List of androgynous people

This is a list of notable people who have been described at any time as androgynous in their persona or presentation, either by self-identification or in reliable sources.

List


PersonDescribed by reliable source(s)Self-identifiedComment
Anita Berber[1]Dancer, actress, and artist, married to Sebastian Droste (below)
Børns[2][3]American singer
David Bowie[4]British musician
Leigh Bowery[5][6]Australian performance artist
Boy George[7][8]English singer and DJ
Pete Burns[9][7][8]English pop musician
Claude Cahun[1][10]French photographer
Betty Catroux[11][12]French fashion model
Richard Chamberlain[13][14]American actor and singer
Charly Boy[15]Nigerian singer and TV presenter
Gwendoline Christie[16][17]English actress and model
Christine and the Queens[18][19][20]French singer
Chris Crocker[21][22]American internet celebrity
Miley Cyrus[23][24]American singer and actress
Desireless[25][26]French singer
Marlene Dietrich[27][28]German-American actress
Sebastian Droste[1]Dancer, married to Claude Cahun (above)
Florian-Ayala Fauna[29][30]American artist, musician, music producer
Noel Fielding[31]English comedy actor and TV presenter
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven[1][32]German avant-garde artist
Marla Glen[33]American singer
Bilal Hassani[34][35]French singer
Elly Jackson[36][37]English singer in La Roux
Grace Jones[38][39]Jamaican actor, model, and singer
Bill Kaulitz[40][41]German singer in Tokio Hotel
Kaya[42]Japanese visual kei singer
Else Lasker-Schüler[43]German-Jewish poet
Jiz Lee[44][45]American pornographic performer
Annie Lennox[46][47]Scottish musician
AzMarie Livingston[48][49]American model
Mana
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn[7]
Brian Molko
Klaus Nomi
Genesis P-Orridge
Peaches
Andreja Pejić
Peter
Prince
JD Samson
Skin
Jeffree Star
Tilda Swinton
Sylvester
David Sylvian[8]Singer in the band Japan
Gerard Way
Wilgefortis
Andrew Wood
Yohio
Yoon JeonghanSinger, songwriter
Yungblud

See also

References
  1. Gammel, Irene (2003). "Limbswishing Dada in New York". In Paul Hjartarson; Tracy Kulba-Gibbons (eds.). The Politics of Cultural Mediation: Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve. Canadian Review of Comparative literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée. University of Alberta. p. 22. ISBN 9780888644121. ISSN 0319-051X. A key to the Baroness's [Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven] performative trajectory into the postmodern era, then, is her radical androgyny, which publicly disrupts the binaries of conventional gender codes."
    "The Baroness routinely shocked her viewers with her desexed body, her radical androgyny, as when she modelled for a film project in which the American photographer Man Ray and Duchamp collaborated in 1921."
    "With her partner Sebastian Droste, Berber performed radical androgyny, enacting a state beyond conventional gender boundaries in in/famous nude performances. Droste was 'more and less than a man, more and less than a woman—different'."
    "Meanwhile in France, the French photographer, surrealist poet, and performer Lucy Schwob, aka Claude Cahun (1894-1954), gave herself an androgynous identity that, like the Baroness's, was reflected in a stunning mutability of gender identities recorded in her photographs.
  2. Shulman, Randy (February 2018). "A few burning random questions for BØRNS". Metro Weekly. MW: You’re known for playing up androgyny in both your appearance and your performance. Is there a reason for it?
    BØRNS: Apart from a lot of my favorite artists being androgynous, like David Bowie, Prince, and, just aesthetically, Grace Jones, I think there’s something very sexy about androgyny. I don’t really try to be androgynous. It’s just who I am.
  3. Wagoner, MacKenzie (April 15, 2016). "Børns on Coachella, Nature's Best Shampoo—And Which Beatle Is His Long Hair Idol". Vogue. There’s something androgynous about it, too. I’m fascinated by the yin and yang of everything. I like the androgyny of how you present yourself. That’s why I have two girls and two guys in my band. Ultimately music has no gender. I like playing with gender roles.
