Is "straight" a politically incorrect term?

[belamyi]

AS opposed to "crooked",

or is it just "straight" against "bent"?

 

[rareboy]

Ah the innocent good old days.

The Straight cops that turn up in my vintage detective and crime fiction.

I will never understand how 'straight' became the antonym for homo.

I mean, we all bend over for someone eventually.

 

[smokeshadow]

I think torqued sums it up quite nicely

 

[Kahaih]

. . . .

I will never understand how 'straight' became the antonym for homo.
. . . .

"Walking the straight and narrow"

Self-righteous New Testament morality nonsense.

 

[belamyi]

Like "fair" for hair, as opposed to the apparently neuter and straightforward "dark".

But only the self-proclaimed nazis wanted to go all the way with that.

 

[rareboy]

"Walking the straight and narrow"

Self-righteous New Testament morality nonsense.

"The first documented appearance of the word “straight” as a descriptor for heterosexuality is in American psychiatrist G.W. Henry's 1941 book titled Sex Variants, which sought to follow the experiences of 80 lesbians and gay men in New York City in the 1930s."

I actually wondered if in the case studies, the word was first used as slang by one of the homosexual men to describe the heteros.

Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns

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[belamyi]

"The first documented appearance of the word “straight” as a descriptor for heterosexuality is in American psychiatrist G.W. Henry's 1941 book titled Sex Variants, which sought to follow the experiences of 80 lesbians and gay men in New York City in the 1930s."

I actually wondered if in the case studies, the word was first used as slang by one of the homosexual men to describe the heteros.

Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns

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And then conveniently appropriated in a "straight" sense of "straight" by those who had used it rather ironically or disparagingly.

 

[rareboy]

Some history of 'bent' seems appropriate:

The Grammarphobia Blog: The twisted history of ‘bent’

The many meanings of "bent," an adjective that bends in all directions, every way but straight.

www.grammarphobia.com

 

[rareboy]

And also some background on 'Bent', the play.

How ‘Bent’ Made Gay History

<br /> It was a passing reference to “pink triangles” in As Time Goes By, a 1976 play about a century of gay life, that caught Martin Sherman’s attention. As he put it recently, “It was one of those awful clichés—you could see the light bulb going off over my head.” That eureka moment led to...

www.centertheatregroup.org