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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1983)
Exclusive interview with Chukki, Donna. Skully, Frankie, Butchy, Renee Irenestein, and Patty O’Furniture. rl vkpf fines - 1 their six song repertoire three times, includ ing a song by one o f their many personae by Renee LaChanee Little Lila and the Lem m ings singing "I will follow her.” I The m om ent they hit the stage you are “W e weren’t sure whether we would be transferred to the era of poodle skirts, and I accepted by those wom en or not," Chukki saddle shoes, bouffant hairdos and slicked- I Linguini remembers, "Butch/fem m e was back DA’s. A time of air raids and bomb I politically incorrect then, but fortunately we shelters, Elvis Presley and sock hops. A time I didn't have any negative reactions. In fact, we when it was politically incorrect for a lesbian I had w om en swooning and kissing our feet, to label herself anything other than butch or I being really crazy.” fem m e. Mixing music and theatre the Dyke- I They were a success at that first event, and tones recreate the attitudes of the '50s. I for the following year the Dyketones spent Seven years ago the Dyketones started as a I every Sunday afternoon rehearsing and living room lark, and from there grew to be a I brainstorming bits for their act in preparation musical institution in Portland. At their first I for the Northwest W om en's Music Festival concert New Year’s Eve 77, they performed I that was held in Portland in 7 8 . They per- I I I 6