Dyke (slang)

Lesbian slang term

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Dyke is a slang term, used as a noun meaning lesbian.[1] It originated as a homophobic slur for masculine, butch, or androgynous girls or women. Pejorative use of the word still exists, but the term dyke has been reappropriated by many lesbians to imply assertiveness and toughness[2] (for example: the Dykes on Bikes motorcycle club).

## Origins and historical usage

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The origin of the term dyke is obscure and many theories have been proposed.[3][4][5] Most etymologies assert that dyke is derived from bulldyke, which has a similar meaning.[3] The term first appears in an August 1921 article in the journal Medical Review of Reviews titled "The 'Fairy' and the Lady Lover". In this article, Perry M. Lichtenstein, a prison physician in New York City, reports on the case of a female prisoner he examined: "She stated that she had indulged in the practice of 'bull diking,' as she termed it. She was a prisoner in one of the reformatories, and there a certain young woman fell in love with her."[6] The forms bulldyker and bulldyking also appear later on in the Harlem Renaissance novels of the late 1920s, including Eric D. Walrond's 1926 Tropic Death, Carl van Vechten's 1926 Nigger Heaven, and Claude McKay's 1928 Home to Harlem.[3][7] The Oxford English Dictionary notes the first attestation as Berrey and Van den Bark's 1942 American Thesaurus of Slang, which lists bulldiker as a synonym for lesbian.[8]

The etymology of bulldyke is also obscure. It may be related to the late-19th-century slang use of dike ("ditch") for the vulva.[9] Bull ("male cattle") being used in the sense of "masculine" and "aggressive" (e.g., in bullish), a bulldyke would have implied (with similar levels of offensiveness) a "masculine cunt". Other theories include that bulldyke derived from morphodite, a variant of hermaphrodite;[2] that it was a term for stud bulls and originally applied to sexually successful men;[10] or that it was a dialectical corruption of the name of the rebel Celtic queen Boadicea.[2][4]

From the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, dike had been American slang for a well-dressed man, with "diked out" and "out on a dike" indicating a young man was in his best clothes and ready for a night on the town. The etymology of that term is also obscure, but may have originated as a Virginian variant of deck and decked out.[11]

In the 1950s, the word dyke was used as a derogatory term for lesbians by straight people, but was also used by lesbians of higher social status to identify crude, rough-bar lesbians.[12]

In a 1970 study, Julia Stanley theorized that the source of these varying definitions stems from gender-determined sub-dialects.[13] Homosexuality in America is a "subculture with its own language."[13] As such, a special vocabulary is developed by its members. Previously, gay men defined dyke as lesbian without derogation. A bull dyke was also defined as a lesbian without further distinction. For lesbians of the community, however, a dyke is an extremely masculine, easily identified lesbian, given to indiscretion. Bull dyke is an extension of this term, with the addition of this person described as nasty, obnoxiously aggressive, and overly demonstrative of her hatred of men.[13]

In 1995, Susan Krantz discussed the etymology of bulldyke, with derivations of the Middle English "falsehood" for bull and dick for dyke (Farmer and Henley 1891).[2] Therefore, a possible origin for a masculine lesbian comes from bulldicker that could specifically mean "fake penis", denoting a "false man".[2] Further speculation talks of the synonymous term bulldagger. Here, dagger also alludes to the male genitalia and bull referring to "false" rather than "man".[2]

## Increasing acceptance

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See also: Reappropriation

Boston Dyke March (2008), Massachusetts, US Dykes on Bikes banner (2006), Melbourne Gay Pride, Australia

In 1969, people in the gay community began to march in the streets to demand civil rights. Terms such as dyke and faggot were used to identify people as political activists for the gay community. During this time, dyke referred to a woman committed to revolution, the most radical position. A surge of feminism in the lesbian community led to "dyke separatism", which emphasized that lesbian women should consider themselves to be separate from men, their ideas and movements.[14]

In 1971, the poem The Psychoanalysis of Edward the Dyke by Judy Grahn was published by the Women's Press Collective.[15][16] This use of dyke empowered the lesbian community because heretofore it had only been employed as a condemnation. Because of the exposure of the word to the public, the term dyke was reclaimed by the lesbian community in the 1970s.[17]

