Antedating of "Gay Bashing"

[Fred Shapiro]

Actually, doing a better search of EBSCO I found the following:

gay bashing (OED 1984)

1978 _Body Politic_ Sept. 21 (GLBT Life with Full Text)  Gay bashing in
New York's Central Park has been a fact of the cruising life for years.

Fred Shapiro


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