List of LGBT figures in mythology

This is a list of homosexual or bisexual figures in ancient myth .

A

 * Acantha - Greek myth (bisexual)
 * Achilles - Greek myth (bisexual)
 * Adonis - Greek myth (bisexual)
 * Apollo - Greek god (bisexual)
 * Ardhanari - Hindu deity (intersexed)
 * Artemis- Greek goddess (lesbian or bisexual)
 * Arjuna - Hindu myth (transgender/intersexed)


 * Athena- Greek myth (asexual and/or lesbian)

C

 * Caeneus/Caenis - Greek/Roman myth (transgender)
 * Cyparissus - Greek myth (gay)

D

 * Dionysus - Greek god (bisexual)

E

 * Euryalus - Greek myth (gay), Trojan warrior; inseparable companion of Nisus in Aeneid by Virgil

G

 * Ganymede - Greek mythology (gay), Trojan Prince
 * Gilgamesh - Sumerian semi-divine hero-king, ruler of Uruk

H

 * Hapy - Egyptian deity (intersexed, mostly male)
 * Heracles - Greek myth (bisexual)
 * Hermaphroditus - Greek deity (intersexed or transgender, depending on the version of the myth)
 * Hermes - Greek god (bisexual)
 * Hyacinthus - Greek/Roman myth (gay)
 * Hylas - Greek myth (bisexual)

I

 * Iolaus - Greek myth (bisexual?)
 * Iphys - From Ovid's Metamorphosis; forced with her mother to conceal her true gender from her father. Turned male in her marriage to Ianthe.
 * Inari- Shinto deity- represented as male, female, and androgynous

L

 * Leucippus - Greek myth (transgender)
 * Loki - Norse god (transgender)

M

 * Mercury - Roman god (bisexual)

N

 * Narcissus - Greek/Roman myth (bisexual)
 * Nisus - Greek/Roman myth (gay), Trojan warrior; inseparable companion of Euryalus in Aeneid by Virgil

P

 * Pales - Roman myth (transgender- sometimes embodying male and sometimes female)
 * Patroclus - Greek myth (bisexual) - Lover of Achilles

S

 * Set - Egyptian god (bisexual)
 * Shai - Egyptian deity of fate (transgender- sometimes embodying male and sometimes female)
 * Shikhandi - Hindu myth (transgender)
 * Siproites /Sypretes  - Greek myth (transgender)
 * Sostratus - Greek myth (gay)

V

 * Virtus - Roman deity (transgender- sometimes embodying male and sometimes female)

W

 * Wadj-wer - Egyptian deity (intersexed)

Z

 * Zephyrus - Greek god (bisexual)
 * Zeus - Greek god (bisexual)