“You can keep your eyes open and be on the lookout for your people. Your brothers, and your sisters. Some of them won’t recognize you right away, or speak to you, but still. Broken-down knees and battered hearts and button-down shirts and bleeding-heart tattoos. I see you. Dirty nailed and dirty minded and desperately lonely and disabled and dashing. Your spit-polished boots and barbershop hair and always wearing someone else’s suit. I see you. All of you butches. I see you and I know myself.”

- Ivan Coyote, “Butches of Belfast”