Timeline of Femslash Fandom and Fanworks

Also see Timeline of Femslash in Canon Sources and History of Femslash Fandom.

Fandom:	Femslash
Dates:	1970s - present
See also:	Timeline of Slashed Sources, Slash Controversies, Slash Tropes
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This timeline timeline shows dates of femslash fanworks (firsts and influential) as well as points in time in fandom in general.

The focus is not on canon. For instance, yes to fanworks about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but no to general discussions and happenings in that show.

1970s

1975/1977

• And Then... is a story set on a Klingon ship featuring original characters, published sometime between 1975 and 1977.

1976

• A Time Out Of Fragment by Paula Smith is a short non-explicit parody of the famous A Fragment Out of Time. The pairing is Uhura/Chapel. It was published in Warped Space #20.

1977

• Kismet, a Uhura/Chapel fic by Dani Morin (1977), may have been the first femslash fic published in a zine. That zine was Obsc'zine.

1980s

1980

• Cross Currents is a Chapel/Rand story by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

1981

• New Year is a Starsky & Hutch story by Paula Smith, published in 1981. From a flyer: "Hutch falls in love with a lady enigma."

1985

• Changing by Jane Carnall is a Jenna/Original Female Character story. It is the first Blake's 7 femslash.

1990s

1992

• The vampire cop series Forever Knight (1992-6) had two strong female co-stars, Natalie Lambert and Janette DuCharme. Although they only occasionally meet in canon (and, indeed, are both canonically romantically involved with the male protagonist), the term "Nanette" was coined by Patrick Kortner Aiex explicitly to refer to an f/f relationship between the two. The Nanettes faction was formalized in 1996. The Nanettes had a discussion group on One List, Le Cercle des Nanettes, and later a Yahoo Group. There was also a website, Le Chateau des Nanettes, which archived members' fan fiction. Some of this was gen, but much was implicitly or explicitly f/f.

1994

• the Babylon 5 Susan/Talia novel, Catalyst was published.

1995

• March 16, X-Files, the first known f/f fic publicly posted was A Woman's Touch, by Leyla Harrison

1996

• A Woman's Touch (1996) is a fic with the earliest date found on the Scully Slash Archive; the archive itself wasn't founded until 1998, so this story predates it

1997

• Xena: Warrior Princess airs the episode "The Xena Scrolls" on January 13. This led to some of fandom embracing the AU and is especially notable as many of these AUs/uber fics were later converted into original works that were then published as lesbian romance novels.

• In 1997 or 1998 a single fanvid was created by Katharine Scarritt for the pairing Talia/Ivanova in Babylon 5. A few fans remember the video playing in the Escapade vid show in the 1990s which would make it the first public femmeslash vid, but the surviving playlists are incomplete and only include vids that were released on the official convention tape. Some vidders chose to release their vids on their own tapes and "Ice" can be found on the Media Cannibals Tape #3.

1998

• Scully Slash Archive was founded in 1998.