Every year, my wife and I have a goal of locking in our Halloween costumes in August — September 1 at the LATEST. This year, we changed our minds a few times, but we finally settled on a good one. If you’re still struggling to figure out what you and your love are going to be this year, fret not! I’ve got you covered with a bunch of lesbian Halloween couples costume ideas that are also easily to execute for all types of queer couples or can be adapted for throuples and polycules, too. You could also do these with a bestie rather than a partner. We’ve got options for the pop culturally inclined as well as more conceptual options for the couples who get off on Halloween partygoers remarking on how clever their costumes are. I often like to strike a balance of BOTH: clever and pop culturally timely. It’s the Halloween sweetspot.

This article was originally written in October 2023 and has been updated with 2025 costume options.

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Pop Culture Lesbian Halloween Couples Costumes

Hunting Wives

Personally, I’d go the Margo/Callie route, because wearing a Callie wig sounds fun. Specifically being Callie crashing out over Margo would also be delightful. Just smudge a bunch of eyeliner under your eyes to make it look like you’ve been sobbing over your best friend/lover. The Callie in the couple could also accessorize with a strap-on.

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StudBudz

For the couple who obsessively watches WNBA together, consider slapping some temporary pink hair dye on and going as iconic besties Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman.

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Trixie and Katya

While we’re discussing iconic duos like the StudBudz, here’s another potential bestie costume option.

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Gabby Windey and a Podcast Mic

Sure, a femme4masc couple could also be Gabby Windey and Robby Hoffman. But making your masc gf be a podcast mic would be so much funnier. And all you really need to do to be Gabby is slap on a pair of sunglasses and start ranting on the evils of men and joys of lesbianism.

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Honey and MG Falcone (Honey Don’t!)

Last year’s lesbian couples costumes list featured Jamie and Marian from Tricia Cooke’s Drive-Away Dolls, and this year we got another Tricia Cooke lesbian noir film to pull from.

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Glinda and Elphaba (Wicked)

You KNOW way too many straight girls are going to do Glinda/Elphaba costumes, so we gotta make sure the gay girls get in on the action. Just make sure to get your green face paint now.

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Taissa and Van (Yellowjackets)

A couple years ago, I wrote you a full guide for how to do a DIY Yellowjackets costume with an emphasis on group costume options. But going as these cannibal lovebirds would be so cute…in a creepy way! Whoever is Taissa should definitely use makeup to create the effect of dirt on your mouth. If you decide to do adult versions of the characters, Taissa can carry a prop heart meant to be Biscuit’s (RIP Biscuit), and Van can carry VHS copies of cult classic 90s films.

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Marie and Jordan (Gen V)

This is a fun one, because the person being Jordan gets to choose which Jordan presentation to be.

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Dr. Ellie Sattler and a T-Rex (Jurassic Park)

Original recipe Jurassic Park never goes out of style. This is what my wife and I did two years ago, and we ended up winning a costume contest. I thrifted all of the components of Laura Dern’s iconic (and very lesbian) look in Jurassic Park. Kristen got an official licensed Jurassic World dino mask from Target that ROARS when you open your mouth. We think it might be made for children, but it fits both of our heads. She got dino claws as well. I feel like this is a low effort, high payoff couples costume route, especially because Dr. Ellie Sattler is a root for so many dykes. As an alternative, I feel like a hot gay couple could pull off Ellie and Malcolm really well. Even though they’re not a couple in the movie, Jeff Goldblum’s looks are just so dykey. I literally own everything he wears.

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Sally Ride and a Rocket Ship

I think perhaps my coworker was joking when she suggested this, but I’m too delighted by it! For the lesbian couple who watched the Sally Ride documentary together this year! Or for the lesbian couple just generally obsessed with space.

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Max and Esther or Carson and Greta (A League of Their Own)

Once again, I’ve got you covered with a comprehensive DIY A League of Their Own costume guide. I’ve also made specific style guides for Max, Carson, and Greta if you need more inspiration. You can’t go wrong with dressing as either of these couples! It’d be so cute! And if you want to add an extra layer, go as “undead” versions of the characters to call attention to the unfortunate fact that the series was unceremoniously axed. 😞

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Villanelle and Eve (Killing Eve)

Nothing says Halloween romance like going as a psychopathic assassin and the woman obsessed with bringing her down and/or kissing her on the mouth. Eve is an especially good costume for my fellow babes with long, dark curly hair. And if you really want to go all out as Villanelle, you’ve gotta do the pink dress or something similar.

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Sophie and Bee (Bodies Bodies Bodies)

It’d be pretty easy to do these as a last minute costume after one trip to a thrift store. Whoever is Bee definitely needs a crossbody phone strap. And you should be the versions of these characters at movie’s end (AKA covered in blood and dirt). Also, while they’re not a couple like these two, I think it’d be a really fun lesbian couples costume to go as Pete Davidson’s character David and Rachel Sennott’s character Alice. The David would get to wear a pink shorts sweatsuit like the one David dies in and wield a champagne bottle and fake sword. The Alice would get to wear glow stick necklaces and a crocheted crop top. Honestly, two VERY lez looks. I’ve been keeping this one in my back pocket for my wife and I to do, but I honestly want to wait until like five years post-Bodies Bodies Bodies coming out.

