lesbian chic

plural lesbian chics

1. datedslangA feminine lesbian.

   Critics attacked what they perceived to be the key feature of lesbian chic, i.e., 'cheque-writing dykes who [look] suspiciously like the average Tory shithead's daughter' (Solanas 1993, p. 5).

   2008 February 19, Veronika Koller, Lesbian Discourses: Images of a Community, Routledge, →ISBN, page 149

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   […] the fever surrounding lesbian chic in the 1990s belied "a larger cultural anxiety about the dangers of the lesbian body, exemplified by the simultaneous embrace of the 'new femme' as cutting edge and the denunciation of real-life lesbians as perverse and depraved".

   2020 September 14, Kate Farhall, Sex, Feminism and Lesbian Desire in Women’s Magazines, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2007

   Synonyms: lipstick lesbian, designer dyke, femme