Dee Rees

When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.

American Director

Lorraine Hansberry

I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.

American Playwright

Gail Simone

Famously, DC has been pretty great showing gay women, with characters like Batwoman, but has shown fewer prominent men on the sexuality spectrum outside of hetero. It's something we need to address. I also think it's lovely how the readers respond to this.

American Writer

Dana Plato

I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.

American Actress

Alan Turing

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

English Mathematician

Trace Lysette

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

Moby

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

American Musician

Olly Alexander

I would love it if less bands were hetero.

English Musician

Used in scientific contexts to describe distinct or unusual characteristics in objects or species.

Technical Use

Not commonly used in everyday language; more likely to be found in technical discussions or academic texts.

Rare in Daily Speech

Often used informally to refer to heterosexual people without going into details about sexual orientation.

Informal Context

Be aware of the diverse opinions and sensitivities surrounding topics of sexual orientation when using this term.

Sensitive Topic

'Hetero-' as a prefix indicates variety, or mixing things that are different, in compound words.

Prefix Meaning

Mostly used in academic or specialized fields to form technical terms; not often in casual conversation.

Academic Contexts

The prefix 'hetero-' can apply to diverse contexts, from biology to sociology.

Wide Application

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People, Plants and...

 Very heavy hetero guy. But he wrote in this book, "Ideal Marriage" -- he said that he could differentiate between the semen of a young man, which he said had a fresh, exhilarating smell, and the semen of mature men, whose semen smelled, quote,