10 Video Games You Didn’t Know Had LGBT Characters

The world has come a long way when it comes to the acceptance of LGBT people. Video games are no exception. Over time, there has been a steady influx of LGBT characters peppered throughout video games. Sometimes they are hidden in overlooked dialogue or in optional side quests.

More recently, they are at the forefront as main, playable characters. The older, less noticed ones are just as important. They paved the way for the more prominent ones, after all. It’s refreshing to see such a wide variety of identities across an equally wide variety of video game genres. Here are 10 video games you didn’t know had LGBT characters.

1. The Borderlands Series

Tiny Tina is a character that appears in Borderlands 2 and is slated to be in Borderlands 3 as well. She makes multiple flirtatious comments about female characters and expressly helps your team out because of a crush she has on Mad Moxxi. Mad Moxxi is a regular in the Borderlands game and repeatedly brags about her conquests with both men and women. She’s not the only bisexual character in the game, but she’s the most prominent one.

Dragon Age’s Krem is a transgender man voiced by Jennifer Hale.

2. The Dragon Age Series

An entire article could be written on the LGBT representation in the Dragon Age series alone. Leliana, Iron Bull, Fenris, Zevran and Isabel are a few of the bisexual characters. Sera is a lesbian and Dorian Pavus is gay. Dragon Age: Inquisition also has Krem, a transgender man who reveals his trans identity in game dialogue.

3. The Fallout Series

Previous games had side characters that were LGBT, but it’s Fallout: New Vegas where you see the most representation. Veronica Santangelo is a lesbian, something you find out during one of your side quests. Arcade Gannon also openly discusses being gay. And in Fallout 4, you can romance any of your companions regardless of your gender, making them all bisexual.

4. The Last of Us

One of the main characters in the game, Ellie, is confirmed to be a lesbian. She shares a kiss with Riley in the prequel for the game after harboring a crush throughout the game. Neill Druckmann, the writer for the character, said in a 2014 interview that he intended for the character to be gay.