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== Controversies Over Slash ==

== Controversies Over Slash ==

''See [[Slash Controversies]] for the main article.''

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Slash has been surrounded by controversy since its inception. Some topics:

Slash has been surrounded by controversy since its inception. Some topics:

===Slash and Gay===

===Slash and Gay===

''See [[Slash vs. Gay]] for the main article.''

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As long as slash fans have been calling their stories slash, there have been conversations about how slash relates to LGBT issues. In early years, it was thought that slash was by definition about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men two heterosexual men]. Some gay men have voiced opposition to heterosexual women appropriating gay male experience. Literary questions of the differences between slash and published LGBT fiction have also been discussed.

As long as slash fans have been calling their stories slash, there have been conversations about how slash relates to LGBT issues. In early years, it was thought that slash was by definition about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_who_have_sex_with_men two heterosexual men]. Some gay men have voiced opposition to heterosexual women appropriating gay male experience. Literary questions of the differences between slash and published LGBT fiction have also been discussed.