homoerotic
Gay in nature
Homoerotic describes something that suggests or arouses sexual desire between people of the same sex.
The term often applies to art, literature, or imagery with same-sex sensuality that stops short of being explicitly sexual: the homoerotic tension in buddy cop films, Renaissance paintings with homoerotic undertones.
It can describe both intentional and unintentional suggestions of same-sex attraction.
Greek hero, mortal heel
- SapphoAncient Greek woman poet
- ThebesAncient city, two locations
- SpartaAncient Greek warrior state
- symposiumFormal expert discussion meeting
Patroclus · pederasty · gymnasium · Apollo · Ganymede · Zeus · Hadrian · Gilgamesh
Not allowed
- closetedKeeping part of oneself secret
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
- secrecyPractice of hiding information
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
shame · stigma · unspoken · illicit · hidden · concealed · coded · disguised
Renaissance-era Italian painter
- HockneyEnglish pop artist
- physiqueBodily structure and form
- nudeUnclothed state
- torsoBody without limbs
gaze · Michelangelo · sculpture · photography · portraiture · canvas · aesthetic · sensuality
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- tensionStretched or strained state
- attractionPull toward something
- gazeFixed, intent look
chemistry · infatuation · fascination · limerence · pining · charged · crush · admiration
Implicit meaning beneath words
- queerbaitingImplying queerness for profit
- slashAngled line or swipe
- fanfictionAmateur work using existing characters
- codingWriting software instructions
innuendo · implication · suggestion · undertone · reading · interpretation · subversive · canon
Achilles
Greek hero, mortal heel
Patroclus · symposium · pederasty · gymnasium · Apollo · Ganymede · Zeus · Hadrian · Gilgamesh · Lesbos
forbidden
Not allowed
- closetedKeeping part of oneself secret
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
- secrecyPractice of hiding information
repression · shame · stigma · unspoken · illicit · hidden · concealed · coded · disguised · suppressed
Caravaggio
Renaissance-era Italian painter
torso · gaze · Michelangelo · sculpture · photography · portraiture · canvas · aesthetic · sensuality · idealization
longing
Intense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- tensionStretched or strained state
- attractionPull toward something
gaze · chemistry · infatuation · fascination · limerence · pining · charged · crush · admiration · fixation
subtext
Implicit meaning beneath words
- queerbaitingImplying queerness for profit
- slashAngled line or swipe
- fanfictionAmateur work using existing characters
coding · innuendo · implication · suggestion · undertone · reading · interpretation · subversive · canon · shipping
- Queer Literaturegay fiction, queer fiction, gay characters, lesbian fiction, queer authors
- SapphicSappho, lesbian, Lesbos, wlw, queer
- homoerotic subtextImplied same-sex attraction beneath surface
- homoerotic imagerySame-sex sensual visuals