GAY-BASHING query

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:25:38AM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> The earliest usage I have found so far is in an article in Newsweek, March
> 23, 1981, which had the headline "The Growing Terror of 'Gay Bashing'"
> (page 30).

1981 L.A. Times 6 Mar. I. 17/1 It has come to be known in
Portland as 'gay bashing'--vicious attacks directed at..homosexual
men.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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