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

butch, or stem (stud-fem), is a lesbian who exhibits some stereotypical butch traits without fitting the masculine stereotype associated with butch lesbians...

(1996). "Desire Work, Performativity, and the Structuring of a Community: Butch/Fem Relations of the 1940s and 1950s". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies...

The term femboy originated in the 1990s and is a compound from the words fem (an abbreviation of feminine and femme) and boy. The variant femboi uses...

Femme (/fɛm/; French: [fam], literally meaning "woman") is a term traditionally used to describe a lesbian woman who exhibits a feminine identity or gender...

dexterity and memory. New way involves incredible flexibility. Vogue Fem ("Fem" is derived from the French word femme, meaning "woman") is fluidity at...

snapshots taken over four decades by a close group of lesbian friends reveal the rich history of butch/fem working class life in pre-Stonewall Chicago....

Maud's with a "no labels" policy, welcoming women who did not fit the butch/fem dress and manners code preferred by some other lesbian bars." In 1967...

Hartinger, Brent (December 13, 2010). "Ask the Flying Monkey: Why Doesn't the Fem Guy Ever Chase the Butch One?". AfterElton.com. Retrieved December 14, 2010....

(December 13, 2010). "Ask the Flying Monkey: Why Doesn't the Fem Guy Ever Chase the Butch One?". AfterElton.com. Retrieved 2010-12-14. "Brokeback Mountain"...