a_unique_person
22nd May 2003, 04:25 AM
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/22/1053196672168.html
Why do New York's lesbian sheboys call themselves "he"? Stephanie Theobald reports.
The extent to which the gender boat is being rocked in New York became clear last week when a female friend took me to Moby's new vegan cafe, TeaNY, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
This place is very hip, and my friend wanted me to meet her equally hip new girlfriend. Not only was she sporting the vintage pizza-delivery boy look fashionable among downtown lesbians, but she insisted on being referred to as "he", in spite of the fact that "he" resembled nothing so much as a cute, not even particularly androgynous, baby dyke.
I was just getting my head around referring to this 22-year-old girl as "he", when in came another girl with long, blonde hair stuffed up into a chimney-sweep cap, wearing a customised T-shirt that read, "Some fags fight back". Had I noticed that "her" breasts were bound, asked my friend. I hadn't.
http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1053196672899_2003/05/22/Gender1.jpg
Why do New York's lesbian sheboys call themselves "he"? Stephanie Theobald reports.
The extent to which the gender boat is being rocked in New York became clear last week when a female friend took me to Moby's new vegan cafe, TeaNY, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
This place is very hip, and my friend wanted me to meet her equally hip new girlfriend. Not only was she sporting the vintage pizza-delivery boy look fashionable among downtown lesbians, but she insisted on being referred to as "he", in spite of the fact that "he" resembled nothing so much as a cute, not even particularly androgynous, baby dyke.
I was just getting my head around referring to this 22-year-old girl as "he", when in came another girl with long, blonde hair stuffed up into a chimney-sweep cap, wearing a customised T-shirt that read, "Some fags fight back". Had I noticed that "her" breasts were bound, asked my friend. I hadn't.
http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1053196672899_2003/05/22/Gender1.jpg