Uranian: a comprehensive term for LGBT+/queer people used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An English translation of the German word Urning. It’s often conceptualized as the “homosexual gender”, a “third gender” and a descriptor for gay men (urningthum) and lesbians (urningin/uranierin/urnin/urnigin), as opposed to dionian (dioning), meaning “heterosexual gender”, feminine/straight woman (dioningin) and masculine/straight man (dioningthum), stemming from the idea common in early sexology that a gay man has a partly female psyche, and a lesbian has a partially male soul.

Uranismus (uranism) has a taxonomy with: uranodioning (uranodionian), representing bisexuals, uranodioningin (bi women) and uranodioningthum (bi men); zwitter, intersex people; and others, making categories encompassing modern concepts of cross-orientation/parosexuality (conjunctive/disjunctive) and non-binarity/intermediate (zwischen).

They were all coined by Karl Ulrichs, which can be considered the modern father of MOGAI pioneering/queerstory. -Ap