Boi (gender)

"Boi" (plural: "bois") is a term used within LGBT and butch and femme communities to refer to a person's sexual and gender identity.cite web
last=Maran
first=Meredith
coauthors=Angela Watrous
title=50 Ways to Support Lesbian & Gay Equality: The Complete Guide to Supporting Family, Friends, Neighbors - or Yourself ...
publisher=New World Library
date=2005, ISBN:1930722508
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accessdate=2008-06-23] cite web
last=Levy
first=Ariel
coauthors=Angela Watrous
title=Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
publisher=Simon and Schuster
date=2006, ISBN:0743284283
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=IubF3WamjDYC&dq=lesbian+%22boi%22+gender+expression&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
accessdate=2008-06-23] In lesbian communities, there is an increasing acceptance of gender expression and intersexuality, as well as allowing people to self-identify with labels such as "boi".cite web
last=Ilyasova
first=K. Alex
title=Dykes on Bikes and the Regulation of Vulgarity
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date=November 2006
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accessdate=2007-08-21] cite web
last=Epstein
first=Debbie
coauthors=Richard Johnson
title=Schooling Sexualities
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date=1998, p. 19
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accessdate=2007-08-21] cite web
last=Linden
first=Merritt
title=Radical to Raunch: Articulating and Anticipating Contemporary Lesbian Feminism - An Analysis of Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
publisher=Utrecht University
date=27 February 2008
url =http://66.102.1.104/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:yLRtUm8G8qEJ:igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/2008-0429-200701/Linden%2520CWSCP%2520Thesis.doc+lesbian+boi+gender+expression
accessdate=2008-06-23] The term may denote a number of possibilities that are not mutually exclusive:cite web
last=Curzan
first=Anne
title=Gender Shifts in the History of English
publisher=Cambridge University Press
date=2003, ISBN:0521820073
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=VzzOWXsmb2QC&dq=%22boi%22+gender+expression+terms&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
accessdate=2008-06-23]
* A younger person who looks and acts like a young, heterosexual male, possibly embodying stereotyped attributes towards casual sex and commitment in relationships, in contrast with the stereotype of the "U-Haul lesbian". Bois may not identify as butch, regarding butches as playing a more powerful or responsible role – the "man of the house" – while a boi is still in a freer, younger phase.
* A submissive butch in the BDSM community, or a younger butch in the butch-femme community.
* A young transman, or a transman who is in the earlier stages of transitioning.cite web
last=Crain
first=Chris
title=Who’s The Fairest Twink Of Them All?
publisher=San Francisco Bay Times
date=2007-11-22
url=http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=7066
accessdate=2007-11-25]
* A term of endearment for butches by femmes. It may also be used in the gay community to refer to a younger person – bisexual or gay – who may have effeminate characteristics. The term can also be used by anyone who wishes to distinguish from heterosexual or heteronormative identities.

"Boi" may also refer to a female-born or female-bodied person—sometimes transsexual, transgendered, or intersexed, sometimes not—that generally does not identify as, or only partially identifies as feminine, female, a girl, or a woman.cite web
last=Faderman
first=Lillian
coauthors=Stuart Timmons
title=Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
publisher=Basic Books
date=2006, ISBN:046502288X
url =http://books.google.com/books?id=I5SVsJmVxDUC&dq=%22boi%22+gender+expression+terms&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
accessdate=2008-06-23] Some "bois" identify as one or more of these, but they almost always identify as lesbians, dykes, or queers. Many are also genderqueer or practice genderfuck. Bois may prefer a range of pronouns, including "he", "she", or gender-neutral pronouns such as "hir", "sie", "zie", and "ey".cite web |title=Boi or grrl? Pop culture redefining gender |publisher=MSNBC|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9556134/ |date=2005-10-01|accessdate=2007-05-07 Published October 1, 2005] The term has found increasing usage in the larger LGBT culture.

ee also

*List of transgender-related topics
*Tomboy
*Twink

References

External links

* [http://www.butch-femme.com/portal/ Butch-Femme]
* [http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9709/ Where the bois are]
* [http://www.medicinefilms.com/player.php?clip_id=185836 Bianca James on "The Tyra Banks Show" discussing "girlfags" (gay men trapped in women's bodies), genderfuck, and the subculture of boi's] (at the 7:15 mark in the video)