Talk:Omnisexuality

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on the lgbt wiki page on omnisexualty it has a citied source from 1878. but it is in a language I do not recognise so I am unable to verify its clam. Lavender-wikigirl (talk) 15:23, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

I have found out the language(brazilian portugues) but I do not speak it. Lavender-wikigirl (talk) 18:16, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

All sources I saw are in Portuguese. There are two recent:

• https://www.bdtd.uerj.br:8443/bitstream/1/25382/2/Tese%20-%20Thales%20Sant%E2%80%99Ana%20Ferreira%20Mendes%20-%202025%20-%20Completa.pdf
• https://www.academia.edu/40350572/O_primo_Bas%C3%ADlio_no_jornal_de_Letras_Artes_e_Ideias#page=407

It should be commented that the word homosexuality was coined during that century. Dudzcar (talk) 03:19, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Some compilations I found.

1. https://posi-pan.tumblr.com/post/661172775682260993/just-out-of-curiosity-what-are-the-canon-omni-and
2. https://posi-pan.tumblr.com/post/689979748724752384/hey-how-is-everything-sorry-to-bother-i-know
3. https://posi-pan.tumblr.com/post/728361749623029760/a-timeline-of-pansexual-history
4. https://posi-pan.tumblr.com/omniplytimelines

Dudzcar (talk) 03:13, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

citation number 13 is broken

i don't have the technical knowledge of wikipedia to fix the cition. i was trying to like this pdf using the ISSN number ISSN 0737-0679 but that didn't work. it sadly is a important citation for the paragraph so it cant simply be delated. Lavender-wikigirl (talk) 18:49, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

the citation has been fix. thank you to who did it. Lavender-wikigirl (talk) 21:32, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Additional ref ideas

• page 5 of LGBT Health: Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities
• page 5 of parliamentary submission by Advance Australia, Fairer lists pansexual and omnisexual together in one definition
• Deconstructing Biphobia in Journal of Bisexuality
• "Another 17 participants who identified as omnisexual and polysexual were excluded due to insufficient numbers of these identities for analysis."- Differences in Minority Stress Experiences, Mental Health, and Relationship Quality Outcomes Among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer Women
• Ethel's Love-Life and Other Writings by Margaret J. M. Sweat (review) (pages 1540, 1541)
• "The options pansexual and omnisexual were combined to limit the number of answer possibilities and the received feedback during the survey validation phase that both terms can be used as synonyms in our local context"- page 4 of "An assessment of the proportion of LGB+ persons in the Belgian population, their identification as sexual minority, mental health and experienced minority stress"
• "Other identity labels, such as ‘pansexual’ or ‘omnisexual,’ could fall under the same definition or describe similar realities. Those labels are often included in the so-called ‘bisexual umbrella,’ a term that has been used to describe the range of sexual identities and communities that express, in one way or another, attraction to multiple genders"- page 8 of "‘My Gender Is Bisexual’: Bisexuality, Trans Politics, and the Disruption of the Western Gender/Sexuality System
• "1 percent admitted that they were pansexual or omnisexual"- page 337 (also mentioned in abstract on page 336) of "Maslahah Family Concept: The Effort of LGBT Prevention in the Family"
• pages 23]-24 of "I Am Ace: Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life" by Cody Daigle-Orians
• "In this paper, I use the broad definition for the term bisexual, which includes pansexual and omnisexual orientations and overlaps with plurisexuality."- page 408 of "Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality: Toward New Conceptual Tools"
• Partnered Plurisexual People's Psychological Well-Being and Relationship Quality: An Examination of Gender and Sexual Identity Composition (mentioned multiple times, on pages iii, 1, 30, 74, 92, 122, 157, 176, 179, 218)

I may do more of a deep dive later. In solidarity - Historyday01 (talk) 13:29, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

i would like to add: 1 Lavender-wikigirl (talk) 09:05, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Yeah that source looks fine. In solidarity - Historyday01 (talk) 16:53, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

"History" section moved from page

Without a secondary source showing this etymological history, this is WP:OR.

