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It's Bisexuality Day on the 23rd of September, let's celebrate by boosting works with bisexual and pansexual characters :slight_smile:

Post your novel/comic or a favourite by someone else. Post as many times as you like, so we can get a collection/reading list going. Feel free to talk about your characters or even yourself, I am.

My MC Dexter is bisexual and married to a man. I feel having a married protagonist adds a new set of story lines of explore. It breaks the typical single, straight protagonist mold I often see in fantasy fiction. I finished writing the first draft of my novel today. I've used it to explore and examine the tropes and story lines typically associated with modern small town fantasy stories.

The increased viability of LGBT+ characters in recent fiction is amazing, but I still feel that explicitly bisexual/pansexual characters aren't seen often enough, at least in mainstream stuff. When I released I was bisexual I didn't even know bisexuality existed and I'm only 25. I knew I wasn't heterosexual but I had no idea what I was. If I was a few years younger I feel like I would have come to terms with my sexuality much quicker. I wish there were more stories outside the romance genre with LGBT+ relationships and characters. I mainly read fantasy/science fiction stories and heterosexual main characters are the default especially if the protagonist is male. Sometimes these stories have LGBT+ side characters but usually never the main protagonist.

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Oh, great point about married bi protagonist! I do agree that positive representation and visibility matters as long as it's done the right way :smiley:

I don't focus on the romantic or sexual relationship of my character, as my story isn't romance or drama.
If that count my main character of my current project2 is bisexual, although I don't emphasize that much because it's not the vocal point (and he's still questioning it as any normal teen would). I also have a male pansexual character who is married to a woman, but he still has attraction to people regardless their gender; as I want to deliver the point that having relationship with other gender doesn't make you less bi/ pan. :slight_smile: Other than them I have more bi/pan characters, along with gay and straight ones.

My main character is bi, and is slowly realizing / coming to terms with it, as this can be kind of a confusing thing when you're still a teenager and are not quiet sure of what you're going through or how people around you will perceive it. It's not the main focus of the series but it's absolutely part of his character development and personal story.

UH my protagonist is bi. And very much in love. I have a lot of pride in my main couple.
If you like a little violence and 80s corniness give it a whirl

Adilene is one of the main characters in my comic Socializing101 and she's Bisexual, my comic is romance but most of it is more about friendship and dealing with emotional problems, she's already quite comfortable with her sexuality at the start of the comic so it's not the main focus of the story, she just happens to be bisexual.


Tula is pan! She doesn't get into any concrete relationship through the course of the story, but her interest gets piqued haha.

Andreas is bi! The story focuses on his relationship with a guy, but it's made clear Andreas has been in relationships with women before.

My story is supernatural/mystery so while i don't think i want to ever explicitly state the sexuality of my characters, i hope their actions would show it instead (i just don't want it to be a Big Deal :sweat_smile:)

That being said, with very few exceptions, the default for all my Valravns (aka the main characters) is bisexual. One of which is pansexual (so much love to give!) : >

in fact, the concept of "straight is the default" is quite odd to them. so little things like that would hopefully act as an insight to their (The Valravns) ways of thinking compared to the reality presented to them.

The story is still new but since i said it's not a Big Deal...
Lupin is pansexual, Rieka is bi, while Oscar and Corvine are strictly homosexual : D

A good thread! I'm bi/pan myself and it irks me a little bit when people call my MCs gay because they're in a MlM relationship (not too much, I just never know whether to correct them. It will come up in the story at some point!)
I did this quick sketch for pride month.

My comic is a modern day urban drama about being a werewolf. I think that similar to married characters, having characters in a stable relationship (despite various plot elements) adds a new dynamic to the story, I'd rather focus more on them working through issues together than a will-they, won't-they kind of dynamic

My main story is about a woman, named Lucella, who has a nasty spirit residing in her who is able to sense and feed off emotions, and who creates a lot of trouble for his host. She works as part of a shadow organization within the government to handle and messy business that could look bad if the public found out. She's been bi from the moment she was born into my head but now I think that may have been the case since I wasn't openly bi myself at the time :sweat_smile:

Either way, I very much enjoy her as a character :slight_smile:

I love this thread.

Yes for unapologetic LGBTQA+ representation.
Yes for Bi/pansexual married characters.
Yes for bicurious.
Yes for coming out the womb in glitter dust.
And YES for LGBTQA+ in non-romance driven stories!
YES YES YES.

(I mean by all means pls don't stop writing romance, lol. Pls no)

I'll be checking all of these out - so thanks for giving me something to do this morning!

My first webcomic, VR - the main cast is all over the place and I couldn't be more proud.

Iris - Bisexual + Homoromantic
Gene - Heterosexual + Heteroromantic
Tye - Pan/poly sexual + Pan/polyromantic
Carter - Heterosexual + Biromantic? (discovery storyline)
Annie - Asexual + Aromantic

(You can see all of their character designs/bio pages in the comic!)

VR isn't based on romance, it's a gaming, science fiction, action, fantasy, mystery, and slice of life, but I do really like the casual interactions and telltales of sexuality and orientation that I work in because I'm a strong believer that the community does not need to be thrown in the readers face all the time. It can be as casual as learning a zodiac sign, and should be.

This drawing is so old, holy cow. And does anyone still do these "Draw the Squads"? Because we should lol.

Anyway, the lady, Tristyn, identifies as pan. Klay, the dude in the middle, is bi (his hair is so different now...). The other guy, Lars, is panromantic demisexual (a pan-demi-onium!). There will be other LGBT+ folks in my future comic, mark my words. And I do plan on having a married bi person as well, but that is a bit of a spoiler.

Btw, I identify as ace at the moment, but most of my characters experience sexual attraction in some form. Hope I don't eff it up! :wink:

My story is a mix of urban fantasy and traditional fantasy and involves a normal guy trying to struggle with adapting to a world full of demons and crime.

Main character is Bi which is mention at a few times in the series. I have another character, Sliver, who might be confused as bi but i'd probably call them bi until graduation; is straight as an arrow but chooses to date those of the same sex just to be a cool kid haha

I have a few bi and pan characters.

Julian, one of my MCs, is a pansexual non-binary character.

Daniel, an upcoming MC, is bisexual.

Lastly, I have a side character named Andrew who's bi. Well, mostly lastly. There is another side character who's the girlfriend of my character Galia (A lesbian transwoman), but she won't be showing up till later.

Gender and sexuality is brought up maybe a few times in passing, but it's not really that important to the plot. Julian is probably the only character who’ll get any significant discussion about it, because it’s something they’ll need to accept as they learn who they are as a person. Although this doesn’t happen till waaay later on the story.
Personally I got kinda tired of queer/LGBT+ stuff being focused on romance, or containing romantic side stuff in some way... Even works that focus on gender and sexuality. (It doesn’t help that romance kinda grosses me out anyway) So I made a comic that has little to nothing to do with the subjects. Just people doing people things, like having mental breakdowns, and doing drugs… you know, normal stuff.

Just a heads-up! This comic is NSFW and contains nudity, substance abuse, and profanity. It also contains sensitive subjects such as mental illness, and suicide. Read at your own discretion.

randall, isabelle, and victor from my comic are bi/pan! my character william is also unsure/questioning

This is Zoey Lambart. At the start of the comic (if/when I ever get enough script together to actually start!) she's a final year film student. She's had a few boyfriends but so far never a girlfriend. I guess she has a lot to learn, and not just about movies.