The meaning of dyke has positively changed over time. Most members of the community have dropped bull from the term to use it as a positive identifier of one who displays toughness, or as a simple, generic term for all lesbians. This abbreviation does not carry the negative connotations of the full phrase as it previously did.[2] Scholar Paula Blank, in a 2011 article on lesbian etymology, called for taking ownership of lesbian and similar words.[18]

In the late 20th and early 21st century, the term dyke was claimed by many lesbians as a term of pride and empowerment.[19][20] Alison Bechdel, author of comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008),[21] said use of the term was "linguistic activism".[20] The strip depicts the lives of a lesbian community and is one of the earliest representations of lesbians in popular culture.[22] It has been described "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976) were to an earlier one."[23]

The term dyke is also important in the leather community, who use the term leatherdyke as the counterpart to the gay male "leatherman."[24] For example, in the 1995 documentary BloodSisters, which is about the leatherdyke community, one of the interview subjects says, "I don't want to be called a lesbian, I'm not a lesbian. . . I'm a dyke. And for me, that's a real power word. It's a source of pride, and strength, and it has history for me."[25] Because of its association with the leather community, some may choose to use the term dyke, rather than lesbian, to indicate a position in the feminist sex wars.[26][27][28]

In her 2011 article The Only Dykey One, Lucy Jones argues that consideration of lesbian culture is core to an understanding of lesbian identity construction.[29] Matters came to a head when the United States Patent and Trademark Office denied the lesbian motorcycle group Dykes on Bikes a trademark for its name, on the grounds dyke was offensive, derogatory and disparaging to lesbians. However, the office reversed itself and permitted the group to register its name after attorneys appealed and submitted hundreds of pages to show the slang word does not disparage lesbians in the way it once did.[30] On December 8, 2005, Dykes on Bikes won the trademark case,[31] and the organization has since gained international recognition for leading gay pride parades from San Francisco to Sydney.

### Facebook controversy

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In June 2017, Facebook censored the use of the word "dyke" on its website as "abusive content".[32][33][34] This decision resulted in a Change.org protest petition created by the Listening 2 Lesbians collective that was signed by 7,247 supporters.[35]

## Dyke March

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Dyke March (2018), Oldenburg, Germany

Dyke Marches have become popular gay pride events nationwide in the United States and Canada. They are generally non-commercial, in sharp contrast to corporate-sponsored pride events, and some are participated in by bisexual and trans women. The stated mission of the Boston Dyke March, for example, is "to provide a dynamic and welcoming space for participants of all sexualities, genders, races, ages, ethnicities, sizes, economic backgrounds, and physical abilities."[36] Marches also take place in several European cities. The United Kingdom's first Dyke March was held in London in 2012.[37] In Germany, the annual Dyke March Berlin was established in 2013.[38][39] In Mexico, the Marcha Lésbica (Lesbian March) was founded in March 2003 and is held biannually in Mexico City.[40][41][42]

## Dyke bar

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A dyke bar is any bar or club frequented by lesbians, and is considered as slang in the vocabulary of the LGBTQ community. The existence of official dyke bars, or lesbian bars, in the United States has decreased tremendously in the past 40 years. In the 1980s there were around 202 lesbian bars, in 2021 the number was thought to be at 16.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the closing of dyke bars, with the lack of business preventing bar owners from paying rent, exacerbating an already existing decline in lesbian spaces.[44] The Lesbian Bar Project is an ongoing film and documentation project created by filmmakers Erica Rose and Elina Street in 2020 to document the country's remaining lesbian bars; it has since expanded to Europe.[45] However, there is some evidence that this trend may be reversing in some regions, with an increased number of lesbian bars opening in the United States since 2023.[46][47][48]

## Gallery

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* Alison Bechdel, author, Dykes to Watch Out For

* A dyke on a bike at New York City Pride March (2007)

* Dyke March, Washington, D.C. (2019)

## See also

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* LGBTQ portal

* LGBT slang
* Queer
* Terminology of homosexuality
* Van Dykes
* Leatherdyke

## References

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## Further reading

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* Bates, Gloria (June 6, 2018). "Dyke: A Fracture In the Lesbian Community". Medium.
* Bendix, Trish (June 23, 2017). "Dyke Marches Assert Political Power and Demand Visibility. But They're Under Threat". Outward. Slate.
* Levy, Ariel (March 2, 2009). "Lesbian Nation". The New Yorker. (article about the Van Dykes collective)
* Morris, Bonnie J. (December 22, 2016). "Dyke Culture and the Disappearing L". Outward. Slate.
* Smith, Kristin (June 21, 2011). "The Lez Look Book". The Bold Italic.

