When Medusa died, two figures were born from her severed neck: the winged horse Pegasus and the warrior Chrysaor, both children of Medusa and the sea god Poseidon, emerging from her blood as Perseus beheaded her.
During that time, Medusa was pregnant by Poseidon. When Perseus beheaded her, Pegasus, a winged horse, and Chrysaor, a giant wielding a golden sword, sprang from her body.
Apollo, the god of sun and music, is considered the patron of same sex love, as he had many male lovers and was often invoked to bless homosexual unions. He is also called "the champion of male love" by Andrew Callimach.
Though Chrysaor looks like a man, he is considered god-like or at least heroic. He is the brother of Pegasus and the son of Poseidon and Medusa.
At the time she was beheaded, Medusa was namely pregnant by Poseidon, god of the sea. Two drops of her blood fell into the sea, from which the giant Chrysaor and the winged horse Pegasus sprang.
In Ovid, Poseidon rapes Medusa in Athena's temple. In McMullan, Poseidon lures her there under false pretences with the end goal of making romantic advances. In both, Medusa is an innocent victim, and in both Athena is unconcerned with Medusa's lack of complicity and punishes her, not Poseidon.
Even though they know that Athena, equal in strength and intelligence to her father, is to be born before Metis conceives a son, Zeus takes no chances and swallows Metis ahead of time. After swallowing Metis, Zeus gives birth to Athena—fully arrayed in the arms of war—from his head.
Apollo is the model of Greek male excellence in physical, intellectual and ethical terms. This model of masculine perfection was compatible with a sexuality beyond the limits of heterosexuality. Apollo, like other gods such as Zeus, had both male and female lovers in myth.
Appearance. Chrysaor wears a golden Gorgon mask on his face with curved tusks, horrible features, and curly golden snake hair. He is dressed in full Greek combat armor with a Greek sword made out of Imperial Gold, the first to wield the weapon, which he stubbornly calls Enchanted Gold.
Ganymede, a beautiful Trojan young man, was aducted by Zeus to serve as his personal cupbearer and lover on mount Olympus among the other gods.
Artemis was known for her modesty. A young man named Sipriotes saw her bathing. Because of this intrusion, Artemis turned him into a girl.
The Birth and Origins of Dionysus
However, Hera, Zeus' wife, manipulated Semele into demanding Zeus reveal himself in his divine form. Unable to withstand his divine radiance, Semele perished, but Zeus managed to save their unborn child by sewing him into his thigh.
Apollo: The God of Bisexuality.
Demeter was a daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and was swallowed by her father (along with the rest of Cronus and Rhea's children) shortly after her birth [See Origins]. After Zeus rescued his older siblings from their father, Demeter had an affair with her brother Zeus, which resulted in a daughter, Persephone.
Yes, Greek mythology is rich with LGBTQ+ themes, featuring numerous gods, heroes, and figures in same-sex relationships (male and female), gender fluidity, and androgyny, reflecting ancient Greek cultural acceptance and exploration of diverse sexualities and identities, seen in stories like Zeus and Ganymede, Achilles and Patroclus, and Hermaphroditus.
In Greek mythology, Euryale (/jʊəˈraɪəli/ yoor-EYE-ə-lee; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυάλη, lit. 'far-roaming"') was the name of several mythological figures, including: Euryale, one of the three Gorgon sisters.
Erebus, the God of Darkness and Shadows
Greek myths also refer to this god as Erebos. The Greeks primarily worshipped the Olympian gods, such as Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon. These gods were said to have taken control of the universe by overthrowing their father, Cronus, and his Titan brothers.
Yes, in the Disney+ Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Grover Underwood is confirmed to be 24 years old, though he looks like a 12-year-old because Satyrs age at half the rate of humans. This is a change from the books, where he was older (around 28 in the first book), but making him 24 in the show allows him to be a more age-appropriate protector for Percy in middle school.
In the debut movie “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” Percy is a 17 year old high school boy with ADHD and dyslexia struggling with school, and getting into lots of trouble.
Much like the real world, One Piece's prison disproportionately imprisons queer characters, including Ivankov, Bon Clay, and the trans inhabitants of Secret Level 5.5.
JoJo Siwa became part of the LGBTQ+ community by openly embracing her sexuality, initially identifying as pansexual at 17, then feeling pressured to label herself a lesbian before realizing her identity is more fluid, leading to her current identification as queer, a broader term she finds more authentic, embracing love for all genders after experiencing relationships with men, women, and non-binary individuals. Her journey reflects an evolution in self-understanding, moving away from rigid labels.
Gods were always avenging their favourite's injuries, but somehow in a goddess dedicated to the sexual rejection of men this becomes a sign of secret sexual interest. Artemis, regardless of whether or not she feels or acts on sexual desire, is so very clearly a lover of women.
They were a family of gods, the most important consisting of the first generation of Olympians, offspring of the Titans Cronus and Rhea: Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter and Hestia, along with the principal offspring of Zeus: Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus.
The story of Dionysus's birth from the thigh of Zeus offers one solution to this problem, for it represents Dionysus as having been born from the body of a god, after all, that of his father Zeus. Dionysus can now claim that both his father and his “mother” are gods.
In the classical Olympian pantheon, Athena was regarded as the favourite child of Zeus, the king of the gods, born fully armed from his forehead.