Queer Fest Prompt Post 2013

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This is the prompting post!

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Things to keep in mind:

• Comics fandoms: When prompts are compiled for claiming, all Marvel comics will be grouped together by universe - i.e., Marvel 616 or Marvel Ultimates, including the X-Men. The same is true for the DC Comics universe. Movies will be grouped together as well. The Avengers movies will be grouped together, but the X-Men and Spider-Man movies will be listed separately because they are not the same 'verse. Likewise, the Nolan Batman movies and Superman movies will be listed separately from the comics and from each other.  So if you want to keep that in mind when you are prompting, that's great! If you don't, that's fine, too, and we'll take care of it during the compiling period.



• This year, we are trying out anon commenting for the first time, due to the LJ situation. Anon comments are screened, and will be unscreened as soon as they are approved. If you post anon prompts, please do check back to see if we have any questions about your prompts.

Happy prompting! Prompting will remain open until Friday, March 15th @ 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.

EDITED: You are welcome to add new prompts throughout the prompting period but please do so in a new comment. Do not reply to your old comment or edit your old prompt. We are trying a new way of compiling prompts this year, so we may miss your prompt if you go back and reply to yours or edit your prompt. Just leave a new comment, please.

Prompting is over! Claiming will open on Monday, March 18.

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New prompts

[cat_13145]

Ripper Street, any character, It was on the tip of their tongue to tell Reid how out of date “molly house” was.

Ripper Street, Homer Jackson, “"whatever raises another man's flag is no business of mine." (The King came calling)

Ripper Street, Homer Jackson, a look at queer identity in American Civil War and later in Victorian London

Ripper Street, Homer Jackson/Ms Susan, Funny how they assumed that Homer Jackson was Matthew Judge

Ripper Street, Frank Goodnight(/Homer Jackson), Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,

Crossover, Ripper Street/Sherlock Holmes, Bennet Drake/Sebastien Moran, meeting up now that they are both in London

Crossover, Ripper Street/Sherlock Holmes, Bennet Drake/Sebastien Moran, It’s impossible to report his surpiciousions about Moran’s “Employer” without revealing how he gained the information

Crossover, Ripper Street/Sherlock Holmes, Bennet Drake/Sebastien Moran, Sebestien Moran/Moriaty, Bennet Drake/Edmund Reid, Drake wants Reid, but he’s terminally straight, Sebstien lusts after Moriarty, but he’s asexual/just blind (author’s choice). They take what they can in comfort

Ripper Street, Bennet Drake, his feelings for Rose must mean that his feelings for Colonel Madoc Faulkner were just gratitude and convinence, right?

Ripper Street, Bennet Drake/Homer Jackson, it’s easier to mock each other than to examine what the other one truly means to him.

Ripper Street, Rose, She was never going to settle down with Bennet Drake, or any man

Ripper Street, Ms Susan, She’s seen and tried it all

Ripper Street, all police officers, Hobbe’s wife may not be his wife in the traditional sense, but that’s no reason for him (or her) not receive the boy’s personals

Ripper Street, Edmund Reid/Mrs Reid, Edmund Reid/Mrs Goren, he wishes he could explain his marriage to Mrs Goren (Reid can be Pansexual or Mrs Reid can be asexual)

Call the Midwife, any character, the nuns handled incest (sorry) so calmly, a queer identity should be easy

Marvel Comics, Walter Langowski, he’s back in the “right body”, so why does he feel so wrong?

Marvel comics, Daken/Johnny Storm, They’re both liars, Daken is just honest about it.

Marvel Comics, Johnny Storm, The Fantastic Four represent the ideal all-American superhero team/family. Johnny's always felt like this means surpressing parts of himself

Marvel Comics, Johnny Storm, Dying can really change your opinion and what is and isn’t important.

Marvel Comics, Daken, Wolverine, His son’s sexuality is about the only part of his life he doesn’t have issues with.

DC Comics, All Robins, discovering which part of the queer spectrum they fall under

DC Comics, Red Hood and the Outlaws and Nightwing, it’s a little uncomfortable being on a team with your brother’s exs

DC Comics, Bruce Wayne, He has sex with women in Gotham and guys when he’s out of Gotham.

