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[[File:Uranian pride flag (gay men flag).png|thumb|The proposed uranian flag
[[File:Uranian alternate.png|thumb|An alternate uranian flag.]]
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, "[[Feminine|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-[[Gender Alignment|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|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
John Addington Symonds was the first person to use the term "
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> ▼
▲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''.
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 with 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>
▲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>
==Flag==
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 an adjusted version of
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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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.
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