Before there were underwear campaigns to Legalize Gay, before lines like Play Out and TomboyX made boxers for women, before Shane on The L Word modeled (fictionally) in Hugo Boss briefs, there was Jenny Shimizu. So beautiful that the first time they met, Angelina Jolie both fell in love and assumed that she’d lost an acting job they’d been auditioning for. So unapologetically butch that she has stated she even […]
Welcome to spring! As part of an ongoing quest to find great lingerie for trans and genderqueer people, I’m tackling swimwear. This week is Part Two: Swimsuits for Trans Men and Other Transmasculine people. Read part one, swimsuits for trans women and transfeminine people here. Swimwear is like lingerie except that, for reasons obvious to no one, we are all supposed to be cool with being this naked at the […]
Disclosure: this post contains affiliate links. Welcome to spring! As part of an ongoing quest to find great lingerie for trans and genderqueer people, I’m tackling swimwear. This week is Part One: Swimsuits for Trans Women and Other Transfeminine People. Next week. I’ll talk about swimsuits for trans men and transmasculine people. Buying swimsuits is difficult at the best of times, and perhaps especially so if you are either pre-op […]
Queer visibility is a strange thing when discussing women’s lingerie. A lot of indie men’s underwear designers are open about being gay and specifically market toward gay men (Andrew Christian comes to mind). Indie lingerie for women, on the other hand, seems to not get marketed as “by queer/for queer.” I wonder why? Is gay male underwear seen as more distinct from straight male underwear, putting pressure on designers to […]
I’ll be honest: GC2B’s chest binder is not an especially glamorous piece of lingerie. But as my father likes to say, if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. That is, if you can make a product that makes a normally unpleasant experience manageable, everyone will want what you’re selling, glamorous or no. GC2B, a company that advertises their product as “the perfect […]
