Romantic and sexual orientation: Difference between revisions

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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207170811/https://radiantbutch.medium.com/vixenamoric-is-terf-ideology-with-training-wheels-dc7bb5ea01b1 |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="lgbt_Vixe">{{Cite web |title=Vixenamoric |author= |work=LGBTA Wiki |date= |access-date=26 June 2021 |url=https://lgbta.miraheze.org/wiki/Vixenamoric |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721070728/https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Vixenamoric |archive-date=21 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

Also called being straight, heterosexuality is a romantic and sexual orientation in which a person tends to feel sexual attraction only to people of a different gender identity than their own. For example, women who usually feel attracted only to men. This is heterosexuality even if one or both of the people are [[transgender]], because this is based on [[gender identity]] rather than [[sex]]. Heterosexuality is often defined as attraction between persons of opposite gender<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality [https://web.archive.org/web/20230309135102/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>. However, the idea "opposite gender" only makes sense within the [[gender binary]], which sees all people as being either of only two genders, and that those two genders are supposedly opposites to each other. What "heterosexuality" means when [[nonbinary]] identities are taken into account is not agreed upon. By its etymology, it could imply "other" or "different" gender.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality#Etymology [https://web.archive.org/web/20230309135102/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosexuality Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=25 Great Lesson Plans about Sexual Orientation |year=2017 |last1=Clark |first1=Terri |last2=Gilbert |first2=Tracie Q. |last3=Rayne |first3=Karen |quote=The prefix ''hetero'' means "different" or "other". Thus, ''heterosexuality'' (often called ''straight'') refers to people who are exclusively attracted to different-sexed or other-sexed partners. For most straight people, this usually means attraction to the opposite biological sex, but for some straight people it can also include attraction to certain trans and intersex people, as well as people of all sorts of gender identities. |url=https://twitter.com/BiDotOrg/status/1442167110927470594/photo/1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721070737/https://twitter.com/BiDotOrg/status/1442167110927470594 |archive-date=21 July 2023 |access-date=27 September 2021 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> In that case, a heterosexual nonbinary person could mean one who feels attraction to one gender other than nonbinary, to both binary genders, or to all genders other than their exact own. Nevertheless, heterosexuality is often assumed to refer to attraction between men and women only, even when nonbinary identities are acknowledged. This can cause distress to nonbinary people in a relationship and their partners as they struggle to find a labels for themselves. The question of whether a nonbinary person can identify as heterosexual-- and how exactly that person defines their heterosexuality-- is up to that individual person.

Also called being gay, homosexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person feels sexual attraction only to people of the same [[gender]] as one's self.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality [https://web.archive.org/web/20230705170849/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> All homosexual people can also call themselves gay. Homosexual attraction can sometimes include nonbinary people.<ref>{{cite book |title=25 Great Lesson Plans about Sexual Orientation |year=2017 |last1=Clark |first1=Terri |last2=Gilbert |first2=Tracie Q. |last3=Rayne |first3=Karen |quote=The prefix ''homo'' in the word ''homosexuality'' means "same" or "similar." Thus, homosexual (usually called ''gay'' or ''lesbian'') people are by definition exclusively attracted to people of the same sex. For most gay people, this usually means attraction to the same biological sex, but for some gay people it can also include attraction to certain trans and intersex people, as well as people of all sorts of gender identities. |url=https://twitter.com/BiDotOrg/status/1442167110927470594/photo/1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721070737/https://twitter.com/BiDotOrg/status/1442167110927470594 |archive-date=21 July 2023 |access-date=27 September 2021 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

American musician [[King Princess]] describes herself as a both a [[genderqueer]] person and gay [[woman]].<ref name="Menuez"/>

Differosexual or differoromantic refers to a person of any gender that is attracted to multiple genders that are different from their own gender.<ref>https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Differo-1-869558442 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701052059/https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Differo-1-869558442 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> The term was created by Tumblr user ''mossy-maze'' on January 15, 2018, along with the below flags.<ref name="differo">{{Cite web |title=Differo- attraction |author=mossy-maze |work= |date=15 January 2018 |access-date=26 February 2021 |url=https://mossy-maze.tumblr.com/post/169724815541/differo-attraction |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721071731/https://mossy-maze.tumblr.com/post/169724815541/differo-attraction |archive-date=21 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</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.miraheze.org/wiki/Disexual |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721071811/https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Disexual |archive-date=21 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</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!|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721071812/https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-0qopLPQw/|archive-date=21 July 2023|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> The term and the flags were made by Tumblr user gay-rats-sys (now called the-ragamuffins-sys).<ref>https://mogai.miraheze.org/wiki/Aliamoric [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701052438/https://mogai.miraheze.org/wiki/Aliamoric Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

Androgynesexual refers to attraction to androgynous or gender neutral people.<ref>https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/146780123855/nin [https://web.archive.org/web/20230119202325/https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/146780123855/nin Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> However, androgynesexual carries the connotation that the person of attraction is both masculine and feminine, rather than neither.<ref>https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/162155422185/androgyne-orientation [https://web.archive.org/web/20221230043500/https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/162155422185/androgyne-orientation Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Sometimes it is defined as attraction to men and women with [[androgynous]] appearances<ref name="wiki_Andr">{{Cite web |title=Androgynosexual |author= |work=AVENwiki |date= |access-date=26 September 2020 |url= http://wiki.asexuality.org/Androgynosexual|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510011703/http://wiki.asexuality.org/Androgynosexual|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>, or to simply anyone with [[androgynous]] appearance.<ref name="coll_Defi">{{Cite web |title=Definition of androgynosexual {{!}} New Word Suggestion |author= |work=Collins Dictionary |date=26 May 2016 |access-date=26 September 2020 |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/submission/17417/androgynosexual |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721072234/https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/submission/17417/androgynosexual |archive-date=21 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

{{quote|Aster comes from the ancient greek word for star, and specifically the term asterian is derived from asterisk, meaning ‘little star’. As non-binaries are often represented by stars (hence [[Galactian system|stellarian]]) as there are countless billions of stars completely seperate from the influence of our human gender binary (unlike the sun and moon, having been gendered in religions and cultures through time), loving nb people as a woman is known as being an asterian, especially as women are represented by circles, and if the outer points of an asterisk are joined it forms a circle - representing the union of nb people and woman.<ref>{{cite web |title=Asterian |url=https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/176383259124/asterian |author=orbisian-prinxess |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721082306/https://bigendering.tumblr.com/post/176383259124/asterian |archive-date=21 July 2023 |access-date=9 February 2021 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>}}

"Maedic", coined in 2018 by Mod Alec/Jace of tumblr blog beyond-mogai-pride-flags, is a synonym for asterian. This word was derived from the maenads of Greek mythology, who were female followers of Dionysus and consorts of Hermaphrodite (deity of [[androgyny]]).<ref name="beyo_Maed">{{Cite web |title=Maedic/WLNB Pride Flag |author= |work=Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags |date=7 February 2018 |access-date=19 June 2021 |url= https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170626057825/maedicwlnb-pride-flag|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623192317/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170626057825/maedicwlnb-pride-flag |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="beyo_Hell">{{Cite web |title=Hello Followers! |author= |work=Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags |date=2 February 2018 |access-date=19 June 2021 |url=https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170442283755/hello-follows |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721072308/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170442283755/hello-followers |archive-date=21 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>