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.
- Strayt, contraic, enanteic or another form of "straight non-binary" person.
- Heterosexual and/or heteroromantic people who are also ace-spec and/or aro-spec people.
- Varioriented people with at least one identity being straight.
- People with a fluid attraction who sometimes are straight.
- Heteroflexible people.
- "Straight now but not forever" or "straight but with exceptions" people.
- Straight polyamorous people.
- Straight people in a queer relationship.
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.[1] By the early 2000s, the term and its known variations also applied to (assumed) straight people in queer meeting spaces.[2]
Flag
The current definition and first heteroqueer flag was created by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on June 29, 2019.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
An alternate straight queer flag was created by FANDOM user Scourgeface on January 12, 2021. The lavender stripe represents trans people, the pink binary women and women-aligned people (including through a multigender people), the yellow non-binary genders, the green aro-spec people, the blue binary men or men-aligned people (including through a multigender experience), and the purple ace-spec people.
References
- ↑ 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.