DC Comics, Bruce Wayne, He has sex with women in Gotham and guys when he’s out of Gotham. It’s easier to be true to yourself without the Wayne name being such a big deal

DC Comics, Jason Todd, it’s easier to be true to yourself, without the Wayne name around your neck

DC Comics, Batman, in revenge for Dent outing her to her collegues, Renee Montoya reveals Dent’s relationship with Bruce Wayne. Batman has to deal with the consequences.

DC Comics, Batman, Batman is straight, Bruce Wayne is not.

DC Comics, Bruce Wayne/author’s choice (But Tommy Elliot (Hush) would be the greatest), why do we hurt the ones we love?

DC Comics, Harvey Bullock, He wishes he could have being honest with Renee Montoya when he had the chance. At least he could have explained he knew what it was like to be a closeted cop.

Marvel Movies, Howard Stark, the reason he was tough on his son was he didn’t want Tony to have to go through what he did

Marvel Movies, Howard Stark, just because he married Maria does not make his feelings for Steve any less valid.

Jeeves & Wooster (TV Series), Stilton Cheesewright, meeting Daphne Demores (Jeeves) was a revelation, he just wished he could figure out why she looked so familar

Marvel Comics, Hank McCoy, Why are people so keen to ignore his “I’m gay” statement from a few years ago, just because he’s dating a female alien.

Merlin, Leon/Gwaine, It’s hard mourning a lover no one else knew you had

Merlin, Knights of Camelot, there have being so big changes in Camelot since Arthur took the throne, but some of the old ways still remain.

Mulan, Li Shang, Mulan is his wife, but Ping is his lover.

And some more recycled prompts

Merlin, Arthur Pendragon, being gay and in the closet means his desires take him to seedier places each time.

Merlin, Arthur (Arthur/Merlin optional), Uther knows that Arthur is interested in men, and accepts it as long as Arthur is willing to keep it a secret and get married. But for Arthur, the issue isn't whether he can live by these terms but whether he's okay with receiving such conditional acceptance from his father

DC Comics, Damian Wayne/Colin Wilkes, Damian Wayne/Iris West, what is it with Robins and being unable to turn down redheads?

DC Comics, Roy Harper/Dick Grayson, It somehow becomes public that Arsenal and Nighwings are raising a little girl together. Of all the things to get upset about people are not commenting on the fact that violent vigilanties with highly risky jobs are the sole karetaker of an innocent child or even that to have a school aged daughter in his early 20s then Arsenal must have been a teenaged father, no, what makes people cluthing their pearls is the fact they are both men.

Marvel Comics, Jacob Casey (the man blue ticketed out of the Navy in Captain America Patriot 3), his life and his influence after death

Marvel Comics (Invaders) Any character, at the end of the war the allies liberated the concentration camps and reimprisoned the homosexuals. How do any of the Invaders feel about that, knowing that it's just chance that stopped that being their fate?

[lexicalcrow]

Any children's television show, any children's presenter, being queer and deciding to come out (or not).

Any fandom, any character, feeling out of place at a Gay Pride March.

Inspector Montalbano (TV series), Salvo Montalbano/Mimí Augello, they fight like a married couple for a damn good reason. They're just not going to tell anyone what that reason is because it isn't worth their jobs to come out.

Inspector Montalbano (TV series), Giuseppe Fazio, in all the years he's worked for Salvo, he's never once thought about coming out to him until a case hits too close to home, forcing his hand. Salvo turns out to be more compassionate and understanding than Fazio had anticipated.

Ladies of Letters (TV series), Vera/Irene, it's not that Vera's oblivious to her own queerness, it's just that she'd never felt the need to label it. Indeed, Vera never even thought of herself as queer until she fell in love with Irene.

Ladies of Letters (TV series), Vera/Irene, prison brought them together in ways they hadn't anticipated.

Ladies of Letters (TV series), Vera/Irene, Irene wants to be out and proud, but Vera just wants peace and privacy. Neither are sure how to compromise on this at all.

Play School (Australian), MtF!Rhys Muldoon, the story about Gloria Grand felt like the best chance she'd ever get to come out. (Mods, when putting the prompt list together, please include the video link for context.)

The Garden of Rama (Arthur C. Clarke), any human character/couple, being queer while on board a giant spaceship, trying to survive in New Eden where most of the rules governing human societies on Earth are guidelines at best.

[naraht]

The Charioteer, Alec Deacon, Alec learned what it meant to be homosexual from the pages of Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis.

The Charioteer, Ralph Lanyon, Ralph discovers a different queer community in every port of call.

