1995 Sydney Morning Herald 1 Mar. 14/1 Straight-acting was the unwritten prerequisite for survival in the workplace, on the streets and, frequently, within families.

2003 W. Martino & M. Pallotta-Chiarolli So what's Boy? ii. v. 77 The issue is not so much straight-acting in and of itself but how straight-acting behaviour is valorized within a hierarchical system of differentiated masculinities.

2005 E. Anderson In Game iii. 47 Today's gay youth largely value what they call straight acting and devalue what they call acting like a flamer.

1984 ‘Pickles’ Queens 260 Blond boy (22)... Seeks handsome older man for cultural evenings, dinner, concerts, etc.... Must be straight-acting.

1994 Harvard Rev. 6 174 Straight-acting gay? Isn't that an oxymoron?

1998 C. Smyth in S. R. Munt Butch/Femme 83 We have seen..the plea for ‘feminine’, that is ‘straight-acting’, women—or the more blunt ‘no butches need apply’—appearing in personal ads.

2001 L. M. Tillmann-Healy Between Gay & Straight v. 122 Many take pride in being..‘straight looking’ and ‘straight acting’. I hate those terms! What do they mean anyway? That straight men are the standards by which gay men are to be judged, even by themselves? That gay men who look or act ‘gay’—read ‘feminine’—are not ‘real’ men and therefore not as desirable and valuable?

2014 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Apr. 24 Gay men have a big problem with camp. Gay dating websites abound with profiles specifying ‘straight-acting men only’.