Books and journals

* Beers, Jinx (2008). Memoirs of an Old Dyke. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. ISBN 978-0595526246.
* Eliason, Michele J. (20 July 2010). "A New Classification System for Lesbians: The Dyke Diagnostic Manual". Journal of Lesbian Studies. 14 (4): 401–414\. doi:10.1080/10894161003677133. ISSN 1089-4160. OCLC 795931159. PMID 20661801. S2CID 205754307. "Special Issue: A History of "Lesbian History," Part 2"401-414&rft.date=2010-07-20&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:205754307#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1080/10894161003677133&rft_id=info:oclcnum/795931159&rft.issn=1089-4160&rft_id=info:pmid/20661801&rft.aulast=Eliason&rft.aufirst=Michele+J.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Dyke+(slang)" class="Z3988">
* Jay, Karla, ed. (1995). Dyke Life: From Growing Up To Growing Old, A Celebration Of The Lesbian Experience. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465039074.
* Kleindienst, Kris, ed. (1999). This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century (1st ed.). Firebrand Books. ISBN 978-1563411175.
* Knadler, Stephen P. (Winter 2002). "Sweetback Style: Wallace Thurman and a Queer Harlem Renaissance". Modern Fiction Studies. 48 (4): 899–936\. doi:10.1353/mfs.2002.0076. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26286254. OCLC 436657207. S2CID 161731198.899-936&rft.date=2002&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26286254#id-name=JSTOR&rft_id=info:doi/10.1353/mfs.2002.0076&rft_id=info:oclcnum/436657207&rft.issn=0026-7724&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161731198#id-name=S2CID&rft.aulast=Knadler&rft.aufirst=Stephen+P.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Dyke+(slang)" class="Z3988">

## External links

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Look up dyke in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

* Dyke at Online Etymology Dictionary
* Dyke Archived 2019-12-03 at the Wayback Machine at Wordorigins.org
* Dyke, A Quarterly, published 1975–1979 (annotated archive, live website)
* Dykes to Watch Out For, comic strip by Alison Bechdel
* "Dyke Beer". Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. University of Minnesota Libraries. 2015.

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) slang

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* Aro
* Ace
* Bareback
* Banjee
* Bear
* Beard
* Beat
* Bi-curious
* Butch and femme
* Boi
* Top, bottom and versatile
* Bottom surgery
* Breeder
* Bugchasing
* Bulldagger
* Butch
* Castro clone
* Chicken
* Chickenhawk
* Chub
* Chubby chaser
* Cottaging
* Cruising
* Daddy
* Down-low
* Drag
* Dyke
* En femme
* En homme
* Fag (Faggot)
* Fag hag
* Fag stag
* Female queen
* F2M/FTM
* Femboy
* Femme
* Flagging (hanky code)
* Friend of Dorothy
* Fruit
* Fruit fly
* Gay-for-pay
* Gaydar
* Gaymer
* Genderfuck
* Gold star
* Glory hole
* Heteroflexibility
* Lesbian until graduation
* Lipstick lesbian
* M2F/MTF
* Muffing
* Non-op
* Packing
* Party and play
* Passing
* Poppers
* Post-op
* Pre-op
* Queen
* RLE
* Same gender loving
* Shemale
* Soft butch
* Scissoring
* SRS
* Stone butch
* Stealth
* Swish
* T
* Tea-room
* TERF
* Top surgery
* Trache shave
* Trade
* Tranny
* Trans chaser
* Transition
* Travesti
* Tribbing
* Troll
* Twink
* U-Haul lesbian
* Unicorn hunting
* Womyn-born womyn

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* Terminology of homosexuality

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* Sports
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* Theatre
* Companies
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Symbols|

* Black triangle
* Gaysper
* Labrys
* Lambda
* Pink triangle
* Rainbow plaque

Pride flags|

* Aromantic
* Asexual
* Bear
* Bisexual
* Gay flag of South Africa
* Gay men
* Intersex
* Leather
* Lesbian
* Non-binary
* Pansexual
* Rainbow
* Rainbow crossing
* Transgender