The Charioteer, Andrew Raynes, Getting married doesn't mean denying his identity. He's attracted to women as well. The difficult bit is explaining it all, not to his wife, but to Laurie.

The Charioteer, Andrew Raynes/Laurie Odell, While attempting to live their celibate but romantic ideal, Laurie and Andrew are forced to reassess the place of physical love in their lives.

The Charioteer, Ralph Lanyon, Ralph realises that although there is plenty of homoeroticism--and even sex between boys--at his public school, it is far from being a queer community.

The Charioteer, Ralph Lanyon, As commander of a Navy ship, Ralph is in theory expected to police homosexual behavior among the ratings. But will he choose to turn a blind eye?

[(Anonymous)]

From Eroica With Love, Klaus & his father, Klaus knows his father will never stop hounding him to get married and produce an heir; in some ways it would be easier to be able to claim to be homosexual than explain that he's never been interested in anyone that way at all. (Aromantic asexual Klaus.)

From Eroica With Love, Klaus & Dorian, Klaus has never been interested in sex; sometimes he can almost believe Dorian loves him enough to want to be with him anyway, but then Dorian will make another graphic sexual innuendo and that hope slips away.

From Eroica With Love, Bonham & Dorian's gang, Bonham may be gay too, but sometimes it's hard not to feel out of place among the flamboyant types that Dorian surrounds himself with.

[alexseanchai]

Supernatural, Dean Winchester (and Charlie Bradbury?), There's a reason he was so smooth when talking Charlie through flirting with a man.

Supernatural, Dean Winchester/OCs, Sex for money? Two excellent things for the price of one! Sex with men for money? Uh, this is really hard to admit, but that's actually a plus...

Supernatural, Sam Winchester, Dean doesn't know she's a girl, and everything Dean says to knock his 'brother' down a peg by calling 'him' a girl is infuriating. (Especially since Dean swears that he believes, and when women with vaginas are around nearly always acts as though he believes, that women are people same as men are.)

Supernatural, Sam Winchester, She really wants to transition, but has no idea what the hormone change will do to her cismale-bodybuilder muscles, and she needs her physical strength for hunting.

Supernatural, Dean Winchester, Dean's sexuality is fluid, shifting over the course of S3-S6 or so from 'sex anybody willing' to demisexual. He doesn't necessarily know it's happened. (7x13? Aberration. Possibly magically induced. Prompter hasn't seen past 8x07 as of prompting, which isn't to say that filler should avoid subsequent canon when filling.) Dean being straight is fine, Dean being bi is fine, Dean shifting from straight to bi or straight to only being attracted to Sam/Lisa/Castiel/Benny/whoever is fine.

Supernatural, Ruby, the reason she went to hell in the first place was to save her lover's life. Her female lover. Sex with the very male Sam is not at all appealing to her.

Supernatural, Meg in 2x14, strong female gender identity in conflict with male body.

Supernatural, Castiel and Jimmy Novak and Claire Novak, Dean is trying to teach Castiel to be a heterosexual cisgender man. Angels qua angels do not DO the whole sexuality/gender Katamari ball; vessels do and angels tend to follow their vessel's lead, but Jimmy is dead (and was a male-assigned-at-birth bisexual man) and Castiel quite clearly remembers Claire (who is a female-assigned-at-birth genderqueer individual, sexuality to be determined by filler).

Supernatural, Claire Novak, Angels qua angels do not DO the whole sexuality/gender Katamari ball. Claire didn't know she was genderqueer until she said yes to Castiel.

Supernatural, Emma Winchester, Amazons are supposed to be more attracted to men who can give them strong daughters. She thinks, in purgatory, that should translate to attraction to pretty much any man who's survived any length of time in the place. Why is it she's attracted to the women instead? Bonus points if she hitches a ride out with Dean and the lesbianism plays out on earth. (NB: Emma appears to be an adult by Amazon standards.)

Supernatural, Emma Winchester, Amazons are supposed to be more attracted to men who can give them strong daughters. She thinks, in purgatory, that should translate to attraction to pretty much any man who's survived any length of time in the place. Why is it she isn't attracted to anyone? Bonus points if she hitches a ride out with Dean and the asexuality-or-demisexuality plays out on earth. (NB: Emma appears to be an adult by Amazon standards.)

Supernatural, Charlie Bradbury, the process of self-discovery of sexuality through engaging with fandom.

