*Updated June 8, 2024*
We asked our supporters for their favourite lesbian movies, television shows, video games, apps, podcasts, YouTubers, books, artists, websites, musicians, magazines, and any other lesbian media they love. Because authors at LH haven’t engaged with all of this media, we cannot guarantee the politics or enjoyability behind each suggestion. Some of the media will be Very Very Same-Sex but not explicitly or completely lesbian.
- We are planning on making a list of up-and-comers separately (it would be too long to include in this list) so DM the IG or send an email to contact@lesbianherstory.com with your up-and-coming lesbian media-makers. This list is for beloved known media. Some exceptions will be made for things like podcasts, because it’s a new media genre, but the authors at LH will sniff each suggestion out to decide if it goes in the “up-and-coming” list or this “matured quality” list.
- Warnings are mostly provided by submitters as LH hasn’t consumed all the media listed.
- Some items on this list might only have one lesbian couple. Maybe even only in one episode, in a complete series filled with heterosexuals. Maybe their sexual orientation isn’t stated at all and there’s an argument for bisexuality. Rest assured, most suggestions will be lesbian-heavy. But we urge you to research the media before you consume it to avoid disappointment. Some of it will deal with traumatic or debatable scenes and topics. There will be items that the authors at LH haven’t seen. Some we don’t like or agree with. It’s actually healthy to disagree. Lesbians aren’t a monolith. Female homosexuality is the only criterion for being a lesbian. Moving on!
Books
Disobedience (2006) by Naomi Alderman (warning: many M/F sex scenes)
Patricia Wants to Cuddle (2022) by Samantha Allen
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature (1994) by Dorothy Allison (NF)
Poppy Jenkins (2016) by Claire Ashton
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (2021) by Emily Austen
Legends & Lattes (2022) by Travis Baldree
Boulder (2022) by Eva Baltasar
Permafrost (2021) by Eva Baltasar
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (2008) by Alison Bechdel
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) by Alison Bechdel
The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021) by Alison Bechdel
Nice Jewish Girls (1989) by Evelyn Torton Beck (NF)
The Founds Trilogy #1: Foundryside (2018) by Robert Jackson Bennett
All the Little Moments (2015) by G. Benson
Her Tale of Shim Chong by Seri Biwan
No Shelter But the Stars (2024) by Virginia Black
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (2022) by Ashley Herring Blake
What Comes Naturally (1986) by Gerd Brantenberg
Set in Stone: butch-on-butch erotica (2001) by Angela Brown
Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) by Rita Mae Brown
Dagger on Butch Women (1994) by Lily Burana & Roxxie Linnea Due (NF)
By Anna Burke
Afterlove (2021) by Tanya Byrne
That’s Ms Bulldyke to You, Charlie! (1992) by Jane Caminos
The Lesbian Sex Book (1993) by Wendy Caster (NF)
XX (2018) by Angela Chadwick
Black Water Sister (2021) by Zen Cho
Not Vanishing (1998) by Chrystos
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (2019) by Alyssa Cole
Cunt Colouring Book (1975) by Tee Corinne (NF)
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (2011), edited by Ivan Coyote
Tomboy Survival Guide (2016) by Ivan Coyote
A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston (2019) by Robyn Crawford (Non-Fiction)
Galveston 1900: Swept Away (2005) by Linda Crist
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012) by Emily Danforth
Plain Bad Heroines (2020) by Emily Danforth
By Max Dashu
In at the Deep End (2019) by Kate Davies
Dykette (2023) by Jenny Fran Davis
Survival Instinct (2018) by May Dawney
Ça raconte Sarah (2018) by Pauline Delabroy-Allard
Chronicle of Alsea #1: The Caphenon (2014) by Fletcher Delancy
The Complete Hothead Paisan: homicidal lesbian terrorist (1999) by Diane DiMassa (NF)
Hood (1995) by Emma Donoghue
Learned by Heart (2023) by Emma Donoghue
By Jennifer Dugan
This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) by Amal El-Mohtar
Don’t Stop Me (2022) by Eden Emory
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1994) by Lillian Faderman (NF)
Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers (2012) by Lillian Faderman (NF)
Stone Butch Blues (1993) by Leslie Feinberg
Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story (1994) by Erica Fischer
Acts of Service (2022) by Lillian Fishman
Curious Wine (1983) by Katherine Forrest
Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary (2004) edited by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias & Erella Shadmi (NF)
Cheer Up: Love and Pom Poms (2021) by Crystal Frasier
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet (2016) by Phillip Freeman (NF)
Annie on My Mind (1982) by Nancy Garden
The Wild Good (1996) by Beatrix Gates (NF)
Another Mother Tongue (1984) by Judy Grahn (NF)
Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gillman
Ammonite (1992) by Nicola Griffith
What Lesbians Do (1975) by Godiva
The Gilda Stories (1991) by Jewelle Gomez
Female Masculinity (1998) Jack Halberstam (NF)
The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall
Pure Colour (2022) by Paula Heti
