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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
Vows and Honor is about a couple of lesbian mercenaries, too.
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Tarma and Kethry aren't lesbians*. They're just
Heterosexual Life Partners™† (
WARNING: TV Tropes). But their stories are lots of fun to read and highly recommended, as is the story of Kethry's granddaughter.
But Lackey's Last Herald-Mage series is fairly decent and rather entertaining as long as you don't mind the angst and whining on the part of the main character (I liked them, but it's long been established that I have questionable taste).
Bujold's Ethan of Athos is very good and I umpteenth the recommend.
Also good is Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, which is practically a non-fantasy fantasy in which the main fantastical element is that the entire city it's set in is made-up. But it's a very good book if you like mannerpunk. And societies where bisexuals are common and expected. Highly recommended.
On that note, Tanya Huff's Four Quarters series and The Fire's Stone standalone are constructed the same way, but more magical in nature. If the OP is in the mood for more contemporary urban fantasy, her Blood books (basis of the short-lived Blood Ties TV show) and Smoke series have a bisexual vampire and gay wizard, respectively (several gay wizards, depending on how you count the Big Bads).
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series tends to have gay, lesbian, and bisexual characters in prominent roles throughout the series (at least in the books originally written by her and not the posthumous co-author stuff), and several titles where they're outright main characters. The "Free Amazons" set of books have most of the lesbian couples as you might expect; the best set of books involving the gay characters also happen to be the best set of books in the series overall: The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile.
* Well, okay, on occasion they pretend to be if it'll help them with a job.
† But seriously, one of them is a sworn celibate who is No Longer Interested thanks to divine intervention, and the other isn't and has said granddaughter.