[gileonnen]

Love! Valour! Compassion!, any character(s), how participating in the gay community shapes self-identity.

Love! Valour! Compassion!, Arthur Pape and Perry Sellars, each getting to know his partner's family.

Love! Valour! Compassion!, John and James Jeckyll, how each was affected differently by the outbreak of AIDS.

Love! Valour! Compassion!, Gregory Mitchell and Ramon Fornos, passing the torch; generational differences in the experience of queerness.

Love! Valour! Compassion!, John Jeckyll and Ramon Fornos, John thinking about different kinds of dying too young.

Love! Valour! Compassion!, Buzz Hauser, seeing gay people everywhere in show business helps him deal with hardly seeing them anywhere in mainstream media.

[jet]

DCnU, Jason Todd, Roy has been encouraging him to date women, but Jason isn't sure how his friends are going to react when they find out he usually prefers men.

DCnU, Miguel Barragan, the Teen Titans are completely accepting of Miguel's sexuality - in theory. It's surprising who turns out to be uncomfortable when they actually meet his boyfriend.

DCnU, Miguel Barragan, Miguel's presence seems to make some members of the Justice League really uncomfortable. It's not something he expected from superheroes.

Marvel 616, Teddy Altman and Phyla-Vell, Teddy meets his half-sister and wonders if being queer runs in the family. Phyla has her own ideas.

[scribe]

Emelan, Daja, after Will of the Empress Daja talks to Lark and/or Rosethorn about being queer

Slings & Arrows, Patrick, what is the result of his relationship with Sarah? What are the repercussions for himself and among his colleagues/friends of maybe being bisexual after identifying as gay for so long?

Bend It Like Beckham, Tony, what if Tony's best option really is to marry an understanding Jess, so she can go to CA and he doesn't have to come out to his family?

Discworld, Pepe, he blurs the lines of sexuality, gender, race- how did he get to be the amazing Pepe?

RPF, USWNT, any, levels of coming out: your family, your team, generally-known-but-not-stated, saying it in the press

RPF, USWNT, any, there are a couple players who have come out as gay, but what about being the first person to publicly come out as bi?

Singing Forest, Walter/Simon, how did their relationship begin and flourish given the challenges of their surroundings- and Freud?

Doctor Who, Canton Everett Delaware III, he is determined to marry the man he loves, somehow.

[destroythemeek]

Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/Brotherhood), Elysia Hughes, When Elysia comes out to her mother, she wonders if her saintly late father would have accepted her. (Bonus points if Gracia tells her exactly how much Maes would have understood, given his past with Roy.)

Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/Brotherhood), Maes Hughes, Maes loves Gracia with every single part of his body, heart, and soul. So when he tells her about his past with Roy Mustang, he needs her to understand that bisexual really, really doesn't mean "gay and closeted."

Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/Brotherhood), Roy Mustang, Coming out and living openly in the brothel where he grew up was easy. The military is a very different environment.

Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/Brotherhood), Alphonse Elric, Al desperately wants a body again, so he can taste and touch and sleep and dream. But he doesn't necessarily want the same body he had before. (Al is MtF.)

Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/Brotherhood), Winry Rockbell/Edward Elric, Winry has always been attracted to girls exclusively, so her feelings for Ed leave her confused. When Ed comes out to her as trans, it's actually a huge relief.

Fullmetal Alchemist (manga/Brotherhood), Winry Rockbell/Edward Elric, After they get together, Winry and Ed are both afraid to admit that they've each lost their virginity already -- to someone of the same sex. (I'm imagining Winry/Paninya and Ed/Ling as the past experiences, but other pairings are totally welcome.)

RENT, Joanne Jefferson, Joanne knows that her mother came of age in an era where playing by the rules of the white, straight patriarchy was the only way for a black woman to succeed. But now it's the end of the millennium, and she refuses to let the weight of that history keep her in the closet. She just wishes she could make her mom understand.

[thatyourefuse]

Vorkosigan Saga, Dono Vorrutyer, transitioning so as to claim the Countship wouldn't have seemed half so logical if he'd ever identified as exclusively female to begin with.

