed, and they eventually decide they want children. claimed by kappamaki33
505. Battlestar Galactica, Helena Cain, Louis Hoshi and/or Noel Allison, Cain finds out there's gay-bashing going on on the Pegasus
506. Battlestar Galactica, Jean Barolay, Jean finds herself attracted to one of her female fans, which is a surprise for her and her non-originally-Caprican family.
507. Battlestar Galactica, Jean Baroley/Sam Anders/Kara Thrace, figuring out how to make it work isn't easy, even when everyone is totally on board.
508. Battlestar Galactica, Tom Zarek, dealing with being bisexual in a Sagittaron prison.
509. Battlestar Galactica, Tom Zarek, the Sagittarons attack Tom Zarek for having a male partner. How does he (and whichever president) respond?
510. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series), Athena, Athena tries to convince her father to overturn the ancient Kobolian laws forbidding homosexual relations and decides to tell him, finally, how much of a difference it will make for her personally
511. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series), Starbuck/Apollo, Starbuck built his entire persona around being a ladies man, and now, as he gets to know Apollo, he's not sure that's what he is anymore. claimed by marea67
512. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series--1978), Apollo/Starbuck, Kobolian religion expressly forbids same-sex relationships. Where does that leave Apollo and Starbuck, who have just realized their feelings for one another?
513. Battlestar Galactica (Original Series--1978), Apollo/Starbuck, Athena/Cassiopeia, A nice double-dating thing is going on with Apollo, Starbuck, Athena, and Cassiopeia, except that the public sees opposite-sex couples while the truth is, well, the opposite.
514. Battlestar Galactica: Any cylon, how do they reconcile being 'different' in a culture that values sameness? ,
515. Beautiful Thing, Jamie/Ste, civil partnership. The law has finally caught up with their love.
516. Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Belle, Belle was never comfortable with the roles society defined for her, whether it was who she should be attracted to, or the gender roles she should play. How does Beast/Adam react when he realizes his beautiful princess has more than a bit of prince in her?
517. Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Gaston, He suppressed his feelings over the year, believing that if he turned himself into the perfect man, he would finally be able to escape how he felt towards the other boys.
518. Beezus & Ramona (Cleary's bookverse), Both, One's a dyke, the other's trans, and nothing's ever easy between them.
519. Being Human, Annie Sawyer/Nina Pickering, one of them realizes she’s attracted to the other, but she’s never been attracted to a woman before.
520. Being Human, any character, how does becoming a ghost change one's gender expression? Do all ghosts look exactly as they did when they died, or is the body of a ghost defined by zir gender identity, regardless of assigned sex?
521. Being Human, any character, what's it like to be an LGBT vampire? How do the personality changes that a new vampire experiences affect zir identity as LGBT? I'd love to see a queer vampires support group here.
522. Being Human, any character, being LGBT was bad enough. Now zhe's supernatural as well. Zie feels zie must hide part of zir identity to express the other, because the gay community doesn't know vampires exist, and the vampires don't give a damn. How does zie navigate this conflict?
523. Being Human, George Sands/John Mitchell, Mitchell is upset when George moves out to live with his new girlfriend because he and George were in a relationship and now George wants to try to be straight.
524. Being Human, George/Mitchell, George feels like dealing with the implications of his attraction to Mitchell is just one more problem than he can handle right now - but ignoring it doesn't seem to make it go away.
525. Being Human, John Mitchell, bisexuality over the decades
526. Bend It Like Beckham, Jesminder 'Jess' Bhamra/Juliette 'Jules' Paxton, Jules takes her L/B/T/Q status harder than Jess.
527. Bend it Like Beckham, Jess/Jules, Jess hates lying to her parents, but when Tony makes up the story about their engagement, she decides to play along, thinking it's the best option for both of them. But when she realizes her feelings for Jules go beyond friendship, does she just add on another lie, or does she finally admit who she really is and risk outing Tony as well?
528. Bernard and the Genie, Josephus, He doesn't see much of queer life in early-1990s London, but it's definitely more visible than anything he could get away with in first-century Palestine. (Bonus points if he asks Jesus about it afterward, since he'd have the opportunity.)