The Price of Salt (1952) by Patricia Highsmith
The Girl Who Can’t Get A Girlfriend (2023) by Mieri Hiranishi
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend (2010) by Emily Horner
The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This (2020) by Takashi Ikeda
Just for Show (2018) by Jae
The Professor (2023) by Elia Johnson
The Music and the Mirror (2018) by Lola Keeley
Wherever Is Your Heart (2022) by Anita Kelly
Just As You Are (2023) by Camille Kellogg
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (1993) by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis (NF)
Read Between the Lines (2021) by Rachel Lacey
Stars Collide (2023) by Rachel Lacey
The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women (1998) by Sharon Lim-Hing (NF)
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh (2023) by Rachael Lippincott
She Gets the Girl (2022) by Rachael Lippincott
The Grass Widow (1996) by Nanci Little
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021) by Malinda Lo
I Swear Somewhere This Works (2023) by Trista Mateer
Sister Outsider (1984) by Audre Lorde (NF)
Hotshot (2023) by Clare Lydon
Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence (1985) by Nancy Manahan & Rosemary Curb (NF)
Elemental Logic #1: Fire Logic (2002) by Laurie J. Marks
The Last Binding #2: A Restless Truth (2022) by Freya Marske
Lesbian Sacred Sexuality (1995) by Diane Mariechild & Marcelina Martin (NF)
A Memory Called Empire (2019) by Arkady Martine
A Desolation Called Peace (2021) by Arkady Martine
Back in Your Arms #1: Back in Your Arms (2021) by Monica McCallan
Afekete: an Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (1995) by Catherine E. McKinley (NF)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler (2022) by Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop (2021) by Casey McQuiston
This is How You Lose the Time War (2019) by Amal El-Mohtar
The Locked Tomb Series #1: Gideon the Ninth (2019) by Tamsyn Muir
The Locked Tomb Series #2: Harrow the Ninth (2020) by Tamsyn Muir
The Locked Tomb Series #3: Nona the Ninth (2022) by Tamsyn Muir
The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992) by Joan Nestle (NF)
A Restricted Country (1987) by Joan Nestle (NF)
Rebel in Venus (2023) by Marissa Alma Nick
Ask, Tell (2017) [series] by E J Noyes
I saw Mommy Kissing the Nanny (2022) by Shannon O’Connor
The Tea Dragon Society (2017) by Kay O’Neill
Broken Things (2013) by Lauren Oliver
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1973) by Nigel Nicolson (NF)
The Mimicking of Known Successes (2023) by Malka Ann Older
Dream Work (1986) by Mary Oliver
The Girl From the Sea (2021) by Molly Knox Ostertag
Seafire #2: Steel Tide (2019) by Natalie Parker
The Radiant Emporor #1: She Who Became The Sun (2021) by Shelley Parker-Chan
Love at 350 (2023) by Lisa Peers
The Verifiers #1: The Verifiers (2022) by Jane Pek
Lesbian Culture: an anthology (1993) by Julia Penelope & Susan Wolfe (NF)
When Katie Met Cassidy (2018) by Camille Perri
Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, edited by John Phillips (NF)
Even Though I Knew the End (2022) by C.L. Polk
High School (2019) by Tegan & Sara Quin (NF)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017) by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian traditions in gardening (1994) by Irene Reti (NF)
The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School (2022) by Sonorah Reyes
Lesbian Erotica (1948 onwards) by Cassandra Rios
Honey Girl (2021) by Morgan Rogers
Desert of the Heart (1964) by Jane Rule
Truly Wilde (2021) by Joan Schenkar
After Sappho (2023) by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Let the Record Show (2021) by Sarah Schulman (NF)
Sword Of The Guardian (2016) by Merry Shannon
The Roots of Chaos #0: A Day of Fallen Night (2023) by Samantha Shannon
The Roots of Chaos #1: The Priory of the Orange Tree (2019) by Samantha Shannon
Carmilla (1872) by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
SCUM Manifesto (1967) by Valerie Solanas (NF)
Heartstrings (2022) by Rachel Spangler
These Witches Don’t Burn #1: These Witches Don’t Burn (2019) by Isabel Sterling
The Burning Kingdoms #1: The Jasmine Throne (2021) by Tasha Suri
The Burning Kingdoms #2: The Oleander Sword (2022) by Tasha Suri
A Sweet Sting of Salt (2024) by Rose Sutherland
C+nto & Othered Poems (2021) by Joelle Taylor
Never Anyone But You (2018) by Ruper Thompson
Pushing the Limits: disabled dykes produce culture (1996) by Shelley Tremain (NF)
Crier’s War #1: Crier’s War (2019) by Nina Varela
Kiss Number 8 (2019) by Colleen A.F. Venable
By Tillie Walden
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
Missing Dead Girls (2023) by Sara Walters
Affinity (1999) by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests (2014) by Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet (1998) by Sarah Waters
The Lesbian Love Advisor (1989) by Celeste West (NF)
When Women Were Warriors (2008) series by Catherine M. Wilson
Truth #1: The Brutal Truth (2017) by Lee Winter
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) by Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) by Jeanette Winterson (NF)
Written on the Body (1992) by Jeanette Winterson
She Loves To Cook, She Loves To Eat (2020) by Sakaomi Yuzaki
Newspapers, Magazines & Journals
Curve (1991-?)
