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heterosexuality

romantic and/or sexual attraction or behavior between people of different genders
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Summary

heterosexuality is a sexual orientation[1]. heterosexuality draws 13,635 Wikipedia views per month (sexual orientation category, ranking #6 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: hetero-[3], sexuality[4]
  • Flag: heterosexual flag[5]
  • Subclass of: monosexuality[6], cross-sex intimacy[7]
  • Commons category: Heterosexuality[8]
  • Opposite of: non-heterosexuality[9], homosexuality[10]
  • Unicode character: ⚤[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Heterosexuality[12]
  • Used by: heterosexual[13]
  • Different from: heterosociality[14], heteroromantic[15]
  • Female form of label: hétera[16]
  • Hashtag: heterosexual[17]
  • Named by: Karl-Maria Kertbeny[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]

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Influence

Things named for heterosexuality include straight pride[20].

Why It Matters

heterosexuality has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] heterosexuality is known by 108 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for heterosexuality include straight pride[20].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . books.openedition.org. books.openedition.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 3083
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 3083, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285310|heterosexuality (#107285310)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford "
  2. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0341715-heterosexualita
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0341715-heterosexualita, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  3. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 00859293-n
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151004366
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Yso id, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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