straightwashed

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

straightwashed (not comparable)

  1. With references to nonstraight sexual orientations omitted or removed.
    • 2017, Jonathan Lupo, “Blending in and standing out: Storytelling and genre in the LGBT biopics Milk and Pedro”, in Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, page 230:
      [] the result of the decline of the studio-era Production Code (which forbade depictions of homosexuality, leading to 'straightwashed' biopics of figures like Cole Porter in Night and Day []
    • 2018 December 19, Peter Bradshaw, “Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Welcome to Marwen review: Steve Carell on icky form in straightwashed misfire [title]

Verb[edit]

straightwashed

  1. simple past and past participle of straightwash