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1d ago

If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight?

100% of the participants are gay, but it's between opposite sexes, so is it heterosexual?

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I believe the sex would he heterosexual, but the parties would still be homosexual. This happened a lot in lavender marriages. The fact they had sex to produce children didn't change their sexuality.
- Similarly, e.g. two bi men getting married is a gay wedding, even though neither party is gay. The relationship can be described independently of the people in it.
  
  I think that's why we call it "same-sex marriage" rather than "gay marriage"

I've wondered the same thing when I was twelve, but eventually I grew up to realise that it was a stupid question.
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they just happened to meet in a closet

Just like when two straight men have sex?

Homo - same sex intercourse, hetero - man and woman having sex. Their orientation won't make intercourse gay, it's between different sexes so the act itself is heterosexual.
- Nowadays hetero has been redefined to better reflect gender diversity. Homo is same gender, hetero is different genders, even if the gender are not man and woman. This includes non-binary people in the definition, as long as they are not the same gender, is not homosexual. And to be honest, it ties better to the word, etymologically.
  Also bisexual now means homo and hetero, not men and women. I'm still confused about pansexuality in this definitions. I also might have got something wrong in this explanation as I'm a cis straight dude, who listens to other people saying this things.
- What even is sex?
  
  An act of intercourse. But yeah what is life?

You're gay if you watch.
- It's also how gay people reproduce.
  A third person watches and is Become Gay, Destroyer of Sphincters.
  But if a baby results, it's hermaphroditic.

I'd say sexual intercourse in itself can't be homo- or heterosexual since that is a denomitor for people's sexual attractions.
The sexual intercourse would simply be male-female sex.

The wouldn't, though, so 🤷‍♀️
- They might. Sexuality is a spectrum.

Having sex is gay

Remember, it's not gay if both dudes are straight....
Nah, in all seriousness, I think it would be heterosexual sex between two gay people? Idk. I suppose there is the ACT of heterosexual sex and then the identity of the individuals as hetero/gay/bi/whatever. So yea, in this case, heterosexual sex between 2 people that are gay. That's all there is to it.

Hey everyone in the comments, you seem to be experts on the terminology
Care to explain this comic to me? Oglaf: Memory (NSFW)
- Are these two comics, or one comic where they turn into cats halfway through
  
  One. They are just cat suits. Also, I think the characters never appear before or since so there is no context that can help.
  My best guess is that the "hetero" part is her providing makeup and costumes (including the mouse to be thrown up) while the "homo" part is the singing...

Yes.

Hetero - from the Greek ἕτερος meaning different or other
Homo - from the Greek ὁμός meaning same
Irregardless of the orientation of the people involved, if its two different gendered people having intercourse it's heterosexual intercourse. It just wouldn't be any fun for the people involved.

This happens in the movie The Wedding Banquet

I can tell from the comments that nobody has actually been in this situation.
And the answer, is that it's queer, not straight.
- Sounds bi to me

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