The irony being that it was femme gay men, visible and refusing to be cowed, who began gay liberation with the first punches in the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
So when I say I am femme, I am saying that I try to live my life bravely.
From the invisibility queer femmes can feel in some lesbian circles to the sharp vulnerability inherent in being a trans woman, no two femme-identified individuals share the same experience of what it means to be femme.
Just ensure, whether it's cocktail femme or rocker glam, that your sequins are the main event.
Get a journal and write about what it means for you to be femme, or to be feminine.
By listening to the stories of more femme lesbian and queer women it became clear that for me being femme was about exploring a femininity detached from a cisgender heterosexual male desire or gender.
It's a question I grapple with deeply: Does it make me less queer, or less feminist, to be femme?
But now, if a guy is femme enough, I'd probably go for it.
The women are femme fatales who more often than not cause the protagonist's downfall.
"They're cute, they're sexy and they're femme".
