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{{distinguish|uranic}}{{Sexuality Info|title1=Uranian|image1=Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|caption1=The uranian flag by Valentin Belyaev.|gender(s):=Men and/or nonbinary people.|gender(s)_attracted_to:=Men and/or nonbinary people.}}[[File:Uranian alternate.png|thumb|An alternate uranian flag.]][[File:C1c31a6a5cb184159f0a6bbcd465c9b8.jpg|thumb|The original gay man flag by ask-pride-color-schemes.|alt=]] |
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[[File:Mlm (seven-stripe version).png|thumb|The uranian flag by Tumblr user "gayflagblog".]]'''Uranian''' is a term originally used in the 19th and early 20th centuries referring primarily to [[gay]] men. In its time, it was less frequently used to refer to gay women, "effeminate" men, and [[transfeminine]] people attracted to men. |
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This term appeared in the 19th century on behalf of the ancient goddess Aphrodite Urania, born of a man without the participation of a woman, who was called the patroness of inter-male love. |
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In the 21st century, it has made a resurgence as a term for gay men and men-[[Gender Alignment|aligned]] people and is now one of multiple terms used to describe gay men such as [[vincian]] and [[turian]]. |
In the 21st century, it has made a resurgence as a term for gay men and men-[[Gender Alignment|aligned]] people and is now one of multiple terms used to describe gay men such as [[vincian]] and [[turian]]. |
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==Flag== |
==Flag== |
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| ⚫ | 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> |
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[[File:Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|thumb|The uranian flag by Valentin Belyaev.]] |
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| ⚫ | 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> |
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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> |
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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[[File:Mlm (seven-stripe version).png|thumb|The uranian flag by Tumblr user "gayflagblog".]] |
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| ⚫ | 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> |
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Later in 2019, the Tumblr Blog gayflagblog proposed a flag based off of the prior version that addressed the issues with the old one by adding symbolic and historical meanings to each color and stripe as well as allowing those in the community to offer input and propose their own changes.The top three stripes represent community, healing, and joy. The bottom three stripes represent pure love, fortitude, and diversity. The white middle stripe is taken from the trans flag and represents all trans, non-binary, and [[Gender Non-Conforming|gender non-conforming]] uranian. The green and teal in the flag represent nature, as love between men is often seen as “unnatural” in the eyes of society and in religion. Furthermore, uranian have historically used green flowers and plants (carnations, hyacinths, etc.) The blue-to-purple gradient on the bottom of half the flag symbolizes how some uranians might be stereotypical, some might not be, and some are in-between or fluid.[[File:Gay man 3 by pride flags ddx2cjp-fullview.png|thumb|An alternate uranian flag by gaymanflag on Tumblr.]]There are various versions of this flag, including five-stripe and six-stripe "simplified" flags as well as various color edits to make the flag more purple with warmer greens, have different shades of green to represent the carnation flower, and one that added the color pink to the flag<ref>https://gayflagblog.tumblr.com/post/629409796470276096</ref>. Versions of the flag with the double-Mars symbol<ref>https://gayflags.carrd.co/#mars</ref> and the hyacinth flower<ref>https://gayflagblog.tumblr.com/post/622372254435753984</ref> have also been made. |
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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. |
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==Etymology== |
==Etymology== |
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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: |
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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Uranian is a term originally used in the 19th and early 20th centuries referring primarily to gay men. In its time, it was less frequently used to refer to gay women, "effeminate" men, and transfeminine people attracted to men.
In the 21st century, it has made a resurgence as a term for gay men and men-aligned people 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 people who are attracted to men, men-aligned people, masculine-aligned people, and other non-binary people 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 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. 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.[2]
John Addington Symonds was the first person to use the term "uranian" in the English language,[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
Flag
Queer activst Valentin Belyaev proposed a uranian flag on or before mid-2010s.[6][7] 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.[8][9]
An alternate uranian flag was created by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on February 19, 2021.[10]
A gay man flag was made by Mod Hermy of the @ask-pride-color-schemes Tumblr blog in 2017.[11][12] 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.[13]
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."[14]
References
- ↑ The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love", Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.
- ↑ Blog post about the "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (1919-1933)" exhibit at the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute of Sexology (in German).
- ↑ Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde, Michael M. Kaylor, Masaryk University.
- ↑ Gutenberg Institute article on Uranian poetry.
- ↑ 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?"
- ↑ https://vk.com/wall-146511780_2722
- ↑ Twitter account for the uranian flag.
- ↑ Twitter post explaining BelyaevValentin's connection with an alternate gay flag created in 2018.
- ↑ The Free Library entry on Oscar Wilde, including a quote regarding uranian love as heavenly.
- ↑ Tumblr post announcing a uranian flag.
- ↑ Gay Man
- ↑ Gay Man Flag
- ↑ I hate this blue gay flag
- ↑ The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love", Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.