Barbara Butch, a French disc jockey and lesbian activist, performed in the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony but faced vile hatred for mocking Christ’s The Last Supper.
Her lawyer explained that she has been targeted with threats of losing her life, antisemitism, and fatphobia since the opening ceremony of the Olympics. She is planning to sue them.
Highlights
- Barbara Butch came out as a lesbian to her family members at 18 and described her suffering from the first relationship.
- She started dating Camille L. Robbins in 2020, and they engaged on March 21, 2022.
- She appeared as a guest celebrity judge in the second season of the French-language reality television series Drag Race France.
Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France played a key role in Barbara’s early life.
She studied music theory, piano, guitar, and Brazilian percussion during her teens in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
Later, at 22, she left Paris and built her DJ career playing in bars in Montpellier under the stage name Scratcheuse de Gazon. In 2008, she also worked at Rosa Bonheur and Machine du Moulin Rouge.
Barbara founded her label, Muy Lesbianne Records, in 2023 and became Louise Petrouchka’s trainer in February 2024.
Moreover, she campaigned for fat acceptance and appeared in a short film, Extra Large.
Barbara Butch Celebrated 4 Years Of Relationship With Camille
A French lesbian activist Barbara Butch is in a romantic relationship with Camille L. Robbins. Camille is her love of life and calls her the safe place.
The lovebirds began dating in 2020 and made each other’s everyday lives magical and sweet. They met through Instagram and engaged on March 21, 2022.
Barbara Butch discovered her queerness and started going to Pulp, a leading Parisian club that hosts lesbian parties.
She came out to her family members at 18 and described her suffering from her first relationship with a woman.
I’m a fat, Jewish, queer lesbian, and I’m really proud of all my identities, because they make me what I am now as a human. All the violence and negativity I’ve experienced, I can make it something bigger to help others go forward with a lot of love.
Barbara Butch expressed.
She coordinated the LGBT pole of the reception and support office for migrants and participated in the CLAQ events for Queer Liberation and Autonomy Committee in 2019.
The French Association of LGBTI Journalists awarded her the title of LGBTI Personality of the Year in 2021.
In 2023, she appeared as a guest celebrity judge in the second season of the French-language reality television series Drag Race France.
Nonetheless, Barbara Butch mixed French variété classics at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games accompanied by French drag queens Nicky Doll.
Additional Information
- 43 years old Barbara Butch was born on March 17, 1981. Her Jewish parents named her Leslie Barbara Butch.
- Her father, French and of Moroccan origin, is a house painter, whereas her mother, Ashkenazi, is a secretary.
- In February 2020, she posed n*ked on the cover of Télérama and asked, “But why do we reject fat people?” Later, she became the face of the perfume La Belle Intense.
