sexual preference

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“That social hierarchy can be applied to gender, sexual preference, nationality, your ethnicity, your religion, class or race,” DuVernay says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

I mean, look at what the whole community stands for: You're accepted, regardless of where you're from, what your sexual preference is, your religion.

From BBC • May 10, 2023

An Indiana school district urged teachers to join one of 12 “affinity groups” based on race, sexual preference, etc.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2021

“They called it sexual preference rather than … sexual orientation and typically we just wouldn’t address it at all,” Wood told the AP.

From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2020

Yet this may not preclude the possibility of the fact that, while the spots were produced through some other agency, certain types of them were selected by sexual preference.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Schmucker, Samuel Christian