They are typically masculine or 'butch'." In the BDSM community, bois "are usually female submissives or bottoms and usually have a female Daddy.A transgender man who is young, and/or who is early in his transition.Some define boi simply as a younger butch lesbian.
" One definition of a lesbian boi is one who has casual sex, in contrast with the stereotype of the "U-Haul lesbian" (women so monogamous that they move in together on the second date), and are said to be more like young, sexually free adult men than butches, who are said to be more like mature, settled, football-watching married men. Hell, I’m taking this term to the grave with me. She dresses in clothes designed for men, has a boyish hairstyle and carries herself like a dude older lesbians generally aren’t referred to as 'bois.' I’m 31. In the lesbian community, "a 'boi' is a younger lesbian that typically looks and acts like a guy.Among gay men, a boi can be "a boyish gay guy." Gay men may use the word boi for young bisexual or gay men who are feminine.The Genderqueer Identities blog says, "Use of 'boi' outside of relation to transgender spaces specifically seems to be strongly associated with African American men’s culture (see results for 'pretty boi', for example).".For example, the bklyn boihood organization defines boi this way: "We are transmen, studs, doms, butches, tomboys, queens, Ags-all self-identified bois and queers of color striving for visibility, self-affirmation using our stories, journeys, and talents." An umbrella term for many different queer masculine identities.
It has many different meanings, in each community, and within those communities. Variety of meaningsīoi is used within LGBTQ+ and butch/ femme communities for a person's sexual orientation and/or gender identity. The first use of this word in a song title was likely "Dope Boi Fresh" released in 2002. Rap artists didn't begin incorporating the word "boi" into their lyrics until circa 2000 (at least, given the available liner notes). masculine-of-center lesbians, butch drag kings, and submissive BDSM partners, etc.) none of which were in any way black-specific. The word "boi" appeared in various communities during the mid-1990s (e.g. The author goes on to tell all about how boi was used "in emo, BDSM, gay, lesbian, and genderqueer communities". Young men involved in both the skate and rave scenes, for instance, adopted the moniker 'boi' to denote their rejection-either in part or in full-of hegemonic forms of masculinity and their subscription to a softer, more sensitive identity." "As the 1990s progressed, the term 'boi' morphed into new socio-cultural forms-and ones that did not embody a mere homophonic respelling of the word 'boy' but signaled a new form of masculine gender expression. His reconfiguration of the word 'boy,' therefore, was more likely a play off the racially charged meaning that has long been associated with the term, given the long history of whites, especially in the South where Patton hailed, calling adult black men by the diminutive term 'boy.' Akin to the process of other marginalized groups throughout the 1990s reclaiming formerly pejorative terms Patton’s use of the word both recalled this history and rewrote it…
"In the early 1990s, a young, Georgia-based musician named Antoine Patton adopted the performance name 'Big Boi' ('Outkast,' 2006, 357) in the early 1990s his usage did not announce a different manifestation of masculinity…on the contrary, with the performer’s dress, clothes, and mannerisms readily identifiable as masculine, Big Boi’s personal appearance and gender identity were largely conventional. The book Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture posits that the word "boi" may have been coined as a an artistic pseudonym by hip-hop musician Antoine Patton: