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Butch is a lesbian who exhibits a masculine identity or gender presentation. [1] [2] Since the lesbian subculture of 1940s America, "butch" has been present as a way for lesbians to circumvent traditional gender roles of women in society and distinguish their masculine attributes and characteristics from feminine women. [a]
This dress was very similar to butch dress, weakening a key identifier of butch lesbians. [36] While butch–femme roles had previously been the primary way of identifying lesbians and quantifying lesbian relationships in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, lesbian feminist ideology had turned these roles into a "perversion of lesbian identity". [70]
A year later, in 2017, a second butch lesbian pride flag came about, created by a moderator, Jim, of the Tumblr page butchspace. This flag moves away from the blues and purples displayed in the ...
A soft butch, or stem (stud-fem), is a lesbian who exhibits some stereotypical butch traits without fitting the masculine stereotype associated with butch lesbians. Soft butch is on the spectrum of butch, as are stone butch and masculine, whereas on the contrary, ultra fem, high femme, and lipstick lesbian are some labels on the spectrum of ...
The history of lesbian fashion, she added, has been characterized by binaries, where there is a “push and pull” between butch and femme styles of dressing.
Butch, slang for someone very masculine, similar to macho; Butch and femme, gender identity terms for butch lesbians and feminine lesbians; Butch (lesbian slang), refers to a masculine lesbian and masculine lesbian culture
The term stone butch was popularized by Leslie Feinberg's 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues, which describes the protagonist's explorations of the lesbian community. A large segment is devoted to the tribulations of being a stone butch person, and the experience of being a lesbian while identifying with masculine traits. [2]
Butch and femme modes of socialization were so integral within lesbian bars that women who refused to choose between the two would be ignored, or at least unable to date anyone, and butch women becoming romantically involved with other butch women or femmes with other femmes was unacceptable.