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Events tagged with "butch/femme"

Fashion and identity as statement

Many lesbian and gay people have used clothing and fashion as a means of self expression, as a political or cultural statement, to create a new identity or to show membership of the LG community or sector of the community.The Women's Liberation Movem...

Memories tagged with "butch/femme"

Butch/femme

Bridget worked at Lee Hospital in Bromsgrove in the sixties, “There were two women, a nursing Sister called Hardy and a nursing assistant called Rose, Rose and Hardy. Rose was 100% butch, she never wore anything other than men’s clothes, she had a...

Dress codes in the late 1970s

In the mid to late 1970s, Gill and Betty note that there was more mixing between lesbian and heterosexual feminists but that there was a dress code which helped identify their sexual identity: G: “I used to notice the way in which the straight women...