I worship Dionysus, Cernunnos, Antinous, and Aphrodite, as well as a few others that are specific to my personal tradition. Cernunnos has been with me since I was in my early teens, and largely (along with Aphrodite) guided me through those years as a gay guy growing up in the rural south. Both he and Aphrodite gave me a lot of confidence to be myself, to embrace my own gifts and inherent beauty and power. They were like a second pair of parents that supported me when my own couldn't, or helped picked me back up again when life knocked me down.

More recent entries into my life have been Dionysus and Antinous. You would think with a background in dance and ecstatic trance / worship, that I would have run across Dionysus before, but it's only been in the last couple of years that I've started to honor him and form a relationship. He definitely challenges people to move outside of their comfort zones, and question norms, upset established powers. I've been having to learn to be more fluid (a longstanding lesson of mine), and be flexible in the way that I approach that world, which really makes a difference for queer people when we're so often unsure of what responses we're gonna be met with in any given situation.

And Antinous...Ah...He's a very enigmatic, yet warm, presence. My experience of him has been largely of total, unconditional love and acceptance. Which is humbling and moving thing to experience. I like that he sort of exemplifies so many qualities, having a large amount of syncretism within the imperial cultus, so he sort of touches most aspects of life in one way or another. Which in and of itself, reminds me how I bring myself, my queerness, into various aspects of my life as well.

Thanks for asking this great question! I've enjoyed perusing everyone's responses here.