Girlfag and Guydyke

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Girlfag (or "gay woman" with a capital "S") is the expression for women who are particularly attracted to gay or bisexual men and their environment and / or who define themselves as gay. Some describe themselves as " genderqueer " or feel wholly or partially as a "gay man in a woman's body". Girl flags can be both bisexual and straight .

The term arose as a subcategory within US subcultures that mostly describe themselves as queer (deviant) or pomosexual (pomo = postmodern ) .

Girlfags differ from the so-called Fag Hags , which have a purely platonic interest in gay men and the gay subculture.

Use of Terms and Related Terms

The concept of girlfags has been known in queer subculture ever since writers like Carol Queen and Jill Nagle came out as gay women in the late 1990s . Nagle coined the term girlfag for this phenomenon.

In 2000, the first internet discussion group for GirlFags was established on Yahoo! Groups created. Since then, more than 3,000 members have joined the group. Due to the increasing popularity, girl flags appeared internationally. Since 2008, a German-speaking community has developed that often communicates via the Internet.

The term Fag Hag mostly refers to women who have a platonic interest in gay men. Less often it is used pejoratively to describe women who have romantic and sexual interest in gays. The term "girlfag" is more appropriate and neutral in terms of value. Girlfags are not straight women who want to convince gay men that they are actually straight .

Girlfags do not reject the gay orientation of men. For girlfags, homosexuality is a quality that makes men particularly attractive to them. They do not expect gay men to become straight, but want to be seen wholly or partially as gay men themselves.

Girlfags usually don't look for traditional man-woman relationships. Instead, they are more interested in sexual practices associated with homosexuality or in polyamorous situations with one or more gay or bisexual male partners.

Since some girl fags feel like "gay man in a female body", the term is associated with gay trans men (also called transfag ). Most girlfags, by definition, do not feel completely masculine, nor do they seriously seek gender reassignment . However, some only notice that they are actually trans men after as girlfag outed have.

The Yaoi -author Sakakibara Shihomi speculated that some female Yaoi- fans ( Fujoshi ) a gay gender identity might have: "In her book Yaoi Genron (1998) to Sakakibara Shihomi described himself as a gay man in a woman's body (a gay trans man). He_sie suggests that this condition could very often be the case with fans of this genre and that this could be the real reason for the genre's existence ”. ( “In her book Yaoi genron (1998), Sakakibara Shihomi […] describes herself as a gay man in a woman's body (a 'female-to-male gay' transsexual). S / he suggests that this condition may be quite common among fans of this genre and may in fact be the reason for its existence. " )

The Canadian biologist , linguist and author Bruce Bagemihl showed similarities between Fag Hags , gay trans men and female slash fans. "Slash" is another type of gay erotic literature by women for women that is comparable to the Japanese yaoi . He wrote: “It is nothing new for women to feel like gay men or to eroticize and idealize sexual relationships between men. In fact, in two unlikely areas we find startling parallels to the feelings that gay trans men express: at Fag Hags and at K / S fanzines ”. ( "There is nothing new about women identifying as gay men or eroticizing and idealizing sexual relationships between men. In fact, striking parallels to the sentiments expressed by many female-to-gay male transsexuals can be found in two unlikely areas: 'fag- hagging 'and K / S [Kirk / Spock]' slash 'fanzines. “ ) K / S-Fanzines stands for magazines from fans for fans with stories about a homoerotic relationship between the actually straight characters Kirk and Mr. Spock from the TV series Spaceship Enterprise .

Girlfags in Literature and Research

Several (female) authors specialize in writing stories about gay male relationships, e.g. B. Mary Renault . Some, like Poppy Z. Brite , stated that by writing they were expressing a male-gay gender identity .

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most important American theorists with regard to gender studies and queer theory . She wrote extensively about her gay male gender identity and relationships with gay men. As a motivation for her work, she named:

“Probably the most formative influence for me since my early years was a deeply intense, very speculative (not to say original), queer identification with gay men and the gay movement as I derived it, imagined it and then got to know it for real. "( " Probably my own most formative influence from quite an early age has been a viscerally intense, highly speculative (not to say inventive) cross-identification with gay men and gay male cultures as I inferred, imagined, and later came to know them . " )

Girl flags in the movie

The director Jennifer von Schuckmann from Frankfurt am Main shot the medium-length feature film “ Mimicry ” in 2017 about the coming-out of a gay woman.

Jennifer von Schuckmann commented on her motivation as follows: “MimiCry is loosely based on my own development, as I feel myself as queer out and, within the broad spectrum of this term, as a 'gay woman'. I shot MimiCry to break the boundaries of gender perception, to provoke and thus address everyone, to experiment and to discover oneself. "

Guydykes

The American psychologist Brian G. Gilmartin researched the concept of male lesbians as early as the late 1980s.

The US TV series The L Word - When women love women (The L Word) made the concept to a wider audience known as the bisexual wife Alice in the first season briefly a romantic relationship with "Lisa" comes in. "Lisa" is a lesbian who lives in a male body.

Another example of a male figure with a lesbian feeling is Stuart ("Stu") from the comic series Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel . Although Stu is biologically a man, it describes the author as "more stereotype-lesbian as many lesbians" ( "more stereotypically lesbian than many lesbians") . The character Stu lives in a long-term love relationship with one of the bisexual lesbians "Sparrow".

