List of lesbian characters in SF

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This is a list of lesbian characters, large or small, in SF. Lesbianism can be identity or behavior (so including women with bisexual histories).

See also:

• List of SF featuring queer women as protagonists

• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy)
• Tara Maclay (Buffy)
• Kennedy (Buffy)
• Susan Ivanova (affair with Talia Winters) (Babylon 5)
• Talia Winters (affair with Ivanova) (Babylon 5)
• Original Cindy (Dark Angel)
• Diamond (Original Cindy's former girlfriend) (Dark Angel)
• Dirishi Zuri in Matadora by Steve Perry
• Gilda (The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez)
• Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)
• Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)
• Milena in The Child Garden
• Sutty in The Telling
• Marghe Taishan in Ammonite
• Thenike, Marghe's lover in Ammonite
• Gail in Crossfire by Nancy Kress
• India Carless ("Trouble") in Trouble and Her Friends
• Cerise (Trouble's lover) in Trouble and Her Friends
• Tabitha Jute in Colin Greenland's Plenty series
• Janet in The Female Man
• Isabelle Blundell from "Alienated (TV series)"
• Batwoman (resurrected character)
• Jadwiga & Kiyoka in Woken Furies by Richard Morgan
• Cara in The Warrior Who Carried Life (and Stefile, her lover)
• Serafina in Chimera by Mary Rosenblum
• Friday (sort of) in Friday (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein
• Ren Segura ("Jackal") in Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge
• friend of main character in Archangel Protocol by Lyda Morehouse
• Ruby in Glass Houses by Laura J. Mixon
• Shrimp in 334 by Thomas Disch
• Grace in How I Saved the World by Philip Slater (bi)
• Ida Teeter (lesbian entomologist) and her lover (Misty Mundae) in "Sick Girl" dir. by Lucky McKee

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