Queer Fest

Any fandom, any character(s), parent/child bonding over their sexuality.

Any fandom, any character, five ways being queer was absolutely fantastic.

Any fandom, any characters, coming out wouldn't be so irritating if people didn't immediately assume you were in love with your straight best friend of the same sex.

Any fandom with time travel, any character, in the future, there is no such thing as sexual identity; people simply do not identify themselves that way. A time travelling LGBT person finds it hard to come to terms with this.

Any fandom, any character, you’re so used to being the token straight person you don't know if you should tell your friends about your single, impossible-to-shake same-sex crush.

Any fandom, any character, A character in a monogamous relationship confronts bisexual invisibility.

Any fandom, Any character, A gay/lesbian/bisexual character who finds support and comfort in his or her religious community.

Any fandom, any character, A year after s/he comes out to his/her parents over the phone, s/he brings his/her boyfriend to visit his hometown. His/her parents are supportive, but many people from his/her past are not.

Any Fandom, Any Character, Any point on the queer spectrum: Finding a place within the queer community is hard, when one sees one's queerness as no more or less important than any other aspect of one's identity.

Any fandom, any character, Character X realises s/he's bisexual and deals with coming out to friends who really aren't surprised.

Any Fandom, any Character, Sometimes it seems like you're the last one to know about your own sexuality.

Any fandom, any character, you lost your entire family coming-out, so it's really unfair that your partner's family barely blinks when s/he brings you home for Christmas.

Any Fandom, any character, Queer is the only label that ever seemed to fit.

Any fandom, any character, Figuring out you like girls too is surprisingly easy. Figuring out how you flirt with one is surprisingly hard.

Any fandom, any character, A character comes out and finds their ideas of who would be supportive and who wouldn't were completely wrong.

Any Fandom, any character, I don't have to explain the nuances of my sexual identity to you.

Any fandom, any characters, He/she is bi, but has always hidden that fact since he/she never felt enough for another man/woman to want a long-term relationship and thus deal with the public fallout. Now he/she does, and is having to face coming out to other people - and him/herself.

Any Fandom, any characters, They never intended being open about their relationship(s) to be any kind of statement, but that doesn't stop people - both enemies and allies - from taking it as such.

Any fandom, any male/male couple, One of them doesn't like anal sex. What complications does this add to the relationship, and how do they get around it?

Any fandom, any MtF character, why she doesn't want surgery--a girl can have a penis dammit! This should NOT be a problem!

Any fandom, any pairing, 'Aren't you tired of hiding this from everyone?'

Any fandom, any queer religious character, their religion is just as important as their queer identity and wishes everyone would stop trying to make them choose one over the other.

Any science fiction fandom, any characters, On this planet, same-sex relationships are society’s dominant orientation, not heterosexuality.

Any science fiction or fantasy fandom, any character, They literally have gaydar.

Any science fiction or supernatural fandom, any characters, Humans' rigid ideas about gender and sexuality make falling in love with one difficult.

Any science fiction or supernatural fandom, any characters, They didn't think being the same sex would be harder to deal with than being of different species, and yet.

Any science fiction or supernatural fandom, any characters, A human and a non-human discuss their differing views on sexuality and/or gender.

Firefly, any characters, On the Rim, norms depend on which world you come from. Two or more of them get into a discussion about how LGBT issues were viewed on their home planets. Preferably with at least two very different views mentioned.

Harry Potter, any characters, someone finds strength to come out after they hear that Dumbledore was gay, too.

Star Trek Reboot, Spock Prime, He knows that there have been many unanticipated changes to the timeline, but it's still a surprise to find his counterpart in a relationship with a woman.

Star Trek TOS or XI, Kirk(/Spock), After news of their relationship spreads, Kirk finds himself becoming the unofficial advisor for queer crewmembers.

Star Trek TOS or XI, Spock, In a meld Spock realizes something about himself that he had never known before. Shame that whoever he was melding with now knows it, too.

Star Trek TOS or XI, Spock, The geneticists at the Vulcan Science Academy said it would be easier trying to create a female child instead of a male child, due to hormone differences between humans and Vulcans. Spock kept quiet all these years, but one of the reasons he applied to Starfleet was because transitioning is legal on Earth.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Mirror!Spock, The meld with the other universe's Dr. McCoy showed Mirror!Spock a universe unlike he'd ever imagined: a universe in which he was free to explore the desires the Empire demanded he never express.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Spock, Because of Kirk’s celebrity as the Enterprise’s captain and Spock’s high social position on Vulcan, their upcoming wedding threatens to turn into an intergalactic event. And not everyone’s pleased with gay nuptials.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk/Spock, When the Enterprise discovers a world where gay is the norm, does that give the Captain and his First Officer the nudge they need to admit their feelings for each other?


Babylon 5, any, In canon, Minbari courtship rituals are often stated in terms of one male and one female. ("The male sleeps and the female watches.") What rituals (if any) do they have for same-sex couples?

Star Trek (any), any character, By the 23rd century, same-sex relationships among humans are considered no stranger than heterosexual ones, causing Earth to become a haven for LGBT people from more conservative species/planets.

Star Trek XI, any Vulcan, Trying to reconcile their homosexuality with their sense of duty when their species is close to extinction.

Star Trek TOS, Kirk, Being trapped in Janice Lester's body brings back memories he thought he'd left behind. (Kirk is FTM.)