Boi (plural: bois) is a term used within LGBT and butch and femme communities to refer to a person's sexual and gender identity. In lesbian communities, there is an increasing acceptance of variant gender expression, as well as allowing people to self-identify with labels such as boi. The term may denote a number of possibilities that are not mutually exclusive:
Boi may also refer to a female-assigned at birth or female-bodied person, sometimes transsexual, transgendered, or intersexed, sometimes not—that generally does not identify as, or only partially identifies as feminine, female, a girl, or a woman. Some "bois" identify as one or more of these, but they almost always identify as lesbians, dykes, or queers. Many are also genderqueer or practice genderfuck. Bois may prefer a range of pronouns, including "he", "she", or non-binary and gender-neutral pronouns such as "they", "co", "hir", "sie", "zie", and "ey". The term has found increasing usage in the larger LGBT culture.
Boi or BOI may refer to:
Gender is a range of characteristics of femininity, masculinity and others described as third gender. Depending on the context, the describing characteristics vary from sex to social roles (gender roles) to gender identity. The academic interdisciplinary field gender studies focuses on gender. Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word "gender" to refer to anything but grammatical categories. However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender. Today, the distinction is strictly followed in some contexts, like medicine,social sciences, feminist literature, documents written by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), and in some dictionaries, but in many contexts, even in some areas of social sciences, the meaning of gender has expanded to include "sex" or even to replace the latter word. Although this gradual change in the meaning of gender can be traced to the 1980s, a small acceleration of the process in the scientific literature was observed when the Food and Drug Administration started to use "gender" instead of "sex" in 1993. "Gender" is now commonly used even to refer to the physiology of non-human animals, without any implication of social gender roles.
Antwan André Patton (born February 1, 1975), better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000. His work in the duo has produced six studio albums. During the duo's hiatus, he and André 3000 each announced plans to release a solo album. Big Boi's solo debut Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty was released in July 2010 to respectable sales and critical acclaim.
Patton was born and spent the first half of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, attending Herschel V. Jenkins High School before moving to Atlanta with his Aunt Renne. Eventually he decided to pursue his interest in music at Tri-Cities High School, a Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School.
He had a strong interest in hip-hop music, and met André "3000" Benjamin while attending Tri Cities High School in the early-1990s. The two eventually joined forces as OutKast and signed with LaFace Records.
I wish I was infinite and given my way
I'd be so fucking cool
When I'm feeling the rush
I look at you through different eyes
I never knew my thoughts televise what you think
I'm the twin inside you
It's hard to believe what you say
Unaccepting what you've tried to show us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
Refreshing your memories of times we've known
Constantly stumbling over reason
Where do these words go now so true
Covering no one else but you devour every modern day
It's hard to believe what you say
Unaccepting what you've tried to show us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
And nothing can fix what's incomplete
Can't get to us
Never get to us
Fell away in my dizziness I'm blinding
I wish I was obedient aren't I something
I'll never be rational I'm finding
My way to everyone in this velvet sky of mine
Boredom does nothing for me so why does it follow
Walking with deadbeats down the street i want everything
I'll be your idol Be your maker your everything
Your dirty dream designer