529. Berserk, any member of the Band of the Hawk (OCs applicable), Other reasons that people have signed on to the Band of the Hawk: Griffith's charisma, or his permissiveness, which is usually absent from mercenary culture.
530. Beyond Good & Evil, Jade!Shauni, On Hillys, Jade identifies as female, but the being inside named Shauni identifies with more than one static label. Jade discusses her confusion with Pey'j post-game.
531. Bible (Hebrew Bible), David/Jonathan, His song of lament wasn't the first time David had admitted that Jonathan's love was more to him than the love of women.
532. Bible (Hebrew Bible), Ruth/Naomi, Ruth is marrying Boaz because it's necessary, just like she'd married Mahlon because it had been necessary. Naomi is her constant
533. Bible (New Testament), any disciple, A disciple struggles to make sense of his love for Jesus in terms of Jesus' teachings?
534. Bible (New Testament), Jesus/John, 'The disciple Jesus loved' has to reconcile his old understanding of the law with what Jesus teaches about love.
535. Big Love, Any sister wives, Two of the sister wives fall in love -- how do they deal with it? What are the ramifications for their marriage?
536. Big Love, Hendrickson wives, two of the Hendrickson wives fall in love and decide they want to be together.
537. Big Wolf on Campus, Tommy Dawkins, Merton is the one who faces the insults at school, but Tommy is the one who is actually gay
538. Biggles book series (W.E. Johns), Biggles/Algy, falling for your wingman
539. Black Books, Bernard, Not liking gay clubs (i.e. 'the prohibitive standards of hygiene and all that dancing') doesn't actually make you straight. claimed by lorannah
540. Black Books, Bernard/Manny or gen, There was a picture of Oscar Wilde stuck in the corner of a picture frame behind Bernard's desk that disappeared between 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'The Big Lockout.' What happened to make him take it down?
541. Black Books, Manny/Bernard. Bernard once thought he was gay, Manny certainly is. They can't live without one another and Bernard finally acknowledges that.
542. Black Donnellys, Joanie, it's not like she didn't know about homophobia and LGBT prejudice. She just didn't realize people would be more upset over the word 'bisexual' than they were over 'junkie'
543. Black Donnellys, Joey Ice Cream, Joey's identity has always been malleable, so how does he deal when the neighborhood reacts badly to the word 'gay'
544. Black Donnellys, Kevin Donnelly, Kevin knows that boys who don't like girls are called gay. But what is he supposed to call himself when he doesn't like girls but he doesn't like boys either?
545. Black Donnellys, Matthew Farrell, it's hard enough being queer in his neighborhood. When everybody else expects you to take over that neighborhood one day, being queer is damn near impossible
546. Black Donnellys, Sean Donnelly, 'I don't know how to tell you guys this, but I think I'm a lesbian.' Sean is MTF trans
547. Black Ships, Ashterah, What is life like for a between-gendered priest/ess at Byblos, what happened to Ashterah before the events of the book, what changes when Xandros arrives
548. Blackadder Goes Forth, George, George never felt more himself than when he was pretending to be a woman.
549. Blackie Ryan series (Andrew M. Greeley), Bp. John Blackwood Ryan/Sean Cardinal Cronin, The attraction has always been there, their vows have always stood in the way -- how does the relationship change?
550. Blades of Glory, Jimmy and Chazz: Jimmy and Chazz are together, have been out of the closet for a little while, skate at an LGBT event. Along the way Jimmy finds the fans that used to idolize him as a sweet, innocent straight orphan aren't so friendly anymore
551. Blake's 7, any characters, Homosexuality is one of many things illegal under Federation law - show us canon characters participating in the underground LGBT scene.
552. Blake's 7, Avon/Vila, Avon has always measured his sexual prowness by the number of attractive women he can seduce and sleep with. It is completely against everything he understands about himself to be attracted to a middle-aged, balding Delta-class male, and yet after four years of denying it, he finally realizes that all he needs to be happy is Vila.
