[Ads-l] Additional Antedating of "Butch" (Lesbian)

[Shapiro, Fred]

butch (lesbian) (OED 1954)


1947 _Vice Versa_ Nov. 9 (Archives of Sexuality & Gender)  Has it ever occurred to you, my sisters, that the names by which we call ourselves lack dignity?  I refer to "butch" and "fluff" and such.  They are such slangish words, yet we have no better.


Fred Shapiro




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