1988 December 18, Wickie Stamps, “Boston Bikers Hold Sober Soiree”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 2:
Downstairs, ladies — in kiki dyads or flying solo — lounged in chairs (or each other's arms) while previewing footage of the soon-to-be-released "1988 Women's Motorcycle Festival".
1992, Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, volume 15, page 184:
For example, Faderman views butches, femmes, and kikis as roles imitative of heterosexual models and not part of primary, unique lesbian sociosexual identities. […] In the 1950s and 1960s, this sexual identity is complicated by the flourishing of butch and femme roles, as well as […]. For their part, butches and femmes found these women “kiki” – neither butch nor femme, women who didn't know what they really wanted, women who were giving in to society's expectations regarding dress or behavior. […]
1994, Patrick Califia, Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex, [age 181:
Today lesbian butch / femme is acquiring more flexibility than it had in the '70s when I came out. […] The butches I met in Perky's would have laughed an idea like that right out the door. But then, those women were heavy mothers who would have thought Beebo Brinker was a kiki bra burner.
2012, Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Columbia University Press (→ISBN), page 168:
Although the issue seldom led to violence, butches and femmes were often adamant about rejecting what they called the "confused" behavior of "kiki" women, those who would not choose a role. […] Another New England woman recalls that “kiki” also referred to two butches or two femmes who were lovers. They often had to […] One denizen of the Village says that already by the 1940s one was expected
2014, Nadine Hubbs, Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 146:
The array of erotic personas included male fairies, rough trade, jockers, wolves, and husbands and female femmes, butches, kikis, ladies, studs, and bulldaggers.
2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, SAGE Publications (→ISBN), page 174:
Lesbian and bisexual women's working-class communities were organized around butch–femme identities; an individual who did not identify within either role was referred to somewhat pejoratively as a “kiki.” Butch–femme identities served as […]
