Dogwhistling for homophobe, much like racialist and racial realist are for racist.
A clumsy attempt to detach one's behaviour from the well deserved public scorn it normally elicits by repackaging it in a neologism.
"I keep telling you, I'm not a homophobe, I'm a heteroseparatist!"
"And I keep telling you to please fuck off. I'm immunocompromised and cannot get the jab, you have been spreading spittle on me for the past five minutes and I've never seen you take the more sanitary basic precautions even before the pandemic."
"Whoa, calm down Hitler. Jesus, you'll put us in camps anyday soon."
George wants to have sex with John and not start a relationshipwith him. He also wants to have sex with Alice but he also wants to start a relationship with her, because he is heteroromantic bisexual.
Homosexual Friend : "Hey man, you sure you're straight? 'Cuz you're pretty hot."
Me : We've talked about this. I'm not even technically straight. Well, sorta. I'm a heteroromantic asexual.
A person who can be sexually attached to someone regardless of gender (male,female,M2F trans,F2M trans, gender fluid etc) but is only romantically attracted to people of the opposite sex
Tom can be sexually attracted to any gender but will only be romantic with the opposite grander e.g Tim is attracted to Ryan ( who is gender fluid) and holly but will only date holly because he is a heteroromantic pansexual