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The original gay man flag by ask-pride-color-schemes.

Uranian is a historical term for homosexual men. In its time, it was less frequently used to refer to "effeminate" men, and transfeminine individuals attracted to men. Lesbians and GNC AFAB individuals have been classified as urningin.^[1]

In the 21st century, it has made a resurgence as a term for gay men and men-aligned indi and is now one of multiple terms used to describe gay men such as vincian and turian.

It is generally used as a masculine equivalent of lesbian. The term is also sometimes used by neutral-aligned, abinary, or unaligned non-binary individuals who are attracted to men, men-aligned individuals, masculine-aligned individuals, and other non-binary members of the community who self-identify as uranians.

History

The term urning, its etymological predecessor, was first used by German sexologist and activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in a series of five booklets collected under the title Forschungen über das Rätsel der mannmännlichen Liebe or The Riddle of Man–Manly Love.^[2] Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term homosexual. Later, another sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld would use Ulrichs work to create the terms urning, a "male-bodied person with a female psyche" who is attracted to men, and urningin (or uranierin, urnin, and urnigin), a "female-bodied person with a male psyche" who is attracted to women.^[3]

John Addington Symonds was the first to use the term "uranian" in the English language,^[4] and its etymology through Ulrichs is credited to him. However, it has been argued that this usage of the word is unrelated to Ulrichs' coinage and was independently thought of among English speakers familiar with Plato's Symposium.

The term would define a movement of primarily gay male artists and philosophers in the English-speaking world interested in the study of classics and who dabbled in pederastic poetry from the 1870s to the 1930s, including Oscar Wilde. The writings of this group are now known as Uranian poetry.^[5]

The use of "uranian" to apply to women, trans women, and feminine men did not catch on in the English language, and by the 1900s, uranian was associated exclusively with gay men.^[6]

Flag

Queer activst Valentin Belyaev proposed a uranian flag on or before mid-2010s.^[7]^[8] The flag is an adjusted version of an alternate gay men's flag, the mirrored blue stripes representing male homosexuality and inter-male love and use of blue the heavenly depiction of uranian love by writers of the movement.^[9]^[10]

An alternate uranian flag was created by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on February 19, 2021.^[11]

A gay man flag was made by Mod Hermy of the @ask-pride-color-schemes Tumblr blog in 2017.^[12]^[13] It was based on the lipstick lesbian flag, which in turn was plagiarized from a satirical cougar pride flag. This design has been criticized for its stereotypical use of blue to represent gay men in terms of masculinity.^[14]

Later in 2019, the Tumblr Blog gayflagblog proposed a flag based off of the prior version that addressed the issues with the old one. This flag is most commonly sighted as the vincian flag.

Etymology

The word refers to a dialogue in Plato's Symposium on male eros or love. In the dialogue, Pausanias distinguishes between two types of love, symbolized by two different accounts of the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love:

Heavenly birth, born of Uranus or the heavens, a birth in which "the female has no part." Uranian Aphrodite is associated with a noble love for male youths and is the source of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs's term urning (or Symonds' uranian).
Common birth, as the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Dionic Aphrodite is associated with a common love which "is apt to be of women as well as of youths, and is of the body rather than of the soul." After Dione, Ulrichs gave the name dioning to men who are sexually attracted to women.

Ulrichs interpreted Uranian love as leaving urnings with a "feminine soul."^[15]

References

[1] Urningin - Nonbinary Wiki

[2] The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love", Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.

[3] Blog post about the "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (1919-1933)" exhibit at the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute of Sexology (in German).

[4] Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde, Michael M. Kaylor, Masaryk University.

[5] Gutenberg Institute article on Uranian poetry.

[6] Lesbian activist Anna Rüling using uranian as synonymous with homosexual men in her 1904 speech, "What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?"

[7] ttps://vk.com/wall-146511780_2722

[8] Twitter account for the uranian flag.

[9] Twitter post explaining BelyaevValentin's connection with an alternate gay flag created in 2018.

[10] The Free Library entry on Oscar Wilde, including a quote regarding uranian love as heavenly.

[11] Tumblr post announcing a uranian flag.

[12] Gay Man

[13] Gay Man Flag

[14] I hate this blue gay flag

[15] The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love", Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.

