Exclusive interview with Chukki, Donna. Skully, Frankie,
Butchy, Renee Irenestein, and Patty O’Furniture.
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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.”
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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-
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