Sexual orientation (Topical Term)
- Narrower heading: Heterosexuality
- Narrower heading: Lesbianism
- Narrower heading: Greysexuality
- Narrower heading: Megasexuality
- Narrower heading: Monosexuality
- Narrower heading: Polysexuality
- Narrower heading: Sexual function
- Narrower heading: Pansexuality
- Narrower heading: Homosexuality
- Narrower heading: Allosexuality
- Narrower heading: Asexuality
- Narrower heading: Bisexuality
- Narrower heading: Demisexuality
- Sexual diversity
- Sexual minorities
- Relationship orientation
- Sexual preference
- Sexual identity
- Gaydar
- Romantic orientation
- Monosexual people
- Sexual reorientation
- Denial of sexual orientation
Originally created in 1997, the Homosaurus vocabulary is an international linked data vocabulary of LGBTQ terms that is currently maintained by the Homosaurus Editorial Board.
The direction of an individual's sexual attraction towards other individuals of the same, opposite, or multiple sexes; commonly understood to be biologically and physiologically dictated, rather than sociologically determined