ellauri095.html on line 105: Uranian is a 19th-century term that referred to homosexual men. The term was first published by activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–95) in a series of five booklets (1864–65) collected under the title Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe (Research into the Riddle of Man–Male 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 (1824–82)
ellauri095.html on line 111: The word itself alludes to Plato's Symposium, a discussion on Eros (love). In this dialog, Pausanias distinguishes between two types of love, symbolised by two different accounts of the birth of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. In one, she was born of Uranus (the heavens), a birth in which "the female has no part". This Uranian Aphrodite is associated with a noble love for male youths, and is the source of Ulrichs's term Urning. Another account has Aphrodite as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, and this Aphrodite is associated with a common love which "is apt to be of women as well as of youths, and is of the body rather than of the soul". After Dione, Ulrichs gave the name Dioning to men who are sexually attracted to women. However, unlike Plato's account of male love, Ulrichs understood male Urnings to be essentially feminine, and male Dionings to be masculine in nature.
ellauri097.html on line 313: Ulrichs war überzeugt, dass die Urninge und die Dioninge von verschiedener Natur seien und daher der Ausdruck „widernatürliche Unzucht“ auf Liebe zwischen Urningen nicht anwendbar war. Die Liebe zwischen zwei Urningen war nach Meinung Ulrichs’ in höchstem Maße ethisch, weil sie die beiden Individuen ihrer Natur gemäß entwickeln lässt. In seinen Schriften erörterte Ulrichs auch die Frage einer Ehe zwischen einem Urning und einem Dioning und inwieweit diese ethisch vertretbar sei.
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gegenüber der öffentlichen Meinung und den Organen des Staats die angeborenen Menschenrechte der Urninge zu verfechten, ihnen namentlich Gleichstellung mit den Dioningen vor dem Gesetz und in der menschlichen Gesellschaft überhaupt zu vindiciren.
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