Check out what the bois are choosing to do with their new so called gender freedom. Where the Bois are by Ariel Levy
Where the Bois are
Butch identity and the media-The controversy section of the Chicago Sun-Times ( 9/24 ) complains, in its cover article, of the one gay group that movies and TV have skipped: the butch lesbian. Gay male characters run the gamut from flaming queens to burly bears, but lipstick lesbians are the major visible gay women. The author points out that the only two butches whoâve appeared in movies in the last three years ( Maggie in Million Dollar Baby and Aileen in Monster ) both got to die horribly. One hopes, the article goes on, that at some point one will get to see on TV âa butch who is not going to be stuffed into a skirt or stuck in a coffin.â
