Biromantic



Biromantic, sometimes shortened to biro, refers to someone who is romantically attracted to two or more genders or to individuals whose genders may be the same or different than theirs. They may be sexually attracted to two or more genders as well, but this is not always the case. Biromantic individuals may or may not have a preference and may or may not feel a difference between genders.

Biromantic can be similar to other pluralian identities, especially panromantic. However, the difference between these identities usually comes down to individual preferred preference, particularly where individuals may feel that different terms communicate their individual experience of attraction with more accuracy.

Biromantic is the romantic counterpart to bisexual.

History
While the term was allegedly coined sometime between 1995 and 2000,, the first known use of the word is in a news article from 2005 about asexual individuals.

As with most terms related to the split attraction model, it most likely emerged as we know it now from the forum boards of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) around 2005. The earliest known definition of biromantic came from Urban Dictionary user Biromantic on April 20, 2008, which refers to the split attraction model.

Flag
The original biromantic flag was created by DeviantArt user Pride-Flags on April 26, 2016. An alternate flag was created on May 9 later that year, by the same user. Both of them add a heart to the bi pride flag.

Another alternate biromantic flag was created by an anonymous creator on October 24, 2020. The top purple stripe of this flag represents attraction to two or more genders, the lighter purple stripe represents varioriented biromantics, the white stripe represents transgender, non-binary, cisn't, and intersex biromantics, the orange stripe represents perioriented biromantics, and the dark blue stripe represents aroace biromantics, typically in the case of angled aroaces.

On March 10, 2021, LGBTA Wiki user RemyWest123 created another alternate flag. The flag was meant to be more inclusive by expanding the purple stripe, which is typically a thinner stripe used to represent non-binary individuals, as well as adding gradations of all of the colors to represent a greater amount of gender experiences. That same month (more specifically, March 21), LGBTA Wiki user CallieCat030 created another alternate flag, using a heart in their design to harken back to the original biromantic pride flags.