553. Blake's 7, Space Commander Travis(/Roj Blake), He's had his head 'adjusted' more times than he can remember, yet no matter what he does, Travis's homosexuality keeps coming back. In the end, he decides to channel it into something useful--hunting Blake.
554. Blake's 7, Vila Restal, On Earth, no one cared too much about what Deltas did amongst themselves. On the Liberator, though, Vila's not sure he's prepared to deal with what his Alpha crewmates think about his sexuality.
555. Blake's 7, Vila Restal, Nobody would ever *dream* of giving a Delta grade sexual reassignment surgery, so Vila's anatomy doesn't match his gender identity. He's managed to keep most people--and definitely his crewmates--unaware of that, but the cramped quarters on Scorpio mean that someone's bound to find out
556. Blake's 7, Vila/Avon, Vila's been on the 'wrong side' of far too many same-sex encounters during his times in juvenile detention and prison, so it comes as quite a shock when he discovers just how nice it can be with the right person.
557. Bob and Rose, Bob Gossage, what is it like being a man happily married to a woman you're in love with but being gay at the same time? What does that make him and how does he continue to face the community he'd spent all those years a part of.
558. Bones, Angela Montenegro, Angela finds herself explaining to Brennan/Booth why an MtF case hits too close to home.
559. Bones, Jack Hodgins/Zack Addy, Hodgins doesn't like anyone at work to know about his private life but Zack wants to make their relationship public.
560. Bones, Parker Booth and Seeley Booth and Temperance Brennan. When Parker confesses to her father that she's always felt like a girl, her dad has trouble understanding. Parker isn't sure if he's angry at her or at himself. But his friend Temperance seems to get it, so Parker enlists her help in showing Booth that this has nothing to do with how good of a dad he's been and everything to do with how much Parker needs him to be a good dad *now*.
561. Bones, Russ Brennan, When their parents went into hiding it wasn't Kyle who became Russ, it was Kylie. How does Russ feel about Booth and his sister digging up his past--and will Tempe cut off contact with him (again) if/when she finds out he's trans? (right after they find their mother's body, late season 1/early season 2)
562. Bones, Seeley Booth, His military history, FBI job, and struggle with his faith never gave Booth the space to get comfortable with his bisexuality. How does he explain the unexplainable to someone else when he doesn't know the answers himself?
563. Bones, Temperance Brennan, Of course Brennan is bisexual. Restricting romantic feelings to one gender is a very recent and culturally constructed notion, and Brennan can't see why Booth is making such a big deal out of this
564. Bones, Temperance Brennan, She didn't expect Booth's Catholicism to be an issue when she mentioned a past girlfriend, but she really should have (Bones is bi) claimed by cadenzamuse
565. Bones, Temperence Brennan/Seeley Booth, Brennan and Booth learn to balance their relationship and Booth learns that not all romance is sexual (Asexual Brennan)
566. Boondock Saints, Connor MacManus, He knows Murphy has always thought Connor won't get a girlfriend or sleep around because he's too busy looking out for Murphy, but there's a boy back in Ireland who keeps Connor's true secret close to his heart
567. Boondock Saints, Paul Smecker, Agent Smecker has been out a long time (not the easier thing to be in a conservative organization like the FBI) and certainly doesn't seem ashamed of being gay --- yet he has no problem calling other gay men fags and queers. What is with that?
568. Boondock Saints, Smecker/Conner (or Murphy), The brothers get word that Smecker has been hurt during an investigation and rush back to sit vigil and provide protection. One of them (writer's choice) realizes his reaction to the news is more than fear of losing a good man to the criminal scum. Can he still be a Saint if he has these feelings for another man? And how in the hell does he tell his brother?
569. Boondock Saints II, Eunice Bloom, Eunice is like her mentor in more ways then one. She doesn't know if the boys know about either of them, but she does know she's not about to take shit about being a lesbian from anyone
570. BOSS, Osawa Eriko/Kimoto Mami, It's almost impossible to hide anything from Osawa, and Kimoto isn't sure that she wants to keep her crush from her any longer
571. Boston Legal, Alan Shore, it would have been easier to come out before he pissed off the LGBT establishment by getting fake-gay-married. But since when has Alan done anything the easy way?
