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- From: rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Origin of Straight = Heterosexual
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225350.23922@PacBell.COM>
- Originator: rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:53:50 GMT
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- I lost Liz Highleyman's original article asking about the
- origins of this usage...sorry, Liz.
-
- In the *faaabulous* Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang
- and Unconventional English (thanks again. Santa :-)), one
- finds these entries:
-
- straight, n. ... -- 3. A heterosexual person: homosexuals'
- : later C.20; adopted ex US...
-
- straight, adj. Not homosexual: Brit. and US homosexuals'
- -- 2. Not using drugs: addicts' and hippies' and their
- like: since ca. 1960. (Fryer, 1967.)...
-
- The Fryer reference is to an article by one Peter F. Fryer,
- printed in the (London) Observer's color supplement on
- December 3, 1967, entitled "A Toz of 'Zowie'"
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