List of film franchises with LGBT characters

This article is about live action feature films. For animated films, see List of animated films with LGBT characters. For television films, see List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters.

The following is a list of film franchises with fictional and factual lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-television network).

(For fictional queer characters (the "Q" in LGBT-Q), see lists for asexual, intersex, non-binary, and pansexual characters.)

Film franchises

Film franchises, as well as sequels and prequels, share common universes. The following film series collectively feature LGBT characters in a leading or supporting role (guest characters are also included).

Franchise	Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country	Ref(s)
Austin Powers	1997	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	Frau Farbissina	Bisexual	Mindy Sterling	Frau has a girlfriend named Una Brau in the second film who she met on the LPGA tour and fell in love. Later, when Dr. Evil and Past Frau have sex, she comments that she'll never love another man. Dr. Evil remembers her, responding "Yes, that's true". The sex between Dr. Evil and Frau results in their "love child", Scott.	United States	^[1]
	1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
	2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember
Bridget Jones	2001	Bridget Jones's Diary	Tom	Gay	James Callis	Tom is Bridget's flamboyant 'gay best friend'.	United Kingdom, United States, France	^[2] ^[3]^[4] ^[4]
	2004	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
			Rebecca Gillies	Lesbian	Jacinda Barrett	Rebecca is Mark Darcy's colleague who Bridget thinks is enamoured with him; it turns out her affections lie with Bridget.	Germany, Ireland
	2016	Bridget Jones's Baby	Tom	Gay	James Callis	The same character from the 2001 and 2004 films.	United Kingdom, United States, France
Bullyparade	2001	Der Schuh des Manitu	Winnetouch	Gay	Michael Herbig	Older twin brother of the Apache chief Abahachi.	Germany	^[5]
	2004	Traumschiff Surprise – Periode 1	Captain Jürgen T. Kork	Gay	Christian Tramitz	Parodies of Star Trek characters Captain James T. Kirk, Scotty, and Mr. Spock. Spoof and characters originate from the television show Bullyparade.	Germany	^[6]
			Schrotty	Gay	Rick Kavanian
			Mr. Brigitte "Spucki" Spuck	Gay	Michael Herbig
	2017	Bullyparade: The Movie	Captain Jürgen T. Kork	Gay	Christian Tramitz		Germany	^[7]
			Schrotty	Gay	Rick Kavanian
			Mr. Brigitte "Spucki" Spuck	Gay	Michael Herbig
Child's Play	1998	Bride of Chucky	David	Gay	Gordon Michael Woolvett	He has an unnamed ex-boyfriend.	United States	^[8]^[9] ^[10]^[11]
	2013	Curse of Chucky	Jill	Lesbian	Maitland McConnell	The live-in nanny of Alice, she has an affair with Barb, who is Alice's mother, making out with her in the kitchen.
DC Extended Universe	2016	Suicide Squad	Harley Quinn	Bisexual	Margot Robbie	Harley "is canonically bisexual" in the comics.	United States	^[12]^[13] ^[14]^[15] ^[16] ^[17]
	2020	Birds of Prey	Harley Quinn	Bisexual	Margot Robbie	The same character from the 2016 film. In the opening 10 minutes, Harley says she is unlucky in love, with her first two partners as men and the third one a woman.
			Renee Montoya	Lesbian	Rosie Perez	Renée and Ellen are exes.
			Ellen Yee		Ali Wong
	2021	The Suicide Squad	Harley Quinn	Bisexual	Margot Robbie	Same character from the 2016 film. She helps the squad on a mission in Corto Maltese.
	2023	Shazam! Fury of the Gods	Pedro Peña	Gay	Jovan Armand	In one scene, Pedro comes out to his foster family as gay.
					D. J. Cotrona
Deadpool	2018	Deadpool 2	Negasonic Teenage Warhead	Lesbian	Brianna Hildebrand	Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio are in a relationship.	United States	^[18]
			Yukio		Shioli Kutsuna
The Hangover	2009	The Hangover	Leslie Chow	Bisexual	Ken Jeong	The main antagonist in two films. In The Hangover he mentions his bisexuality. (GLAAD criticized the character as stereotypical.)	United States	^[19]^[20] ^[21]^[22]^[23] ^[24]^[25]
	2011	The Hangover Part II
			Kimberly "Kimmy"	Trans woman	Yasmin Lee	A beautiful stripper and sex worker who Stu falls for.
	2013	The Hangover Part III	Leslie Chow	Bisexual	Ken Jeong	Chow escapes from a prison in Thailand and is a major presence with a parade of hookers, as he remains sex-obsessed.
It	2017	It	Richie Tozier	Gay	Finn Wolfhard (young) Bill Hader (adult)	It is revealed that when Richie was younger, he struggled with his sexuality and feelings for his best friend Eddie Kaspbrak, and was bullied for it. When he returns to Derry 27 years later, we find out Richie had been in love with Eddie, who dies, which devastates Richie, but leads him to accept who he is and re-carve his and Eddie's initials on the kissing bridge that he had carved when he was 13. He loved James Ransone as an adult.	United States	^[26]
	2019	It Chapter Two
Jurassic Park	2022	Jurassic World Dominion	Kayla Watts	Bisexual	DeWanda Wise	Watts is a former US Air Force pilot who aids Owen and Claire on their mission. Wise confirmed the character's bisexuality in an interview.	United States	^[27]^[28]
