Lesboy

Lesboy
The lesboy flag by Tumblr user mogai-pride-flags

Lesboy (also known as male lesbian, boysbian, boy lesbian, lesbian boy, or lesbian man) is a term for someone who is a lesbian and in some way a boy/man or calls themself a boy/man. This may include:

• Someone who is cusper between a transgender man and a butch lesbian
• Someone who is cusper between a lesbian trans woman and a feminine cisgender man
• Someone who is a lesbian and a male-/masc-aligned girl (such as azurgirl) or fem-aligned man (such as rosboy)
• Someone who is multigender, with one of their genders being boy/man and the other being something else, and a lesbian
• Someone who is genderfluid and identifies as a lesbian even when they're male or male-/masc-aligned
• Someone who is a non-binary lesbian who partially identifies as a boy/man (such as demiboy, boyflux, or xenoboy) or calls themself a boy/man
• Someone who is multigender, with one of their genders being lesbiangender, sapphogender, etc and the other being male-/masc-aligned
• Someone who is a trans man who still has connections to womanhood, femininity, or being a lesbian
• An AMAB transneutral/transfeminine/etc individual who reclaims being called a boy/man

History

The term has an unknown coining date, however it has existed in lesbian communities as early as 1997, as seen in Sally Munt's book Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender (Lesbian & Gay Studies):

"Hausman is saying that the true disruption of gender lies not in some free-play of signification, a proliferation of genders, some utopian world populated by (in Halberstam's words) 'guys with pussies, dykes with dicks, queer butches, aggressive femmes, F2Ms, lesbians who like men, daddy boys, gender queens, drag kings, pomo afro homos, bulldaggers, women who fuck boys, women who fuck like boys, dyke mommies, transsexual lesbians, male lesbians'. For Judith, all this gender freedom on the frontiers brings forth the 'more general fragmentation of the concept of sexual identity' - that's why she thinks - or at least thought, because I've heard she's publishing again on the topic - we're all transsexuals."

Leslie Feinberg, the author of the book Stone Butch Blues, also published many books and papers on transmasc lesbians. In hir book Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, zie states:

"And our female-to-male transsexual brothers have a right to feel welcome at women's movement events or lesbian bars. However, that shouldn't feed into the misconception that all female-to-male transsexuals were butches who just couldn't deal with their oppression as lesbians. If that were true, then why does a large percentage of post-transition transsexual men identify as gay and bisexual, which may have placed them in a heterosexual or bisexual status before their transition? There are transsexual men who did help build the women's and lesbian communities, and still have a large base of friends there. They should enjoy the support of women on their journey. Doesn't everyone want their friends around them at a time of great change? And women could learn a great deal about what it means to be a man or a woman from sharing the lessons of transition."

In Transgender Butch in 1998, J Halberstam states:

"However, these transsexual men do articulate one very important line of affiliation between transsexualities and lesbian identities. Many transsexual men successfully identify as butch in a queer female community before they decide to transition. Once they have transitioned, many transsexual men want to maintain their ties to their queer lesbian communities."

There have been many other books and papers published about transmasculine and male lesbians.

The flag was created by Tumblr user beyond-mogai-pride-flags on December 20th, 2020. It is considered by most to be the official lesboy flag.