Uranian may refer to:
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Sexuality
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Uranian (sexuality)
Uranian (from the Ancient Greek Aphrodite Urania (, )) is a historical term for homosexual men. The word was also used as an adjective in association with male homosexuality or inter-male attraction regardless of sexual orientation.
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, a historical term for homosexual men
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Uranians
The Uranians were a late-19th-century and early-20th-century clandestine group of up to several dozen male homosexual poets and prose writers who principally wrote on the subject of the love of (or by) adolescent boys. In a strict definition they ...
, a group of male homosexual poets
Astronomy
*Uranian, of or pertaining to the planet
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a Supercritical fluid, supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or Volatile ( ...
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Uranian system
Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 28 confirmed moons. The 27 with names are named after characters that appear in, or are mentioned in, William Shakespeare's plays and Alexander Pope's poem '' The Rape of the Lock''. Uranus's ...
, refers to the 27 moons of Uranus
Mythology and fiction
*Uranian, relating to
Aphrodite Urania
Aphrodite Urania (, Latinized as Venus Urania) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, signifying a "heavenly" or "spiritual" aspect descended from the sky-god Ouranos to distinguish her from the more earthly epithet of Aphrodite Pandemo ...
, an epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite
*Uranian, relating to
Urania
Urania ( ; ; modern Greek shortened name ''Ránia''; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy and astrology. Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, her attributes being the globe and compass.
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, the muse of astronomy
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Uranian (comics)
The Uranians are a fictional race appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They first appeared in '' Marvel Boy'' #1 (1950) as the human-like inhabitants of the planet Uranus who became the hosts and mentors of Marvel Boy ( ...
, a fictional race in the Marvel Universe
Other uses
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Uranian Phalanstery
The 'Uranian Phalanstery' and the associated First New York Gnostic Lyceum Temple is an artist collective in New York City. The husband-and-wife team of Richard Oviet Tyler and his wife, Dorothea Baer established the Uranian Phalanstery in 1974, w ...
, artist collectives in New York City
*For ''Uranian astrology'' see
Hamburg School of Astrology
The German Hamburg School of Astrology (root school of the international Uranian Astrology offshoot) is a school of astrology based on the teachings of surveyor, astrologer and amateur astronomer Alfred Witte. It is characterized by use of astr ...
See also
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Urania (disambiguation)
Urania is a muse in Greek mythology.
Urania may also refer to:
Other mythology
*Aphrodite Urania, a title for the Greek goddess Aphrodite, as opposed to Aphrodite Pandemos
*Urania, an Oceanid
Awards
* Urania Award, an Italian science fiction aw ...
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Uranus (disambiguation)
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
Uranus may also refer to:
*Uranus (mythology), an ancient Greek sky god
Fiction
* Uranus (novel), ''Uranus'' (novel), a 1948 novel by Marcel Aymé
* Sailor Uranus or Haruka Tenoh, a character in ''Sailo ...
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