Amelia Earhart was so hot part 2: The Queen Dyke

Ten best excepts from wikipedia that prove Amelia Earhart was the ultimate kick-ass Queen Dyke*

1. As a child, Amelia spent long hours playing, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and "belly-slamming" her sled downhill. Although this love of the outdoors and "rough-and-tumble" play was common to many youngsters, some biographers have characterized the young Amelia as a tomboy

2. a yearbook caption "A.E. – the girl in brown who walks alone."

3. she kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women in predominantly male-oriented fields, including film direction and production, law, advertising, management and mechanical engineering

4. She passed the time by reading poetry, learning to play the banjo and studying mechanics (ohhh...be still my beating heart)

5. After a 10-minute flight, she immediately became determined to learn to fly. Working at a variety of jobs, as a photographer, truck driver and stenographer at the local telephone company, she managed to save $1,000 for flying lessons.

6. She chose a leather jacket but aware that other aviators would be judging her, slept in it for three nights to give the jacket a more "worn" look. To complete her image transformation, she also cropped her hair short in the style of other female flyers

7. Earhart was the reigning "Queen of the Air."*

8. George P. Putnam, sought out Amelia, proposing to her six times before she finally agreed. After substantial hesitation on her part, they married.

9. Earhart referred to her marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control." In a letter written to Putnam and hand delivered to him on the day of the wedding, she wrote, "I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly."

10. a British colonial officer found a "skeleton... possibly that of a woman", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on Garner island's southeast corner. authorities took detailed measurements of the bones and concluded they were from a stocky male. However, in 1998 an analysis of the measurement data by forensic anthropologists indicated the skeleton had belonged to a "tall white female of northern European ancestry."Artifacts discovered by TIGHAR on Nikumaroro have included improvised tools, an aluminum panel (possibly from an Electra), an oddly cut piece of clear Plexiglas which is the exact thickness and curvature of an Electra window and a size 9 Cat's Paw heel dating from the 1930s which resembles Earhart's footwear in world flight photos.

* From this day forth I call for a new queer identity. From Amelia Earhart, to Frances Loring, to yours truly - Women who are not butch dykes or femme dykes, but rather I give you the "Queen Dyke".