  4. Segal, Corinne (January 11, 2016). "David Bowie made androgyny cool, and it was about time". PBS News Hour. Throughout his career, Bowie never stopped showing us that androgynous was cool, that gender lines were unimportant in the face of a strong personal style.
  5. "Insight: Androgyny in Contemporary Fashion". Luxuo. April 8, 2016. the 1980s pushed androgyny into an era of high camp as the subcultural hotbed of London and New York’s club scenes spawned the exaggerated trans-gendered theatricality of men in frocks. This stylized pantomime expressed extreme (bordering on perverse) stereotypes of doll-like femininity, propelling practitioners – most notably Leigh Bowery and Boy George – into the unhinged and deliberately absurdist heights of the surreal.
  6. "Lucian Freud, Leigh Bowery, 1991". The Tate. The extraordinary costumes he created for himself played on fashion, fetishism and carnival aesthetics and transformed his sixteen stones of flesh into an androgynous spectacle.
  7. Till, Rupert (2010). "Let's Talk About Sex". Pop Cult: Religion and Popular Music. A&C Black. ISBN 9781441197245. The images of Culture Club's Boy George, singer Marilyn and Dead or Alive's Pete Burns were as much influenced by drag acts as rock stars, deliberately androgynous
  8. McAlpine, Fraser (November 2011). "'80s Music Week: Five Great British Gender-Bending Pop Stars". Anglophenia. BBC America. There were people who dressed androgynously before, and there were people who dressed androgynously afterwards, but Boy George was the sole reason 1983 was the year of the gender-bender in pop."
    "Japan were a curious band, in that they all looked a little androgynous on their own, but manly on a positively Herculean scale next to David [Sylvian]’s shimmering and girly visage."
    "[Pete Burns] looks far more androgynous now, after many battles with the plastic surgeons knife, than he ever did when he was supposed to be undermining the morals of the nation’s youth.
  9. "Pete Burns, androgynous pop singer and reality television star – obituary". The Telegraph. October 25, 2016.
  10. Martinez, Jacqueline (June 16, 2020). "Claude Cahun: The Androgynous Surrealist Artist". The Collector. Cahun’s themes of eroticism, androgyny, and surreal compositions have continued to fascinate LGBT+ and surreal commentators alike.
  11. Zagalsky, Alexandra (October 19, 2020). "YSL muse: Betty Catroux's unmistakable style". The Week. Catroux’s louche androgynous style - never overtly sexy yet hugely desirable and undeniably intimidating - has influenced generation of designers, starting of course with Yves Saint Laurent.
  12. Moss, Jack (March 3, 2020). "A New Exhibition Celebrates Saint Laurent Style Icon Betty Catroux". AnOther Magazine. “For Yves it was love at first sight, physically. I was androgynous, asexual. It definitely affected him, but our resemblance was not only physical; we were alike morally, mentally, it was something incredible.”
  13. Wieder, Judy (January 20, 2004). "Richard's redemption". The Advocate: 73. The area of androgyny has something to do with my spiritual interest too. A lot of "men" men aren't interested. I think it takes a certain feminine energy to do it because spirit is so compassionate. Polarized men want to manipulate the world and do stuff out there. When it gets to invading the whole world — then it's gone a little far! But with androgyny you've got the sensitivity of the female and the go-get-it-ness of the male, which is a wonderful combo.
  14. Rousuck, J. Wynn (December 13, 2004). "Spirited Sightseer". The Baltimore Sun. Personally, he continued, what he was hiding was not only being gay, but being what he calls 'relatively androgynous - in an American culture which does not honor androgyny'.
  15. Akinyoade, Akinwale (June 23, 2019). "Make a Daring Statement With An Androgynous Look". Guardian (Nigeria). Nigerian stars like Denrele Edun, Weird MC, Charly Boy, DJ Lambo, Adebayo Oke-Lawal (Orange Culture) are some of the names that have pushed androgynous fashion.
  16. Pometsey, Olive (May 10, 2019). "Gwendoline Christie: 'Game of Thrones made me question what it really means to be a woman'". GQ. This part came along and I knew it would force me to confront my androgyny, my physicality, my height, my strength, my inconsistencies in my face and body.
