New word? hasbians

[Bob Haas]

Oops.  Sorry folks, I was forwarding this to an off-list friend.

As the kids say, my bad.

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 11:42  AM, Bob Haas wrote:

> Check out the link -- it's an interesting story.
>
> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 10:24  AM, Joanne M. Despres wrote:
>
>> M-W hasn't picked this up through its regular reading program, but
>> a NEXIS search yielded 25 hits from 1989 forward.  At his point it
>> looks like a low-frequency word found mainly in the lesbian/feminist
>> press, with an occasional appearance in some mainstream English
>> newspapers and very rare uses in mainstream American papers
>> (once in the Los Angeles Times and once in the Washington Post).
>>
>> For what it's worth,
>>
>> Joanne
>> On 11 Feb 2003, at 21:55, AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:
>>
>>> Article by Amy Sohn:
>>>
>>> If the lipstick lesbian was the gay icon of the nineties, these days
>>> she’s
>>> been replaced by her more controversial counterpart, the hasbian: a
>>> woman who
>>> used to date women but now dates men. Though Anne Heche is the most
>>> prominent
>>> example, many hasbians (sometimes called LUGS: lesbians until
>>> graduation) are
>>> by-products of nineties liberal-arts educations. Caught up in the gay
>>> scene
>>> at school, they came out at 20 or 21 and now, five or ten years
>>> later, are
>>> finding themselves in the odd position of coming out all over
>>> again—as
>>> heterosexuals. . . .
>>>
>>> From
>>> http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/nightlife/sex/columns/nakedcity/
>>> n_8301/
>>>
>>> - Allan Metcalf
>>
>>
>
> "Wherever you go, there you are."
> Bob Haas
> Department of English
> High Point University
>
>

"Wherever you go, there you are."
Bob Haas
Department of English
High Point University