July 14, 2003 at 12:00 am #46066
Mike
Participant
There’s a gay bar in the town I live in that has a predominantly lesbian crowd. We took a straight female friend in there with us one night – her dress style is more hippie-chick than anything else – and a group of lesbians actually chided her for looking ‘too fem.’ She told them she wasn’t a lesbian and to kindly mind their own business, after which we left. The next time we were in there I asked a lesbian friend what’s with the lesbian ‘uniform’ (short, cropped hair, white men’s t, no bra, flannel shirt left open and either loose-fitting jeans or chinos and black riding boots). Her explanation was that is was the ‘pink triangle’ of the new millennium. I don’t know if I buy that, though. I see it as pack or gang mentality.