Romantic and sexual orientation: Difference between revisions

Blossian refers to an agender person who is attracted exclusively to women. This was coined by Twitter user kairofanatic on April 5, 2021.<ref>https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Blossian</ref>

Sapphic generally stands for feminine-aligned people being attracted to other feminine-aligned people and women.<ref>https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Sapphic</ref> It is an umbrella term for bisexual female-aligned people, lesbians, and any other people who consider themselves wlw (women who love women). Nonbinary people might consider themselves sapphic if they are partly female, sometimes female, [[Gender alignment|female-aligned]], or [[Galactian system|lunarian]].

Note: The word "viramoric" should not be confused with "vixenamoric", which was created to exclude nonbinary lesbians and pronoun nonconforming lesbians from lesbianism.<ref name="Rylan">{{Cite web |title=“Vixenamoric” is TERF Ideology with Training Wheels |last=Rylan |first=Jules |work=Medium |date=16 October 2020 |access-date=26 June 2021 |url= https://radiantbutch.medium.com/vixenamoric-is-terf-ideology-with-training-wheels-dc7bb5ea01b1}}</ref><ref name="lgbt_Vixe">{{Cite web |title=Vixenamoric |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=26 June 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Vixenamoric}}</ref>

"Omnistraight" (likely coined to mirror [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Omnigay|omnigay]]) is a term which can be used by individuals with [[genderfluid|fluid gender]] who experience fluid attraction as well, such that they are always attracted to a gender different than their own current gender.<ref name="wren-omnistraight">{{Cite web |title=Omnistraight has quickly become one of my main identities, but there’s no actual flag for it, so I designed one myself! |author=wren |work=pride for all! |date=30 March 2020 |access-date=29 September 2020 |url= https://enb-ab-y.tumblr.com/post/614023456214974464/omnistraight-has-quickly-become-one-of-my-main}}</ref><ref>https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Omnistraight</ref>

'''Disexual''' or '''dyosexual''' is used to specify attraction to exactly two genders, whether those are binary genders or not.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Disexual |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=2 October 2021 |url= https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Disexual}}</ref>

Multisexual, plurisexual, and mspec (or m-spec) are umbrella terms used to describe people who experience attraction to more than one gender, which may include many or all genders. It can describe individuals who are bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, omnisexual, etc, or can be used as a stand-alone identity if one does not wish to specify their orientation further.<ref>{{cite web|title=Multisexual {{!}} LGBTA Wiki |url=https://lgbta.fandom.com/wiki/Multisexual|archive-url=https://archive.ph/5rs7p|archive-date=15 February 2022}}</ref>

Opalian is a label for people who are both nonbinary and a man, attracted to men and nonbinary people.<ref>https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Opalian</ref>

Word for a nonbinary person exclusively attracted to other nonbinary people.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-0qopLPQw/|author=kaykaylovesbooks|date=13 October 2021|access-date=20 November 2021|title=Hello lovely people! Today's pride stack is the Aliamoric flag!}}</ref> The term and the flags were made by Tumblr user gay-rats-sys (now called the-ragamuffins-sys).<ref>https://ezgender.fandom.com/wiki/Aliamoric</ref>

Aromanticism (often abbreviated to aro) is a romantic orientation in which a person usually experiences no romantic attraction towards any genders or sexes.<ref>[http://wiki.asexuality.org/Aromantic "Aromantic" on AVENwiki]</ref><ref>[https://www.aromanticism.org/ AUREA - Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy].</ref> An aromantic person may have interest in romantic activity, however, they tend not to. Aromanticism is not the same as asexuality (the lack of ''sexual'' attraction), nor is it on the asexual or greysexual spectrums. Additionally, not all aromantics are asexual and vice versa. Aromantics who are not asexual or greysexual (allosexual) are known as AroAllos, and those who are both aromantic and asexual are known as AroAces.<ref>[https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Aromantic_Allosexual "Aromantic Allosexual" on LGBTA Wiki].</ref><ref>[https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Aroace "Aroace" on LGBTA Wiki].</ref> Some aromantics actively seek out and enjoy being in romantic relationships or queerplatonic relationships, while others do not.<ref>[https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Queerplatonic_Relationship "Queerplatonic Relationship" on LGBTA Wiki].</ref> Many, though not all, aromantics see their aromanticism as an inherently queer identity and feel that they are included in the LGBT+ acronym and community, since they can experience discrimination due to their romantic orientation and are generally marginalised because of societal norms around romance and amatonormativity.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatonormativity "Amatonormativity" on Wikipedia].</ref> Aromanticism can also be defined as an umbrella term or a spectrum which includes identities such as greyromantic (or grey-aromantic), demiromantic, among others.<ref>[https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Aromantic_Spectrum "Aromantic Spectrum" on LGBTA Wiki].</ref>  

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