Some fans of various media texts (media includes television shows, movies, books, cartoons, comic books, and occasionally, real celebrities) write stories about the media text. This is fanfiction. Some of that fanfiction contains sexual or romantic interaction between characters of the same gender, usually male, usually not presented as gay or bisexual in the official media product. These homoerotic stories, poems, and filks are slash.
I am a young black lesbian, currently living in Baltimore, who's been a slash fan since early 1998. I love reading slash fiction; it satisfies my craving for romance and, in many of my fandoms, for science-fiction material. I've become a reluctant writer, and I have a problem with finishing stories. (About half of the stories on this page are either works in progress or abandoned.)
My first fandom was The X-Files, my primary fandom is Farscape. I also read or watch:
(If there's no link for a fandom, it means that I only watch the show on television, or I only read it occasionally or in crossovers.)