  17. Lash, Jolie (17 April 2012). "'Game of Thrones' – Gwendoline Christie Talks Digging Deep To Play Brienne". Access Hollywood. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2021. And it was hard too — not only being 6’3” and all of the sort of androgynous implications that that has — but to push myself further in that direction, when all of the bullying and insults that I have received, very painfully over the years — about being tall and about you know, my androgyny — that I was stepping into that
  18. Rodriguez, Leah (October 14, 2015). "The French Gender-Bender Coming for American Pop". The Cut. She’s aligned with queer culture — her first single is a collaboration with Perfume Genius — and she identifies as pansexual, but in her androgynous performances she wants to act as a mirror for audiences, reflecting their own identities back on them — whatever they might be.
  19. Ugwu, Reggie (September 12, 2018). "Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer". New York Times. It had been three years since the French release of her debut album, “Chaleur Humaine” (“Human Warmth”), announced the persona Christine and the Queens, an androgynous, hip-hop-enamored outsider with flickers of Michael Jackson and David Bowie.
  20. Erizanu, Paula (January 5, 2016). "Embracing the sheer, queer power of Christine and the Queens". Dazed. For my next album, I’m thinking about not being defined as a girl anymore – just being considered as a voice and an artist. I want my body to be even more androgynous...to have muscles...to defend myself.
  21. Christian, Aymar Jean (2010). "Camp 2.0: A Queer Performance of the Personal". Communication, Culture & Critique. International Communication Association. 3: 352-376. doi:10.1111/j.1753-9137.2010.01075.x. ISSN 1753-9129. Perhaps one of the most complex, vexing, and infamous camp videos on YouTube is Chris Crocker’s ‘‘LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!’’. It is a camp precisely because of Crocker’s androgyny, his ironic participation in and yet mockery of mass obsession (with Britney Spears), and his over-the-top delivery.
  22. "'LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE' star Chris Croker [sic] hits out at media reports saying he 'got hot'". Attitude. February 24, 2016. Crocker, who for many years of his life says he has identified as transgender, questions why masculinity is considered more desirable than androgyny. “Living in Tennessee, living in a town where it’s not safe for me to be my full self, I have adapted to my surroundings,” he adds. “So when I hear that I have ‘gotten hot’, I immediately think, ‘was I just not hot enough before because I was androgynous?’
  23. Zoladz, Lindsay (December 1, 2020). "Miley Cyrus Finally Embraces Her Rock 'n' Roll Heart". New York Times. As Cyrus has grown older and more comfortable experimenting with her gender presentation, she has seemed to revel in the inherent, freeing androgyny of her vocals.
  24. Ruwaard, Haylee (2018). "Miley Cyrus as the posthuman: Media sexualisation and the intersections of capitalism" (PDF). Outskirts. 38: 1-15. With short blonde hair and dark untouched regrowth, multiple tattoos, often makeup-free face, thin body and relatively flat chest, Cyrus has the ability to embody androgyny.
  25. "About Desireless". mtv.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014. The singer's deliberately androgynous look -- complete with a porcupine-style hairdo -- made her one of the most colorful personalities to grace the European pop scene
  26. Ollivry, Maryvonne (November 21, 2011). ""En plein triomphe de «Voyage voyage », je décide de tout arrêter". Par Desireless". Paris Match (in French). La France découvre mes cheveux blonds courts coiffés en brosse, mon look androgyne monté sur Doc Martens, et puis cette chanson mélodieuse
  27. Henderson, Amy (June 29, 2017). "The Pioneering Androgyny of Classic Hollywood Star Marlene Dietrich". Smithsonian Magazine. Lemay highlights another aspect of the Dietrich mystique, explaining that she “brought androgyny to the silver screen” and embraced bisexuality both in the masculine clothes she wore and in the risqué scenes like a same-sex kiss in Morocco.
  28. Fisher, Harriet (January 19, 2015). "Marlene Dietrich: The Queen of Androgyny". Barneby's. Marlene Dietrich also adored the glamour of the age, rarely seen without a fur coat or stole, yet she also stood strong in her desire to wear trousers and adopt the androgynous style.
