By Kerry Manders — 2020
Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
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CLEAR ALL
Creating spaces where the need to assimilate, conform, and belong are no longer important
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