sexual orientation

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Sexual orientation can be another point of concordance.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021

Sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression will be explicitly added to the city’s fair housing ordinance.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2021

Sexual orientation has several components, including behaviour, identity, attraction and arousal.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2019

Sexual orientation, it said, is “an immutable characteristic that is resistant to change”—rebutting a widespread view across Asia that homosexuality is a curable disease.

From Economist • Jun. 22, 2017

"Sexual orientation and gender identity are not the same thing."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2015