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Styled Out: The butch aesthetic
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emily hartl
 on August 24, 2011 | Comments (29)
Briefs, binders and bowties.
Too Much Otherness: Femininity on "The L Word"
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Sarah Warn, Founder and Former Editor in Chief
 on April 18, 2004 | Comments (1)
Why attacking the show for not taking on butch visibility in its first season could impede our long-term progress.
It's All About the Hair: Butch Identity and Drag on "The L Word"
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Malinda Lo, Contributing Writer
 on April 18, 2004 | Comments (0)
In the first season, the show made significant strides toward including butch women in the cast and included characters grappling with the slippery notion of ge
Happy International Butch Appreciation Day!
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Trish Bendix, Managing Editor
 on August 18, 2011 | Comments (17)
Is it an official holiday? It should be!
Sugarbutch Says: k.d. lang maintains her female masculinity
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Sinclair Sexsmith
 on April 8, 2011 | Comments (20)
The out singer's new video is just as sexy, provocative and butch as her others have been, proving she's always been ahead of the times.
Calling all butches
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Courtney Gillette
 on November 5, 2010 | Comments (21)
Sinclair Sexsmith wants to rank the Top 100 Butches for a second year in a row, but with some new ideas about what it means to be butch.
Sugarbutch Says: Butches On Television
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Sinclair Sexsmith
 on April 22, 2010 | Comments (47)
Not much has changed for butch visibility in the last decade, but there is some hope on the horizon.
Catherine Opie pictures real butches
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Trish Bendix, Managing Editor
 on July 13, 2009 | Comments (15)
Lesbian photographer Catherine Opie may now be a mother and wife, but that's not going to stop her from continuing to do provocative work as she has in the past
The Village Voice declares butch is back — with a twist
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Dorothy Snarker
 on June 25, 2009 | Comments (50)
In the annals of Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know, the following headline could be Volume 1, Chapter 1: “Rachel Maddow, the New Sexy.” And all t
The New York Times tackles "Butch Fatale"
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Jen Sabella
 on February 23, 2009 | Comments (64)
When Rachel Maddow is involved, it’s hard for me to look away. This weekend, while scanning the spring issue of T, The New York Times Style Magazine, I saw th
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