Butch and femme


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Butch and femme
Butch and femme are terms used to describe individual gender identities in the lesbian, bisexualtransgender, and cross-dressing subcultures to ascribe or acknowledge a masculine (butch) or feminine (femme) identity with its associated traits, behaviors, styles, self-perception and so on. The terms were founded in lesbian communities in the early twentieth century. This concept has been called a "way to organize sexual relationships and gender and sexual identity". Assuming butch-femme culture is a lesbian dyadic system denies the personal experiences of many women in butch–butch and femme–femme relationships.

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