Extended content

In 1878, Machado de Assis, a renowned Brazilian writer of the 19th century, made one of the first known uses to date in Portuguese of the term omnisexual for his criticism of the novel O Primo de Basílio by Eça de Queirós. The review was published in the newspaper of the time, O Cruzeiro, which, on April 16, 1878, featured a review signed by Eleazar, the pseudonym of Machado de Assis, on the cover of the newspaper. De Assis classified the naturalism and lack of sexual filter present in the novel as "reminiscences and allusions of an eroticism that Proudhon would call omnisexual and omnimod".

In 1959, omnisexual appears in poet Lawrence Lipton's book The Holy Barbarians.

The 1984 text Sexual Choices: An Introduction to Human Sexuality defines its as "a state of attraction to all sexes", It is also theorised there that every person is born omnisexual and then transitions to another sexuality, because of culture and experiences.

In 1989, M. Jimmie Killingsworth reviewed Charley Shively's book, Drum Beats: Walt Whitman's Civil War Boy Lovers. She called for "a revisionist biography of Whitman that does not assume that the poet was heterosexual...or that he was asexual or omnisexual...or passively homoerotic," but that which talks about his identity as a "gay writer", saying that Shively portrays Whitman as "a promiscuous, omnivorous gay lover." She later praised a book by Jonathan Ned Katz, entitled Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality, as an example of such a biography.

In 1993, omnisexuality is mentioned in the biography/memoir And then I met this woman: previously married women's journeys into lesbian relationships it is stated that "last time I talk to her, she said she was omnisexual".

CopyleftEverything (talk) 19:23, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

I mean, yeah probably. I think there are STILL some good sources there, but this definitely needs to be improved and stronger before added back in. The only part of this I worked on, from what I recall, apart from fixing links, was the fourth paragraph. In solidarity - Historyday01 (talk) 20:57, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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Omnisexual pride flag

• ... that Hannibal Lecter is omnisexual (pride flag pictured), according to series creator Bryan Fuller?

• Source: https://collider.com/bryan-fuller-hannibal-silence-of-the-lambs-interview/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charolais (cheese) (donated by Launchballer)

History merged from redirect and draft by Pppery (talk), started and edited by Lavender-wikigirl (talk), Karada (talk), C.Fred (talk), Quxyz (talk), and Historyday01 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Dudzcar (talk) 12:19, 13 July 2026 (UTC).

• @Dudzcar: Not a review, but the QPQ for Human settlement was used at Template:Did you know nominations/Murder of Dandara dos Santos. Another QPQ is needed for this nomination. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:44, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Also, I think the hook is the wrong side of WP:DYKFICTION. (I had planned on drivebying this with a hook to do with some people identifying as this because they considered the word 'bisexual' offensive, but the source doesn't quite support that.)--Launchballer 21:13, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

I am not really in with the DYK section of Wikipedia but I feel like a simple definition of omnisexuality could make for a decent fact. Most of the population does not really know what many of the more niche sexualities mean. ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 23:35, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Question: is it still renominable? Dudzcar (talk) 21:15, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

• Five days after the nominator has been notified (with acknowledgement) of the requirement for an unused QPQ, none has been supplied and thus I am marking this nomination for closure as incomplete. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:39, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971, Quxyz, and Dudzcar: I did say I would have drivebyed this and I'd rather this run, so I'm going to donate Charolais (cheese). As for the hook, ALT1: ... that a test determining the ethics of having sex with a fictional non-human character is named after a fictional omnisexual? springs to mind, but I'll have a proper look when I'm back from shopping. (A definition hook was quibbled over at WT:DYK in the last week, but I'll hear it anyway.)--Launchballer 15:25, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Full review needed now that a QPQ has been provided. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:05, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Also not a full review, but I am not sure that Bryan Fuller meant to refer to omnisexuality, the modern label and term of art for a specific sexual orientation with a specific pride flag, as opposed to a general idea of being "omni-sexual". To me, they're not exactly the same thing. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:02, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Theleekycauldron but ALT1 does not mention (pictured) or anything, so I guess it goes flaglessly. Unless we have another ALT as proposed by Quxyz: ALT2: "...omnisexuality (pictured) means attraction to all genders?". Dudzcar (talk) 05:44, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

I would add in a lack of genderblindness to differentiate between pansexuality. "...that some people declare themselves to be omnisexual (pride flag pictured) to indicate a preference for certain genders in contrast to pansexuality?" ✶Quxyz✶ (talk) 13:47, 2 August 2026 (UTC)