Butch Is a Noun

by Bergman, S. Bear

• ISBN13: 9780977158256
• ISBN10: 097715825X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Pr

Summary

An irreverent, tender, funny, difficult, sexy narrative about growing up and coming out butch, wrestling and embracing it, and then wrestling with it some more. Butch Is a Noun is a story of butch in its best and worst moments, about butch in the context

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader	9	(3)
I Know What Butch Is	12	(4)
Fire the Copyeditor, or Possibly the Author: A Few Notes on Pronouns	16	(4)
Defending Identity	20	(4)
Tranny Bladder	24	(3)
Taxonomy	27	(2)
Walking with Girls	29	(3)
Wrestling	32	(3)
Being a Butch with Young Men	35	(4)
Breasts	39	(6)
Why I'm Not a Nice Young Man (Yet)	45	(3)
Cocks	48	(4)
Border Wars	52	(6)
Watching Our Fathers	58	(2)
Bridal Registry	60	(3)
White Button-Down Shirts	63	(3)
Virtual Butch Reality	66	(5)
The Honorable Butch Office of Moving	71	(3)
Passing It Along	74	(4)
Boxer Briefs	78	(3)
Where Butch Resides	81	(2)
That Moment	83	(3)
What My Daddy Taught Me	86	(3)
Foie d'Butch	89	(3)
When It's Good	92	(3)
Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones, but Words Will Kill Me	95	(2)
High-Heeled Shoes	97	(3)
My Butch Brothers	100	(3)
Crossing the Street	103	(2)
Hair	105	(5)
Being an Asshole	110	(3)
What a Butch May Use	113	(3)
Femme for Dummies	116	(5)
When I'm Far from Home	121	(2)
Faggot Butch	123	(3)
What the Stone Is Made Of	126	(2)
Butch in the Streets, Femme in the Shul?	128	(2)
An Apology to My Mother	130	(3)
Princess Pickle	133	(3)
When I Can't Fix It	136	(4)
Being a Delight	140	(3)
Chat, or How I Learned to Flirt, Part 1	143	(2)
Your Faithful Servant	145	(2)
The Drawbridge	147	(2)
Dancing	149	(3)
Getting Fucked	152	(2)
Making Her Feel	154	(3)
Being a Shopping Switch	157	(5)
Laying Down with a Butch	162	(5)
Touch	167	(2)
This Gesture	169	(3)
You	172