Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A Celebration of Gay Gods, Sapphic Saints, and Queerness Through the Ages

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.

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.

Author: Dan Jones
Publisher: Radar
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.10h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781804190463
ISBN10: 1804190462
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | LGBTQ+
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies

About the Author
Dan Jones is a best-selling British author currently living in New York. A onetime magazine editor, Dan has written across a range of genres, from fashion and grooming to folk-horror and queer culture.