1995, David Bell, Gill Valentine, Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, Psychology Press (→ISBN), page 64:
In the 'community' of middle-class political and/or lifestyle 'scene' lesbians, these women are either ignored or fantasised: The typical stereotype is that the butch is a working class woman, she's a diesel dyke...the real pimp, ...
1995, George Baxt, A Queer Kind Of Love: A Pharoah Love Mystery, Macmillan (→ISBN), 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), page 208 / 1997, Daneel Buring, Lesbian and Gay Memphis: Building Communities Behind the Magnolia Curtain, Taylor & Francis (→ISBN), page 135:
A diesel dyke was typically one who didn'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), 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), 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)
Some wanted us to depict a diesel dyke, but that character was such a sub-genre we didn'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), page 90:
... and so that I am a visible gay for all those who aren't particularly anti-gay but who assume gays are 'someone else', say a poncy pansy or a diesel dyke, who may exist in a gay ghetto of straight people's imagination.
2010, Sex and Society, Marshall Cavendish (→ISBN), 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), page 187:
You see, I'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't it?
