Butch-Femme Visibility
January 6th, 2008 maggieThis started out as a comment to Sassafras’s last entry but it got so long that I figured it could be its own post.
I have a friend, Steve, a bi non-trans man who is very chivalrous. We used to go out to dinner and I called it “heterosexual privilege night” because I could feel people watching us when he helped me on with my coat and such and it felt very different from how people look when I’m with a butch. They were probably thinking “how sweet” or “how quaint” instead of trying to figure out who we were and what we were doing together. Read the rest of this entry »
