Citations:straight

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 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * THAT is the way thou must go; it was cast up by the patriarchs, prophets, Christ, and his apostles; and it is as straight as a rule can make it.
 * There were also in the same place two other ways besides that which came straight from the gate; one turned to the left hand, and the other to the right, at the bottom of the hill; but the narrow way lay right up the hill, and the name of the going up the side of the hill is called Difficulty.
 * They went then till they came at a place where they saw a way put itself into their way, and seemed withal to lie as straight as the way which they should go: and here they knew not which of the two to take, for both seemed straight before them; therefore, here they stood still to consider.


 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards his door.
 * And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose; went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant.
 * As to measuring her waist in sport, as they did, bold young brood, I couldn't have done it; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment, and never come straight again.

"strait, narrow"?

 * 1878, Alfred Laverack, Straight street; or, The Church and the world, page 317:
 * At a certain season of the year, when all around was gay and bright, a swarm of working bees left the old hive, which they thought too straight for them. They did not go far away, and at once commenced a new colony on the old model,

of a relationship, sex act, etc: between men and women (sometimes specifically heterosexual ones)

 * 2010, Jacob Anderson-Minshall, in "Queerly Beloved", in Tracie O'Keefe, Katrina Fox (editors), Trans People in Love, Routledge (ISBN 9781135695682), page 107:
 * Second, a femme lesbian is not a straight woman and therefore sex [by a trans man] with a femme lesbian is not straight sex. And third, I&#39;m not straight—I&#39;m married [to a woman...but] I find gay men hot [...]
 * 2021, Sabrina Symington, Coming Out, Again: Transition Stories, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (ISBN 9781787752412)
 * I guess it&#39;s like how closeted gay people in straight [opposite-sex] relationships before they came out weren&#39;t ever straight [heterosexual]. They just didn&#39;t realize they were gay.