My Top 5 Female LGBTQ Characters

Animated shows become more diverse every passing year, we’re looking at animated television characters who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or otherwise queer. Why am I making this list? well simply put for the sake of diversity.

#5. Pearl (Steven Universe)

Pearl is a perfectionist who serves as an overprotective mother to Steven, it was hinted from very early on Pearl had feelings for none other than Steven’s mother, Rose Quartz. Again, this is a lot of back-story but go with me here. Pearl and Rose fought in a war together and Pearl was Rose’s solider. Pearl would do anything for Rose, after she liberated Pearl from the constraints of Gem society. Pearl’s devotion to Rose was so intense the two entered into a romantic relationship, demonstrated in the episode "We Need To Talk." While the show has made no bones about Pearl being a lesbian, the way she rebuffs any male advance is a clear indicator of that, Rose is portrayed somewhere along the bi or pansexual spectrum. Rose has a lot of love to give and in the episode "Mr. Greg" it's revealed Rose had many men come into her life. Pearl thought Rose would eventually choose her in the end, but she ended up with Greg Universe, Steven’s eventual father. This completely destroyed Pearl; especially after Rose sacrificed herself to allow Steven to be born. Over the course of the series, we slowly see her come to terms with her undying love for Rose, eventually culminating in the song ‘It’s Over Isn’t It?’

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#4. Tohru (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)

Very underrated anime in my opinion. Tohru is a female dragon with the ability to transform into a human girl. After Kobayashi rescues her, she falls in love with her and decides to work for her as a maid. Tohru is deeply in love with Kobayashi. She does her best to serve Kobayashi as her maid everyday and hopes that someday they'll share feelings. Throughout the story she attempts feeding Kobayashi her tail (without success) after detoxifying it. It is confirmed that Kobayashi has begun to return Tohru's feelings of a more romantic nature. Tohru is sexually attracted to Kobayashi, telling the latter herself, and often performs acts out of sexual desire for her, such as licking her clothes clean, offering to lotion her body.

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#3. Harley Quinn (DC Comics)

One of the best-known characters in the DC Universe, Harley Quinn is the clown princess of crime. A villainous adversary of Batman, Harley Quinn is sometimes known to be dating the Joker despite her flirtatious behavior with both men and women. In the Extended Universe, Harley Quinn was revealed to be dating Poison Ivy, making the villain one of many bisexuals in comics.

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#2. Sailor Uranus & Neptune (Sailor Moon)

The time has come for these two Sailor Scouts to come out of the fictional cartoon closet! Alright, so most fans probably know that Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were a couple, not cousins. However, it's still quite disappointing that the company that purchased rights to broadcast Sailor Moon in the United States censored their true relationship-- as well as quite the laundry list of other things in the show. What better way to cover up two girls in love than to say that they are cousins and are just weirdly touchy with each other? The ambitiousness and transparency of the cover-up on the part of DiC was homophobic but ultimately unsurprising-- American parents in the '90s would not have let that whole gay thing fly on a kid's TV show. Thankfully, Sailor Moon Crystal is making it pretty hard to cover up.

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#1. Korra ( Legend of Korra)

While I don't this series is as good as the original Avatar the Last Airbender it did give us a female Avatar. I like girls with big feet and caramel skin and I would've put her in my Top 10 Waifus list if she wasn't gay meaning if she was real I would have no shot whatsoever. Legend of Korra ended with Korra and her friend Asami walking hand in hand through a portal into the spirit world after agreeing to go on a vacation together—”just the two of us.” For many fans, this was a glorious confirmation of what they’d suspected for years: that Korra was bisexual, and that the show had been foreshadowing a romance between her and Asami. However, not everyone was convinced. In the days after the finale, fans did what they always do when a TV show ends on an ambiguous note. They argued. Some pointed out that the show had been leading up to a Korrasami romance for a while, with the two characters growing closer and sharing several emotional scenes. But since they didn’t technically kiss onscreen, others argued that Korra and Asami were just good friends. Then, Legend of Korra co-creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko came right out and said it: Korra and Asami are a couple. Understandably, the news hit Korra fans like a bombshell.

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