Editing Butch and femme (section)

==Etymology and symbology==
The word ''femme'' is taken from the [[French language|French]] word for woman. The word ''butch'', meaning "masculine", may have been coined by abbreviating the word ''butcher'', as first noted in George Cassidy's nickname, ''[[Butch Cassidy]]''.<ref name=WalkerJLS>{{Cite journal|last=Walker|first=Ja'nina|date=March 2012|title=Butch Bottom–Femme Top? An Exploration of Lesbian Stereotypes.|journal=Journal of Lesbian Studies|volume=16|issue=1|pages=90–107|doi=10.1080/10894160.2011.557646|pmid=22239455|s2cid=205753452}}</ref> However, the exact origin of the word is still unknown.

[[File:Butch-femme symbol.png|thumb|110px|Butch-Femme symbol by Daddy Rhon|alt=A black triangle overlaps a the upper part of a red circle.]]

Butch artist Daddy Rhon Drinkwater created a symbol of a black triangle intersecting a red circle to represent butch/femme "passion and love".<ref name=Lindstrom2008>{{cite book|editor-last1=O'Keefe|editor-first1=Tracie|editor-last2=Fox|editor-first2=Katrina|title=Trans People in Love|year=2008|edition=1st|page=31|chapter=To Fight, Live, and Love at the Gender Border, by Isaac Lindstrom|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-0-7890-3571-4|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPYHJSJ3IBEC&q=butch-femme+symbol+black+triangle+red+circle&pg=PA31|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=August 22, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822094245/https://books.google.com/books?id=TPYHJSJ3IBEC&q=butch-femme+symbol+black+triangle+red+circle&pg=PA31#v=snippet&q=butch-femme%20symbol%20black%20triangle%20red%20circle&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>