The CW Breakdown 2015-2016

Season 7 (22 episodes, renewed)

• Mary Louise (Teressa Liane), lesbian, recurring ( 15 episodes).
• Nora Hildegard (Scarlett Byrne), lesbian, recurring (17 episodes). Nora and Mary Louise were members of the Heretics, a group of vampire/witch hybrids. They were together for decades and were portrayed as slightly sadistic at first, but protective of each other. In episode 7×16, shortly after getting engaged, they sacrifice themselves and die in a car explosion. Following the two deaths, Julie Plec has released a statement that she and the writers were unfamiliar with the “dead lesbian trope”, however the show has a history of killing off queer women in earlier seasons:
• Nadia, bisexual, 13 episodes, dead (killed off in Season 5). Cause of death: murder by werewolf venom
• Isobel, bisexual, 6 episodes, dead (killed off in Season 2). Cause of death: suicide. Isobel’s sexuality is debatable because it wasn’t overtly shown, rather heavily implied due to her using both a female and male stripper.

Season 3 (16 episodes, renewed)

• Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor), bisexual, 37 episodes, show lead. Clarke was revealed bisexual in 2×14 when she kisses Lexa (Alycia Debnam Carey). Has a one night stand with a woman in 3×01 (Niylah) before being reunited with Lexa in 3×02. Clarke and Lexa reconcile and have sex in 307, right before Lexa is killed off.
• Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey), lesbian, 16 episodes. Lexa is introduced in 2×06 as the Commander of the grounders. It is revealed that she is a lesbian in 2×09 when she mentions a female ex-lover (dead). Lexa kisses Clarke in 2×14 and an episode later betrays her. She comes back to the show in Season 3 only to be killed off by a stray bullet 64 seconds after her sex scene with Clarke in 3×07. Her “father figure” opposed her relationship with Clarke, attempted to kill Clarke and shot Lexa instead.
• Niylah (Jessica Harmon), very minor character introduced in the season 3 premiere as a one night stand for Clarke. She appears in 3 episodes. Niylah gets badly beaten up after the lesbian sex scene, by someone hunting for Clarke, reinforcing negative tropes.

Season 2 (22 episodes, renewed)

• Rose (Bridget Regan), recurring cast. Rose was “killed off” (strangled by her step-mother) early in the season, but revealed alive in the season finale, averting the bury gays trope.
• Dr. Luisa Alver (Yara Martinez), lesbian, recurring character. In love with Rose.
• Susanna Barnett (Megan Ketch), lesbian, recurring character. Megan Ketch, the actress portraying her, has been cast as one of the leads in the CBS Summer Series American Gothic. In season finale it was revealed that Susanna was actually Rose in disguise and never existed (we have counted her among the dead characters, for lack of a better category)

Season 11 (23 episodes, renewed)

• Jenna Nickerson (Laci J. Mailey), lesbian, dead. Got her soul sucked by a demon and then was killed by breaking her neck. Guest role, appeared in two episodes in season 11
• Charlie Bradbury (Felicia Day), lesbian, guest star in Season 10, appeared in 7 episodes, dead. Cause of death: Stabbed by a Neo-Nazi who then dumped her body in a bathtub. Killed in season 10, episode 22 (13 May 15).

Season 4 (23 episodes, renewed)

• Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), bisexual, recurring character. Appeared in 4 episodes in Season 4, and 30 episodes over the course of the series. Sara was killed off in Season 3 and resurrected this year. Now she appears on Legends of Tomorrow.
• Nyssa al Ghul (Katrina Law), lesbian, appears in 4 episodes in Season 4, alive. Nyssa is Sara’s ex-lover, forced by her father to marry Oliver, whilst still in mourning. She was part of the recurring cast in Season 3, but in the current season, she only had a guest role and was not involved with the main plot.

Season 1 (16 episodes, renewed)

• Sara Lance (Caity Lotz), bisexual, appears in all 16 episodes, main cast.
• Nurse Lindsay Carlisle (Ali Liebert; guest star, 1 episode) lesbian character that shares a kiss with Lance.