But that's not the original fannish origin - that would date it in 2002, and it's definitely older than that. In fact, I know it was mentioned in Highlander and Sentinel fandoms well before that - I recall at least one public "hey, are Duncan's pants in this picture gay or not?". (I think my response was "they're not gay, they're Eurotrash".) It's spread pretty widely since then - I've seen it in lots of fandoms. I think it also came up on fca-l a few times, though the archives to that are lost (to the best of my knowledge - cereta would know for sure).
Let me see if I can find references...yes. This post from May 2001: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Prospect-L/message/11801 lists earlier posts (including entire threads) about Jim Ellison's gay pants in Sentinel fandom.
Highlander references...can't find 'em, as I can't recall which of 2390482304982 lists they were on. Grar.
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Date: 2003-07-09 07:47 pm (UTC)Let me see if I can find references...yes. This post from May 2001:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Prospect-L/message/11801
lists earlier posts (including entire threads) about Jim Ellison's gay pants in Sentinel fandom.
Highlander references...can't find 'em, as I can't recall which of 2390482304982 lists they were on. Grar.