Worst Case Scenario: Femme Edition

A ground-breaking project, Mind if I Call You Sir? is an oral history video project documenting queer Latina/o histories through testimonies on gender expression by self-identified Butch Lesbians and Female-to-Male Transgendered men. As a femme-identified Latina lesbian and community scholar, Karla E. Rosales has devoted her academic and artistic pursuits to issues of gender identity in the Latina community. Her research led her to uncover a growing rift between the ‘old school’ Butch Lesbian community and the rapidly-growing FTM community, whose numbers are increasing.

Personalities clash in a lesbian therapy group.

After her live-in lover leaves her for another woman, Desi, a young artist, gets incredibly depressed. Her well-meaning friends try to set her up with a number of women, all of whom Desi finds less than inspiring. Meanwhile, teen skateboarder J.T. harbors wild dreams of meeting her idol, comic Marga Gomez. This film, set in San Francisco's Latina lesbian culture, premiered at the 2000 San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

An award-winning satirical super 8 primer & etiquette lesson by Bay Area filmmaker Mary Guzmán helps shed light on how open doors and otherwise impress femmes. A must watch for any masculine of center queer. Mary Guzmán 2006 5 min USA