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butch and femme

masculine and feminine identities in lesbians
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Summary

butch and femme is a LGBTQ slang[1]. It draws 5,417 Wikipedia views per month (lgbtq slang category, ranking #3 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: gender expression[3], gender role[4], gender stereotype[5]
  • Part of: lesbianism[6], sapphism[7]
  • Commons category: Butch and femme[8]
  • Has part(s): butch[9], femme[10], futch[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Butch and femme[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wiki99/LGBT+[13]

Why It Matters

butch and femme has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_butch-and-femme_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{butch and femme}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/butch-and-femme}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-22}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1h ago · Smallestredboy · 2026-10-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'bn', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'ja', 'ko', '
    Sitelink count → 25
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Archive of our own tag: Butch/Femme"
  2. 9w ago · Dexxor · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 001364
    Archive of our own tag → Butch/Femme
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47206|batch #47206]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Has part(s) → butch, femme, futch
    Part of → lesbianism, sapphism
    Instance of → LGBTQ slang
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007595431705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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