Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
Roxane Gay
Lea DeLaria
Alison Bechdel
Jenny Shimizu
JD Samson
Mickalene Thomas
Roberta Colindrez
Collier Schorr
Eileen Myles
Patty Yumi Cottrell
A.K. Burns
Meshell Ndegeocello
Nicole Eisenman
Su Friedrich
Lorena Russi
Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Kimberly Peirce
Elizabeth Streb
Toshi Reagon
Casey Legler