The LGB community raised concerns about the film Brüno, in which the straight actor Sacha Baron Cohen plays the role of a gay man to '.mak fun of the queer community'.
Anna King of Time Out likens 'pinkface' to blackface.
Straightwashing differs from 'pinkface', the use of straight actors to play LGB roles or characters. Etymologically, straightwashing is derived from the term ' whitewash', which alludes to 'both censorship and the intersectional link with the discrimination faced by people of color.'
