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Adjective: romantically attracted to men, male-identified persons or masculinity
2015, Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:To be clear, people identifying as androromantic may be expressing that they are attracted to cis men and trans men and/or to masculinity and those who are masculine, while people identifying as gyneromantic may be expressing that they are attracted to cis women and trans women and/or to femininity and those who are feminine.
2016, Sarah M. Steelman, Katherine M. Hertlein, “Underexplored Identities: Attending to Asexuality in Therapeutic Contexts”, in Journal of Family Psychotherapy, volume 27, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 89:There are also romantic identities that exist outside of the gender binary and consist of: androromantic (attracted to male-identified persons), gyneromantic/gynoromantic (attracted to female-identified persons), and transromantic (attracted toward transgender persons, i.e., male-to-female or female-tomale individuals).
2016, Tristan Skye, Transgender Journey: Real Stories From Around The World, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 40:“ […] I'm also asexual; though, I do identify as androromantic, so I would like to eventually have a significant other. I don't see this happening in the near future because I feel like I need to be more comfortable with myself first, which is very difficult with gender dysphoria.”
2017, Aasha Brianna Foster, Measuring Social Invisibility and Erasure: Development of the Asexual Microaggressions Scale (Doctor of Philosophy thesis), Columbia University – Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, →DOI, page 61:For romantic orientation, 28.5% indicated aromantic status, 15.2% were biromantic, 14.9% were questioning/curious, 12.5% indicated heteroromantic, 4.6% indicated gay-or lesbian-romantic and 24.1% provided personalized descriptions that included androromantic (only men), bi greyromantic, […]
2019 May 27, Anna Jastrzembska, From invisibility to political witch-hunt: The influence of everyday marginalization on the sense of Polish and European belonging among the LGBTQ+ minority in Poland (Master's Degree thesis), Lund University – Masters of Arts Program in European Studies, page 30:Gabriel – androromantic178 gender-queer half-Pole, half-Mexican. Grew up in Mexico City, moved to Kraków to attend university (Slavic languages).
2020, Anna T., Opacity – Minority – Improvisation: An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 42:I also have to acknowledge at this point neologisms in queer linguistics that have only come about recently, and incorporate much more nuanced conceptualisations of desires, practices, relationships, and self-identifiers such as demisexual,40 lithromantic,41 skolioromantic,42 desisexual,43 androromantic, gynesexual,44 sapiosexual, zucchini45 etc. that were not around at the time Sedgwick wrote her iconic texts.