Slash Fiction

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Slash fiction is a form of fanfic (fan-written fiction about characters from professional fiction, typically media) featuring a same-sex pair of characters in a romantic or sexual relationship not in the original. Slash, in this context, refers to a virgule sign.

It started with Star Trek “Kirk/Spock” stories at a time when such relationships were very much closeted, and may have been meant to be derogatory toward gays.



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