Citations:diesel dyke


 * 1995, David Bell, Gill Valentine, Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, Psychology Press (ISBN 9780415111645), page 64:
 * In the &#39;community&#39; of middle-class political and/or lifestyle &#39;scene&#39; lesbians, these women are either ignored or fantasised: The typical stereotype is that the butch is a working class woman, she&#39;s a diesel dyke...the real pimp, ...
 * 1995, George Baxt, A Queer Kind Of Love: A Pharoah Love Mystery, Macmillan (ISBN 9780312131524), page 192:
 * "One of those convent teachers must have been a diesel dyke who fancied them and taught them a lot of street smarts." Pharoah laughed a soft, cynical laugh.
 * 1997, John Howard, Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South, NYU Press (ISBN 9780814735138), page 208 / 1997, Daneel Buring, Lesbian and Gay Memphis: Building Communities Behind the Magnolia Curtain, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 9780815329909), page 135:
 * A diesel dyke was typically one who didn&#39;t care who knew she was gay and had a very, very feminine woman, if she had a woman at all. The women who were with them thought of them more as men than as another woman.
 * 2001, James Thomas Sears, Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South, Rutgers University Press (ISBN 9780813529646), page 113:
 * Knowlton adds: "She did what she wanted; she looked like a diesel dyke. There was no hiding! Women would migrate over to Atlanta after they finished at the University of Georgia and talk about her in awe."
 * 2001, Andrew Vachss, Blue Belle, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (ISBN 9780375719035), page 6:
 * A diesel dyke cruised into view, her arm braced around the neck of a slender, longhaired girl, her bicep flexed to display a bold tattoo. I was too far away to read it, but I knew what it said: hard to the core.
 * 2002, Terry Goldie, In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context, arsenal pulp press (ISBN 9781551523989)
 * Some wanted us to depict a diesel dyke, but that character was such a sub-genre we didn&#39;t do it. The dark-haired woman in pants was considered and read to be butch at the time. In the post-World War II period, women were being ...
 * 2005, National Lesbian and Gay Survey, What a Lesbian Looks Like, Routledge (ISBN 9781134893515), page 90:
 * ... and so that I am a visible gay for all those who aren&#39;t particularly anti-gay but who assume gays are &#39;someone else&#39;, say a poncy pansy or a diesel dyke, who may exist in a gay ghetto of straight people&#39;s imagination.
 * 2010, Sex and Society, Marshall Cavendish (ISBN 9780761479079), page 461:
 * A diesel dyke is an overtly and sometimes aggressively macho lesbian. The term is thought to derive from the image of a woman in overalls working in a job, such as truck-driving, that was historically the exclusive preserve of males.
 * 2010, John A. Reid, Scaring The Kids, iUniverse (ISBN 9781450230650), page 187:
 * You see, I&#39;ve been thinking of dressing like a butch dyke or perhaps a diesel dyke for a week or two. That just might shock my boyfriend, but then so many men fantasize about watching two women making love. Odd in a way, isn&#39;t it?