Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages

by Dan Jones

224 pages, Paperback

Published May 6, 2025

About the author

Dan Jones is a historian, broadcaster and award-winning journalist. His books, including The Plantagenets, Magna Carta, The Templars and The Colour of Time, have sold more than one million copies worldwide. He has written and hosted dozens of TV shows including the acclaimed Netflix/Channel 5 series 'Secrets of Great British Castles'. For ten years Dan wrote a weekly column for the London Evening Standard and his writing has also appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, GQ and The Spectator.

Reviews

[Helia · Rating 3 out of 5]

i liked the different aspects of the characters mentioned but the casual slang Gen Z vocabulary threw me off (as well as the almost cringey description of sexual things sometimes)
it was a cute read and piqued some interest for my own books

[Kelly Luff · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5