The word 'heterosexual' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person who is attracted to people of the opposite sex. For example: "My brother is heterosexual and is dating a woman."
Chope asked Cameron in the first question at prime minister's questions: "Can [he] say in response to the many concerns expressed in yesterday's debate will he ensure that civil partnerships are open to heterosexual couples on an equal basis with homosexual couples?" The prime minister replied: "I will obviously listen carefully to what he says.
Internet trolling might seem like an issue that only affects a certain subset of people, but that's only true if you believe that living in a world devoid of diverse voices – public discourse shaped primarily by white, heterosexual, able-bodied men – wouldn't profoundly affect your life.
From the stage the actors could see the misery etched on their faces, condemned to sit in a sweltering theatre and watch a play about heterosexual and homosexual love in New York when all their mates were down the pub screaming advice at Paul Gascoigne.
The "average" MP tends to be, in McCarthy's words, "white, middle age, middle class, able bodied, cis-gendered, heterosexual, business-orientated, men".
The American psychological association state rather succinctly that "... the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by lesbian and gay parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth".. Sadly, the insinuation that same-sex parents are defective continues unabated.
David Cameron has rejected a call by a leading Tory traditionalist for heterosexual couples to be granted the right to enter into civil partnerships after MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of equal marriage.
The research was published as the prime minister rejected calls to extend civil partnership to heterosexual couples on the grounds that it would weaken marriage.
He added that the fight to enable heterosexual couples to enter into civil partnerships would continue.
Writing for the PinkNews website before the contest, Ronny Larsson, editor of Swedish LGBT magazine QX, said Zelmerlöw had only intended to say gay sex was less common than the heterosexual variety, not an aberration.
It is true that non-heterosexual youths suffer proportionally higher depression rates than their heterosexual counterparts, but this difference is correlated heavily to homophobic treatment by peers and, worse again, parental disapproval.
The no campaign, whatever its intention, has reiterated the ugly fiction that homosexual relationships are inherently inferior to their heterosexual counterparts.