  29. Rodrigo (May 12, 2017). "CVLT Nation interviews Florian Ayala Fauna -". CVLT Nation. Blast Beat Network. Retrieved 13 May 2017. Well, I’m not usually one to speak of myself in the third-person, but I’m a visual artist, musician, androgyne, and occultist whose work all overlaps together.
  30. Barton, Dave (February 7, 2013). "Florian-Ayala Fauna: Art Magickian". OC Weekly. You describe yourself as an androgyne. Can you talk a little about that?
    Despite being born male, I have never identified with such a gender as far back as I can remember. Later, I started to embrace people's confusion over my gender and appearance, even when I had a more masculine appearance. I see androgyny and being transgendered as being able to go beyond dichotomies and dualities.
  31. Rumbelow, Helen (November 28, 2009). "The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding says that 'Kids are frightened of me'". The Times. Much is made of Fielding's androgyny but, at 36, he is not easy to classify as grown-up either.
  32. Higgs, John (September 8, 2015). "Was Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' actually created by a long-forgotten pioneering feminist?". The Independent. Increasingly androgynous, Elsa embarked on a number of marriages and affairs, often with homosexual or impotent men.
  33. "Marla Glen". Melodiva. 2003. The extravagant soul singer with the androgynous look and the deep erotic voice had almost completely disappeared for a few years, even if “So love you” and “You got me” were repeated at parties as absolute dance floor fillers
  34. "Androgyne, maquillé et en perruque : qui est Bilal Hassani, le favori pour représenter la France à l'Eurovision ?". La Depeche (in French). January 8, 2019. Il y a ensuite le look de Bilal Hassani. Maquillé, avec une perruque et un look androgyne, il attire le regard.
  35. Daw, Stephen (March 15, 2018). "Meet Bilal Hassani, the Queer Pop Newcomer Pushing Boundaries in the French Music Industry". French pop singer Bilal Hassani has been branded as “different” by music labels in his home country. Sporting androgynous looks and being unafraid to share his authentic self with his fans, Hassani says that it has been hard for him to break through in a business that rewards familiar music tropes.
  36. Stern, Marlow (July 6, 2014). "La Roux Discusses New Album 'Trouble in Paradise,' the 5-Year Gap, and Embracing Her Androgyny". Daily Beast. I’ve always been fascinated by your look, which is a bit Tilda Swinton-ish—the pale, androgynous face that really clashes beautifully with your red hair—as well as your keen fashion sense. Did it take you a while to embrace your androgyny?
    I couldn’t say that I’d always embraced [my androgyny]. I wanted to, but I was too scared to, and didn’t embrace it until I was 17 or 18.
  37. Durbin, Jonathan (August 2010). "Red Hot: La Roux's Eleanor Jackson On Love, Death and Hair". Paper Magazine. Archived from the original on September 1, 2010. Jackson says that her androgynous sensibilities have developed into one of La Roux's most important attributes. She feels like she represents an alternative to the way other female pop stars promote themselves, and that it's possible to write and perform music successfully without removing her clothing (or, say, wearing a bra that doubles as submachine guns). "It's really important for young girls because there isn't anything else," she says. "If you're not into that very exposed female look, what else is there? Apart from looking up to boys, which is what I did. I was always looking up to men, which is probably why I was all weird."
  38. Hattenstone, Simon (17 April 2010). "Grace Jones: 'God I'm scary. I'm scaring myself". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 June 2014. In the early 70s, it was the boys (Bowie, Bolan, Iggy) who glamorised androgyny. But by the late 70s Jones was outdoing them. She exuded both grace and menace, femininity and masculinity, and of course sexuality.
  39. Felsenthal, Julia (September 28, 2015). "Grace Jones Explores Androgyny in a New Memoir". Vogue. As Goude told People about Jones, “Men think she’s sexy. Women think she’s a little masculine,” and “gays think she’s a drag queen.” Androgyny was always her thing, as was a sexuality that could swing from remote and alien to animalistic and overpowering. Among the most famous Goude images is the cover of Jones’s 1981 album, Nightclubbing, in which she appears sporting her trademark flattop, a cigarette dangling from her lips, and wearing a power suit with lapels so wide and shoulder pads so square, they echo the harsh geometry of her haircut. She’s an impossibly idealized caricature of masculinity.
