straighthood

straighthood

English

Etymology

From straight +‎ -hood.

Noun

straighthood (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of being straight (morally, sexually, etc.)
   • 1999, Jan Clausen, Apples & Oranges:

     Being with Paul was an interim solution. In effect, he and I seceded from straighthood together. Our relationship turned on a new kind of bisexual plot, its tension imparted by the lively possibility that one of us might leave the other for a gender.

   • 2006, Daniel K. Cortese, Are We Thinking Straight?:

     I think in general, it irritates me when straight people are allies and proclaim their straighthood. Like, publicly, if a famous person is like talking about, "Yes, everybody should be treated equal. It doesn't matter if you're gay. [...]"

   • 2014, Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story:

     I see now how tenaciously he was questioning my whole commitment to straighthood, what an evasion it was of confronting the unreason of my shame at being queer.

See also

• gayhood