Butch Cassidy Butch Cassidy Robert Leroy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was a notorious American train robber and bank robber, and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the American Old West. After participating in criminal activity in the United States for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century, the pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably by the Pinkerton detective agency, forced Parker to flee the country with an accomplice, Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, known as the "Sundance Kid", and Longabaugh's girlfriend
Butch and femme is taken from the French word for woman. The word "butch", meaning "masculine", may have been coined by abbreviating the word "butcher", as first noted in George Cassidy's nickname, "Butch Cassidy". However, the exact origin of the word is still unknown. The butch web designer Daddy Rhon created a symbol of a black triangle intersecting a red circle to represent butch/femme sexuality, which was first used at the beginning of the 21st century on the website "butch-femme.com" and has started to be used elsewhere. There is debate about to whom the terms butch and femme can apply, and particularly whether