Diva (1994-?)
DYKE: A QUARTERLY (1975-1979)
Dykes & Gorgons (1973-1976) [1]
Landykes of the South: women’s land groups and lesbian communities in the South (2015)
Lesbian Connection (1974-?)
Maize: A Lesbian Country Magazine (1982-?)
Onyx (1982-1984) [1]
Quim Magazine (1989-1994 + 2001) [1]
Sinister Wisdom (1976-?)
Films
8 Women (2002) (French)
Aimée & Jaguar (1999) (German)
All Over Me (1997)
Ammonite (2020)
Badhaai Do (2022) (Hindi)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013) (French) (warning)
Blue Jean (2022)
Born in Flames (1983)
Bottoms (2023)
Bound (1996)
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
Bye Bye Blondie (2012)
Calamity Jane (1953)
Carol (2015)
The Children’s Hour (1961)
Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Cloudburst (2011)
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011)
A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975)
D.E.B.S (2004)
Desert Hearts (1985)
The Duke of Burgundy (2014) (warning: disturbing)
Drool (2009)
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019)
Elisa & Marcela (2019)
The Fear Street Trilogy (2021)
Gia (1998)
Go Fish (1994)
The Handmaiden (2016)
I Can’t Think Straight (2008)
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (1996)
Imagine Me and You (2005)
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
Kase-san and Morning Glories (2018)
Lizzie (2018)
Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
Loving Annabelle (2006)
Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Maja Ma (2023)
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Monster (2003)
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken (2019)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
My First Summer (2020)
Novitiate (2017)
Pariah (2011)
Polarized (2023)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Pourquoi Pas Moi? (1999)
Princess Syd (2017)
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Rebecca (1940)
Salmonberries (1991)
Saving Face (2004)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Show Me Love [Swedish: Fucking Amal] (1998)
Snapshots (2018)
Summerland (2020)
Summertime (2015)
Unborn (2022)
Vita & Virginia (2018)
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
When Night is Falling (1995)
The World to Come (2021)
Yes or No (2010)
Documentaries
Ahead of the Curve (2020)
Dyketactics (1974) [another link]
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992)
FtF: Female to Femme (2006)
Gateways Grind (2022)
Gender Troubles: The Butches (2016)
A Great Ride (2018)
Last Call at Maud’s (1993)
Loving Highsmith (2022)
Old Lesbians (2023)
Once a Fury (2020)
Outlaw (1994)
Rebel Dykes (2021)
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary (2004)
The Sally Ride Story: A Woman Space Pioneer (2000)
Sappho: Love and Life on Lesbos (2015)
A Simple Matter of Justice (1993)
Some Ground to Stand On (1998)
Storme: Lady of the Jewel Box (1987)
TV Shows
The 100 (2014-?)
3% (2016-2020) (involves lesbians after the first season)
Acacias 38 (2015-2021)
Arcane (2021-?)
American Horror Story: Asylum (2012-2013)
Atypical (2017-2020)
Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016; Season 3 Episode 4)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) *Specifically between Willow and Tara later in the seasons
Coming Out for Love (2021-?)
Deadloch (2023-?)
Derry Girls (2018-?)
Dickinson (2019-2021)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Everything Sucks (2018)
Feel Good (2020-2021) *not strictly lesbian but very Sapphic*
The Fosters (2013-2018)
Gentleman Jack (2019 – 2022)
Gap: The Series (2022-2023)
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023) *not explicitly lesbian*
Grey’s Anatomy (2005-?)
