Antedating of "Gay Bashing"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Paki-bashing" appears to be the oldest of these terms:

  1970 Times [London] (Apr. 3) 3: 'Paki-bashing’, as skinheads call it, is not confined to east London.

  JL

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