[somehowunbroken]

Homestuck, Dave Strider, You'd expect the world's most ironic dude to struggle with his own queer identity but Dave is just as chill about this as he is about everything else.
Homestuck, Jade Harley, Growing up almost alone has given her some...unusual ideas about sexuality/gender identity.
Homestuck, Dave and Dirk, Dave has known he was queer for a while now, but he always hesitated telling Bro for fear of how he would react. Imagine his surprise when he meets up with Dirk and finds out he's queer as well.
Homestuck, Dave Strider, Seeing his brother swapping spit with a guy who looks almost exactly like his best friend is very disturbing, though it takes him a while to work out exactly why.
Homestuck, Dave, Dave is all talk and no action. (Asexual!Dave)
Homestuck, Jake, Growing up with minimal human contact and mostly taking his societal cues from movies has given Jake some very strange ideas about what it means to be non-straight.
Homestuck, Rose and John, John has never seen any reason to question his heterosexuality. Rose, who has identified as a lesbian since she was young, always felt similarly. But now they're both starting to realise that boys are actually kinda hot, and neither are talking it all that well.
Homestuck, John Egbert, John is shocked to realize that he's queer...but after everything else they've all gone through, he's the only one.


DC Comics, Dick Grayson, Dick is nervous about coming out to the Teen Titans: will he lose his leadership position and their friendship?
DC Comics, Stephanie Brown/Tim Drake/Kon-El, It's true that the superhero community is pretty accepting about poly relationships. Now if they'd just stop assuming that Kon's only in it for Stephanie and that Tim's only in it for Kon, that'd be great.
DC Comics, any superhero character, the superhero community is a gossipy place, full of rampant speculation about other heroes' sexualities. But no one came close to guessing the truth of [character]'s asexuality.

Any Fandom, any character, being married to [the character's] (opposite-sex) high school sweetheart made [the character's] bisexuality/pansexuality/fluid sexuality more theoretical than anything else... until [the character's] spouse brings up the idea of polyamory and opening up their relationship.
Any Fandom, any character, Growing up, hir guardians were particularly homophobic. Zie thought zie had gotten over it, but when zie feels utter terror at the idea that zie might be queer, forgotten prejudices surface.
Any fandom, any character, an asexual wishes they could go to the local bar and pick someone up just for cuddling.
Any fandom, any character, that conversation you wouldn't have to go through if you weren't bi.
Any fandom, any character, they thought once they came out to their friends and family, that was it - but they're discovering the reality is that outing yourself, or choosing not to, is a decision you make on a daily basis.
Any Fandom, Any Character, Yes, they're both queer. Yes, they're good friends. No, they're not going out, nor have they ever in the past, nor will they ever do so in the future.
Any fandom, any character, zie is sick of people thinking hir sexuality/gender identity is in any way related to hir mental illness.
Any Fandom, any character(s), Step one - save the world. Step two - tell your parents you're not as straight than they thought. So, starting off with the easy one, then.
Any fandom, any characters, A character who identified as completely straight comes to realize that they’re in a non-sexual relationship with their queer, same-sex best friend.

[rymenhild]

Twelfth Night, Sebastian/Antonio. Can Sebastian marry Olivia and still maintain his relationship with Antonio? How does Olivia handle their marriage?

Twelfth Night, Orsino/Cesario. Cesario is FtM or genderqueer and attracted to men. Tell me about how his relationship with Orsino ends up working.

She's the Man, Paul Antonio/one of the other guys. The film is a Twelfth Night high school soccer AU, but it shares with its source text the tendency to leave the gay best friend single at the end of the story. Set him up, please!

Twelfth Night, Olivia/Viola (or Olivia/Cesario). Viola, or Cesario, realizes that (s)he can return Olivia's love after all. (Your choice where on the gender/sexuality spectrum Viola-Cesario falls.)

Twelfth Night, Olivia / Viola-Cesario / Orsino. Olivia's willing to take Orsino if she can share Viola or Cesario with him.

[heartofoshun]

Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, Bagoas/Alexander; address the question of gender and/or sexuality and questions or confusion that Alexander might have about what he should expect in a relationship with Bagoas (book!verse, please, as opposed to movie canon!).

[alexseanchai]

Supernatural, Anna Milton, Angels qua angels do not DO the whole sexuality/gender Katamari ball; vessels do and angels tend to follow their vessel's lead. Anna's been a heterocis woman all her life, and then the whole being-an-angel thing falls on her head...

Supernatural, Raphael, Angels qua angels do not DO the whole sexuality/gender Katamari ball; vessels do and angels tend to follow their vessel's lead. But they don't always. Raphael's first vessel was a cis man, and now that Raphael's vessel is a cis woman, Raphael's figuring out all the ways in which the male vessel didn't fit.

