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==History of the Genre ==

==History of the Genre ==

 

{{main|History of Slash Fandom}}

''See [[History of Slash Fandom]] for the main article.''

Fans certainly wrote and [[drawerfic|kept private]], or shared with only a few friends, homosexual stories about [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes and Watson]], [[Batfandom|Bruce and Dick]],<ref group=note>Dr. Fredric Wertham, writing about comic books' contribution to degeneracy and criminal behavior in his book ''Seduction of the Innocent'', wrote that not only did Batman and Robin's adventures contain gay [[subtext]] but that their relationship was obviously homosexual even to child readers. He later testified about this before Congress. Cultural reviewer Will Brooker revealed in his book ''Batman Unmasked'' that gay men had told Wertham in interviews that they saw Batman as gay; he did not make it up. It's very likely that fan fiction or fan-drawn comics of this nature existed, no doubt [[drawerfic|kept extremely private]], perhaps similar to Charles Crumb's work featuring child actor Bobby Driscoll.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie], [[Illya/Napoleon|Ilya and Napoleon]] in [[The Man From UNCLE]]<ref group=note>Considerable evidence points to ''The Man From UNCLE'' being the first media fandom, embraced by the same science fiction writers and fans who would go on to enshrine ''Star Trek''. See [[Francesca Coppa]], "A Brief History of Media Fandom" in ''[[Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet]]: New Essays'', ed. by [[Karen Hellekson]] and [[Kristina Busse]] (McFarland, 2006), p. 41.</ref>, [[The Wild Wild West|James and Artemus]], or [[Route 66|Buz and Tod]],<ref group=note>[http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%208/Schenectady%20NY%20Gazette/Schenectady%20NY%20Gazette%201962%20Grayscale/Schenectady%20NY%20Gazette%201962%20Grayscale%20-%203700.pdf A Senate probe into the role of television in juvenile delinquency] focused on ''Route 66'' because of its strong appeal to children and teenagers, questioning the appropriateness of sex and romance in the storylines. A memo from CBS network head James Aubrey, used as evidence in the hearings, specifically asked for more sex on ''Route 66'', saying that neither protagonist had expressed the “normal wants of a young man... to get involved with a girl or even to kiss her”.</ref> but it was ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' that popularized the slash subgenre. The first such story may have been [[The Ring of Soshern]], written by [[Jennifer Guttridge]] in 1967 or 1968 and circulated only privately.

Fans certainly wrote and [[drawerfic|kept private]], or shared with only a few friends, homosexual stories about [[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes and Watson]], [[Batfandom|Bruce and Dick]],<ref group=note>Dr. Fredric Wertham, writing about comic books' contribution to degeneracy and criminal behavior in his book ''Seduction of the Innocent'', wrote that not only did Batman and Robin's adventures contain gay [[subtext]] but that their relationship was obviously homosexual even to child readers. He later testified about this before Congress. Cultural reviewer Will Brooker revealed in his book ''Batman Unmasked'' that gay men had told Wertham in interviews that they saw Batman as gay; he did not make it up. It's very likely that fan fiction or fan-drawn comics of this nature existed, no doubt [[drawerfic|kept extremely private]], perhaps similar to Charles Crumb's work featuring child actor Bobby Driscoll.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie], [[Illya/Napoleon|Ilya and Napoleon]] in [[The Man From UNCLE]]<ref group=note>Considerable evidence points to ''The Man From UNCLE'' being the first media fandom, embraced by the same science fiction writers and fans who would go on to enshrine ''Star Trek''. See [[Francesca Coppa]], "A Brief History of Media Fandom" in ''[[Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet]]: New Essays'', ed. by [[Karen Hellekson]] and [[Kristina Busse]] (McFarland, 2006), p. 41.</ref>, [[The Wild Wild West|James and Artemus]], or [[Route 66|Buz and Tod]],<ref group=note>[http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%208/Schenectady%20NY%20Gazette/Schenectady%20NY%20Gazette%201962%20Grayscale/Schenectady%20NY%20Gazette%201962%20Grayscale%20-%203700.pdf A Senate probe into the role of television in juvenile delinquency] focused on ''Route 66'' because of its strong appeal to children and teenagers, questioning the appropriateness of sex and romance in the storylines. A memo from CBS network head James Aubrey, used as evidence in the hearings, specifically asked for more sex on ''Route 66'', saying that neither protagonist had expressed the “normal wants of a young man... to get involved with a girl or even to kiss her”.</ref> but it was ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' that popularized the slash subgenre. The first such story may have been [[The Ring of Soshern]], written by [[Jennifer Guttridge]] in 1967 or 1968 and circulated only privately.