Flags
What is the Progress flag?
In many scholars minds, this Greek Hero from Homer's Iliad had a romantic tryst with Patrocles, who stole his armor, and lead to Patrocles' death.
Who is Achilles?
This female poet from Lesbos, Greece's poetry about her love of women became so popular that the word "lesbian", which had original just meant a person from Lesbos, became he term for a woman who loves woman.
Who is Sappho?
This word refers to someone who identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth.
What is cis(gender)
This term, originally meaning happy, has evolved into meaning men who love men.
What is gay?
The sunset color scheme of this flag, with it's gradient from orange to pink, represents this sexuality.
What is Lesbian?
In some myths, this male Olympian was raised by nymphs as a girl, and in addition to his more well-known domains serves as a god of transformtion, and was worshipped by those whose gender was unclear.
Who is Dionysus
This TV show, which started as a graphic novel by author and artist Alice Oseman, shows two boys, Nick and Charlie, as they fall in love.
What is Heartstopper?
This term, sometimes shortened to enby, refers to someone outside of the gender binary.
What is non-binary?
A person who likes people, regardless of gender, and who do not see gender as important may identify as this term.
What is pansexual?
The Asexual flag, created by AVEN in 2010, is black, grey, white, and this color.
What is purple?
This handsome Trojan prince was abducted by Zeus in the form of an eagle and made cup-bearer of the gods so Zeus could admire his beauty, in addition to being known as the god of homosexuality.
Who is Ganymede?
This memoire graphic novel detailing the author's struggles with gender was the most banned book in 2023.
What is Genderqueer?
Alex Fierro, from Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard uses she/he pronouns and identifies as this: which means that her gender changes often.
What is Genderfluid.
Often mistaken for asexual, this term refers to someone who experiences little to no romantic attraction; this person may also be ace or any other sexual identity.
What is aromantic?
The purple stripe on the bisexual flag has this meaning, often associated with bisexuality itself.
What is attraction to two or more genders?
This famous lover of the god Apollo was turned into a flower after he was killed by Zephyrus, the West Wind, whom he had turned down to be with Apollo, when the god redirected a discuss he had thrown.
Who is Hyacinthus?
This William Shakepeare play has Orlando falling in love with his love interest while believing that the person whom he loves is a man.
What is As You Like It.
A person who identifies partially as male, and partially as another gender may identify with this term.
What is demiboy?
This term refers to a person who can only experience sexual attraction after forming a close bond to another person, and is apart of the asexual spectrum.
What is demisexual?
This flag, designed in 2011, features lavender, white, and green stripes.
What is genderqueer?
This Greek diety, a child of Hermes and Aphrodite, was born with both male and female genitalia, and is the god of intersex and effiminate people.
Who is Hermaphroditus?
This Alice Oseman book follows Georgie Warr through her first year in uni as she discovers and comes to terms with the fact that she's aromantic asexual.
What is Loveless?
Often self-discribing as genderless, this gender identity escribes someone who does not feel male, female, or anywhere between the two terms.
What is agender?
This model, often used by the asexual community, refers to when a person specifies their romantic and sexual attractions, for example, a lesbian asexual or an aromantic lesbian.
What is the Split Attraction Model.