[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hetero" (Noun)

[Shapiro, Fred]

hetero, n. (OED 1940)

1938 Conrad Bentzen, "Notes on the Homosexual in Chicago" (unpublished student paper), 14 Mar., 5-6, folder 10, box 145, Burgess Papers (University of Chicago Library)
Every night we find the place crowded with both races, the black and the white, [and] both types of lovers, the homo and the hetro [sic].

Fred Shapiro


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