Slash

[pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> Hail, people...
> 
> Amy:
> > Maybe the movies should take a tip from fanfic and print "there 
be slash here!" right on the posters.
> 
> Why is homoerotic material called slash, out of interest?
> 

As I understand, it goes back at least until the fanfics written off 
Star Trek (the original series) in the 1960s.  When writing stories 
involving male-male pairings, the authors was found that many people 
took offence at such stories, and the stories were labelled not only 
as romance, but also with the pairing in question, for instance 
Kirk/Spock, i.e. [name][slash][name].

Best regards
Christian Stubø