LGBTQ+

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(This month, I'm contributing to #femslash february by highlighting female character-centric and femslash-centric tags at AO3.)

It's all very well to spend one's time in detailed examination of canon in order to prove a ship - every shipper does it, regardless of genre. But I'm always especially pleased when a character is presented in a fanwork as not just part of a ship but as a queer woman in her own right, with her sexuality as part of her personal identity.

Maybe it's the scarcity of role models in canons and public life, but having fandom center-stage women along all spectrums of bodies and sexualities makes me deeply happy. After all, Merlin BBC never gave us transwoman Morgana; only fandom did that.

So today I'd like to point out some tags you can use (or browse) on works that present or focus on a female character's gender-identity or sexuality:

* LGBTQ Female Character
* Bisexual Female Character
* Bisexual Female Character of Color
* LGBTQ Female Character of Color
* Lesbian Character of Color
* Trans Female Character
* Female Homosexuality
* Lesbian Character
* POV Lesbian Character
* Canon LGBTQ Female Character
* Canon Lesbian Character
* Canon Lesbian Relationship

Please share your own thoughts! Have you found any other tags that celebrate LGBTQ women? Who's your favorite canonical LGBTQ woman?