straight-wash

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Verb

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straight-wash (third-person singular simple present straight-washes, present participle straight-washing, simple past and past participle straight-washed)

  1. Alternative spelling of straightwash
    • 2017 November 8, Daniel Megarry, “Sony slammed for ‘straight-washing’ gay romance Call Me By Your Name”, in Gay Times‎[1]:
      The promotional tweet also features the words “A romance overwhelming in its intensity, a heart that swells until it has to burst,” which many have taken as an attempt to ‘straight-wash’ the movie’s predominant same-sex romance.
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