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Some women in lesbian communities eschew butch or femme classifications, believing that they are inadequate to describe an individual, or that labels are limiting in and of themselves. Other people within the LGBT community have tailored the common labels to be more descriptive, such as "soft stud," "hard butch," "gym queen," or "tomboy femme." Comedian Elvira Kurt contributed the term "fellagirly" as a description for LGBT women who are not strictly either femme or butch, but a combination. From the 1940s to | Some women in lesbian communities eschew butch or femme classifications, believing that they are inadequate to describe an individual, or that labels are limiting in and of themselves. Other people within the LGBT community have tailored the common labels to be more descriptive, such as "soft stud," "hard butch," "gym queen," or "tomboy femme." Comedian Elvira Kurt contributed the term "fellagirly" as a description for LGBT women who are not strictly either femme or butch, but a combination. From the 1940s to 1990s, the term "kiki" was used for a similar meaning.<ref>{{cite book |editor = Zimmerman |editor-given = Bonnie |title = Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures. Vol. I |publisher = Garland Publishing, Inc |year = 2000 |page = [https://books.google.de/books?id=qAZ5AgAAQBAJ&q=KIKI+1940s+lesbian&pg=PA140&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=KIKI%201940s%20lesbian&f=false 140] |quote ="Kiki: a term used from the 1940s through the 1960s for a lesbian who could be either butch or femme."}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= What is She Like?: Lesbian Identities from the 1950s to the 1990s |last=Ainley |first=Rosa |year=1995 |url=https://archive.org/details/whatisshelike00rosa/page/152/mode/2up |page=152 |quote=Although kiki has never been a term, or a category, with such currency as butch and femme, and is still far more recognized in the USA than in Britain, it now means someone who is deliberately both, rather than the 'neither fish nor fowl' connotation it used to have.}}</ref> | ||
Those who identify as butch and femme today often use the words to define their presentation and gender identity rather than strictly the role they play in a relationship, and that not all butches are attracted exclusively to femmes and not all femmes are exclusively attracted to butches, a departure from the historic norm. Besides the terms "butch" and "femme", there are a number of other terms used to describe the dress codes, the sexual behaviours, and/or the gender identities of the sexual subcultures who use them. The meanings of these terms vary and can evolve over time. | Those who identify as butch and femme today often use the words to define their presentation and gender identity rather than strictly the role they play in a relationship, and that not all butches are attracted exclusively to femmes and not all femmes are exclusively attracted to butches, a departure from the historic norm. Besides the terms "butch" and "femme", there are a number of other terms used to describe the dress codes, the sexual behaviours, and/or the gender identities of the sexual subcultures who use them. The meanings of these terms vary and can evolve over time. | ||