Was Zeus queer?

The question of whether Zeus was queer uses modern identity language to describe an ancient mythological figure, so it requires historical context. In Greek mythology, Zeus, king of the Olympian gods, had many lovers of different genders according to ancient sources. While he is most famous for his affairs with women, including Hera his wife, Leto, Maia, Danae, Europa, Leda, and many mortal women, he also had a famous male lover, Ganymede. Ganymede was a beautiful Trojan youth, described as the most beautiful of mortals, whom Zeus abducted in the form of an eagle to serve as cupbearer to the gods on Mount Olympus. This relationship is explicitly described as erotic in many ancient texts including Homer, Ovid, and Plato, and was widely celebrated in Greek culture as an example of same-sex love between a god and a youth. Ancient Greek attitudes toward sexuality were different from modern concepts of sexual orientation, focusing more on roles and social status than exclusive identity. Greeks did not use labels like queer, gay, or bisexual, but same-sex relationships, particularly between adult men and adolescent males, were accepted and even idealized in some contexts. So in modern terms, Zeus would be described as bisexual, having lovers of multiple genders, but in ancient Greek terms he was simply Zeus, exercising power and desire across genders as was common in myths.