Curve articles from April 2002

Curve archives from April 2002

Playing for Keeps. (Frankly Speaking).
April 1, 2002... For me, learning boxing was like discovering the fountain of youth. I've always been naturally athletic -- I was a national skateboarding champ at the age of 8, and later I was a shot-put gold-medallist in the Junior Olympics. But I never felt...

Letters.
April 1, 2002... OUR PEACE DIVIDEND Just a very short note to let you know the December 2001 issue (Vol. 11, #8) of CURVE is the most insightful issue you have printed to date. The lesbian press ordinarily takes a great deal of criticism for shallow and...

Expecting greatness. (Out in Front).
April 1, 2002... To her readers, she's the ultimate authority on issues of lesbian and gay parenting. So it might come as a surprise that Michelle Darne and her partner, Kathleen Weiss, who launched And Baby magazine together last year, are not yet parents...

Ask Fairy Butch. (Curvatures).
April 1, 2002... Dear Fairy Butch: I just love your column! Excuse the expression, but you're a straight shooter. I've recently admitted to myself that I am gay. Here's my question, though. I'm afraid I may already know the answer, but here goes: I met a...

Anchors away. (Curvatures).
April 1, 2002... Your favorite funny girls are packing their bags to join 600 women aboard Olivia Cruises' first-ever Club Med Comedy Extravaganza April 27-May 4, 2002. The superstar lineup includes: Kate Clinton, Suzanne Westenhoefer, Marga Gomez, Karen...

Carrying the torch. (Curvatures).
April 1, 2002... Among the dozens of people carrying the torch in the coast-to-coast relay leading up to the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City was at least one our lesbian -- Terry Hayes of Chesapeake, Va. Nominated by her partner, Freda Routt, Hayes...

Hey! Baby.
April 1, 2002... Beatrice Sullivan, 17, has been involved with the Know Your Rights project for two years. She lives in Decatur, Ga. Gina DeVries baby dyke-in-residence, age 19 What is the Know Your Rights project? How did you become involved? The Know...

Out on the web. (Curvatures).
April 1, 2002... SINCE ITS INCEPTION, the World Wide Web has been a mishmash of information for most anything we desire (and plenty we could care less about). And, of course, much of the best information it has to offer relates to women. While there are gobs of...

Love through the signs. (Horoscopes).
April 1, 2002... CREATE THE RIGHT AMBIANCE in your boudoir and buy some new toys this March. It's a month of heightened pleasure. On the 1st, red-hot Mars warms up earthy Taurus. Touch and taste is No. 1 on the menu. Venus and Aries passionately embrace on the...

Mainlining Queer Cinema. (Sapphic Screen).
April 1, 2002... KISSING JESSICA STEIN Fox Searchlight Pictures http://216.133.243.67 Remember the rampant celebration of "Lipstick Lesbian" pop culture in the early 1990s? Well, get ready, girls -- here we go again. The mainstream film industry...

Howard and Dodge. (Q&A).(Silas Howard, Harry (Harriet) Dodge, film 'By Hook or By Crook')(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2002... QUEERCORE PUNK BAND LEADER Silas Howard and performance artist Harry (Harriet) Dodge are launching themselves onto the indie filmmaker scene with By Hook or By Crook, a "butch noir buddy film" that took them all the way to Sundance....

Suburban: Great gear for street-level style.
April 1, 2002... courtside Ball: Classic $35 Sunglasses: Style Eyes Silver $25 Watch: i-Control Indiglo by Timex $60 Sneakers: Spalding (White) $65 Headband (used as wrist band): Nike (Light Blue) $4.50 Top: Nike T-shirt (Light Blue)...

Tracy and the plastics. (Q&A).(Wynne Greenwood, music)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2002... WYNNE GREENWOOD, FORMERLY OF the video band Meme America, created the wacky band Tracy and the Plastics in 1999. Greenwood heads the band; Tracy and her videotaped personas, Cola the drummer and Nikki the keyboard player, are her sidekicks, the...

If looks could kill. (Brownworth).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... MY GRANDMOTHER used to say, "You must suffer to be beautiful." That statement seemed so definitive, I never asked for an explanation. The axiom did seem to cover a multitude of unpleasantness: leg-shaving, eyebrow-plucking, girdle-and...

Debunking Bed Death: Forget what you've heard about the curse of long-term lesbian couplehood. Sex is what you make it.
April 1, 2002... News flash: "A political, economic and social crisis has caused a large number of men to lose their sex drives." Or so it was declared in a January news story under the headline, "Oddly Enough," that described how a recession in Argentina has...

Light show: Neon artist Lili Lakich works magic with a familiar medium.
April 1, 2002... A military kid who attended fifth grade at six different schools, artist Lili Lakich spent a fair amount of her childhood looking up drowsily from the back seat of the family car. The horizon of her 1950s childhood sparkled in flamboyant...

Rumors from the Lesbian Nation. (Lesbofile).
April 1, 2002... PORTIA EATS SUSHI When Ally McBeal star Portia de Rossi was photographed in a tangled embrace with Francesca Gregorini at King's Road Cafe in Beverly Hills last year, the Globe, the Star and the National Inquirer all ran the racy photos...

Armchair Travelers. (In the Stacks).(six books)
April 1, 2002... IT'S A FACT THAT MOST OF US are not traveling as much as we used to. However, we can still be armchair travelers and fly off through the pages of books to places like Rwanda, Mongolia, Morocco, Turkey and Japan. A pair of books from Seal Press...

Trina Robbins. (Q&A).(women's comics)(Brief Article)(Interview)
April 1, 2002... WRITER AND CARTOONIST TRINA ROBBINS is making herstory left and right. Whether it's superheroines, goddesses, murderesses or commandoes, she's written about them. Robbins, who has been on the front lines of the underground comics movement since...

Lesbian Rights are Human Rights. (According to).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... IN 1591, A WOMAN NAMED Felipa de Souza was tortured and convicted by the Portuguese Inquisition in Brazil for having sexual relationships with other women. More than 400 years later, lesbians are still under attack. During June 2000 in Sri...

With friends like these. (Dyke Drama).
April 1, 2002... IS IT TIME TO SPRING-CLEAN your friendship closet? I'm lucky: I don't have much cleaning to do in my friendship closet. Years of writing this column and putting my buddies' affairs, transgressions and petty arguments on the record seem to...

Spring Fling. (Music Watch).
April 1, 2002... Kittie Oracle Artemis Records Metallica could learn a thing or two from this rock-steady triplet -- endurance, for one. How they hold that slamming metal rage and screaming rant on opening lick "Oracle," we'll never know. Just...