I Heart Brooklyn Girls was a pin-up calendar produced by a group of Brooklyn artists with the goal of celebrating and making visible queer femininity. The 2011 edition was inspired by "classic lesbian and gay pulp novels of the 50’s and 60’s and features local femmes, tomboys, butches, trans, and other hotties from Brooklyn’s queer community."
10% of proceeds were donated to Sylvia’s Place, a LGBTQ shelter for runaway and homeless queer youth in New York.
"The lesbian pulp novel, popular in the 1950's and 1960's, skirted the line between heterosexual fantasy and queer subversion—much like the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar itself. Though the genre played into the fears and desires of straight readers, it also dramatically increased queer visibility in bedrooms and bookshops all over the world. For 2011, we salute the outrageously provocative pulp over art of the mid-century by reclaiming it for the 21st century, Brooklyn-Girls style."