Knives Out	2019	Knives Out	Benoit Blanc	Gay	Daniel Craig	Blanc is a master detective who has a domestic partner named Philip.	United States	^[29] ^[30]^[31]
	2022	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
			Philip		Hugh Grant
Mannequin	1987	Mannequin	Hollywood Montrose	Gay	Meshach Taylor	A flamboyant black man.	United States	^[32] ^[33]
	1991	Mannequin Two: On the Move
Marvel Cinematic Universe	2017	Thor: Ragnarok	Valkyrie	Bisexual	Tessa Thompson	The scene confirming the character's bisexuality was deleted from the film and her sexual orientation is instead only alluded to. (Valkyrie is canonically bisexual in the comics the movie was based on.)	United States	^[34]^[35] ^[36]^[37] ^[38]^[39]^[40] ^[41] ^[42] ^[43] ^[44]^[45]^[46]
	2018	Black Panther	Ayo	Lesbian	Florence Kasumba	Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name who has a lesbian lover in the Dora Milaje.
	2019	Avengers: Endgame	Grieving man	Gay	Joe Russo	The first openly gay character portrayed in a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, he was at a support group brought together by Steve Rogers.
			Valkyrie	Bisexual	Tessa Thompson	In the film, she is crowned King of Asgard.
	2021	Eternals	Phastos	Gay	Brian Tyree Henry	Phastos is the first superhero to be depicted as gay in an MCU film, living with his husband and their child. Ben is Phastos' husband.
			Ben		Haaz Sleiman
	2022	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Amalia Chavez	Lesbian	Chess Lopez	Amalia and Elena are America Chavez's mothers.
			Elena Chavez		Ruth Livier
	2022	Thor: Love and Thunder	Korg	Gay	Taika Waititi	At the end of the film, Korg has entered a relationship with a fellow Kronan man named Dwayne.
	2022	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	Aneka	Lesbian	Michaela Coel	Aneka and Ayo are a couple.
			Ayo		Florence Kasumba
Millennium	2009	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Lisbeth Salander	Bisexual	Noomi Rapace		Sweden	^[47]^[48] ^[49] ^[50]
		The Girl Who Played with Fire
		The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
	2011	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo			Rooney Mara		Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
			Miriam "Mimi" Wu		Elodie Yung
	2018	The Girl in the Spider's Web	Lisbeth Salander		Claire Foy		Canada, Germany, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Pitch Perfect	2012	Pitch Perfect	Cynthia Rose Adams	Lesbian	Esther Dean	She reveals to the Barden Bellas that her gambling addiction has been causing problems with her girlfriend (stated in dialog near the end of the first film).	United States	^[51]
	2015	Pitch Perfect 2
	2017	Pitch Perfect 3
The Producers	1967	The Producers	Carmen Ghia	Gay	Andreas Voutsinas	Carmen is the companion of Roger De Bris, a flamboyant director who is directing "Springtime for Hitler".	United States	^[52]^[53] ^[54]^[55]
			Roger De Bris		Christopher Hewett
	2005	The Producers	Carmen Ghia		Roger Bart	Just as in the 1967 film, Carmen is the confidente of Roger De Bris.
			Roger De Bris		Gary Beach
Star Trek	2009	Star Trek	Hikaru Sulu	Gay	John Cho	The film franchise is based on the television series of the same name, and the changing of the character's original sexual orientation from heterosexual to gay led George Takei to express his disappointment with the decision.	United States	^[56]
	2013	Star Trek Into Darkness
	2016	Star Trek Beyond
Wizarding World	2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Albus Dumbledore	Gay	Richard Harris	Albus Dumbledore is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts. In the Harry Potter series, although Dumbledore's sexual orientation is not portrayed or explicitly mentioned in the films and books they are based on, J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter series of fantasy novels) revealed in 2007 that he is gay.^[a]	United Kingdom, United States	^[58]^[59] ^[60]^[61]
	2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
	2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban			Michael Gambon
	2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
	2009	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
	2016	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Gellert Grindelwald		Johnny Depp	In the prequel series, Fantastic Beasts, the relationship in their youth between Dumbledore and the dark wizard Grindelwald is referenced.
	2018	Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindlewald	Albus Dumbledore		Jude Law
					Toby Regbo
			Gellert Grindlewald		Johnny Depp
	2022	Fantastic Beasts and the Secrets of Dumbledore	Albus Dumbledore		Jude Law
			Gellert Grindlewald		Mads Mikkelson

Notes

1. In Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Dumbledore is confirmed to have been in a past romantic relationship with Gellert Grindelwald.^[57]

See also

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External links

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