Supernatural, Gabriel, Angels qua angels do not DO the whole sexuality/gender Katamari ball, but Gabriel isn't just an angel anymore. He's a Norse god. And as such, Gabriel sired some children and gave birth to others.

Greek mythology, Artemis, She swore never to have sex with a man. She didn't swear never to have sex. Her hunters (Callisto among them) swore the same oath as she.

Greek mythology, Hestia, The only reason she swore never to have sex was to get everyone off her back about why she didn't want to.

Greek mythology, Aphrodite, Goddess of sex means goddess of all sex, regardless of the gender or between-legs bits of the people involved.

Greek mythology, Athena, Ze is delighted by a great many of zir clients' inventions, but among the ones ze is particularly enthused about are gender-neutral third-person pronouns and contraception that's more effective than abstinence.

Greek mythology, Hera, Being a woman in a monogamous (well, she's monogamous) marriage to a man does not equate to being a heterosexual woman. Bonus points: masturbation to thoughts of someone other than one's spouse is not in fact cheating on one's spouse.

[minkhollow]

Warehouse 13, any characters, An Artifact is outing the population of [insert town here] "Am I Blue?"-style (actual blueness optional). They get it bagged, but not before it also outs one or both of the people investigating.

Harry Potter, any of the Trio's kids, Coming out would be daunting enough if their parents' fame didn't mean they'd be in the national spotlight whether they want to or not.

Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Every time someone calls her the Boy Who Lived is like a punch to the gut.

Harry Potter, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, They never talk about it, but they're both greatly relieved Draco was a boy; between Narcissa's preference for women and Lucius' total disinterest in sex, neither of them wanted to go through that again.

Once Upon a Time, any character in Storybrooke, There's a world of dissonance between their sexuality under the curse and what it was in the Enchanted Forest.

[(Anonymous)]

Les Miserables, Joly/Bossuet/Musichetta, the only stroke of luck Bossuet ever had was finding two people who accept him because they feel the same way he does.
Les Miserables, Jehan/Bahorel, every time Jehan laughs Bahorel wonders whether one of the others will figure out who his "mistress" really is
Les Miserables, Grantaire, he stares after women so people don't see who he really wants to look at. Usually it works.
Les Miserables, Eponine, if he had a man's body, he could stand by Marius as a brother and be taken seriously.
Les Miserables, Courfeyrac, he's charming to everyone because he always means it.
Les Miserables, Gavroche/any of the Amis, is it just a puppy crush if he's willing to die for it?
Les Miserables, Valjean/Javert, post-Seine AU: this is a kind of love that neither of them have ever known, and it is not easy to learn


Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Homura Akemi, she doesn't have a boyfriend not because she's a Puella Magi, but because she has Madoka
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Tomoe Mami/Homura Madoka, tea and cake is the way Mami says 'please stay with me'

Anne of Green Gables, Matthew Cuthbert, there was never a girl but once there had been a boy

[ashen_key]

MCU; Natasha Romanoff; "coming out" as lesbian is a bit hard when you can't "come out" as a spy in the first place, even if you want to.

MCU; Natasha Romanoff; she uses aliases with her girlfriends, just like she uses aliases for the rest of her life.

MCU; Natasha Romanoff; gender is just as fluid as everything else in Romanoff's life.

MCU: Natasha Romanoff; she was born Nikolai.

MCU; Clint Barton; contrary to popular opinion, Clint's visits to his favourite gay bar? For friends, beer, cards, and playing pool. Hook-ups are mostly for other places.

MCU; Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff; friendship is when he knows that she doesn't judge him over being ace, and when she knows that he's safe to admit that she is lesbian.

MCU; Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff; just because they are in a romantic relationship with each other doesn't mean that they aren't queer.

MCU; Peggy Carter; she had an affair with Howard Stark, and fell in love with Steve Rogers, and she utterly owned her sexuality when it came to women, too. Propriety be damned.

MCU; any/all Asgardians; orientation is a slightly different question for an alien species that lives for centuries

MCU; any SHIELD agent; traditionally, not straight agents were barred from the highest security clearances. But SHIELD has always circuited the rules, and outright broken them, when they saw fit.

MCU; Loki; The Jötunn do not have gender as the Asgardians understand it, and that really didn't help Loki's identity issues/sense of fitting in.

