Word: butches
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...nightlife, I learned a whole new vocabulary of terms that applied to lesbians—a kind of short-hand stereotyping that made it easier to categorize the women I was meeting at bars. I gradually came to understand the general looks associated with the words “butch,” “femmes,” “diesel dyke,” “baby dyke“ or “lipstick lesbians” and others as mechanisms for self-definition and description. From within the gay community as well, stereotypes...
Bruce Lee, Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Willis came along in the '70s and '80s. And there was that Monty Python sketch about drunk Australians named Bruce. Still, it wasn't what you'd call a butch name. A girl I once dated got teased by her friends...
These days, movie superheroes come in two models: the burly and the boyish. Hugh Jackman in "X-Men" is the butch type, slathered in testosterone, ready to pick a fight with the world. Tobey Maguire in "Spider-Man" is the fretful schoolboy, high-strung as a bluegrass fiddle, aching for the hormones to kick...
...Dyke Ball, costume is required and “creative black tie” is recommended. In practice, that means everything from lingerie to formalwear, leather to feathers, high femme to butch drag. This year, one Wellesley student wore a satin “vagina” on her chest and asked drag emcee Jay Franklin to touch it. (Franklin, perhaps too much of a gentleman, declined...
...Tonight, we are all dykes!” shouted Franklin to the screaming crowd. The highlight of the evening was the performance by the high-femme and butch drag lesbian burlesque performance troupe, the Princesses of Porn with the Dukes of Dykedom. Dyke Ball 2003 also featured the seductive moves of dance troupe Mia Anderson’s Drag Kings, Sluts, and Goddesses and the Wellesley the LesBiTrans advisor...