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+{{Sexuality Info|title1=Uranian|image1=Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|caption1=The uranian flag by Valentin Belyaev.|gender(s):=Men/Man-aligned (generally)|gender(s)_attracted_to:=Men/Man-aligned (generally)}}{{distinguish|uranic}}
-{{distinguish|uranic}}
-[[File:Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|thumb|The proposed uranian flag.]]
 [[File:Uranian alternate.png|thumb|An alternate uranian flag.]]
+[[File:Vincian flag (original).svg|thumb|The original gay man flag by ask-pride-color-schemes.]]
-'''Uranian''' is another term for a [[Vincian|homosexual]] man, meaning a [[man]], man-[[Gender Alignment|aligned]], or masculine-aligned person who is attracted to men, men-aligned, or masculine-aligned people.
+[[File:Mlm (seven-stripe version).png|thumb|The flag by Tumblr user "gayflagblog".]]
+'''Uranian''' is a historical term for [[Gay Men|homosexual men]]. In its time, it was less frequently used to refer to "effeminate" men, and [[transfeminine]] individuals [[Mascic|attracted to men]]. [[Lesbian]]s and [[Gender Non-Conforming|GNC]] [[AFAB]] individuals have been classified as urningin.<ref>[https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Urningin Urningin - Nonbinary Wiki]</ref>
-The term is also sometimes used by [[neutral]]-aligned, [[abinary]], or unaligned [[Non-Binary|non-binary]] people who are attracted to men, men-aligned people, masculine aligned people, and other non-binary people who identify as uranians.
+In the 21st century, it has made a resurgence as a term for [[gay]] men and men-[[Gender Alignment|aligned]] indi and is now one of multiple terms used to describe gay men such as [[vincian]] and [[turian]].
-It is sometimes more broadly defined as non-women attracted to non-women, including all [[Trixic|NBLM]], [[Astroidian|MLNB]], and [[Enbian|NBLNB]] attractions. However, this definition is not the most commonly recognized, and not all non-binary people feel comfortable being included under uranian attraction.
+It is generally used as a masculine equivalent of [[lesbian]]. The term is also sometimes used by [[neutral]]-aligned, [[abinary]], or unaligned [[Non-Binary|non-binary]] individuals who are attracted to men, men-aligned individuals, masculine-aligned individuals, and other non-binary members of the community who self-identify as uranians.
-It is the direct historical masculine equivalent of [[lesbian]].
-==Etymology==
+==History ==
+The term ''urning'', its etymological predecessor, was first used by German sexologist and activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in a series of five booklets collected under the title ''Forschungen über das Rätsel der mannmännlichen Liebe'' or ''The Riddle of Man–Manly Love''.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Riddle_of_man_manly_Love/KGCGAAAAIAAJ?hl=en ''The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love"'', Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.]</ref> Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term homosexual. Later, another sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld would use Ulrichs work to create the terms ''urning'', a "male-bodied person with a female psyche" who is attracted to men, and ''urningin'' (or ''uranierin'', ''urnin'', and ''urnigin''), a "female-bodied person with a male psyche" who is attracted to women.<ref>[https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/institut/theorie-praxis/hirschfelds-theorie/ Blog post about the "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (1919-1933)" exhibit at the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute of Sexology (in German).]</ref>
-The word refers to a dialogue in Plato's ''Symposium'' on male ''eros '' or love. In the dialogue, Pausanias distinguishes between two types of love, symbolized by two different accounts of the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love:
-* Heavenly birth, born of ''Uranus'' or the heavens, a birth in which "the female has no part." Uranian Aphrodite is associated with a noble love for male youths and is the source of sexologist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs's term ''urning''.
-* Common birth, as the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Dionic Aphrodite is associated with a common love which "is apt to be of women as well as of youths, and is of the body rather than of the soul." After Dione, Ulrichs gave the name ''dioning'' to men who are sexually attracted to women.
-However, unlike Plato's account of male love, Ulrichs understood urnings to be essentially feminine and dionings to be masculine in nature.
+John Addington Symonds was the first to use the term "uranian" in the English language,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-Wa7SIsAQgAC ''Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde'', Michael M. Kaylor, Masaryk University.]</ref> and its etymology through Ulrichs is credited to him. However, it has been argued that this usage of the word is unrelated to Ulrichs' coinage and was independently thought of among English speakers familiar with Plato's ''Symposium''.
-==History==
-The term was first published by sexologist and activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in a series of five booklets collected under the title ''Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe'' or ''The Riddle of Man–Manly Love''.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Riddle_of_man_manly_Love/KGCGAAAAIAAJ?hl=en ''The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love"'', Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.]</ref> Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term homosexual.
