same-sex desire
Attraction to alike
Same-sex desire is sexual or romantic attraction to people of one's own gender.
The clinical-sounding phrase appears most often in academic, historical, or legal contexts where terms like "gay" or "homosexual" might seem too modern, too clinical, or too narrow: Medieval literature contains coded expressions of same-sex desire.
The phrasing emphasizes the feeling itself rather than identity categories.
- marriage equalitySame legal wedlock for all
- lesbianismFemale same-sex orientation
- homosexualitySame-sex romantic orientation
- queer literatureWriting by or about LGBTQ+ people
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
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- lesbian culturelesbian, lesbianism, sapphic, wlw, lesbian culture
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
same-sex desireheterosexuality
Opposite-sex sexual orientation
same, sameness, sexes, sexual, sexuality, sexed, desexed, homosexual, heterosexual