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[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at banging, n.
[US] Kennedy & Davies (con. 1940s-50s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: The term ‘bull-dagger’ was used by hostile straights as an insult.
at bull-dagger (n.) under bull, n.1
[US] Kennedy & Davies 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].
at bull session, n.
[US] Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 5: All commentators on twentieth-century lesbian life have noted the prominence of butch-fem roles.
at butch, adj.
[US] Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 210: ‘One girl [...] she dressed very butchy [...] tatoos on her arms, she really looked rugged. She looked rough’.
at butchy (adj.) under butch, adj.
[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at daisy chain, n.
[US] (con. 1930s-40s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 37: It [sic] was plenty of gay people at that time, but [...] they kept it in the closet.
at in the closet under closet, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches of the rough crowd were referred to as ‘diesel dykes’ or ‘truck drivers’.
at diesel-dyke, n.
[US] (con. 1930s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 42: [The police] just [took] the drag queens, the ones that were putting on the show.
at drag queen, n.
[US] (con. 1930s) Kennedy & Davies 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.
at drag, n.1
[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at dyke, v.
[US] Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at femme, adj.
[US] Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 5: All commentators on twentieth-century lesbian life have noted the prominence of butch-fem roles.
at femme, adj.
[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at friction, n.
[US] (con. 1930s) Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at funny, adj.3
[US] (con. 1930s-40s) Kennedy & Davies 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.
at gay girl (n.) under gay, adj.
[US] (con. 1940s-50s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 7: For both [hetero- and homosexual] communities the term ‘gay’ was more prevalent in the 1950s than in the 1940s.
at gay, n.1
[US] Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 205: ‘When they [i.e. lovers] go off, when it’s there, I am just so enthralled’.
at go off, v.
[US] Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 205: ‘I haven’t had it in so long I go to’.
at have it, v.
[US] (con. 1930s-40s) Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at hit on, v.
[US] (con. 1930s-40s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches would refer to themselves as ‘homos’ when trying to indicate the stigmatized position they held in society.
at homo, n.2
[US] (con. 1930s-40s) Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at homo, n.2
[US] (con. 1960s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 213: ‘Yeah, they called them neither-nor, ki-ki. You find that now too, double role playing’.
at kiki, n.1
[US] (con. 1940s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 198: ‘“What the hell are you?” [...] “A lavender butch.” This meant she was butch, but femmy’.
at lavender, adj.
[US] Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at make up to (v.) under make, v.
[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies 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”’ .
at sixty-nine, n.
[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies 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].
at out, adv.1
[US] (con. 1950s) Kennedy & Davies Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches would refer to themselves as ‘queer’ to indicate social stigma.
at queer, adj.
[US] Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at take the sheet (v.) under sheet, n.
[US] Kennedy & Davies 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’.
at shithouse, n.
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