The Whistle (2020) Trailer from Lesflicks
Channel: Lesflicks
Date: 2021-06-11

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📖Synopsis: THE WHISTLE tells the story of a secret code created by and shared among young lesbians in 1970s & 80s Albuquerque, New Mexico as a means of self-identification and finding community. In the 1970s & 80s, a group of lesbian high school youth in Albuquerque had a particular way of finding each other and others like themselves. They created a special whistle that was both hard to learn and easy to go unnoticed by unsuspecting bystanders. It would go on to be known by their peers and by those who came up and out after them as the “dyke whistle”. The dyke whistle was a right of passage taught to newly out dykes by their peers. It was a lifeline to community for many young lesbians coming up and out during that time.

Director StormMiguel Florez is a queer Xicane trans man who came out and identified as a dyke in 1987 during his freshman year at Del Norte High School in Albuquerque. When Florez came out at the age of 15, a group of his lesbian peers took him under their wing and taught him how to navigate the stresses and the joys of being a young dyke in Albuquerque in the mid 1980s.

In THE WHISTLE, Florez interviews his peers who were also out in the 80s and his elders who were out in the 70s. These interviews explore what lesbian identity formation was like for Albuquerque youth in the 1970s & 80s, how participants came out, found each other, and built community with other young dykes, and how they navigated and survived discrimination from their families of origin, public schools, and straight classmates.

The Whistle documents and reveals both humorous and heartbreaking stories, often told by participants in the same breath. The director sought out to uncover the origin of the dyke whistle and found so much more in this important slice of New Mexico LGBTQ history.

Director: StormMiguel Florez, Annelise Ophelian

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