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I find it so interesting that some people don’t think Annie is a lesbian. To me it seems so glaringly obvious, but I guess that’s from the perspective of another lesbian. So I thought I’d write some of the reasons here.

Annie’s obsession with Jeff, but lack of willingness to date him. This is something I’ve always found really weird. She spends so much of the show pining after Jeff, but then she turns around and says things like “nobody sleeps with Jeff! not even me!”. And when it’s clear Jeff likes her back at the end of the show, she almost seems to lose interest. Sort of like it’s a cover, whether intentional or not.

The same thing happened with Troy. Annie obsessed over Troy for years in high school, but the second he liked her back, she lost interest. Troy was to Annie in high school what Jeff was to her at Greendale - a beard of sorts.

Never dating guys. This is kind of a follow up from my last two points. Apart from her thing with Vaughn in season 1, Annie never dates anyone, despite flirting with quite a lot of men.

Pretty apparent attraction to Britta. Romantic Expressionism, Early 21st Century Romanticism, etc. Obviously a lot of these moments are jokes, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are still reflections of Annie and Britta’s emotions. In fact, Annie’s crush on Jeff is also mostly shown through humour. Community is a sitcom, of course the feelings of the characters will be largely relayed in jokes.

Annie dated a closeted gay guy in high school. Closeted gay kids tend to group together. It’s also not uncommon for gay people to be each other’s beards. When Annie talks about the time she slept with him in The Politics of Human Sexuality (S01E11) she mentions that he didn’t like it too much, but from how she talked about it, she probably didn’t like it that much either.

Her conversation Annie has with Britta at the end of The Psychology of Letting Go (S02E03). This might be a little specific, and probably not an event that a lot of people remember with too much clarity, but in it, both of them literally admit that they were faking their attraction to Jeff for each other’s approval. (Annie says she only kissed Jeff to see if she could, to be “cool and sexy” like Britta. Britta says she slept with Jeff because she “hates herself”.) The conversation ends with them both saying “men are gross”. Holy shit, that is the most queer-coded thing I’ve ever seen.

Sometimes shows disgust/distaste for men (whether their behaviour or appearances). “Giant thumb in a turtleneck!”