Butch and femme are terms used in the lesbian subculture [1] to ascribe or acknowledge a masculine butch or feminine femme identity with its associated traits, behaviors, styles, self-perception, and so on. This concept has been called a "way to organize sexual relationships and gender and sexual identity". Both the expression of individual lesbians of butch and femme identities and the relationship of the lesbian community in general to the notion of butch and femme as an organizing principle for sexual relating varied over the course of the 20th century. The word femme is taken from the French word for woman.

Text JF. Pierets Photos Charmain Carrol. Chubby Vogue Divas is an ongoing photography project by artist and activist Charmain Carrol. At that time her daughter Lynne was 2 years old yet Charmain decided to take in about 11 lesbians and 2 gays because they had no place to live. From that point on she became an active member of the LGBT movement, attended and sat in many discussions on the well being of black lesbians in the townships of Cape Town. As a member of the Global Girl Media South Africa — an organization that trains young girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in telling their own stories through media by offering them assistance in research, film and photography. As well as giving them the opportunity to do their own sound and lighting and edit their own stories — Charmain uses her art and photography to make a point.

The year-old identical twins have different sexuality. The new research will build on previous scientific studies that searched for signs of how sexuality, such as gender-atypical mannerisms of. Scientists are studying identical twin sisters - one of whom is heterosexual, the other is homosexual - to try and gain a better understanding of human sexuality. Scientists searching for the root of human sexuality studied identical twins , one of them straight and the other a lesbian , who grew up in the same environment. Sarah Nunn and Rosie Ablewhite,

One ugly woman will easily accept another ugly woman. I guess they figure it's easier than being alone. She took a quick puff on her cigarette. She'll dress like a man, do things around the house that a husband would normally do. Like taking out the trash, fixing things, stuff like that.