straightfolk
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
straightfolk pl (plural only)
- (informal) Straight (heterosexual) people.
- Antonym: gayfolk
- 1994, Thomas O'Neil, Sex with God, page 45:
- turning down one sheet / in our little room / while down below / the straightfolk come and go / looking for stray sons after dark.
- 2015 February 26, “The hart”, in Arkansas Times:
- Here is a story for you, Straightfolk of Straightworld: In May 1895, the great writer Oscar Wilde was put on trial in London for the crime of sexual indecency with other men.
- 2019 September 16, Joshua Young, “In the Spotlight with The Public Theater’s Emerging Writer’s Group”, in The Brooklyn Rail:
- This ancient idea that the most "universal" (or, cough, American) story is one contingent on the problems of wealthy white, cis, straightfolk is very much still alive and thriving.