Romantic and sexual orientation: Difference between revisions

Attracted exclusively to women.<ref name=":1" /> Various flags have been created for this orientation.

Simply put, people who identify as lesbians usually woman who feel attraction to other women. Historically and today, many lesbians have a gender identity and expression that they feel does not fit into the Western [[gender binary]] or patriarchal, heterosexual norms of womanhood. Some see "lesbian" as their gender identity as well as their sexuality.<ref name="Gender Census 2018">{{Cite web |title=Gender Census 2018 Identity words (public) |author=Cassian |date=21 June 2018 |access-date=27 July 2020 |url= https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12cN-ooc5EuLIaqbmfqbjZffYldTzWRAHc-qZaRJ2xsQ/edit#gid=1402706910}}</ref><ref name="Gender Census 2019">{{Cite web |title=Gender Census 2019 - the public spreadsheet |author=Cassian |date=30 March 2019 |access-date=27 July 2020 |url= https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ePCyWMdorSHAaxNcd1Iv64oLvkdgeoZldTdGZZTHlvY/edit#gid=498446722}}</ref><ref>https://www.deviantart.com/pantomorph/art/lesbian-gender-pride-flag-806822407</ref> Some lesbians who use the words [[butch]], [[stone]], or [[dyke]] for themselves express and experience their gender identities through [[masculinity]], [[androgyny]], sexual difference, and nonconformity.<ref name=Feinberg>{{cite book|last1=Feinberg|first1=Leslie|title=Stone Butch Blues: A Novel|date=1993|edition=1st|publisher=Firebrand Books|location=|isbn=1563410303}}</ref><ref name=Halberstam>{{Cite book|last1=Halberstam|first1=Judith|authorlink=Judith Halberstam|title=Female Masculinity|year=1998|edition=1st|page=[https://archive.org/details/femalemasculinit00judi/page/111 111]|publisher=Duke University Press|location=|chapter=Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues|isbn=0822322269|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/femalemasculinit00judi/page/111}}</ref><ref name="Krantz">{{cite journal|last1=Krantz|first1=Susan E.|title=Reconsidering the Etymology of Bulldike|journal=American Speech|date=1995|volume=70|issue=2|pages=217–221|doi=10.2307/455819|issn=00031283|url=https://scholarworks.uno.edu/engl_facpubs/41|jstor=455819}}</ref> Lesbians can be [[woman#cisgender women|cisgender women]], [[woman#transgender women|transgender women]], and even some genderqueer and nonbinary people who feel their identities [[gender alignment|align]] with womanhood ([[woman#nonbinary women|nonbinary women]]).<ref name="Carney">{{Cite web |title=In Defense of Non-Binary Lesbianism |last=Carney |first=Sasha |work=Broad Recognition |date=4 November 2019 |access-date=14 June 2020 |url= https://www.broadsatyale.com/in-defense-of-non-binary-lesbianism/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The struggles of rejecting the gender binary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/magazine/gender-nonbinary.html |date=4 June 2019 |work=The New York Times Magazine |access-date=1 February 2020 |last=Bergner |first=Daniel}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/44110/1/andrea-lawlor-paul-takes-the-form-of-a-mortal-girl-book-interview |authorlink=Andrea Lawlor |title=Andrea Lawlor explores the wild possibilities of sexual-shapeshifting |publisher=Dazed |date=18 April 2019 |access-date=1 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/lesbian-slang-terms-definitions#slide-8 |title=17 lesbian slang terms every baby gay needs to learn |publisher=Refinery 29 |date=30 March 2018 |access-date=1 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Ormiston |first=Wendy |title=Stone butch celebration: A Transgender-inspired revolution in academia |pages=198-216 |date=July 1996 |doi=10.17763/haer.66.2.46r7n64515203412 |journal=Harvard Educational Review |volume=66 |issue=2}}</ref>  

An orbisian or trixic person is a nonbinary person who is attracted to women (exclusively or not).<ref name=":1" /> The trixic or orbisian flag was created by non-alligned-sapphic on tumblr. Purples and yellows represent nonbinary-ness, while pink represents the attraction to women.

Nonbinary person attracted to men (exclusively or not). <ref name=":1" />

Nonbinary person attracted exclusively to men.<ref name=":1" /> Various designs of the viramoric flag have been created; here is a selection.

Omnisexuality/omniromanticism is attraction to all genders/every gender.<ref>https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Omni-543925827</ref><ref>https://queerheadcanonoftheday.tumblr.com/definitions</ref> By some definitions, this is a synonym for pansexual.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/omnisexual</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution|year=2013|quote=Pansexual/omnisexual: people who are attracted (sexually, romantically, and/or otherwise) to people of all genders and sexes, or to multiple genders and sexes, or regardless of sex and gender, and who identify as pan/omni. Pansexuality and omnisexuality differ from each other by their Greek and Latin roots (''pan'' meaning ''all'' in Greek, and ''omni'' the same in Latin.)|page=28|authorlink=Shiri Eisner|last=Eisner|first=Shiri}}</ref> By other definitions, it is similar to pansexuality but with gender playing a role in attraction.<ref>https://thisistheirs.tumblr.com/post/625989035693899776/omnisexual-polysexual-visibility-solidarity</ref><ref>https://m-spec-as-heck.tumblr.com/post/625566805363195904/hey-i-have-an-mspec-question-if-you-can-answer-it</ref><ref name="romero">{{Cite web |title=pansexual vs omnisexual (are they the same?) |author=Romero, Britney |work=YouTube |date=9 June 2019 |access-date=28 September 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ4MwY8-iNQ}}</ref>

"A form of attraction felt by nonbinary people who feel that being nonbinary affects their experience with attraction or a nonbinary form of attraction that does not fit a same or similar vs opposite or other gender attraction dichotomy. ‘Diamoric orientations’ is an umbrella term for all orientations lables that describe nonbinary attraction that does not conform to a similar/opposite gender dichotomy."<ref name=":1">https://diamoricpositivity.tumblr.com/post/174544315194/nonbinary-orientation-terms</ref> "Diamoric" can also describe a relationship or attraction that involves at least one nonbinary person.<ref>https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Diamoric-629060256</ref>

"[NBLNB], nonbinary people who experience attraction towards nonbinary people (whether exclusively or not)."<ref name=":1" />

Ceterosexuality, formerly skoliosexuality, means a sexual orientation in which a person feels sexual attraction to nonbinary people, and perhaps other kinds of transgender people as well. <ref>{{cite web|first=Jack|last= Molay|title=Transgender, Genderqueer and Transsexual Glossary|date=25 January 2010| url=http://www.crossdreamers.com/2010/01/transgender-and-transsexual-glossary.html}}</ref> Some believe the term is only to be used by nonbinary people, though it was coined in the context of binary people's attraction to nonbinary people.<ref name="Nelde">[https://www.deviantart.com/nelde/art/Sexual-Attraction-v2-180255547 Sexual Attraction v2], Sep 23, 2010</ref> Non-binary people who are attracted to other non-binary people may also use the terms homosexual, homoromantic, gay, NBLNB, etc.

* Intersex activist [[Hans Lindahl]] (demisexual)<ref>{{cite tweet|user=hiHelloHans|number=1143204820318162944|title=Just realized that of LGBTQIA, I am 5/7:

-Bi

-Trans (umbrella: nonbinary/genderqueer)

-Queer

-Intersex

-Asexual (umbrella: demi)

can my prize be being left alone|date=June 24, 2019}}</ref>