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Posted by Brent Hartinger on August 11, 2010
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series on slash fandoms.

The Stonewall Inn Riots began on June 28, 1969 – an act of civil disobedience by some of our community’s more marginalized members that is widely believed to have sparked the modern GLBT rights movement.

But what if a similarly important moment in gay equality actually came a year earlier, in 1968, when a UK woman, Jennifer Guttridge, wrote what is considered by many to be the world’s first piece of slash fiction, “Ring of Shoshern,” about a relationship between Star Trek’s Kirk and Spock?

No, wait! Hear me out. ...