The Queer Romance trope as used in popular culture. Works that have a same-sex and/or transgender romance as their major theme. In the West, gay and lesbian ...

The late tweens and early teens are a magical time when the hormones get pumping and people discover their sexual attraction (or, in some cases, ...

An older and largely discredited (but by no means dead) trope in which a same-sex romance among young(er) characters is portrayed as "just a phase", ...

Characterization, narrative and sexuality tropes commonly applied to queer characters, eg homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender people, etc.

The Last Het Romance trope as used in popular culture. This girl is responsible for a guy in a Transparent Closet realizing he's gay, and inversely this …

When the story is built around the romance as opposed to the romance being a sidequest, then it overlaps with Queer Romance. For Japanese games where being gay ...

The story will focus more on same-sex love interest routes and will be about a group of queer friends trying to stop an LGBT coffee shop in San Francisco from ...

A page for describing Laconic: Queer Romance. A story that includes romance between two or more LGBT characters as a major theme.

We pulled together a starter list of gay tropes on the QSF site one day. Thanks to Emile at Goodreads and Loose ID for additional tropes.

Though romance is important in many works, bonds of friendship between those of the same sex form some of fiction's most significant relationships.