* Gender identities
* Sexual identities
* Sexual diversities

| Gender identity|

* Androgyny
* Boi
* Cisgender
* Gender bender
* Gender nonconformity
* Khanith
* Man
* Non-binary / genderqueer
* Queer heterosexuality
* Theyby
* Transgender
* Akava'ine
* Trans man
* Transsexual
* Trans woman
* Mak nyah
* Woman
* Womxn
* Womyn
* Xenogender

Third sex / Third gender|

* Bakla
* Balkan sworn virgins
* Bissu
* Faʻafafine
* Fakaleitī
* Femminiello
* Hijra
* Kathoey
* Köçek
* Māhū
* Mukhannath
* Muxe
* Travesti
* Two-spirit
* Winkte

Sexual identities|

| Sexual orientations|

* Asexual
* Bisexual
* Homosexual

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* Aromanticism
* Asexuality
* Gray asexuality
* Demisexuality
* Attraction to transgender people
* Banjee
* Bi-curious
* Gay
* Gay men
* Heteroflexible
* Lesbian
* Monosexual
* Non-heterosexual
* Pansexual
* Queer
* Questioning
* Romantic orientation
* Same gender loving
* Sexual minority
* Tom / Dee

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* Acronyms
* Detransition
* Effeminacy
* Erotic target location error
* Ex-gay
* Ex-ex-gay
* Female
* Gender and sexual diversity
* Gender assignment
* Gender binary
* Gender essentialism
* Gender expression
* Gender neutrality
* Gender roles
* Gender transition
* Healthcare
* Organizations
* Hermaphrodite
* Human female sexuality
* Human male sexuality
* Intersex
* Androgynos
* Tumtum
* Legal status of transgender people
* Male
* Men who have sex with men / Sexual practices between men
* Sex–gender distinction
* Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
* Social construction of gender
* Straight ally
* Tomboy
* Transgender health care
* Women who have sex with women / Sexual practices between women

History

| LGBTQ history|

* History of homosexuality
* History of gay men in the United States
* History of lesbianism
* LGBTQ history timeline
* Migration
* Social movements
* Students
* History of Christianity and homosexuality
* History of same-sex unions
* Pederasty
* Category:LGBTQ history

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Pre-modern era|

* Adelphopoiesis
* Ancient Egypt
* Ancient Greece
* pre-Columbian Peru
* Ancient Rome
* Medieval Europe

16th to 19th century|

* Molly house
* Section 377
* First homosexual movement

20th century|

* Dance of the Forty-One
* Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
* Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
* Cadet scandal
* Florida Legislative Investigation Committee
* Sea queens
* Compton's Cafeteria riot
* Stonewall riots
* Gay Liberation Front
* Handkerchief code
* Festival of Light action
* White Night riots
* Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire
* Florida orange juice boycott
* Operation Soap
* Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
* ACT UP
* Section 28
* Tasty nightclub raid
* Bar Abanicos police raid

21st century|

* Timeline of same-sex marriage
* Lawrence v. Texas
* Russian anti-LGBT law
* Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014
* Rainbow wave
* Rainbow Night
* 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States

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* Socialism
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* United Nations/Yogyakarta Principles
* La Francophonie
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LGBTQ rights movements|

* Homophile
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* Rainbow capitalism
* Separatism
* Gay
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Sexual orientation — Medicine, science and sexology

* Autism and LGBTQ identities
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* Sexual orientation identity
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* Societal attitudes
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* Violence

| Societal attitudes|

* Amatonormativity
* Heteronormativity
* Heteropatriarchy
* Homonationalism
* Pinkwashing
* Gay panic defense
* LGBTQ rights opposition
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* list
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* Queerbaiting
* Homosexuality and religion
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Prejudice and discrimination|

* Arophobia
* Acephobia
* Anti-gender movement
* AIDS stigma
* Biphobia
* Gayphobia
* Grooming conspiracy theory
* Heterosexism
* Homophobia
* Liberal homophobia
* Discrimination against lesbians
* Discrimination against non-binary people
* Racism
* Riddle scale
* SPLC-designated list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups
* Transmisogyny
* Transphobia

Violence against LGBTQ people|

* Corrective rape
* Capital punishment for homosexuality
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* History of violence in the UK
* History of violence in the US
* Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
* Acts of violence against LGBTQ people
* Stop Murder Music
* Violence against transgender people
* Unlawfully killed transgender people

* LGBTQ portal
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