+The term would define a movement of primarily gay male artists and philosophers in the English-speaking world interested in the study of classics and who dabbled in [[Pedophile|pederastic]] poetry from the 1870s to the 1930s, including Oscar Wilde. The writings of this group are now known as Uranian poetry.<ref>[http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/Uranian_poetry Gutenberg Institute article on Uranian poetry.]</ref>
-Uranian was adopted by English-language advocates of homosexual emancipation in the Victorian era, such as philosopher Edward Carpenter and literary critic John Addington Symonds, who used it to describe a comradely love that would bring about true democracy.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/intermediatesexs00carpiala ''The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women'', Edward Carptenter, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd.]</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Love_in_Earnest/RAdaAAAAMAAJ?hl=en Google Books entry for ''Love in Earnest: Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English 'Uranian' Poets from 1889 to 1930'', a book on self-identified uranian poets that mentions Addington Symonds.]</ref> In a letter to lover Robert Ross, Oscar Wilde famously wrote:
+The use of "uranian" to apply to women, trans women, and feminine men did not catch on in the English language, and by the 1900s, uranian was associated exclusively with gay men.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pAny0qfa6qsC&pg=PA79 Lesbian activist Anna Rüling using uranian as synonymous with homosexual men in her 1904 speech, "What Interest does the Women's Movement have in Solving the Homosexual Problem?"]</ref>
-<blockquote>''To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble—more noble than other forms''.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.225943/mode/2up ''The Letters Of Oscar Wilde'', Rupert Hart-Davis, Harcourt, Brace, & World Inc.]</ref></blockquote>
 ==Flag==
-While there is no widely accepted symbol of uranian pride, Twitter user BelyaevValentin proposed a uranian flag on or before June 2020.<ref>[https://twitter.com/gay_men_flag Twitter account for the uranian flag.]</ref> The flag is similar to his alternate gay flag.<ref>[https://twitter.com/gay_men_flag/status/1272258252978425857 Twitter post explaining BelyaevValentin's connection with an alternate gay flag created in 2018.]</ref>
+Queer activst Valentin Belyaev proposed a uranian flag on or before mid-2010s.<ref>https://vk.com/wall-146511780_2722</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/gay_men_flag Twitter account for the uranian flag.]</ref> The flag is an adjusted version of an alternate gay men's flag, the mirrored blue stripes representing male homosexuality and inter-male love and use of blue the heavenly depiction of uranian love by writers of the movement.<ref>[https://twitter.com/gay_men_flag/status/1272258252978425857 Twitter post explaining BelyaevValentin's connection with an alternate gay flag created in 2018.]</ref><ref>[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+picture+of+Oscar+Wilde.-a0168654671 The Free Library entry on Oscar Wilde, including a quote regarding uranian love as heavenly.]</ref>
 An alternate uranian flag was created by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on February 19, 2021.<ref>[https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/643575632199106560/uranian-pride-flag Tumblr post announcing a uranian flag.]</ref>
+A gay man flag was made by Mod Hermy of the @ask-pride-color-schemes Tumblr blog in 2017.<ref>[https://pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/162294430961/gay-man-some-proposed-flags-to-represent Gay Man]</ref><ref>[https://gayflagblog.tumblr.com/post/186181118619/gay-man-flag-many-people-are-unhappy-with-the Gay Man Flag]</ref> It was based on the lipstick lesbian flag, which in turn was plagiarized from a satirical cougar pride flag. This design has been criticized for its stereotypical use of blue to represent gay men in terms of masculinity.<ref>[https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2019/03/13/i-hate-this-gay-flag/ I hate this blue gay flag]</ref>
+Later in 2019, the Tumblr Blog gayflagblog proposed a flag based off of the prior version that addressed the issues with the old one. This flag is most commonly sighted as the [[vincian]] flag.
+==Etymology==
+The word refers to a dialogue in Plato's ''Symposium'' on male ''eros'' or love. In the dialogue, Pausanias distinguishes between two types of love, symbolized by two different accounts of the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love:
+*Heavenly birth, born of ''Uranus'' or the heavens, a birth in which "the female has no part." Uranian Aphrodite is associated with a noble love for male youths and is the source of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs's term ''urning'' (or Symonds' uranian).
+*Common birth, as the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Dionic Aphrodite is associated with a common love which "is apt to be of women as well as of youths, and is of the body rather than of the soul." After Dione, Ulrichs gave the name ''dioning'' to men who are sexually attracted to women.
+Ulrichs interpreted Uranian love as leaving urnings with a "feminine soul."<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Riddle_of_man_manly_Love/KGCGAAAAIAAJ?hl=en ''The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love"'', Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.]</ref>
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