Straightbian Positivity Account

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What is a straight lesbian?

Someone who identifies with both the straight label and the lesbian label! Some who identify as straight lesbian could be:

  • multigender/genderfluid/bigender and identifies as a man/masc (sometimes or always) and a woman/fem (sometimes or always) whilst being attracted to, usually exclusively to, women.
  • a nonbinary person who's both lesbian and straight for women (and/or other nonbinary people), aka straytbian/straightbien
  • Two-Spirit and uses "straight" to describe the masculine spirit and "lesbian" to describe the feminine spirit
  • abrosexual/abrisexual/duosexual whose sexuality changes between lesbian and straight
  • a [median] system where there are alter(s) that identify as straight and alter(s) that identify as lesbian.
  • someone attracted to the same gender and other genders but uses mono terms to describe their attraction. This is likely due to:
    • being varioriented (having split attraction) and are, for example, heteroromantic homosexual or homoromantic heterosexual
    • finding it liberating to describe their attraction in such a way

History

The term "straightbian" originated in a wide variety of different groups to describe different things, anything that someone may describe as both "lesbian" and "straight", but as an identity there isn't much before 2018.

It has often been used as an alternative to "fakebian" or "fauxbian" as it is seen contradictory, and therefore some people who identify as a straight lesbian might do it for the sake of, or partially for the sake of, reclamation by, for example, transfem lesbians, bisexual women, lesbians that enter or have entered relationships with men, etc. (Any good-faith lesbian who was perceived as straight). It has been used by TERFs, and less commonly towards political lesbians.

Joey Soloway in their book "She Wants It" uses the word "straightbian" to describe their pretransition/closeted self (from what I can gather). https://www.amazon.com/She-Wants-Desire-Toppling-Patriarchy/dp/1101904747 (2018)

There are similar terms that have had a longer precedent:

  • "Disjunctive uranodioningin", a term coined by Karl Ulrichs in the 18th century, can be seen as an archaic version of the term "varioriented straightbian", the term meaning a woman who has tender feelings for one gender and passionate feelings for another.
  • "Het-Dyke", the title of Liliane, bi dyke #39
  • The term "heteroromantic lesbian" has been used since at least 2013.
  • In this article on the borders between butchness and manhood, one person describes herself as a "straight butch" (2015)

Straightbian OTD submission form

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Extra info and sources (carrds)

Bi lesbian carrd:
Straight lesbian:
Straight vincian:

Straight Lesbian Wiki

Flags

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Straightbian flag by forestcoric-mogai-fox on Tumblr
Flag mogai-wyvern
5 striped straightbian flag by mogai-wyvern on Tumblr
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Straightbian flag by Pride-Flags on Deviantart
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Straightbian flag by crispnuqqet on Twitter and Tumblr
straytbian/straightbien flag by anon submission to beyond-mogai-pride-flags on Tumblr
Straight lesbian flag by lesmspecotd on twitter

Straigtbian flag by art_by_foxglove on Twitter

straight lesboy flag by transdrogyne on Twitter


Transhet lesbian flag by jfifles on DeviantArt

Every identity has a right to exist. Do not attempt to use some of these as a universal "replacement" for straight lesbian (or any other identity) and vise versa. Don't force labels onto others. Also, these are simplified explanations that may not encompass every way someone may identify with the label.

Larimarian - someone who is both mlw and wlw (a person who is both a man and a woman who likes women!)

Salietian - someone who is both wlm and wlw (a person who is a woman who likes men and women)

Mspec - short for multisexual spectrum, it means the attraction to multiple genders often used as an umbrella term for labels such as bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, etc. Its also synonymous to bi+.

Bi/mspec lesbian - someone who's attracted to multiple genders (similar genders and other genders), and attracted to women and/or fiaspec individuals

Fiaspec - any gender related to feminity/femaleness/womanhood/girlhood

Miaspec - any gender related to masculinity/maleness/manhood/boyhood

Bigender - someone who identifies with 2 genders

Abrosexuality - fluid/changing sexuality

Abrisexual - changing sexuality but the feeling of the sexuality doesn't change and the label differs instead

Duosexual - sexuality that changes between 2 prominent sexualities

Duaric - an umbrella term for all wlm/mlw identities, usually used by queer people that want to describe their same gender attraction and relationships (usually due to being mspec/bisexual or because heterosexuality is associated with non-queerness, as that's what it meant historically and is still used by others to describe non-queerness)

Admin Info

Eep

Introduction

Hi! You can call me Eep :D I wanna stay mostly anonymous so you can use any pronouns! I identify as a straight lesbian because I'm varioriented and it makes sense to me >_< I also like the terms salietian, homohet and bi!

My flags

Other flags I made!

Gender-neutral homo/gay flag

Salietian flag with symbol by 1800queeragenda

Straight bi lesbian

Homohet flag

Mini FAQ

What is your gender?
Girl, mostly cis. I like the labels mione and agender girl and they sorta fit but not totally.

Attraction to men?
Nyes

Are my labels contradictory?
Whether or not they are, I don't think it matters really, and to me, they aren't. I find often that concepts we consider contradictory or oxymoronic often aren't. Every example that others tried to use to invalidate me, with a quick Google search, turned out to be a real thing.

No-one would identify as that in real life!
I do!.

Kitty

Introduction

Hi! I'm Kitty(Mew/Mews), your friendly neighberhood straytbian catgirl. i use straytbian because my attraction to women is a mix of lesbian and strayt. In terms of gender, it's very confusing, but it's basically abinary girl.

I shitpost on the account a lot so keep that in mind.

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Pub: 07 Jan 2022 21:57 UTC
Edit: 19 Jun 2024 21:45 UTC
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