1933 E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families xiii. 272 The odd thing about me is that..I should be so purely ‘hetero’ in spite of lack of opportunity.

1957 J. Osborne Look Back in Anger ii. i. 50 I'm tired of being hetero.

a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xii. 117 Almost the first mischievous question he shot at me was ‘Are you homo or hetero?’

1988 S. Gray Time of our Darkness xiv. 211 Maybe at this late stage of the game I'd decided to go hetero, for heaven's sake. I wanted to see what straight was like.

2017 @mothhobi 19 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Ok but why is David telling us about how a girl put hot sauce on his dick? Hetero people are weird sometimes.

1949 J. P. de River Sexual Criminal vii. 89 He had his first act of sexual intercourse with a girl when he was sixteen. He has had four hetero love affairs.

1975 P. Kronhausen & E. Kronhausen Sex People xviii. 232 It was probably the closest anybody had come to a guy-guy thing in a hetero film.

1998 Independent 26 Mar. ii. 3/1 25 years ago the ‘gay’ in Gay Liberation Front covered pretty much any deviation from the hetero norm.

2015 Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, Calif.) 10 July a4/2 My hetero marriage of 34 years doesn't feel any different now that gays are allowed the same privilege.

1940 A. Bernstein Millions of Queers (typescript, National Libr. Med.: HMD Coll. MS B 198) 75 With us as with normals, an unfleshly esteem, close friendship, or comraderie [sic] may follow after an oversexed honeymoon period. This second stage, for heteroes, is the whole of their joint existence, after the first year.

1957 Observer 14 July How easy it is..to apply the particular term of abuse..most popular among normal ‘Heteros’.

1960 I. Jefferies Dignity & Purity ii. 28 Is that really a fact about Proust being a secret hetero?

1993 Vox Feb. 71/1 Our Cliff, on the surface at least, is a bundle of contradictions: a youthful-looking hetero who's never had (it is said) an affair.

2008 T. Sandlin Rowdy in Paris 248 What I wondered was whether or not bisexuals are by nature tougher than heteros or homos.