Slash will soon be fifty years old!

[kerkevik_2014]

 It occured to me today that the genre proudly known as slash fiction must be approaching it's SAGAhood, as in it will be fifty years old in the next couple of years.

Last year I saw someone talking about slash fiction being about two decades old. I restrained myself from replying; imagining the sage individuals who wrote those first K/S fics planning some suitable rewenges of their own when word filtered to them.

Do we have any dates for the first zines? I imagine the first story was never published, but wouldn't oit be wonderful to fond that piece of history?

Mostly I write the version called femslash, rather than m/m slash which the original is sometimes referred to these days; genfic, or het-fic (I'm old and get confused).

Let's come out of the closet and show the youngsters they didn't invent smut!


Goddess watch over us all, 

kerk tehkek

Comments

[morgandawn]

First slash story to be published was by Diane Marchant: A Fragment Out of Time"

The first known slash story to be circulated (although by no means the first slash story) was "The Ring of Soshern"

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Slash