GAY-BASHING etymology

Thu Nov 30 18:57:02 UTC 2006

On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Ron Butters wrote:

> ... It is only a few years later that we find "Paki-bashing" in the
> same locale,
> and shortly after that that "gay-bashing" is recorded on the same
> side of the
> Atlantic.

well, "queer-bashing".  "gay-bashing" seems to have appeared later.

arnold

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