gaydirt -- new word?

Mon Oct 4 11:42:32 UTC 2004

March 22, 1989, as posted yesterday by John Baker from Google Groups.

JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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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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