butch

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Over-the-top, camp and butch, with heavy makeup, big hair and large gestures, the season's most flamboyant, matron-like men put on their drawers to tread the boards and make everything go pear-shaped.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

So, is it possible to butch up vegetables?

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024

I’ve evolved, as I have in many ways of my life, I’m proud to be butch today, I love it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2023

Trailblazers like James Baldwin and the butch icon Leslie Feinberg proved to be unignorable.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Yours sincerely, Dave Mitchell Now that I’m a free citizen again, I dig out my black sweater, look disgustedly at the butch haircut, and go out to mail my letter.

From It’s like this, cat by Neville, Emily