Varioriented (shortened to vario or varior), also known as cross-oriented, refers to someone whose sexual orientation and romantic orientation are "mismatched", split, incongruous, or mixed. A few examples include: someone who is asexual panromantic, someone who is gay (homosexual) greyromantic, or someone who is heterosexual omniromantic. Varioriented is typically used to describe individuals on a-spec (ace-spec or aro-spec, or both, but with different orientations on each spectrum) who use the split attraction model; however, there can be varioriented individuals who are both allosexual and alloromantic. For example, someone who is heteroromantic and pansexual. The noun form is variorientation or cross-orientation.[1]
The opposite of varioriented is perioriented.
History
Variorientation was coined by Sarah (Tumblr user sparebear) on or before January 17th, 2014, as a "non-matching identity" for situations of romantic/sexual orientations.[2][3] Fy via beyond-mogai-pride-flags posted the pride flag on January 28, 2018.[4] There is no known meaning for the flag.[5]
References
- ↑ https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/07/cross-orientation-101/
- ↑ https://theacetheist.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/remodeling-on-the-reclamation-of-the-term-split-attraction-model
- ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/sevenbrds/73631090734/panpuru-panpuru-ughgh-ok-we-seriously-need
- ↑ https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/170234834495/varioriented-pride-flag
- ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Varioriented-869556678