[Ads-l] Antedating of "Fairy" (Slang Term for Male Homosexual)

[Shapiro, Fred]

fairy (OED, 4.c., 1896)

1892 People v. Thomas Frank Stevenson, Supreme Court, General Sessions, Indictments, Jan. 1892, Box 10039 sh 106170, New York City Municipal Archives in Jonathan Ned Katz, Love Stories (2001) 291, 383

[As William A. Gramer sat at a table with beer he was] approached by a person ... designated as the "Fairy."

Fred Shapiro

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