Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crown prince Hassan of Jordan is a rather short Arab with a van dyke beard and a very short step, but last Friday night on the second floor of the Harvard Faculty Club he charmed two dozen guests of the Center for International Affairs...
...could tell, there were 600 gay women--women who had learned to "like" women and to respect the work of other women. You can be homosexual and not have those feelings but you cannot be "gay" and not have those feelings for the women around you. The term "dyke," consequently, irritates me to no end. This term is primarily used by women refering to each other and is as derogatory to me as "chick" has become to a good many women. My first visit to a gay bar in Boston, The Saints, was highlighted by the bartender asking a friend...
Among lesbians, a butch, dyke or bull dyke is a mannish woman who seeks a femme-a passive, dependent partner. With the rise of feminist consciousness, the butch-femme pairing seems to be fading, though the terms are still in use. Butch women are sometimes called brothers; effeminate male homosexuals call each other sister. An auntie is a derogatory term for an older male homosexual. Abigail is a nickname for a stuffy middle-aged gay. A front marriage is a legal marriage of convenience. Fag and faggot are acceptable terms among gays if no straights are present...
...able to make good on his promise. Before that happens, there are adventures on the road, including some comical chasing around in cars, an inventive assault on a drive-in bank, and a testy love affair between W.W. and the group's lead singer (Conny Van Dyke). There is also a reasonably subtle examination of a shifting relationship between band and interloper...
...Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Dick Van Dyke, Ed Sullivan, Petticoat Junction, Andy Griffith. Lucy, My Favorite Martian, Danny Thomas, and Gunsmoke...