MCU; Laufey; "King" is a gendered, Asgardian mangling of Laufey's true title.

MCU; James "Rhodey" Rhodes; the habits of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" are hard to shake.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters; Gretel; she's more willing than her brother to take to a woman's bed, but despite his awkwardness around other people, she gets far less opportunity.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters; Gretel; learning that she's a member of a different species explains a lot about her desires.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters; Gretel; when men offer their bed, she says that she's celibate.

Harry Potter; Hermione Granger; she's used to seeing things in black and white, but as she grows older, she has to deal with her own sexuality being more nuanced and complicated than she thought.

Twilight Saga; Renesmee Cullen; the first time she kisses a girl, she decides that she wants to do it again. And if she has to break free of all the rules that govern her life and apparent fate to do so, then she will.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Hindu Mythology, Amba and/or Shikandi, gender fluidity or outright feeling trapped in the wrong gender. I.e. this can be in either life or in both.
Hindu Mythology, Draupadi, she feels like a man
Hindu Mythology, Draupadi, she consents to marry the Pandavas on condition that she be allowed to take a female lover as well (she can be gay or bi)
Hindu Mythology, Yudhistira/any, Yudhistira begins to realise he's attracted to men.
Hindu Mythology, Nakul + Sahdev, their first sexual experience tells one or both of them they're gay.
Hindu Mythology, Sita/any, loving a woman is right and natural and normal
Hindu Mythology, any, s/he witnesses a gay/lesbian couple of the same gender having sex and begins to realise s/he's attracted to the same sex
Hindu Mythology, Krishna/any, being a god means your gender identity is pretty fluid
Animorphs, any Yeerk, changing genders from host to host has made them wonder, too
Any, any human, trying to explain what being agender is and what it feels like

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Gunnerkrigg Court, Gamma, Zimmy might not care about what coming out entails, but Gamma does.
The Wishing Chair, older!Chinky, that he's attracted to male pixies has never been a problem for him; Peter seeks his advice on being gay. PLEASE do not make this Chinky/Peter, you'll scar me for life.
Malory Towers, any, attraction to girls and what that means in terms of gossip/rumours
Tortall, any, telling their parents they're queer (author's choice)
House, House, working out his feelings for Wilson
House, any, they've never lived up to their parents' expectations. Being (author's choice) is just one more disappointment
Animorphs, Jake/Marco, as if being leader of the Animorphs weren't bad enough, he had to find out he liked Marco, too
Animorphs, any, coming out on Valentine's Day
Deltora Quest, older!Lief, confessing to Jasmine that he's never been romantically interested in anyone, really.
Rowan of Rin, Bronden/Minna, Bronden always knew she was different; she didn't know just how until she saw Minna kissing [author's choice]. AU, obviously.
Rowan of Rin, any, going to Sheba for some reason and having their sexual/gender identity (cruelly, knowing Sheba) revealed in some oblique prophecy forces them to reevaluate who they are
Rowan of Rin, Perlain, being Keeper means no longer having a gender identity, though others still call zie male.
RPF, Taylor Swift, author's choice of sexuality

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Any, any, being kinky while also being asexual
Any, any, they discover their sexuality at a fair, of all places
Animorphs, Essam/Edriss/Allison/Hildy, the two hosts discover gender doesn't matter to their Yeerks. This causes them to wonder about their own (author's choice)
The Hobbit, Bilbo, he's never been bothered that he's (author's choice).

[ashen_key]

Any; Any female; being aromantic and lesbian is hard in a society that perpetually links women with romance.

Any; Any female; She likes women, she just doesn't look like she does (whatever that means).

Any; Any long-lived character; times change, attitudes change - not always for the better. Not always for the worse, either.

MCU; Maria Hill; it's not that she's focused on her career and her job to the exclusion of relationships - she genuinely doesn't see the need for a romantic relationship. With anyone.

MCU; Maria Hill; just because she wears a uniform to work and is no-nonsense doesn't mean she's butch on her time-off.

MCU; Jane Foster; her tastes in men don't reflect her tastes in women.

MCU; Pepper Potts; she is asexual; this doesn't mean she doesn't get jealous.

MCU: Pepper Potts; being asexual has got nothing to do with her love of pretty clothes.

MCU: Clint Barton; being a guy isn't a 24/7 thing.

MCU: Clint Barton; Everyone else thinks Clint is a guy. Clint doesn't really bother correcting them.

