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Discover LudwigThe word "non-heterosexual" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual, such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual. For example: "Non-heterosexual relationships are becoming increasingly accepted in modern society."
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non-heterosexual
noun
One who is not a heterosexual.
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Non-heterosexual relationships are even more difficult, with same-sex relations illegal in many countries.
But the survey also showed higher numbers of sexual assaults reported by non-heterosexual women.
Even though the splash seemed like news, Jessie J is used to the being a non-heterosexual role model.
MacCulloch turns to the less edifying uses of silence: the silence surrounding the Holocaust, slavery, clerical abuse; the silencing of non-heterosexual, non-male voices within the church.
There had been an inkling that the young Smurfette's non-rugby and non-blokey leanings might signpost a non-heterosexual future.
Surely the recent explosion of gay-themed media indicates both considerable gay audience presence and considerable interest in non-heterosexual characters.
It is important to note, of course, that while the legislation itself is colonial, hostility to non-heterosexual and non-reproductive sexuality runs deep in many patriarchal cultures.
The conversation ranged from rights for those with non-heterosexual gender behavior to those with conscious or ethical eating habits to those for animals.
The New Yorker and the TLS published women writers in "all sexual identity categories", Vida reported, and Poetry magazine featured 55 bylines by non-heterosexual authors, compared to 48 bylines by straight/heterosexual female writers.
So, oddly, women who chat up women might well have just as much (or as little) success as men who chat up women, even though non-heterosexual women are a small minority.
Following approval last December by Mexico City's legislative assembly, the first marriages of non-heterosexual couples in the Mexican capital — or anywhere in Latin America, for that matter — will take place next week.
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