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[[File:Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|thumb|The proposed uranian/gay man flag.]]

'''Uranian''' is a term originally used in the 19th and early 20th centuries, mostreferring commonly referringprimarily to gay [[man|men]]. Itas waswell occasionallyas also"[[Feminine|effeminate]]" extendedmen toand cover gay[[transfeminine]] people ofwho anyidentified gender,partly with [[Masculine|masculinity]] and otherwere sexualattracted to men. In the 21st century, it has made a resurgence as a term for [[gay]] men and gendermen-[[Gender variantAlignment|aligned]] people, similarand is now one of multiple terms used to thedescribe wordgay men such as [[queervincian]] todayand [[turian]].

In the modern day it is most commonly used to refer to gay men and men-aligned people. Is one of multiple terms used to describe [[gay]] men and is similar to [[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|non-binary]] people who are attracted to men, men-aligned people, masculine -aligned people, and other non-binary people who self-identify as uranians.

The term was first published 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''.<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> InUlrichs developed his bookterminology hebefore describedthe first public use of the term homosexual. Later, another sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld would use Ulrichs work to create the terms ''Urningurning'', as "a "male-bodied person with a female psyche" who is attracted to men, and ''Urninginurningin'' (or ''Uranierinuranierin'', ''Urninurnin'', and ''Urniginurnigin''), asa "a female-bodied person with a male psyche" who is attracted to women.<ref>[https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/institut/theorie-praxis/hirschfelds-theorie/ UlrichsBlog developedpost hisabout terminologythe before"Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (1919-1933)" exhibit at the firstMagnus publicHirschfeld useInstitute of Sexology (in German).]</ref> However, by the term1900s, homosexualthe concept of "women urnings" had fallen out of use.<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>

John Addington Symonds, who was one of the first person to use the term Urnanian"Uranian" in the English language.,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-Wa7SIsAQgAC ''Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde]</ref>'', TheMichael term also gained currency among a group that studied classics and dabbled in pederastic poetry from the 1870s to the 1930sM. TheKaylor, writingsMasaryk of this group are now known by the phrase Uranian poetryUniversity.]</ref> Theand artits ofetymology Henrythrough Scott Tuke and Wilhelm von GloedenUlrichs is also sometimes referredcredited to as Uranianhim. However, it has been argued that this usage of the word is unrelated to Ulrichs's coinage, and haswas independently thought of among English speakers familiar with Plato's ''Symposium''.<ref>http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/Uranian_poetry?View=embedded%27%27</ref>

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, with the last three stripes reflected to indicate gay men's love for gay men.<ref>[https://twitter.com/gay_men_flag/status/1272258252978425857 Twitter post explaining BelyaevValentin's connection with an alternate gay flag created in 2018.]</ref>

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''.