In the queer subculture, a man who feels lesbian is called Guydyke . From around 2001 the term was coined as an equivalent to Girlfag. The similarity of the two phenomena creates a certain solidarity between girlfags and guydykes. Guydykes often participate in discussion groups for girl fags.

The British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard is a known Guydyke. In several interviews, he let it be known that he felt like "a lesbian woman trapped in a man's body" . He also called himself "male lesbian" ( "male lesbian" ).

See also

literature

  • Poppy Z. Brite (1998): Enough Rope In: Tuttle, Lisa (Ed.): Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity. Indigo Books, USA, http://www.poppyzbrite.com/rope.html
  • Carol Queen and Laurence Schimel (Eds.): PoMosexuals. Cleis Press, USA 1997
  • Markisha Greaney: A Proposal for Doing Transgender Theory in the Academy. In: More, Whittle (Ed.), Reclaiming Genders: Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siècle. Cassell, London 1999
  • Janet Hardy : Girlfag: A life told in sex and musicals. 2008.
  • Uli Meyer: Hidden in Straight Sight - Transgressing Gender and Sexuality via Boys Love In: Levi, McHarry, Pagliasotti: Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys' Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World, McFarland & Company . (in print)
  • Jill Nagle: MANLY, YES, BUT I LIKE IT TOO: A self-described 'girlfag' reveals the truth behind her yen for sex with gay men , "BUST Magazine", Summer 2003
  • Clare T. Rampling: Who's that girlfag? "BUST Magazine", summer 2003, p. 65
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993): Tendencies. Duke University Press, USA
  • Jacquelyn N. Zita: Male Lesbians and the Postmodernist Body. In Jacquelyn N. Zita: Body Talk. Philosophical Reflections on Sex and Gender. Columbia University Press, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-231-10543-9 . Pp. 85-108

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Uli Meyer: "Almost Homosexual" - Gay Women / Gay Trans * Gender (GirlFags / Trans * Fags). (PDF; 154 kB) (No longer available online.) 2007, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liminalis.de
  2. ↑ wikt: en: pomosexual
  3. ^ Carol Queen: Beyond the Valley of Fag Hags ; Jill Nagle: Stroking my Inner Fagot ; in: Carol Queen, u. Laurence Schimel [Ed.] (1997) PoMosexuals. USA: Cleis Press
  4. ↑ Jill Nagle, "MANLY, YES, BUT I LIKE IT TOO: A self-described 'girlfag' reveals the truth behind her yen for sex with gay men", BUST Magazine, Summer 2003.
  5. ↑ http://www.razyboard.com/system/user_ili.html
  6. ↑ Bruce Bagemihl (1997): Surrogate Phonology and Transsexual Faggotry: A Linguistic Analogy for Uncoupling Sexual Orientation from Gender Identity. In: Anna Livia, Kira Hall [Ed.] (1997): Queerly Phrased, Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Moon, Dawne (1995) Insult and Inclusion: The Term Fag Hag and Gay Male Community. Social Forces, University of North Carolina Press. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2580489
  7. ↑ http://girlfag-guydyke.forumieren.com/t354-was-sind-girlfags
  8. ↑ https://girlfags-guydykes.bine.net/sind-girlfags-guydykes-trans-ili/
  9. ↑ Matt Thorn : “Girls And Women Getting Out Of Hand: The Pleasure And Politics Of Japan's Amateur Comics Community,” (2004), 185 F 4, http://matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/outofhand/index.php# back8 (accessed August 10, 2009); Meyer, Uli: “Hidden in Straight Sight - Transgressing Gender and Sexuality via BL” in: Pagliasotti, McHarry, Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys' Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World, McFarland & Company (in print)
  10. ↑ Bagemihl, Bruce (1997). “Surrogate Phonology and Transsexual Fagotry: A Linguistic Analogy for Uncoupling Sexual Orientation from Gender Identity”. In: Livia, Anna, and Hall, Kira [Eds.] (1997). Queerly Phrased, Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 386
  11. ^ Poppy Z. Brite (1998): Enough Rope. In: Lisa Tuttle (Ed.) Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity. Indigo Books, USA, http://www.poppyzbrite.com/rope.html
  12. ^ Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (1993): Tendencies. USA: Duke University Press, p. 14; Uli Meyer: Hidden in Straight Sight - Transgressing Gender and Sexuality via BL. In: Levi, McHarry, Pagliasotti: Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World, McFarland & Company. (in print)
  13. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: The gay woman . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on December 16, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Jennifer von Schuckmann: Commentary by the director. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
  15. ^ Brian G. Gilmartin (1987): Shyness & Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment. University Press of America, Inc., pp. 125–127 ( excerpt ( August 1, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ))
  16. ^ Brian G. Gilmartin (1987): Shyness & Love: Causes, Consequences, and Treatment. University Press of America, Inc., p. 273 ( excerpt ( May 15, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ))
  17. ↑ http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/cast-biographies
  18. ↑ http://www.queerbychoice.com/clare.html
  19. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3720385.stm
  20. ^ The Independent: Eddie Izzard: The tough transvestite who can take care of himself ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), May 23, 2004