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The lack of lesbian portrayal in the media can also influence the consumer's view of the particular sexuality. Common tropes of lesbians in the media include butch or femme lesbians and lesbian parents. The word Butch lesbian comes from the idea of a lesbian expressing themselves as masculine by dressing masculine and or liking things that are deemed masculine, while the word femme lesbian comes from the idea of a lesbian expressing themselves as feminine by dressing feminine or liking things that are deemed feminine. Lesbian parents are depicted in shows such as the live action television show The Fosters and even the children's cartoon Steven Universe.

In 2014, Pride came to the big screen as a film that followed the true story of a British LGBT group as they tried to raise money to help the efforts of the British minor's strike in 1984: the group's campaign would become known as Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. The running joke within the Lesbians Support the Minors group is that a character Steph(Faye Marsay) is the girl that makes up the "L" of LGSM, meaning that she is the only lesbian represented in the group - that is until the group comes across a lesbian couple( Stella (Karina Fernandez) and Zoe (Jessie Cave)) along their journey of supporting the minors and their families. Within the context of the movie, the lesbian characters Stella (Karina Fernandez) and Zoe (Jessie Cave) (the lesbian couple), and Steph (Faye Marsay) hold smaller roles. There is even an instance in the film where the lesbian couple asks the founder of the LGSM, Mark (Ben Schnetzer), if they could have their own women's group and he asks why they felt the need to make a separate woman's group: their reasoning is that they want to safe place to talk about female issues. Mark asks them why she did not feel safe in the environment that she was in, and her response was that she was "a woman," "a lesbian," and "a feminist," otherwise pointing out that she belonged to certain groups that she believed were not recognized by the people in LGSM.