What Does It Mean To Be Butch?

What Does It Mean To Be Butch?

When I was a closeted young adult, I would sometimes wear dresses, not high femme fashion like a Victorian dress, but dresses nonetheless, to throw the scent off people wondering if I was gay. Shockingly, when I have worn dresses, it often worked as many people as sumed-even with my big butch body-I was straight. Which, at the time, was what I needed. There’s a distinc- tion, even today in our culture, between male and female fashion and appeara…