De-gaying

[Benjamin Barrett]

What a hilarious word! From the Boston Globe, March 7, 2004. Hard to check
on Google because it doesn't discriminate for hyphens.

        First, she pulled the pink triangle magnet off the refrigerator.
Then, all the lesbian-friendly books and record albums had to be hidden. She
scoured the house to remove any love notes between her mother and her
mother's girlfriend.  Just for good measure, she told her mother not to wear
her Birkenstock sandals, because, of course, everybody knew that lesbians
wore those.  As for the bathroom wallpaper festooned with women, she just
sighed.
        "You de-gay the house," said Heller, now 33.  "I was absolutely
paranoid about my friends finding out."

Benjamin Barrett