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PJ and Josie (Bottoms)

Bottoms costumes will never go out of fashion if you ask me. PJ and Josie as a duo RULE. We have a style guide for both characters for inspiration. And, of course, you’ve gotta have fake blood for this one. Lean into the fight club of it all.

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Pinhead and a Cenobite (Hellraiser)

For my freaky gays! Sure, one of you could be Pinhead and one of you could be a human character, but I say go even harder on the depravity and disgusting details and channel everyone’s favorite sadomasochists from hell. These costumes would require a lot of work if you’re going full DIY, so this lesbian halloween couples costume is for the slightly more advanced couples who know their way around a glue gun, sewing machine, and prosthetic makeup. If you go this route, you’re legally obligated to show me a photo.

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Mindy and Ghostface (Scream)

Going as an iconically gay scream queen and the Scream big bad themself would be sooooo good. Even though it’s not the exact Lavender Menace shirt Jasmin Savoy Brown wears in the most recent Scream movie, I think the Autostraddle version of the shirt would suffice. Pair it with her orange zip up hoodie, and throw some patches on it. Ghostface costumes, meanwhile, are easy to come by.

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Billy and Stu (Scream)

While we’re talking Scream, I think we can all agree there’s something undeniable homoerotic about the first iterations of Ghostface: Billy and Stu. I can easily imagine a lesbian couple pulling off these looks. And as I keep saying in this list: Don’t forget the fake blood!

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Jennifer and Needy (Jennifer’s Body)

The move here imo would be to go in the characters’ school dance looks. For Jennifer, that means the white gown covered in blood, with white long gloves. For Needy, that means a poofy pink dress. Either dress could easily be thrifted.

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Velma and Daphne

They’re a classic lesbian Halloween couples costume choice for a reason. Thrift the components of the costumes or buy ready-made ones in a pinch. And channel the steaminess of this Jenifer Prince print:

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A femme4butch couple could alternatively do Daphne and Fred.

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Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy

Another sapphic animated character option! If you and your boo need two different costumes this year for various Halloween events, you could be economical about it and be Glinda/Elphaba one night and Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn the next because green face/body paint can be used for both Elphaba and Poison Ivy. You just also need a bright red wig.

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Morticia and Gomez

Again, I feel like this is a classic queer Halloween couples costume choice. And for good reason! They definitely read as a bi4bi couple, no?! A femme4femme couple could alternatively mix spooky universes and be Morticia and Elvira, who is canonically gay now that Cassandra Peterson has come out imo.

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Betty and Veronica or Cheryl and Toni (Riverdale)

The best part of the final season of Riverdale? The fact that everyone turned out to be a little bit gay. Betty/Veronica became canon, and of course, our longtime lovebirds Cheryl and Toni got their maple syrupy sweet happy ending. Pay homage to the end of an era with sapphic Riverdale couples costumes.

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Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger (Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street)

This would be a good couples costume for dykes who appreciate things like the Horror Is So Gay series at Autostraddle. AKA, horror lovers with an appreciation for the Slashics, like the franchises each of these iconic villains hail from. Michael Myer’s signature jumpsuit is a v gay look, and haven’t most lesbians gone through a stripes and/or weird hat phase like Freddy?

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Jess and Jules (Bend It Like Beckham)

I knew I had to have something for my sporty gays, and I’m sure there are plenty of gay athlete couples you could go as, but I’d be remiss not to shout out my personal favorite queer subtext movie of all time. Throw together some football kits and grab a ball. If you’re desi and have saris on hand, you can be the version of Jess wearing a sari for the family function.

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Eleanor and Theo (The Haunting 1999)

Look, I just watched this 1999 remake of The Haunting — one of the various on-screen adaptations of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson — and it was…so bad! Just a very bad movie! My girl Shirl was probably rolling in her grave! I’m very much partial to the 1963 film (and, of course, the Netflix series), but I won’t lie: Catherine Zeta Jones’ looks as campy bisexual Theo are pretty hot. Furs! Feathers! Knee-high boots! Perfect combination for a high femme/long haired butch or high femme/lazy femme duo.

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Andi and Dean (Motocrossed)

Inspired by our recent revisitation of this extremely subtextually trans and queer DCOM classic! I do think this would be an iconic butch4butch couples costume.

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Conceptual Lesbian Halloween Couples Costumes

Undead Lesbian TV Characters

Pretty straightforward! Just assemble a costume for a lesbian TV character who has died (there are so many to choose from…) and they slather on the Halloween makeup. I’d love to see an undead Jenny Schecter tbh. Take our quiz: Plan a Halloween Party and I’ll Tell You Which Ghost of a Queer TV Character Is Haunting You.

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U-Haul Lesbians

This would be a good last-minute option, because you basically just need to grab some moving boxes (preferably U-Haul brand if you’re going for accuracy) and attach some suspender straps to them so you can wear them around you. Voila! U-Haul Lesbians!

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Femmeslashers

This is the slightly more punny take on the Michael Myers/Freddy Kreuger costume idea. Basically dress up as villanous characters from different slasher franchises, and if people ask, specify that you are FEMMESLASHERS. Anyone who gets the play on words is instant friendship material.

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Final Gays

Same concept as above but you both dress up as final girls from different franchises! Like a Sidney Prescott/Laurie Strode combo.

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Hit me with more hot Halloween ideas in the comments!