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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/Man-aligned (generally)|gender(s)_attracted_to:=Men/Man-aligned (generally)}}[[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 flag by Tumblr user "gayflagblog".]]'''Uranian''' is a is a historical term for homosexual men. In its time, it was less frequently used to refer to "effeminate" men, and [[transfeminine]] people attracted to men. [[Lesbian|Lesbians]] and [[Gender Non-Conforming|GNC]] [[AFAB]] people have been classified as urningin.<ref>[https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/Urningin Urningin - Nonbinary Wiki]</ref> |
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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]]. |
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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]] people who are attracted to men, men-aligned people, masculine-aligned people, and other non-binary people who self-identify as uranians. |
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==History == |
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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> |
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John Addington Symonds was the first person 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''. |
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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> |
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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> |
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==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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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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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. This flag is most commonly sighted as the [[vincian]] flag. |
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==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: |
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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 Karl Heinrich Ulrichs's term ''urning'' (or Symonds' uranian). |
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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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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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==References== |
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