Shuffling Cards by Misprint (K)

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Fandom: NEWSIES
Pairing: Racetrack/Skittery
Length: 2,300
Author on LJ: graciebird
Author Website: FFnet profile
Why this must be read: Skittery broke up with his girlfriend and everyone thinks he's crazy -- except Racetrack.

Slash set in 1899 can be a hard sell, since it wasn't exactly a time that was welcoming and friendly for homosexuality -- the word itself didn't even exist yet. This fic (which was one of the first in the fandom that I ever read, lo those many years ago, and I still consider it one of the best) approaches it from another tack, as an undercurrent between two characters.

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[theficklepickle.livejournal.com]

homosexual, adj, 1892, in C.G. Chaddock's translation of Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis," from homo-, comb. form of Gk. homos "same" + Latin-based sexual.

" 'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it." [H. Havelock Ellis, "Studies in Psychology," 1897]

homosexuality 1892, from the same source as homosexual, + -ity.

Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=homosexual&searchmode=none)