GAY-BASHING etymology
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Nov 30 18:57:02 UTC 2006
On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Ron Butters wrote:
> ... It is only a few years later that we find "Paki-bashing" in the
> same locale,
> and shortly after that that "gay-bashing" is recorded on the same
> side of the
> Atlantic.
well, "queer-bashing". "gay-bashing" seems to have appeared later.
arnold
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