Antedating of "Heterosexism"

[Fred Shapiro]

heterosexism (OED 1979)

1972 _Off Our Backs_ 30 June [article beginning on page 17]  Women
involved in the new women's center are up front lesbians and maybe this
time the ordeal of heterosexism and lesbian vanguardism will be less of an
upheaval.

Fred Shapiro


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