“The idea that butch and femme are in some sense replicas or copies of heterosexual exchange underestimates the erotic significance of these identities as internally dissonant and complex in their resignification of the hegemonic categories by which they are enabled. Lesbian femmes may recall the heterosexual scene, as it were, but also displace it at the same time. In both butch and femme identities, the very notion of an original or natural identity is put into question; indeed, it is precisely that question as it is embodied in these identities that becomes one source of their erotic significance.”

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble : Tenth Anniversary Edition.
London, UK: Routledge, 1999. p 157.

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