I finally found a specific example of the usage of “the straights” to mean normal people, not just non-queer people that that I was talking about back in January!
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My suspicion is that the moderation of toyhouse very much depends on the personal feelings of the mod who receives and handles each report.
Up until some time in the 80s “straights” referred on anyone who did not participate in some form of reviled counterculture.
“straight edge” or “straight laced”
WASPS in suits and ties who went to church every Sunday and only had good missionary sex with the opposite sex for the means of procreation.
People who didn’t do drugs, or have gay sex, or listen to rock and roll.
Peoplew who weren’t hippies.
People who weren’t beatniks.
You know, man, the straights. (Imagine I am a beatnik in a beret snapping my fingers while I say this.)
I’ll pull up some examples of this usage later!
But yeah once upon a time if you referred dismissively to “the straights” people assumed you took drugs at weird parties and had sex with strangers. Not that you were explicitly homosexual.
You can see how it arrived at meaning ‘not gay people’ though. Especially in the 80s when all the straights started doing cocaine at business meetings, and the AIDS crisis etc.
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Honestly I was blown out of the water seeing that person call it ‘a joke’ too.