Stark Trek Reboot: sometimes, Gaila wishes that humans would adapt to her native sexuality, rather than expecting her to fit their labels and expectations.

Anna Karenina (any medium); Kitty Shcherbatskaya; Kitty really couldn't help but be in love with Anna as well, and just a little bit too much for what was socially accepted

Anna Karenina (any medium); Kitty Shcherbatskaya/Konstatin Levin; adjusting to the earthly side of marriage is a little harder than Levin first thought. [ace!hetroromantic!Levin]

Anna Karenina (any medium); Alexei Karenin; he had always been grateful that Seryozha was a boy - while Anna was a beautiful woman, Alexei found the business of conception not at all to his taste.

[keevacaereni]

DCU, Bruce Wayne, Bruce is asexual and if you say one word about childhood trauma he will hit you.

Fire Emblem 8, Joshua/Artur: How his religion conflicts with his desires.

Fire Emblem 8, Lyon/Ephraim: Maybe if their parents hadn't been so adamant they were wrong, it wouldn't have come to this.

[radondoran]

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Velma Dinkley, coming out to the gang as a lesbian

Lucky Starr - Isaac Asimov, Hector Conway/Augustus Henree, What kind of relationship do they have, anyway? And how does it fit into wider concepts of relationships and sexuality in Earth society circa 6945?

[ar]

Any historical fandom, any historical character: We've always been here, in one way or another.


The Good Wife, Grace Florrick: Defending a pro-gay stance to a fellow Christian.

The Good Wife, Kalinda Sharma: Private and closeted are two different things. Kalinda knows; she's been both.

The Good Wife, Eli Gold & Alicia Florrick: Brazil-shaped birthmarks were bad enough, and now he has to answer rumors that Peter Florrick's wife is bisexual? This is outrageous.

The Good Wife, any character: The Chicago Pride Parade from any number of POVs: Legal, political, personal, familial, religious.

The Good Wife, David Lee & Kalinda Sharma: Gay marriage means gay divorce, and that's all right in David Lee's book.

The Good Wife, Kurt McVeigh/Diane Lockhart: He's just full of surprises.

The Good Wife, Owen Cavanaugh & Alicia Florrick: "I know coming out isn't exactly a picnic, sis. It's still worth it."

The Good Wife, Owen Cavanaugh & Alicia Florrick: Alicia loves her brother, but she'd love him even more if he wasn't dating her client.


Lewis, James Hathaway: He just wants to be left alone on this issue. Is that so much to ask?


Locke & Key, Miranda Locke: Now that the Revolutionary War is done, she doesn't have need for the Gender Key. Or does she?

Locke & Key, Duncan Locke: Drag superstar from an early age.

Locke & Key, Duncan Locke: How does the Gender Key affect his understanding of his own identity?

Locke & Key, Duncan/Brian: If one uncle is good, two must be great.


The Mummy, Evy Carnahan/Rick O'Connell: Legionnaires can get up to some interesting things out in the middle of the desert. So can British schoolgirls in their dormitories. Hesitantly admitting past experiences that make their present marriage a het-not-straight experience.

The Mummy, Jonathan Carnahan: The time Evy found frilly knickers that definitely belonged to one of Jonathan's bloke friends hanging off the bannister.

The Mummy, Alex O'Connell: He's pretty sure he can get by without ever telling Mum and Dad if he's careful. Maybe.


Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland/Isabella Thorpe: Isabella says that practicing kisses can only help them please their future husbands. Catherine doesn't expect to like it nearly as well as she does.

Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland/Eleanor Tilney: One night her vivid dreams of Udolpho [as borrowed from the 2007 miniseries] feature a hero other than Mr. Tilney.


The Playboy Club, Alice Beasley & Sean Beasley: Just because they aren't attracted to each other doesn't mean it's not a marriage.

The Playboy Club, Alice Beasley: What it's like to have men staring at her like they think she's at all interested.

The Playboy Club, Alice Beasley or Sean Beasley or Frances Dunhill: Increased visibility can be dangerous, but it's satisfying, too.


Star Trek, any TV iteration, any character: What does it mean to be trans in Starfleet when the technology exists to change your sex nearly as easily as you change your clothes?

[minkhollow]

Final Fantasy X, any character, As the extent to which Sin was a manufactured crisis comes to light, along with the church's various other cover-ups, they start wondering what else Yevon's teachings were lying about.