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“Who’s a lesbian?” In the opening scene of Go Fish, directed by Rose Troche, a group of young girls discuss lesbianism within pop culture, as they joke and laugh about the possibilities of some famous personalities becoming homosexual. Filmed with an artistic eye, Go Fish is a film that invites audiences to view the lives of a handful of lesbians living together, and their quests to find happiness through love. Issues on dress, hair, and the occasional heterosexual fling are also dealt with. This movie is intended for a lesbian audience, but even those who are not gay can appreciate the strength and pride that these women withhold.

Max, who is narrating the story, is a lesbian in search of a lover to call her own. She’s a younger girl, who is living with Kia, who is in a relationship with a Spanish girl named Evy. Evy is new to lesbianism, but she admits to Kia that, “I fell in love at first sight.” Eli and Daria are also part of the circle of friends, but they live in a different apartment.

Theoretically, all lesbians fall into two categories: butch, and femme. The butch is a woman who looks, dresses and desires like a man. A femme, on the other hand, is a woman who can be viewed as either gay or heterosexual by her appearance. Max is more likely to fall into the first category, with her tee shirts, big jeans, and baseball caps that she tucks her hair into. “I just want to fall in love with a beautiful girl,” Max says, indicating her preference for the femme girl. Eli is almost like Max. She wears drab, loose clothing, and her long, gray hair is braided. She seems to have a fashion sense of her own, which kind of sets her between the two categories because with her long hair, she looks like a pretty woman dressed down.

Lesbians are sometimes easy to spot due to appearances. Through the film, we see clips of the women trying their clothing on, tossing shirts on the floor, fixing their hair....