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Femme Straddlers 12 years, 4 months agoHi Femmes. Question, who is your still icon? Lesbian or otherwise?
Coz I would have to say mine are definitely Santana (glee) and the twins from Skins!
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UK and Ireland Straddlers 12 years, 4 months ago
Hey all,
I’m passing through London in June 15-18 on holiday. I’m 20 from Sydney Australia and I was hoping to go out clubbing during this time. So I was hoping if I could get some advice/possibly make some friends…I’m hoping to maybe move to London in 2012 so I really wanted to check out the scene whilst I’m there. I’m thinking of going out…[Read more]
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Hey Cindy!
Afraid I’m not living in London at the moment, but lived there for 20 years so have plenty of advice :) Check out http://boards.gingerbeer.co.uk/ for what’s going on, there are plenty of meet ups and events which you could go to. G-A-Y and Candy Bar are both in SOHO right in the centre of London (and about a 5 minute walk from each…[Read more]
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thanks so much! I’m going to be on my own it looks like but I think I might check out Candy Bar. Ta.xx
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Hi! I totally forgot but I friended you as I should be around then to go out one night if you like. I’m 19 and relatively new to London, so still looking for more queer friends to go out with :) Not very knowledgeable about places as I’ve only ever been to Ku, G-A-Y and The Den, so perhaps I could check out Candy Bar with you? From all I’ve heard…[Read more]
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BEST advice given above is to go East! To me it’s much more chilled an atmosphere, and it feels more like real London.
In Soho though, Ku bar gets my vote.-
I seem to hear this a lot, but where do you actually advise to go to? From what I can tell on the internet Ghetto seems to be closed and Dick and Fanny doesn’t happen very often .. and I can’t figure out if Trash Palace is the same as Ghetto. All the websites seem to be very out of date
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there’s twat boutique and unskinny bop which you definitely need to check out. i’d also advise just going on a general bar crawl, basically it’ quite difficult to go wrong :)
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Singlestraddlers… Ready to Mingle! 12 years, 4 months ago
Hey all, I’m an outgoing femme 20yo from Sydney, Australia. Who likes sport, exercise, shopping and dancing. I think I have great fun ideas, in fact today I decided to throw a prom for my friends and I just before I leave! Working as a nanny at the moment. Moving to Belgium to be an au pair in three weeks and will be travelling around Europe!
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Movies 12 years, 4 months agoSaw Burke and Hare a few days ago. I’d recommend, it was set in Edinburgh and everyone had Scottish accents, so good! But also funny, all based on a true story.
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Animestraddle 12 years, 5 months agoOMG I like new dp.
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Femme Straddlers 12 years, 5 months agoImma stop you right there, I just want to say that Femme Straddlers is one of the best groups of all time, of all time!
At this stage, I say we raid all groups.
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Straddler-on-Straddler advice 12 years, 5 months ago
To all question bi-dar and gaydar related.
I generally tend to flirt or what’s wrong with a straight up asking someone? Just go for someone you think is hot, you have nothing to lose esp if they are giving you the signals.-
Except sometimes they’ll flirt with you for an hour and then mention their girlfriend. It’s annoying and awkward, but nobody ever died of awkward. :D
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I’m just super lucky and end up hitting on girls in front of their girlfriends like 90% of the time. I’ve even given a girl a rose in front of her girlfriend :P
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Once, I went to a lesbian dance night for a friend of a friend’s birthday. I had a little bouquet of flowers from my garden as a gift for the birthday girl, and a super-hot chick asks me for one. Thinking she was flirting, I handed off a sprig. Then she told me she was straight….
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I have def wanted to, though ;)
I guess you have to be comfortable outing yourself to someone who might be straight and be uncomfortable with lady love or being hit on by another woman. I live in a smaller city where it’s very difficult to do stuff like that without it becoming common gossip amongst my ‘circles’, maybe it’d be easier for people…[Read more]
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Femme Straddlers 12 years, 5 months agoHey femmes, Q for you all:
what’s your type? Butch or femme or somewhere in between?
Because I think every lesbian has been asked if they are the man or the woman in the relationship. So maybe it’s time to put the butches date femmes and vice versa myth to bed or not?-
between all my lady loving friends they are split 50/50 some like only other femmes others like only butches.
I personally gravitate towards anywhere from somewhat androgynous looking (but still able to clearly tell they’re girl aka shane is not my cup of tea) to complete lipstick lesbians.
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I am totally into the androgynous/masculine-presenting side of the spectrum. Although I can absolutely appreciate the sexiness of a hot femme!
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I find androgyny, sleeve tattoos, girls wearing ties, and short haircuts extremely attractive.
I can appreciate the aesthetics of a Santana, but at the end of the day give me a Shane.-
you’re totally right, a santana v. shane poll is the only way to get to the bottom of this.
In which case I vote Santana.
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i feel like i always go for anyone from soft butches to other femmes like myself. the problem is that there’s basically no telling that i dig women simply by looking at me, so even the most lesbian eye contact will not convince another girl that i’m into her.
honestly, though, i’d swoon if either ivan coyote or dianna agron asked me out to…[Read more]
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dianna agron and ivan coyote at the same time, you’re killing me with the fantasies. my brain stopped working at “ivan”.
other than that, I am mostly into andro/ masculine types, sometimes feminine. or dianna agron. but, BUT the andro/ masculine women don’t have to identify as butch or boi. (although “real” butches are just…so…hot.)
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I looooove me some butch/andro/genderqueer girls. I’m also starting to get heterofemmesexual–I dig femmes who present differently than me, like hippie femmes and tomboy femmes.
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does this mean we can make out?
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Klaine Straddlers 12 years, 5 months ago
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Really interesting question! I suppose I have never thought about specific ‘femme’ icons… more queer icons on the one hand, and feminine icons on the other… like I admire Rachel Maddow, but if I could dress like anyone, I would dress like Dita von Teese (who I note was seriously involved with a woman in her twenties!).
Now that you mention…[Read more]
Probably Fit for a Femme (I don’t know her name, do people just refer to her as FFAF?)
Totally cured me of my femme angst. Plus, she introduced me to the top knot, which means that I know longer have to wash my super curly hair tangly everyday to look presentable. Awesome.
But really, she seems so confident in who she is, and every time I read a…[Read more]
My icon is the Hogwarts Express cause I suck at cropping.
Serious answer: Shar Rednour, my friend Megan, Felicia Luna Lemus, a whole stack of Tumblr celebriqueer femme bloggers
The first person that comes to mind is Amber Heard. It started when I saw pictures of her in that red dress at the GLAAD awards where she officially came out. I love a vintage-inspired outfit.
I can’t say I have any celeb/visible femme icons that inspire me, though I’m glad to see femmes represented in the media. I do however sort of look up to my adoptive gay aunts Jackie and Deb who have been rocking their femme sides for decades and look hot even in their 50s.
My icon Lez or otherwize is the character: Anaksunamun in ”The Mummy”, remember the opening scene? She lets everyone know how desireable she is and only just a select few may get a chance to be with her. No one else can compare…