straight-wash

Verb

straightwash (third-person singular simple present straightwashes, present participle straightwashing, simple past and past participle straightwashed)

1. To interpret or present a queer figure, relationship, or situation as exclusively heterosexual.
   • Rather than focus on ostensibly queer games, I want to show how doing a queer analysis of mainstream games provides critical ways to demonstrate how most video games strategically deploy and ultimately recuperate and straightwash queer possibilities.2015, Edmond Y. Chang, “Love Is in the Air: Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft”, in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, pages...