gaydirt -- new word?

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> The HDAS team didn't spot it until 1994, too late for Vol. I.

What is the earliest citation you know of?  (I apologize if I missed this
earlier in this thread.)

Fred Shapiro


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