  40. Kennel, Ralf (April 27, 2011). "Tokio Hotel scale the charts thanks to their media savvy". DW. With Bill Kaulitz's androgynous look and eye-popping outfits, German magazines like Bravo and Münchener Magazin were more than happy to put them on their covers and follow their every move.
  41. Buhr, Elke (February 22, 2007). ""As if" eroticism". signandsight.com. In tandem with his young, mostly female fans, the androgynous David-Bowie-child Bill Kaulitz develops a striking form of sexual energy, an eroticism of the 'as if'.
  42. Eugenia (December 21, 2008). "Kaya Fan Q&A Session and Press Conference". JaME. How old were you when you first decided to embrace an androgynous image, and how was that perceived by your peers?
    Kaya: My goal wasn't, "I want to wear female clothes". I just wanted to wear what I wanted to wear, and that’s how I started. That was when I was 17. Of course, people around me were, "Oh my god, what are you wearing, why are you dressed as a girl." Actually, people even threw stones at me. But I just kept on doing what I wanted.
  43. Heizer, Donna K. (1996). "Else Lasker-Schüler's Oriental Performance Space". Jewish-German Identity in the Orientalist Literature of Else Lasker-Schüler, Friedrich Wolf, and Franz Werfel. Camden House. p. 43. ISBN 9781571130259. Jussuf, both in the text and in Lasker-Schüler's adoption of his persona in her actual life, also shares many of these traits. As ideal Sufis, Tino and Jussuf represent solitary, androgynous prophets – which exemplifies Lasker-Schüler's own view of herself as an artist.
  44. Lampen, Claire (January 27, 2021). "Queer star Jiz Lee is breaking every porn stereotype to make the industry better". Daily Dot. “Porn is the best thing to have happened to me,” says Jiz Lee, an erotic icon whose other informal titles include “queer porn legend,” “androgynous gender warrior,” and possessor of “a rare sexual je ne sais quois”.
  45. Fitzpatrick, Chloe (March 26, 2013). "Performer Jiz Lee in 'The Feminist Porn Book". Out. Jiz Lee is a genderqueer porn star known for their androgynous look, female ejaculation, strap-on performances, and fun, sex-positive attitude.
  46. Rodger, Gillian (January 2004). "Camp and Gender Subversion in the Music and Videos of Annie Lennox". Popular Music. Cambridge University Press. 23 (1): 17-29. doi:10.1017/S0261143004000066. Lennox justified her assumption of masculine and androgynous styles of clothing by citing her own discomfort at the expectation that, as a woman in pop music, she should present herself in an overtly sexual way ... While Lennox has not totally abandoned her androgynous style of dress in live performance, since 1988 and the release of Savage, she has also relied heavily on camp humour to undercut the believability of any female character she portrays.
  47. Anthony, Andrew (October 10, 2010). "Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'". The Guardian. In her dyed-orange crop and men's business suits, she was a picture of slick modernity: cool, feisty and sharply composed. The androgyny inevitably raised questions about her sexuality. 'I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage. It was a kind of slightly subversive statement and what's even more subversive about it is that I'm so not gay. I'm completely heterosexual'.
  48. Lowman, Virginia (October 15, 2015). "6 Beauty Lessons We Learned From Our Favorite 'ANTM' Girls". Essence. If I have any label put on me then I would like it to be the epitome of androgyny. I have "androgynous" tattooed as one of my tattoos because I am.
  49. Smith, Gabrielle Alexandra (February 21, 2019). "Model/actor AzMarie Livingston talks androgyny and its place in society". At The Movies. I learned about the term androgyny in 2006. It has been around before then. This was when someone told me “Oh, you are androgynous.” They showed me Grace Jones, David Bowie, and Prince. These are androgynous people. Now when I hear it, I have even gone past it just being how you look, but an androgynous person to me is one who is sure of themselves. They are in harmony with both their masculine and feminine sides of themselves and are okay with this.


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