Dionysus is the god of wine, theater, and ritual madness. He embodies both the joyous, liberating power of wine and its capacity to incite wild, destructive frenzy and chaos. He is widely embraced as a queer and trans icon due to his liminal nature, gender-fluid presentation, and themes of transformation. In myths, he was raised as a girl to hide from Hera, appears in androgynous forms, and regularly blurs the lines between male and female.