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
High School (2022)
Hoochie Daddies (2023-?)
I Kissed a Girl (2024-?)
Killing Eve (2018-2022)
The L Word [OG] (2004-2009)
The L Word [Gen Q] (2019-2023)
Las Pelotaris 1926 (2023-?)
The Last of Us (2023-?)
A League of Their Own (2022)
Les de l’hoquei (2019-2020)
Lip Service (2010-2012)
Mind Fudge (2017-2019)
Mine (2021-?)
The Morning Show (2019-?)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989-1990)
Orange is the New Black (2013-2019)
Orphan Black (2013-2017)
The Other Love Story (YouTube)
Paper Girls (2022)
Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
Princess Charming (2021-?)
Ratched (2020-?)
The Real L Word (2010-2012)
Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
Sailor Moon (1995-2000)
Saving Face (2004)
Second City Firsts: Episode “Girl” (1974) *First lesbian kiss on British TV
She Makes My Heart Flutter (YouTube)
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018-2020)
South of Nowhere (2005-2008)
Special Ops: Lioness (2023-?)
Station 19 (2018-?)
Vida (2018-2020)
Warrior Nun (2020-2022)
Wentworth (2013-2021)
Willow (2022)
Wynona Earp (2016-2021)
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001)
Yellowjackets (2021-?)
Musicians
Alix Dobkin (warning: polilez)
Allison Russell
Anna Calvi
Becca Mancari
Boygenius
Boyish
Brandi Carlile
Brittany Howard
Brooke Eden
Chappell Roan
Chely Wright
Destroy Boys
Donna Deitch
Doria Roberts
Dusty Springfield
Ferron
G-Flip
GA31
Gia Woods
Girl in Red
Girl Ray
Giuni Russo
Horse McDonald
Jaime Wyatt
The Japanese House
Javiera Mena
Jen Foster
Joan Jett
Judy Small
Julien Baker
The Indigo Girls
KD Lang
Kehlani
Kerryn Fields
King Princess
Lez Zepplin
Lily Rose
LP
Marika Hackman
Marilina Bertoldi
Melissa Carper
Melissa Etheridge
Morgan Wade
MUNA
Nakala
Orion Sun
Raveena
Renee Rapp
S.G. Goodman
Shura
Sid (from The Internet)
Tasha
Tegan and Sara
Torres
Tracy Chapman
Tribe 8
Xana
Zolita
Artists
Anne-Sophie Guillet
Azzurro Velluto
Barbara Hammer
Because of My Love For Women
Bettye Lane
Catherine Opie
Chloe Sherman
Donna Gottschalk
Harmony Hammond
Helena Janecic
Jenifer Prince
Jennifer Camper
Jessica Tanzer
Joan E. Biren (JEB)
Kay Turner
Lulu Belliveau
Maxine Harlow
Meadow Muska
Morgan Gwenwald
Nazareth dos Santos
Patricia Cronin
Ree Artemisia
Roman Manfredi
Roxana Halls
Sarah Joy Ford
Shelby Sharie Cohen
Suzanne Shifflet
Tina Fiveash
Websites
IHeartSapphfic.com
TheLChat.net
LesbianHerstory.com
LesbiansOverEverything.com
Listening2Lesbians.com
YouTube
Abbie & Julia
Alayna Joy
Alexis and Lilian
Amber’s Closet
Ashley Gavin
Camper Vibe
Chey & Erica
Chloe Lukasiak
Jade Fox
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
Living Rosa
Lovebrook
Magdalen Berns
Mandie & Danae
The No Homo Show
P&J TV
Paige and Holly
Precious Law
Sam & Alyssa
Sapphic Underground
Stevie Boebi
Vanwives
Willow Faith
Podcasts
Blocked and Reported (a host is a lesbian)
Chosen Family
Dyking Out
Gayotic
Handsome
The Lavender Menace
A Lesbian Affair
Lesbian Supper Club
Lesbiche Liga (Dutch)
Lez Hang Out
Pants
Stone Butch Disco
We’re Having Gay Sex
Comedians
Alex Ward
Ali Kolbert
Arielle Isaac Norman
Ashley Gavin
Chaunté Wayans
Fortune Feimster
Geraldine Hickey
Gina Yashere
Hannah Gadsby
Irene Tu
Jen Brister
Tig Notaro
Urzila Carlson
Video Games
Butterfly Soup (1&2)
Gone Home
The Last of Us (1&2)
Life is Strange
Apps
Club Monocle
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