saw this for the first time at my local mirco cinema with a partner who was not yet a woman. it was so fun! it was the first time i heard a dyke call themselves a faggot. it was the first time i thought about wlw bdsm and the first time i considered my own relationship to "violent" sex without men. a few years later, i think i'm due for a rewatch. i remember really loving the diy construction and being jazzed by how many stl mentions there were. it seems like we had a thriving leather and bdsm culture. it's because of this film that i visited the leather museum in chicago and got to read about stl's historical bdsm conventions (amazingly called "beat me in st. louis"). history aside, it's a great flick if you love anything diy, gay, and/or 90s <3
