Turian

, also known as Veldian, is a term for gay men (MLM) and gay nonbinary (NBLM) individuals. It is equivalent to how lesbian is used for WLW. It is a fully inclusive label that includes all gay men and nonbinary individuals.

Alternate Names

 * Veldian

Etymology

 * Veldian refers to veldts, which are grassy plains filled with sunlight, meant to be a more symbolic connection to being gay . Turian on the other hand is a direct nod to Alan Turing. Two labels were created so that both people who wanted a term connected to a figure and people who didn't could have a term for them.

Definitions

 * A term for gay men and nonbinary people. It is for all men who identify as gay, as well as all nonbinary people who identify as gay/nlm. - Coining post

Both names mean exactly the same thing, and were chosen simply because some people may not want to use a term named after a real person. The flag can also be used while using another term.

Turian is equivalent to lesbian, not sapphic specifically (that would be vincian). Bisexual, pansexual, and other orientations under mlm/nlm do not inherently fit under veldian, just like bisexual and pansexual do not inherently fall under lesbian. Identifying as both an mspec orientation and turian (in an Stellian-esque fashion) is also acceptable.

History
Turian, along with its flag, were posted by Tumblr user kenochoric on November 13th, 2020.

Subsets

 * Lavenian