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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