572. Boston Legal, Alan/Denny, Alan and Denny are madly in love, but they've never *really* discussed sexuality. Now that they're married, is Denny prepared to handle the revelation that Alan is bi?
573. Boston Legal, Carl/Shirley, The last time Carl dated Shirley, his body was female
574. Boston Legal, Claire/Clarence(Clarice), any story whatsoever about them.
575. Boston Legal, Denny and Alan, even though Alan identified as bisexual before marrying Denny, he never realized how complicated it would be to marry someone who wasn't even out to himself
576. Boston Legal, Katie Lloyd, Katie thinks Jerry is a dear, but she isn't attracted to men, and therefore dating him would be misleading at best and so she won't do it. Right?
577. Boy Meets World, Shawn, Shawn spent most of his adolescence thinking about being a girl. In New York, he tries it out again.
578. Boys In the Band, Bernard, Bernard's phonecall turns out to be a blessing in disguise when he discovers his recipient actually had mutual feelings for him all along.
579. Boys In the Band, Hank, Hank coming to terms with his bisexuality, and the decision that leads to him ending his marriage and moving in with another man in 1968 New York.
580. Boys In the Band, Michael/Donald post-movie, Donald finally helps Michael realize he doesn't have to hate himself for being homosexual--and he doesn't even have to give up his faith to do it.
581. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam, Pre-movie: Sam wants Eric to move in with him. Eric, still in the closet, struggles with being in a serious relationship with a man.
582. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam, Sam deals with Eric's need to stay in the closet.
583. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam, Scot wants Eric and Sam to get married. Sam would like that, too, but for Eric getting gay married is like locking the door to the closet from the outside and throwing away the key.
584. Breakfast with Scot, Eric/Sam and Scot/OMC, Scot's first boyfriend's parents are not happy with their son being gay. Eric and Sam have to mediate.
585. Breakfast with Scot (movie), Scot Latour and Eric McNally/Sam Miller, 10-15 years post-canon, Scot identifies as genderqueer and pansexual, but doesn't know how to tell his fathers. They'll probably just going to think that he's 'confused', and Eric would blame it on himself and Sam
586. Brideshead Revisited, Bridey, Bridey thought that marriage was his duty to the family, and that wedding an experienced and decisive woman who wanted him was the best way to avoid the illegal urges that he felt would lead him, as they led his brother Sebastian, to alcoholism and poverty. A few years after the end of the Second World War, Bridey finds that his Catholic faith and his devotion to duty aren't enough to stifle what he wants or how he feels.
587. Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder, After his failed marriage to Celia Mulcaster, Charles finally admits that he's gay, and that his love for Sebastian Flyte wasn't just a 'passing phase.' How does he reconnect with the gay community that he has rejected? This could be an AU fic, or you could incorporate his canon relationship with Julia Flyte
588. Brideshead Revisited, Charles/Sebastian, his second relationship wasn't with Julia, but with Sebastian who returned and took on a female identity to deal with his Catholic guilt and internalized homophobia.
589. Brideshead Revisited, Sebastian Flyte &Anthony Blanche, Alternate point-of-view: what doesn't Charles know about Sebastian, Anthony, and their involvement with 1920's gay culture?
590. Bridge to Terabithia, Jesse/Leslie, They each find out the other is LGBT, but with very different experiences with, and ideas about how this relates to, society/religion/family
591. Bridgerton series, any characters, one of the numerous Bridgerton children is completely uninterested in marriage, much preferring dalliances with members of the same sex. What's it like to keep a secret like that in a large and loving family that insists that marriage is the only route to happiness?
592. Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn, Eloise Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington, Eloise is greatly taken with the thought of being a spinster with Penelope.
593. Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Sharon and Jude, the three best friends get very smashed and fool around a little (a lot). For two of them it's just a bit of a lark, but for one of them, it's a revelation about herself claimed by sfaith
594. Bring It On, Missy Pantone/Isis, Missy is out, because she can afford to be. Isis isn't, because she can't