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{{Sexuality_Info|title1=Uranian|image1=Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|caption1=The uranian flag by Twitter user "gay_men_flag".|gender(s):=Men/Man-Aligned|gender(s)_attracted_to:=Men/Man-Aligned}}''Not to be confused with [[Uranic]].'' |
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[[File:Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|thumb|The proposed uranian flag.]] |
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[[File:Uranian alternate.png|thumb|An alternate uranian flag.]] |
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'''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. |
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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. |
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| ⚫ | 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. |
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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: |
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* 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''. |
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* 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. |
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However, unlike Plato's account of male love, Ulrichs understood urnings to be essentially feminine and dionings to be masculine in nature. |
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==History== |
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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. |
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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://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/pwh/carpenter-is.asp Archived copy of ''The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women'', Edward Carptenter, published 1908.]</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: |
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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. |
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<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> |
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The term "[[gay]]" is used as an adjective to describe homosexuality, and is also often used by the entire [[LGBTA Wiki|LGBT]] community in general. For this reason, old terms such as the uranian are used to refer to homosexual men, or new ones are being coined, such as the [[vincian]]. Some individuals also argue that "gay" should just mean homosexual men all together, due to the fact that homosexual women are referred to as lesbian. Other people simply refer to homosexual men as "gay men". |
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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> |
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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> |
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The term was first published by activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–95) in a series of five booklets (1864–65) collected under the title ''Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe'' (''Research into the Riddle of Man–Male Love''). Ulrichs derived ''Uranian'' (''Urning'' in German) from the Greek goddess Aphrodite Urania, who was created out of the god Uranus' testicles. Therefore, it represents the love between men, while ''Dionian'' (''Dioning''), derived from Aphrodite Dionea, represents the love for women. Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term ''homosexual'', which appeared in 1869 in a pamphlet published anonymously by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–82). |
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The term ''Uranian'' was quickly adopted by English-language advocates of homosexual emancipation in the Victorian era, such as Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, who used it to describe a comradely love that would bring about true democracy, uniting the "estranged ranks of society" and breaking down class and gender barriers. Oscar Wilde wrote to Robert Ross in an undated letter (?18 February 1898): "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." |
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The term also gained currency among a group that studied Classics and dabbled in pederastic poetry from the 1870s to the 1930s. The writings of this group are now known by the phrase ''Uranian poetry''. The art of Henry Scott Tuke and Wilhelm von Gloeden is also sometimes referred to as ''Uranian''. |
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The word itself alludes to Plato's ''Symposium'', a discussion on Eros (love). In this dialog, Pausanias distinguishes between two types of love, symbolised by two different accounts of the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. In one, she was born of Uranus (the heavens), a birth in which "the female has no part". This Uranian Aphrodite is associated with a noble love for male youths, and is the source of Ulrichs's term ''Urning''. Another account has Aphrodite as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and this 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 male ''Urning''s to be essentially feminine, and male ''Dioning''s to be masculine in nature. |
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John Addington Symonds, who was one of the first to take up the term ''Uranian'' in the English language, was a student of Benjamin Jowett and was very familiar with the ''Symposium''. |
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Uranian is another term for a homosexual man, meaning a man, man-aligned, or masculine-aligned person who is attracted to men, men-aligned, or masculine-aligned people.
The term is also sometimes used by neutral-aligned, abinary, or unaligned non-binary people who are attracted to men, men-aligned people, masculine aligned people, and other non-binary people who identify as uranians.
It is sometimes more broadly defined as non-women attracted to non-women, including all NBLM, MLNB, and 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 the direct historical masculine equivalent of lesbian.
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 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.
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.[1] Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term homosexual.
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.[2][3] In a letter to lover Robert Ross, Oscar Wilde famously wrote:
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.[4]
Flag
While there is no widely accepted symbol of uranian pride, Twitter user BelyaevValentin proposed a uranian flag on or before June 2020.[5] The flag is similar to his alternate gay flag.[6]
An alternate uranian flag was created by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on February 19, 2021.[7]
References
- ↑ The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love", Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.
- ↑ Archived copy of The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women, Edward Carptenter, published 1908.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The Letters Of Oscar Wilde, Rupert Hart-Davis, Harcourt, Brace, & World Inc.
- ↑ Twitter account for the uranian flag.
- ↑ Twitter post explaining BelyaevValentin's connection with an alternate gay flag created in 2018.
- ↑ Tumblr post announcing a uranian flag.