Word: butch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broadcast detonated with a finger-snapping zum-bum-ooo-ooo singing group called True Image, headed uptown with show tunes swung elegantly by soprano Eileen Farrell, the diva who stops being 70 when she opens her mouth, then went gloriously low-down with Jelly Roll Morton tunes by pianist Butch Thompson, the fine St. Paul barrelhouser from the P.H.C. days. Flying babies filled...
Health class, Harvey Milk School: a male student in drag is talking about his last experience with alcohol. "A drunken butch queen was getting on my case, criticizing me and acting flamboyant, so I pulled a knife on her." A gay youth interjects, "If you consider yourself a woman, you should act like a woman 24 hours a day." So the boy in drag appeals to the only avowed straight girl in the school: "In this situation, are you going to use your knife or not?" She says, "You best believe I'll be using my knife...
...With Butch Cassidy peddling popcorn and salad dressing, it was only a matter of time before the Sundance Kid got into the act. This week Robert Redford, 52, is launching a line of products and condiments in a new mail-order catalog with a Southwestern flavor. Titled Sundance, the 36-page catalog offers such Native American and regional specialties as dried wildflower bouquets ($25), chili wreaths ($36) and handmade cowboy boots...
...that end, Kirk and Madsen assert, gays need to project an unthreatening, respectable image to the straight world. They advise curbing flamboyant excesses and keeping drag queens and butch lesbians out of the public eye. Explains Madsen: "If you want to stop the fire of bigotry, don't put it out with gasoline." The authors advocate a calculated national media campaign $ using clean-cut types, an idea they first suggested...
...women athletes, the problem takes the flip side. Their athleticism, physical strength and often size are used to reinforce perceptions of female athletes--already seen as competing in a predominately male arena--as unfeminine, "butch" and even lesbian...