Scrabble?! URANISM

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Uranian is a 19th-century term that referred to a person of a third sexoriginally, someone with "a female psyche in a male body" who is sexually attracted to men, and later extended to cover homosexual gender variant females, and a number of other sexual types. The term was first published by activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (182595) in a series of five booklets (186465) collected under the title Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe (Research into the Riddle of ManMale Love). Ulrichs derived Uranian (Urning in German) from the Greek goddess Aphrodite Urania, who was created out of the god Uranus' testicles. Therefore, it represents the homosexual gender, while Dionian (Dioning), derived from Aphrodite Dionea, represents the heterosexual gender. Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term homosexual, which appeared in 1869 in a pamphlet published anonymously by Karl-Maria Kertbeny (182482). The term Uranian was quickly adopted by English-lan