butch

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Over-the-top, camp and butch, with heavy makeup, big hair and large gestures, the season's most flamboyant, matron-like men put on their drawers to tread the boards and make everything go pear-shaped.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

So, is it possible to butch up vegetables?

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024

The exhibition tracks her evolution from a young girl to an old butch through drawing, sculpture, fiber art, archival material, ephemera, music and other performance.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2023

Trailblazers like James Baldwin and the butch icon Leslie Feinberg proved to be unignorable.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Besides I shouted so las’ dight that I cudd’t talk butch eddy how!”

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott