Straight queer

Straight queerThese terms may be rendered with or without a space or hyphen between the combined words, with their order swapped, or with varying capitalization: straightqueer, straight-queer, queer straight, queer heterosexual, HeteroQueers, etc. This wiki article tries to use one styling of each for consistency when not quoting or paraphrasing a specific source's language.. Revised and expanded from original publication: or heteroqueer, when used as a personal identity label, generally means someone who is primarily heterosexual in their sexual orientation but also identifies with queerness in some other aspect of their sexuality, their gender, or both. Some examples of heterosexual people whose gender may be considered queer are transgender people (of any gender identity) or a person who is non-binary, genderqueer, or agender. Another definition of heteroqueer is a person who is only attracted to people of a sex group other than their own but is comfortable with the possibility of being attracted to someone of their own sex group in the future.
Aside from their use as a personal identifier, the terms straight queer and heteroqueer have been used in academia in ways that are elaborated upon in the etymology section.
==Etymology==
===Straight queer===
The word "straightqueer" was used in print at least once in 1972 as a zine title. In the 1990s, straight queer was used with opposite meanings depending on the author: a straight person who passes as queer or a queer person who passes as straight.
Ann Powers described "queer straight" as someone who is straight but passes as queer. In a 1993 article, she wrote of this as someone with a straight identity who does not necessarily claim a queer one but enters queer spaces, performs, and presents themselves as if they were queer; they pass as queer without ever engaging in homosexual intimacy.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a bisexual femme whose mother did not want her to be butch or be around butches, wrote in 1997: "she was showing how scared she was of butch/femme, saying that it was okay for me to be queer only if I was a 'straight queer': someone who was conventionally gendered and partnered monogamously with another conventionally gendered woman." 
In 2005, masculinity researcher Robert Heasley used "queer-straight" or "straight-queer" in another way to describe "queer masculinities of straight men": men who are straight and do not conform to "hegemonic-straight-masculinity", thus queering what it means to be masculine and to be straight. These men are not queer in their sexuality, but they may be perceived as such. Heasley elaborated upon several types of potentially straight queer men.
===Heteroqueer===
Roberta Mock wrote a 2003 journal article that explored heterosexual women who perform femininity in ways created by and associated with gay men. For instance, these "heterowomen" may "do queer"—be "heteroqueer"—by adapting camp behaviors or the aesthetics of gay male drag queens. Mock examined Bette Midler through this lens.
Heteroqueer is one of the terms survey participants have provided in 21st century studies regarding transgender people. A woman who identified as a lesbian before her partner transitioned to male said using the label heteroqueer instead of bisexual would be less affirming of her partner's maleness. In another study, a participant who is attracted to women formerly identified himself as lesbian pre-transition and did not call himself straight after he transitioned; he found that heteroqueer seemed the best fit for him, or "I'm a guy who likes girls who like 'special' guys". Although these studies demonstrate that heteroqueer is a label rather than merely academic terminology, the articles did not provide any definitions of heteroqueer.
==Community==
===Flags===
Several proposed designs for these labels use shades of purple, pink, white, gray, and/or black. One of these proposals was a 5-striped design for straight queer or queer straight pride, which was posted on August 27, 2018 by Mod AP (@arco-pluris) of the Tumblr blog Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags. AP said of the colors: "First colors for queerness and last ones for straightness". Mod AP also posted a heteroqueer flag design with 12 stripes in this color range on June 29, 2019. The DeviantArt account Pride-Flags posted another 7-stripe heteroqueer flag design with similar colors, credited to Gayer9000, on April 10, 2021.
A queerhet pride flag with stripes in five desaturated colors (cyan/blue, green, greenish-gray, yellow, and reddish-orange) was posted on Tumblr by @kaestral on 18th March 2021. This wiki article has assumed queerhet is another variation on the label name.
===Controversy===
People who do not label certain sexual interests or lifestyles (such as kink or BDSM) or relationship models (such as being polyamorous or non-monogamous) as "straight" sometimes regard them as queer instead. A heterosexual person may be a strong ally to LGBTQIA+ people and align themselves with the culture, politics, and activism of the queer community.
The gender aspect of the queer heterosexual label may involve someone having a non-traditional gender expression (such as masculine women or feminine men) or actively defying the roles assigned by the gender binary.
Individuals sometimes prefer the label heteroqueer to one including the word straight because it can separate heterosexuality as an orientation from other connotations of straightness. Straight may be perceived as a description of anything that is normative, preserves the status quo, does not challenge conformity, or is otherwise not a pursuit of queerness. Another reason may be a belief that "queer straight" is an oxymoron based on regarding the two words as antonyms without seeing "heterosexual" and "queer" as such.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:LGBTQIA+ identities
Category:Romantic orientation
Category:Sexual orientation