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(con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 199: The predominant form of [woman-to-woman] lovemaking [...] was what the clinicians called ‘tribadism’ or what most narrators for theis period call ‘friction’. Another narrator rembers women form this period calling it ‘banging’. (con. 1940s-50s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: The term ‘bull-dagger’ was used by hostile straights as an insult. Boots of Leather (2014) 199: [of lesbian women] It wasn’t until later that she got into bull sessions about such topics [i.e. having sex]. Boots of Leather (2014) 5: All commentators on twentieth-century lesbian life have noted the prominence of butch-fem roles. Boots of Leather (2014) 210: ‘One girl [...] she dressed very butchy [...] tatoos on her arms, she really looked rugged. She looked rough’. (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 200: ‘[A friend] wanted me to go to this daisy chain gang [...] I was not interested. I have never been at all intrigued by multiple sex or sex orgies or groups’. (con. 1930s-40s) Boots of Leather (2014) 37: It [sic] was plenty of gay people at that time, but [...] they kept it in the closet. (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches of the rough crowd were referred to as ‘diesel dykes’ or ‘truck drivers’. (con. 1930s) Boots of Leather (2014) 42: [The police] just [took] the drag queens, the ones that were putting on the show. (con. 1930s) Boots of Leather (2014) 41: ‘The boys were doing a drag show and someone tipped the police off [...] They let the show go on all the way right up to the end [...] with the girls [...] in their drag and everything. (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 227: ‘What is dyking? It’s when a butch and a fem, the fem plays the woman part and the butch plays the male part, and the male lays on the female just like a man would do to a woman, except for there’s no intercourse [...] you don’t feel the penis inside you’. Boots of Leather (2014) 237: ‘I wanted a girlfriend, a girlfriend that was more, like, femmy [...] That was what really turned me on was bleached blondes, and of course makeup and real femmy clothes, y'know, dresses and high heels’. Boots of Leather (2014) 5: All commentators on twentieth-century lesbian life have noted the prominence of butch-fem roles. (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 199: The predominant form of [woman-to-woman] lovemaking [...] was what the clinicians called ‘tribadism’ or what most narrators for theis period call ‘friction’. Another narrator rembers women form this period calling it ‘banging’. (con. 1930s) Boots of Leather (2014) 33: ‘People in the neighborhood had clued this girl’s mother in to the fact that I was ‘kind of funny’. (con. 1930s-40s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Some people, not all, would use the term ‘gay girls,’ or ‘gay kids’ to refer to either butch or fem, or both. (con. 1940s-50s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: For both [hetero- and homosexual] communities the term ‘gay’ was more prevalent in the 1950s than in the 1940s. Boots of Leather (2014) 205: ‘When they [i.e. lovers] go off, when it’s there, I am just so enthralled’. Boots of Leather (2014) 205: ‘I haven’t had it in so long I go to’. (con. 1930s-40s) Boots of Leather (2014) 37: ‘It was always best to let them [i.e. another woman] hit on you first, then you knew where you stood’. (con. 1930s-40s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches would refer to themselves as ‘homos’ when trying to indicate the stigmatized position they held in society. (con. 1930s-40s) Boots of Leather (2014) 38: ‘[The bar] was not gay. It was mostly men, straight men, and not a place for us, nor for homos’. (con. 1960s) Boots of Leather (2014) 213: ‘Yeah, they called them neither-nor, ki-ki. You find that now too, double role playing’. (con. 1940s) Boots of Leather (2014) 198: ‘“What the hell are you?” [...] “A lavender butch.” This meant she was butch, but femmy’. Boots of Leather (2014) 206: ‘These studs, talking about how “I don’t take the sheet.” You know what I mean “don’t take the sheet,” don’t you? That mean a stud make up to a fem all the time, a few did not make up with a stud’. (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 198: This narrator recalls a visit to Winters [bar, where other women were laughing about ‘sixty-nine.’ [...] ‘I didn’t get it. I [...] said, “Somebody says ‘sixty-nine’ and everybody gets hysterical”’ . (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 217: ‘I’d just been out a short time. And I went with this girl that had been out for a while., She wasn’t a new one [i.e. lesbian]. (con. 1950s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches would refer to themselves as ‘queer’ to indicate social stigma. Boots of Leather (2014) 206: ‘These studs, talking about how “I don’t take the sheet.” You know what I mean “don’t take the sheet,” don’t you? That mean a stud make up to a fem all the time, a few did not make up with a stud’. Boots of Leather (2014) 249: ‘You meet somebody in the bathroom, do your thing, and then come out [...] I would bet some had more sex in the shithouse than they had in their bedrooms’.