Queer Time, Affective Binds: An Erotohistoriography of Butch/Femme

Butch/Femme differences in substance use and abuse among young lesbian and bisexual women: examination and potential explanations.

The current study examined the role of gender atypical self-presentation on the alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use, as well as symptoms of substance abuse/misuse, of an ethnically diverse sample of 76 young (ages 14-21 years) lesbian and bisexual women who were interviewed between 1993 and 1995 in New York City. Even after controlling for age, sexual identity, and social desirability, young bu...

Differences in finger length ratios between self-identified "butch" and "femme" lesbians.

There is indirect evidence that heightened exposure to early androgen may increase the probability that a girl will develop a homosexual orientation in adulthood. One such putative marker of early androgen exposure is the ratio of the length of the index finger (2D) to the ring finger (4D), which is smaller in male humans than in females, and is smaller in lesbians than in heterosexual women. Y...

The Femme Fatale and the Exotic Queer within Shinya Tuskamoto's Tetsuo: Gender as Narrative Tool within an Allegory for Post WWII Japan's Industrialized Identity Crisis

Playing Peter Pan Conceptua izing " Bois " in Contemporary Queer Theory

As a queer and gender-queer individual, my relationships to both lesbian as an identity and to Toronto's lesbian communities have been marked by a strangely productive ambiguity. While "coming out" as a lesbian was and continues to be empowering, I have become increasingly aware of my own emotional and intellectual tensions with respect to the signifier, "lesbian," as it purports to simultaneou...

Biological and psychosocial determinants of male and female human sexual orientation.

Some propositions on male and female sexual orientation will be considered. Some of these are established; others are more speculative. The aim is to offer some notes towards a coherent, comprehensive theory of sexual orientation. 1. The distinction between butch and femme lesbians seems real rather than a social construct. 2. High levels of prenatal steroid hormones seem to be causally associa...