For People Attracted
to
the "Opposite"
Sex
- Adventurous heterosexual (Someone who
considers themself heterosexual but experiments with
nontraditional sexual activities and/or gender roles)
- Amative lover (Used by Walt
Whitman)
- Breeder
- Ego-dystonic heterosexual (Defines one
as being ashamed of one's heterosexuality)
- Ex-gay (Defines one's attraction as
having formerly been toward the same sex)
- Grim (Invented by Tennessee Williams;
opposite of "gay")
- Het
- Hetero
- Heteroeroticist
- Heterophile
- Heterosensual
- Heterosexual (Medical term)
- Heterosexualist (Defines one's
attraction as a political statement)
- Heterotrope
- Invertebrate (Literally, "lacking a
spine"; used in reference to the fact that being queer both
requires courage and builds further courage, whereas being
heterosexual requires and builds relatively little
courage)
- Kinsey zero (Exclusively attracted to
the opposite sex)
- Latent homosexual (Defines one as being
capable of same-sex attraction but not actually feeling
it)
- Pre-gay (Defines one's lack of
same-sex attraction as temporary)
- Queer straight (Someone who considers
themself heterosexual but adopts a partially queer
sensibility)
- Repressed (Defines one as being capable
of some other kind of feeling that what one gives free reign
to)
- Sad (Opposite of
"gay")
- Straight
- Tourist (A heterosexual who visits queer
spaces just to gawk at the inhabitants, who generally find this
irritating)
- Unhappy (Opposite of
"gay")
- Zero (See "Kinsey zero"
above)
- See also: For people attracted to
women
-
- For people attracted to men
- For women attracted to men
- For men attracted to women
- For gender conforming
people
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