
I propose that homogamy and heterogamy be used to signify same-sex and opposite-sex unions respectively, including marriage and cohabitation. This is intended to address a terminology impasse that has given us “marriage” versus “same-sex marriage” in popular as well as academic usage. After a brief review of the word origins and scholarly uses of these terms, I conclude that the new uses for homogamy and heterogamy could be adopted relatively easily, with scientific benefits for categorization – and remove a conservative bias in the current usage.
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