Aleph Press

A definition of slash was posted by Aleph Press to rec.arts.startrek.current on November 30, 1995. It said:

"Slash" is specifically homosexual couples (in some fandoms where there

are openly homosexual characters, as in anime fandom, it is sometimes

used to mean stories in which characters who are *not* established

homosexuals in the source material have homosexual relationships.) I

don't know if het couple fiction has its own specific term-- it's usually

referred to as "non-slash erotica" or something like that.