alikeness

After a dominant run of gay dramas that have made compromises in the name of perceived alikeness, BPM feels at once universally empathetic and jubilantly other.

Promoting a certain physical likeness when trying to attract new members means the people you attract will look, well, like you. Likeness becomes alikeness.

This alikeness is heredity—the fact of similarity between parent and offspring.

But the real reason for their sex solidarity is their terrible alikeness.

The two, so far apart in years, were united by a strong natural bond of sympathy and alikeness.