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

''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]], [[The Man From UNCLE|Ilya and Napoleon]], [[The Wild Wild West|James and Artemus]], or [[Route 66|Buz and Tod]], 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]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu Smith and Petrie], [[The Man From UNCLE|Ilya and Napoleon]], [[The Wild Wild West|James and Artemus]], or [[Route 66|Buz and Tod]], 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.

The first slash story to be published in a fanzine was "[[A Fragment Out of Time]]" by [[Diane Marchant]], published in ''[[Grup]]'' in 1974. After this, other ''Star Trek'' slash stories appeared in some fanzines, slowly picking up steam through the end of the decade with entire [[fanzine]]s devoted to slash, and eventually [[slash conventions]].

The first slash story to be published in a fanzine was "[[A Fragment Out of Time]]" by [[Diane Marchant]], published in ''[[Grup]]'' in 1974. After this, other ''Star Trek'' slash stories appeared in some fanzines, slowly picking up steam through the end of the decade with entire [[fanzine]]s devoted to slash, and eventually [[slash conventions]].