Skootch over Sports Illustrated, America’s premier queer femme swimsuit calendar is about to hit the shelves and it’s gonna land hard. Twelve foxy Brooklyn femmes with frightening physiques vamp on the beach at Coney Island in hot swimsuits by local designers in this year’s edition of the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendar. Brooklyn-born photographer Erica Beckman told us she launched the calendar two years ago on a lark. “I like girls. I like girls in bathing suits. Why not photograph them?” Could this be the year of the un-airbrushed outie?















