Alterousromantic

From LGBTQIA

Alterousromantic or Romanticalterous is a form of emotional attraction that has multiple definitions:

  • One understands that they feel/may feel alterous attraction and/or romantic attraction, but cannot distinguish between them.
  • Knowing that they feel alterous and/or romantic attraction but they lean to one over the other (They may also label themself as the one they lean closer to.
  • Fluctuating between the attractions or fluctuate between the states of not knowing. (E.g. Fluctuating between alterous and romantic. E.g. Fluctuate between alterous, not knowing and romantic.)
  • Feeling one attraction to one individual and another to another individual and/or not be able to distinguish attractions to another.

History

Alterousromantic was coined by ALDA (Tumblr user a1ly) on November 26th, 2021 and the same user created the flags on November 27th.[1]

Flags

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Resources

  1. A1ly. "Alterousromantic". Tumblr, 26 Nov. 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20230813212504/https://www.tumblr.com/a1ly/669017531206565888/alterousromantic. Archived on 13 Aug. 2023.