Harry Potter Gets Laid
From Fanlore
| Commentary | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Harry Potter Gets Laid |
| Commentator: | Annalee Newitz |
| Date(s): | 03 December 2002 |
| Medium: | The San Francisco Bay Guardian |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter |
| External Links: | Harry Potter Gets Laid (AlterNet, Wayback) Harry Potter Gets Laid (sfgb.com) |
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Harry Potter Gets Laid is an article about Harry Potter slash. It was published in Annalee Newitz's nationally-syndicated weekly column Techsploitation. The article introduces slash to a lay audience, explains the beginnings mentioning Kirk/Spock, cave stories and Pon Farr, and then returns to Harry Potter.
Once upon a time Harry Potter slash was kind of a weird novelty, the sort of thing bloggers found in less-traveled parts of the Web and linked to in "Isn't this bizarre?" moods. In the vast and satisfying world of slash, it was an upstart, a dangerous new node in an already perverse data structure. The problem was that Harry and his fetching little pals – despite their very adult problems and conflicts – were all underage. And yet they were so sexy! [...] And indeed, the Harry Potter slash regime is currently in full flower. You don't have to believe me: try Googling on "Harry Potter slash" and see what happens.
The author of the article Yaoi/slash approaches - A homoerotic subculture goes global says that he first learned of slash fiction from Harry Potter Gets Laid which he saw in the SF Bay Guardian.
