Straight queer, also known as heteroqueer, queerhet, or hetroqueer, describes someone who identifies as both queer and straight. This term may include, but is not limited to:
- Straight trans people (transhet)
- Straight non-binary people (enbyhet), including strayt, contraic, enanteic individuals
- Heterosexual and/or heteroromantic individuals who are also ace-spec and/or aro-spec
- Someone who is hetero in a tertiary attraction (non-rose or eriattraction), such as heteroplatonic and heterosensual individuals, and hetero angled or oriented aroaces
- Varioriented individuals with at least one identity being straight
- Individuals with a fluid attraction who sometimes are straight
- Heteroflexible and amplusic straight individuals
- Individuals who are "straight now but not forever" or "straight but with exceptions"
- Straight polyamorous individuals
- Straight individuals in a queer relationship
- Pluralians reclaiming the label straight due to not being attracted to the same gender (for example: differosexual or penultisexual)[1]
- Pluralians who have a preference for the opposite gender and express this by identifying as straight in addition to other labels
- Deltheons, heterenborics, diamoric straights, and mesriens
- Ultramoric duarics reclaiming straight
- Straight isogender, ipsogender, and ultergender people
- Transsex, and altersex straights
- Cupiohex individuals
- Straightcians and straightbians, including genderfluid and multigender individuals
- Straight individuals who are gender/pronoun non-conforming, such as masculine they/them women, and extrine men who use neopronouns
- Straight individuals who are xenogender, xenine, or xenic
Not everyone who meets these qualifications or has a straight queer experience identifies specifically as "straight queer".
History
Historically, the term "straightqueer" was slang for a gay person presenting themselves in a metropolitan and "straight-passing" way.[2] By the early 2000s, the term and its known variations also applied to (assumed) straight people in queer meeting spaces.[3]
Flag
The current definition and first heteroqueer flag was created by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on June 29, 2019.[4] A simplified version of their flag was created by FANDOM user Homesick Moonstone on December 16, 2020.
The queerhet flag was created by Tumblr user xenogender-aligned on December 19, 2020.[5] The flag is a combination of the queer chevron flag’s style and colors with the straight flag’s monochrome color scheme. The different shades represent the vast spectrum of experiences queerhet can include. An alternate queerhet flag was created by Reddit user potaTARDIS_ on March 22, 2021.[6]
An alternate straight queer flag was created by FANDOM user Scourgeface on January 12, 2021. The lavender stripe represents trans individuals, the pink binary women and women-aligned individuals (including through a multigender experience), the yellow non-binary genders, the green aro-spec individuals, the blue binary men or men-aligned individuals (including through a multigender experience), and the purple ace-spec individuals.
Scourgeface also created the same flag but with a white circle in the center. The circle is white because white is all light and therefore all colors, representing all pride flags. The circle shape encircles every identity/group that is not specified by the stripes, or for those who technically fall under a stripe but don't connect with it specifically (ie. nonbinary falls under transgender however not every nonbinary person identifies with being trans.)
The vertical stripes of both of these flags were inspired by an Instagram comment by @sacha_rubinstein, in which they had made a straight flag (prior to them realizing they were bi) and they described that the "vertical lines were to distinguish it from non-straight flags."
References
- ↑ https://forestcoric-mogai-fox.tumblr.com/post/624986738250629120/i-have-done-flags-for-m-spec-straights-because
- ↑ An archived zine from 1972 about gay culture in Berkeley, California, entitled "Straightqueer." (Warning: This is an older site and may not be secure.)
- ↑ Scholarly article entitled "Heteroqueer Ladies: Some Performative Transactions between Gay Men and Heterosexual Women" published in Feminist Review in 2003.
- ↑ Tumblr post on straightqueer.
- ↑ Tumblr post on the queerhet flag.
- ↑ Reddit post on an alternate queerhet flag.