GAY-BASHING query
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Nov 21 16:41:08 UTC 2006
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, 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).
Slightly earlier in _L.A. Times_, 6 Mar. 1981:
It has come to be known in Portland as "gay bashing" -- vicious attacks
directly primarily at homosexual men and, on occasioin, rapes of women
believed to be lesbians.
Fred Shapiro
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