Butch/femme
... butches do not show feeling . When butches cry They weep , they wail they gnash their teeth and moan Strong woman's pain it's just the same except it's mostly done alone.6 Barringer insists that butch feelings are not nonexistent but ...
The Transgender Studies Reader
... butch nerds , butches with soft bodies and hard minds . BUTCH SEXUALITIES Thinking of butch as a category of gender expression may help to account for what appear to be butch sexual anomalies . Do butches who prefer to let their ...
Butch is a Noun
... Butches are a brotherhood , or a sisterhood , which would be a marvelous way to reclaim butch's roots in the lesbian community except some butches were nev- er part of the lesbian community and some were but aren't any more , but ...
Butch Queens Up in Pumps
... Butches Like the Femme Queen , the Butch is explicitly a gender category , while multiple sexualities are implied . Butches are transgender men at various stages of FTM gender transition . At balls , Butches compete in various ...
Blue Star Butches
Blue Star Butches is primarily composed of historic photographs of butch lesbians.
Queer Studies
... butch's lesbian identity . By suggesting that butches who are erotically interested in other butches are modeling their behavior on that of homosexual men , or are actually " faggots " themselves , Rubin and Brown are distancing butches ...
Lesbian Ethics
... Butches who can't or won't pass are unable to get or keep jobs . ( And yes , there are a few Butches who do try to pass as feminine for jobs , but they don't really convince anyone . ) Fighting the Lies Dykes who are not trying to gain ...
Matrices
... butches didn't , was I had not just men- tors , but generations of butches to look to , to decide not whether I wanted to be a butch , I already knew I was , but to see that there were many ways of being butch just as there are a lot of ...
The Lesbian Menace
... butch with butch . This erasure denies that butch - butch relationships are as significant a part of the lesbian community as butch - femme relationships . A few critics have nonetheless given attention to erotic relation- ships between ...
Sexualities Lost and Found
... butches always desire femmes and must always " top " ( that is , orchestrate the sexual encounters ) . There are femmes who maintain control , butches who seek out sexually dominant femmes or sexually aggressive butches ; there are butch ...
Lgbt, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America: Actors to gyms
... Butches confronted this homo- phobia by taking on a more open and aggressive stance than they had in the 1940s . By the 1950s many butches no longer divided their private and public lives . They dressed in male clothes all the time ...
Social Problems
... butches then femmes in the popula- tion . ( Our interviews and analysis of inmate file data indicate that about one - third of the jailhouse turnout population are butch , with a some- what higher proportion of butches among the true ...
Lesbian Sex
... butch . Susan : When did that start , that kind of disgust with butches and femmes ? Crystal : I think with the feminist movement . And it still goes on . And what does that tell you ? That we're pretty backward still . I think butches ...
Rethinking Canada
... butches , femmes acted as other women in public ( cigarettes were lit for them , drinks paid for , etc. ) . These small gestures symbolically gave the butch the status of a protective partner , one who would take care of the femme and ...
Transgender Identity and Same-sex Relationships in Thailand
... butches and femmes , but they were more closeted and played a more peripheral role in the lesbian community . In the ... Butches and femmes expressed their gendered identity in two fields : physical dress and demeanor , and in ...
Media History Digest
... butches . " They became as much a part of the crew as the engineer , brakeman or conductor . By the Civil War , not only were newspapers brought into the pas- senger cars but , on some trains , they actually were printed on board . News ...
LGBTQ America Today [3 volumes]
Hundreds of alphabetically arranged biographical and topical entries survey the current state of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer American culture.
Self-made Men
... ( butch ) lesbi- ans . For him , there is an essential difference , a transhistorical differ- ence , between FTMs and female homosexuals . No. I knew butches . I mean a lot of people would identify me as a butch because I was very ...
Zyzzyva
... butches , span the political spectrum and are often brazenly out . Even harder to recognize as butch or femme is the woman who feels genuinely bisexual , but tends to like women better than men , or the politically motivated bisexual ...