Curve articles from April 2001

Curve archives from April 2001

IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU!(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... It's been a few years since our last reader survey. Since then, we've been providing you with interviews, features and columns that you told us you wanted most. For example, last time you told us that although you love reading interviews with...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2001... BLAST FROM HER PAST Just wanted to thank you... [for "Our Favorite TV Lesbians" (Vol. 10, #8)]. A lot of people in my age group... relied on these characters and actresses to remind us that there are others out there like us and that it...

WHO KNEW?(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... WHEN CONNIE KURTZ AND RUTH BERMAN met at a mailbox in their Brooklyn neighborhood in 1959, they had no idea how much they would change and enrich one another's lives. The two young wives quickly became close friends. "We used to exchange...

Ask Fairy Butch.
April 1, 2001... DEAR FAIRY BUTCH: One of my sisters is a lesbian and we have known this for years -- no big deal at all. I am very loving and accepting of her, and all lesbians, for that matter. Here is my problem: My sister holds very angry feelings about me...

Tackling the Tough Issues.(a magazine for lesbians of color)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Issues the magazine for lesbians of color that debuted last spring, was a long time in the making, admits editor in chief Stephanie Daniels. First, Daniels talked about it, a lot -- soliciting advice, developing contacts and getting...

HEY! BABY.(Interview)
April 1, 2001... Dani Sander, 19, a student at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., is president of Common Ground, Bradley's GLBT and straight alliance. Gina DeVries baby dyke-in-residence, age 17 You've said that Bradley is a conservative campus. What...

LOVE THAT COUNTRY MUSIC.
April 1, 2001... How's a gay gal to reconcile her unrequited love with country music? It's easy to rekindle the flame when you look at the songs through lesbo-goggles. Turn your AM dial into a gold mine of lesbian favorites, with these actual titles, such...

Out on the Web.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Since the inception of the World Wide Web, adventuresome lesbians have been launching Web zines dedicated to creating a place for gay women to gather, share work and ideas, and post community news, rants, raves, reviews, and just about anything...

Love Through the Signs.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... ON MARCH 8, SEXY VENUS RETRACES red-hot steps in Aries. Be careful where you go poking around, unless you're ready for hard-core answers. Some may not be so pleasant. Pay attention to memories as they surface -- they'll be followed shortly by...

STRAIGHT TO VIDEO -- SORT OF.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2001... NOT EVERY HOT LESBIAN FILM HITS movie theaters -- or even film festivals, for that matter. Some of the funniest, hottest, or most absurd lesbian images are going straight to video. And we've got them all on rewind. TROIS (Columbia TriStar)...

ROAD TRIP TO ST. LOUIS.
April 1, 2001... GET READY FOR A WILD WEEKEND IN THE CITY THAT JUST KEEPS ROLLING ON THE RIVER So you say you're ready for a road trip to St. Louis. A bad-girl road trip, the kind that has you rolling into town just in time to hit the bars. You want to...

The Perils of Piki and Poko.
April 1, 2001... Imagine a world where evil candy canes can be outwitted with pink power skirts and magic marshmallow bunny force fields. Where changing your gender is as easy as popping a coin in a vending machine. Where a perky, pink-haired cheerleader and...

Finding Love Online.
April 1, 2001... How 12 lesbians shed their fears and took their love offline MARIA [*] RACED DOWN THE HIGHWAY. ANXIETY rode shotgun on the 10-hour drive to Jackie, a woman she'd never "met" but who she'd spent hours online with every evening for weeks. ...

MELISSA FERRICK SPEAKS FREELY.
April 1, 2001... The singer/songwriter talks about sex, sanity and her quest for love. On a chilly Saturday in December, Melissa Ferrick climbed behind the wheel of her massive maroon Suburban and drove west from her home near Boston to Northampton,...

Witnessing Donna Allegra: How One Woman Writes From Life.
April 1, 2001... After 25 years of writing, Donna Allegra knew she wanted her next project to be a collection of fiction -- about either female dancers or female construction workers. She just wasn't sure which would be more interesting. So after she made the...

Rumors from the Lesbian Nation.
April 1, 2001... A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE Gertrude Stein didn't stand for no pussyfootin' around. No, she was a no-nonsense gal. And when she put down her drink, put her finger to her nose and said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," you can be sure she was...

MY ROAD TO ACCIDENTAL ACTIVISM.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... I TURN 50 THIS YEAR. Yes, I'm one of those self-absorbed boomer types, endlessly fascinated with my collective history -- and there's no better time for looking forward or back. Being a boomer, I'm surrounded by countless others sharing a...

BIRTHING THOSE BOOKS.
April 1, 2001... IT'S BEEN A FEW YEARS in gestation, but the next wave in gay and lesbian publishing, that of books for and about queer patents, has finally arrived. This season we see the publication of four new significant books on the topic, all told from...

Speed Reading.
April 1, 2001... SHE IS A LESBO. A SCHOOLTEACHER who enjoys skeet-shooting and is into Wicca. She believes health care should be free to all and that Anita was telling the truth. She questions authority and she has auto insurance that leaves her in good hands....

Maternal Instinct.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... THE LESBIAN BABY BOOM HAS BECOME such an established part of the cultural landscape that if Kate Clinton isn't joking about it, David Letterman is. Each city has its lesbian-mom enclave: 30- and 40-something dykes with kids in row going from...

PJ Harvey.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea Island Records PJ HARVEY MAY CALL THIS "A HAPPY album," with such song titles as "This Is Love" and "Good Fortune," but those who know her music know better. Less dark and not as somber may be a...

Chicks on Speed.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases K Records www.kpunk.com CHICKS ON SPEED'S MUSIC IS "merging performance, graphic design and feminist/consumerist politics with the seemingly disparate sounds of early '80s New Wave... and...

Amy Ray.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Stag Daemon Records AMY RAY STARTED DAEMON RECORDS, an indie not-for-profit label solely spawned to seek and nurture underground talent that, in her words, "was ready for wider recognition." Nearly a dozen years after its inception and...

Natalie Cole.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Greatest Hits Volume / Elektra Entertainment IT'S A BIT OF A SURPRISE THAT IT has taken Natalie Cole this long to compile her hits, considering a three-decade-long career with 26 albums to boast. She's also sold more than 30 million records...