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Owner – Jennifer, lesbian, genderqueer, 50, lives in Iowa. I tried on all these different personalities, and finally in the end, I said “fuck it” I’m just gonna be myself, and we had an encounter where we made eye-contact and I’m now one of his favorite people, so I worked really hard.” -personal interview with Jennifer, November 21, 2017
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“Cyndi’s dad gave it to me, um, and when Cyndi and I first started dating, he talked to me for about nine months and then he learned I was going to seminary and then he stopped talking to me for three years and so, during those three years, I had to, I had tried all these different ways to get him to like me. Owner – Kai, gay, woman, 43, lives in Iowa. I’m coming out all of the time because of the way I look whether I want to or not.” -personal interview with Kai, October 17th, 2017 That’s probably one of the more difficult aspects I think. There are days where, I don’t want to have to say I’m gay or I’m married to a woman, or there’s days where I’m just tired and I just want to be able to easily move through this interaction and move on and I can’t because of the way I look. “Because its an automatic assumption, and because I look the way that I do I don’t always get to make that choice, and there are days when I don’t want to carry the sword. “Anything cargo I’m all in, I just think they’re great, how could you ever have too many pockets?” “I prefer men’s you know, I’m attracted to most things that are men’s styles.” If that makes sense.” Green Sweater, Orange T-Shirt, Tan Cargo Shorts Kai (gay, 43, Iowa) who said she is “uncomfortable in feminine things” stated, “I feel like the way I dress is very authentic to me and so I would dress this way regardless who I was attached to. While not all lesbians dress in the masculine-of-center or butch style, some women in the LGBTQIA+ community do feel most comfortable and confident when expressing a masculine aesthetic.
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Today, cargo shorts, loose-fitting jeans, and Birkenstocks are seen as essential garments of the masculine-of-center wardrobe. The stereotype of the “butch,” masculine, lesbian is probably the most common stereotype associated with queer women. Women in the LGBTQIA+ community have been challenging gender-norms through dress for centuries.