Those of in the know—we who lived through the seismic event that was If These Walls Could Talk 2 on HBO—have been aware of Chloë Sevigny’s sapphic game for quite some time now. But thanks to a new, butchtastic cover shoot for The Cut, a whole new generation is learning what so many of us already knew. Butch Chloë Sevigny is not only amazing, but canon.

As the ultimate cool girl, she’s never fallen out of fashion, but she has been experiencing something of a renaissance of late. Her cameo in Charli XCX’s 360 video reminded us that she laid the important groundwork for Brat Summer decades ago, and the recent Cut cover story, which celebrates Sevigny’s 50th birthday, shows us that you can be brat at any age.

But for those of you who arrived late, here’s a crash course in gay Chloë. In 2000, she played a hot stud courting Michelle Williams in the made-for-HBO sequel If These Walls Could Talk 2. One year earlier, she played doomed trans teen Brandon Teena’s girlfriend in Boys Don’t Cry. Later on, she’d play recurring sapphic characters on “Will and Grace,” “Portlandia,” and the unfortunately transphobic trans hitwoman drama “Hit or Miss.”

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And let’s not forget her role in 2005’s Broken Flowers, which was gay as blazes.

And for those of you pointing out that there’s already a TikToker doing butch Chloë—honestly that’s nothing compared to the real thing.

Futch realness? She invented it.

Turning us gay since 1999.

You’ll always be a butch legend to us, Chloë. Never forget it.

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