Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel of sorts to the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". It stars Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. It generally received mixed reviews but was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Wyoming. Wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins forces with sharpshooter Harry Longabaugh (who renames himself the Sundance Kid) and they carry out a series of robberies. However, Butch is
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