Name/Title
[Dyke Daddy '91 Pinback Button]Entry/Object ID
2022.12.04Tags
Events, Organizations, HIV/AIDS ActivismDescription
A circular, white pinback button featuring a bust photograph of a person in leather smoking a cigarette, and below reading in white text against black rectangles "San Fransisco Dyke Daddy '91, The First Annual Title Contest. Sponsored by: Outcasts, Proceeds to benefit: Women's Health Organizations, East Bay Women's Cancer Foundation, S. F. HIV Women's Support Group." A signature in the bottom left possibly reads "Rey." Brown scuff marks in different areas of the button are apparent.Item Type
Pinback buttonContext
From the Leather Archives & Museum: "The San Francisco Dyke Daddy & Dyke Mommy (aka SF Dyke Daddy/Diva) contests were produced at the SF Eagle as early as 1992 and as late as the early 2000s. The contest was first produced by The Outcasts. Former coordinators of the contest include Lady Hilary and Daddy Sal. Contest proceeds were donated to charity. As of 2003, the contests were produced by owner and executive producer Ren Davis Phoenix and co-producer Mitch Dubin at the Back Street Dance Space. It was announced that an executive board would be created and Leather Dyke Family Charity Events would be reformed as a non-profit organization." (Linked in this record)
"The Outcasts was a women's SM social and educational organization in San Francisco.
In 1984 a group of women who had been part of a private SM social group, some of whom who had also been members of the lesbian feminist SM organization Samois, called for a meeting to start a new organization for women in the Bay Area. Eighty women showed up at the Valencia Rose in response to the advertisement. Attendees at the first meeting debated about whether the organization should be for lesbians only, and whether trans, bisexual, and heterosexual women would be included. Gayle Rubin proposed that lesbian separatists form their own organization and that others would gather to form an inclusive club which became The Outcasts.
About ten people including Rubin later met to officially form The Outcasts in July 1984. They adopted a statement of purpose and policy adapted from Urania, a similar organization in Boston.
The Outcasts hosted educational and social events, participated in pansexual Leather and kink events in the Bay Area, and produced the first SF Dyke Daddy contest. As of 1993, The Outcasts counted approximately 150 members.
The Outcasts disbanded in 1997. Seed money from the club was used to found The Exiles." (Linked in this record)Collection
Adrian J. Cardwell CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1991Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
City
San FransiscoState/Province
CaliforniaLocation
PacificRegion
WestContinent
North AmericaNotes
Signature on the bottom left of the button possibly reads "Rey." However, this is slightly unclear.Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Button, PromotionalNomenclature Class
Advertising MediaNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsGetty AAT
Concept
LGBTQ+, memorabilia, event buttons, cultural events, AIDS (medical syndrome), healthLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
Dykes, Leather community, Leather daddies, Title contests, AIDS organizations, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ clubs and organizationsCategory
HomosaurusOther Names
Name Type
Event NameOther Name
San Fransisco Dyke Daddy '91Name Type
Organization NameOther Name
The OutcastsValuations
Valuation Type
Donor EstimateValue
$20.00Date
Oct 17, 2026Create Date
October 18, 2026Update Date
October 18, 2026