LGBTQ Tarot Deck
What to Look For

Searchers typing “LGBTQ tarot deck” are rarely looking for a secret code. They want a pack they can put on the table without explaining themselves to the images. That usually means inclusive casting: a range of identities, genders, bodies, and relationships drawn as part of the deck’s world, not as a single token card.

It is a close cousin of “queer tarot deck” and “lesbian tarot deck.” Those phrases name the same need from slightly different angles. A lesbian tarot deck, in practice, is not a separate product category in our shop: it is a deck whose art includes lesbian life instead of treating it as an afterthought. The same is true for gay, bi, and trans readers. If the courts, the Lovers, and the everyday pip or scene cards can hold that life, the deck is doing the job.

Inclusive decks are not only for LGBTQ+ readers. Anyone can shuffle them. The point is that queer and allied readers do not have to spend the reading translating a world that was never drawn with them in mind. Rosario Salerno’s studio copy puts it simply: a space to celebrate LGBTQ+ people and the freedom to express who we are, in a visual language that feels contemporary rather than sombre by default.

Both decks are packed in our studio, not through a print-on-demand merch partner. New Voice is a numbered and signed edition of 1,000 copies; Marseille’s third edition is 500 numbered copies with a signed certificate of authenticity. That does not make either deck “better”—it tells you who made the images and who taped the box. Merch in the wider shop (posters, tees, mugs) may ship separately; these two tarot decks do not.

The New Voice Tarot stays in the Rider–Waite–Smith tradition: you can read the scene first, then confirm it in the 120-page book. Inclusive casting is the point of the pictures, not a separate pamphlet. Rosario also worked from portraits of people she finds inspiring—and friends—so the set feels personal rather than generic fashion collage. If you learned tarot on apps, books, or social media, this is the smoother LGBTQ tarot deck to start with.

New Choice Tarot de Marseille keeps classical TdM structure—trumps, courts, pip Minors—while the mood of the court and major arcana leans on fashion and the feeling of a night out, including queer-themed parties. The Fool (Le Mat) is drawn as a punk figure: energy without a clear direction, outside “the establishment.” Flower species on the Minors carry meanings explained in the 80-page guidebook. If you want European structure with queer-inspired art, this is the deck.

Neither deck is a “lesbian-only” edition. Both include lesbian, gay, bi, trans, and queer life in the artwork. Shop the queer tarot collection to compare them side by side, or read the best LGBTQ+ & queer tarot decks buying guide if you want the shorter studio-picks version of this advice.