Because I am one.

The I Heart Brooklyn Girls 2007 calendar, soon to be featured on HERE TV’s Lesbian Sex and Sexuality, includes photos of twelve of Brooklyn’s hottest femmes.

Metro New York:

Four friends who put the “I heart Brooklyn Girls” 2007 calendar together — a photographer, a stylist, a hair and makeup artist and a graphic designer — wanted to use their skills to celebrate their passions: their borough, vintage pinups and femmes from their lesbian community.

“Femmes are underrepresented,” said Bensonhurst-native Erica Beckman, 29. “Sure, there’s the ‘L-Word,’ but the women on that show are very different from the toughness of the femme girls in Brooklyn.”

To recreate 12 decades of pinups, they mined photos from the New York Public Library’s archives and from their own Playboy collections and juggled photo shoots around their day jobs.

Part of every I Heart Brooklyn Girls purchase supports the NYC Gay and Lesbian Anti Violence Project. Visit the IHBK MySpace page to find out how to get a free I Heart Brooklyn Girls T-shirt.

Miss Bensonhurst:

See all the girls of the I Heart Brooklyn Girls 2007 calendar here.

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You can find Maria on MySpace here and read her current call for essays on femme identity here. Pick up Queer Shorts, her new anthology, at MergePress.com.