Antedating of "Gay Bashing"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 29 19:43:09 UTC 2006
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> "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.
Perhaps not:
1970 _Times_ (London) 20 Jan. 2/4 (Times Digital Archive) Two men aged 18
and 10 boys were alleged at the Central Criminal Court yesterday to have
gone to Wimbledon Common, S.W., late at night to beat up homosexuals. "It
is known in some quarters as queer bashing," Mr. Brian Leary, for the
prosecution, said.
Fred Shapiro
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