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title‘IT’S OUR WORD TO USE’: LESBIAN SLAMS HIGH ST RETAILERS OVER ‘APPROPRIATION OF WORD FEMME’

subject date10-05-2017

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creditCaters News Agency

caption***COPYRIGHT UNKNOWN/USE AT OWN RISK*** PIC FROM MERCURY PRESS (PICTURED: FEMME T-SHIRTS THAT CAN BE PURCHASED IN STORE ) A lesbian retail worker has slammed four top fashion retailers for appropriating the word femme as a t-shirt slogan - which she claims is only the LGBT communitys to use.H Beverley, from Chelmsford, Essex, visited Topshop, H&M, Urban Outfitters and Mango taking pictures of the t-shirts before complaining to the stores online because it is an LGBT term for a feminine lesbian.The 25-year-old self-declared aspirational celesbian claims it is unfair for stores to turn sexual identity into a fashion statement for profit and believes it was a huge oversight for the designers to use this slogan.While the millennial Molly Ringwald acknowledges that femme is also French for women, she believes the term is ours [the LGBT community] to use. SEE MERCURY COPY