Considering the vast number of queer vampires in movies and TV, I expected to find something similar for witches and wizards, but there are surprisingly few. On TV, The Magicians, Agatha All Along, Shadowhunters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Owl House, the Charmed reboot, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, American Horror Story: Coven, and Dante’s Cove prominently feature queer magical characters.
I really didn’t find much in movies, at all. The Craft and The Covenant are pretty queer coded. Forbidden Fruits just came out; I’m not sure if it’s actually queer or just looks that way. J.K. Rowling says Albus Dumbledore is gay, but he’s not actually presented as gay in the movies or the books they’re based on, so that doesn’t count.
In Were the World Mine, a gay high school kid uses a magic flower to make people fall in love with whomever they see next, including the rugby player he’s in love with. He’s not a witch, wizard, or warlock – just a kid who does one magic thing. But it’s a musical, so I’ll count it.
Where TV and movies fail, books excel…
On Goodreads, I found lists of 412 M/M Gay Romances with Witches or Magic, 27 Teen Witch Novels, 175 Sapphic Witch Books, and 143 Queer Magic Users.
Amazon shows over 5,000 LGBTQ+ witch titles, presumably including some or all of the 4,000 lesbian and 4,000 gay witch titles.
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