Lipstick lesbian
Lipstick lesbian is a slang term used to describe lesbian and bisexual women who exhibit extremely feminine gender attributes, such as wearing make-up (thus, lipstick), wearing dresses or skirts and does not perform oral sex on other women. They are the receivers who never give.
The term was used in San Francisco at least as far back as the 1980s. In 1982, Priscilla Rhoades, a journalist with the gay newspaper The Sentinel, wrote a feature story on "Lesbians for Lipstick". In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D.C.-based social group of "feminine lesbians" that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.[1] The term is thought to have emerged in wide usage during the early 1990s. A 1997 episode of the television show Ellen widely publicized the phrase. In the show, Ellen DeGeneres's character, asked by her parents whether a certain woman is a "dipstick lesbian", explains that the term is "lipstick lesbian", and comments that "I would be a chapstick lesbian."
In 1999, columnist Mark Steyn called actress Anne Heche, who was dating DeGeneres at the time, "the world's most famous lipstick lesbian."[2]
An alternate term for "lipstick lesbian" is "doily dyke".[3][4]
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- ^ Lynch, Patsy (4 April 1990). "Lesbian Ladies (or where did all the femmes go?)". OutWeek: p. 44. http://outweek.net/pdfs/ow_40.pdf.
- ^ Steyn, Mark (1999). "Hash and rehash". The Spectator. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199904/ai_n8843193.
- ^ Keshia Kola (2007-11-16). "The Shesaurus: America's First Women's Dictionary-Thesaurus". http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?id=30931&AuthorID=58475. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
- ^ "Issue 71" (PDF). G3 Magazine. April 2007. p. 10. http://g3mag.co.uk/issues/g3april2007.pdf. Retrieved 2007-11-19.
- Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. (Paperback ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92499-5.
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