Butch and femme (/fɛm/; French: [fam]; from French femme 'woman') are masculine (butch) or feminine (femme) identities in the lesbian subculture which...

lesbian history and culture, femme has been used among lesbians to distinguish traditionally feminine lesbians from their butch (i.e. masculine) lesbian counterparts...

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...

activity, as opposed to a stone femme. The term stone butch was popularized by Leslie Feinberg's 1993 novel Stone Butch Blues, which describes the protagonist's...

1950s, butch became a central identity in the lesbian community. It was often understood in conjunction with femme identity, and butch-femme relations...

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use as a general lesbian pride flag. LGBT portal Butch and femme Girly girl Lipstick feminism Soft butch das Nair, Roshan; Butler, Catherine, eds. (2012)...

1990s and is a compound from the words fem (an abbreviation of feminine and femme) and boy. The variant femboi uses the LGBT term boi. By 2000, the term boi...

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