Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend
A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints, and Queerness Through the Ages
Octopus Books · Print & ebook · May 6, 2025
Featuring 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a celebration of gay gods and goddesses, sapphic sirens, misunderstood mermen, and lesbians of legend.
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- Who it’s for
- Profiles trace queer figures from myth and legend into contemporary literature, television, and film.
- Genres
- LGBTQ+ Studies, Folklore & Mythology, Gay Studies
- Published
- Octopus Books, May 6, 2025
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Featuring 50 profiles and select B&W illustrated portraits, Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend is a celebration of gay gods and goddesses, sapphic sirens, misunderstood mermen, and lesbians of legend. Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.
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Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller's bestseller Song of Achilles), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe's trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones's witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the BBC 's Doctor Who. Heroes of Queer Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.
Queer Mythic Figures
Profiles trace queer figures from myth and legend into contemporary literature, television, and film.
Come here for
- Profiles of gay gods and goddesses
- Queer figures from myth, literature, television, and film
Expect
- Fifty profiles
- Select black-and-white illustrated portraits
Where it sits
| LGBTQ+ Studies | 48% |
|---|---|
| Folklore & Mythology | 40% |
| Gay Studies | 33% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- LGBTQ+ Lives
- Folklore & Mythology
- Gay Studies
- Lesbian Studies
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- LGBTQ+ Studies
- Bisexual Studies
- Human Sexuality
- Authors
- Dan Jones
- Publisher
- Octopus Books
- Published
- May 6, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- LGBTQ+ Lives