Curve articles from April 2003

Curve archives from April 2003

Taking the call. (Frankly Speaking).
April 1, 2003... It's a well-known fact in the entertainment industry that comedian Lily Tomlin is a take-charge woman who likes to be involved even in the smallest of details regarding her career. In the early 1990s, when we first invited Tomlin to interview...

Endorphin rush. (Out in Front).(women in sports)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Most of us consider it an accomplishment if we lace up gym shoes several times a week. Life partners Susan Murphy and Pamela Fletcher believe an endorphin rush should be loads more fun than that: "Susan and I get bored easily, admits Fletcher....

Letters.
April 1, 2003... Is there a difference? I'm writing in response to the letter to Fairy Butch from Tranny Girl in Tinsel Town (Vol. 12, #8). I think resistance by the lesbian community to accepting MTF trans individuals goes beyond cultural influences. In...

Ask fairy butch. (Curvatures).
April 1, 2003... I met a very dominant woman Friday night and if I hadn't been with my friends, I would have fallen to my knees and addressed her as Master. She told me her name and where she lived. Would it turn her off if I looked her up? I am new to this...

And the winners are. (Curvatures).(gay youth)
April 1, 2003... IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT IN SOME PARTS OF the world, love is just love. Two senior girls at Crete-Monee High School in Crete, Ill., were recently voted "cutest couple" by their classmates. And when the school administration dragged its feet,...

Hey! baby.(comic book artist Tanya Wicherath)
April 1, 2003... Tanya Wicherath, 18, is a queer comic-book artist from San Francisco who attends Moore College in Philadelphia. Gina DeVries What are your comics about? Two of my big projects are about pirates--I love pirates way more than is healthy!...

A new take on sitting "out" in gym class. (Truth and Consequences).(lesbian high school students)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... A lesbian teenager who was banned from the girl's locker room at her school in Banning, Calif., has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging bias. Ashly Massey, then a 14-year-old student at Coombs Middle School in Banning, Calif., a...

Not that we're counting or anything. (Truth and Consequences).(lebians in mass media)
April 1, 2003... Despite the fact that Ellen got her daytime talk show--she'll premier this September on many NBC affiliates nationwide--lesbians characters on primetime network television will remain a lonely, lonely bunch at least through next fall. Only ER's...

Sisters doin' it for ourselves (almost). (Out on the Web).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.sistertrip.com It's hard to believe there hasn't been more hype about this site, which showcases an extensive search engine for airfare, accommodations, and rental cars; dyke-specific articles that include gay-rights policies and...

Know before you play. (Out on the Web).(international sex laws)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... http://vatavia.net/laws http://www.geocities.com/Capito/Hill/2269/ When traveling to another state or country, you don't want to, er, get caught with your pants down without knowing the consequences. There still are sodomy laws on the...

How to take a city's pulse. (Out on the Web).(www.craigslist.org offers community information for 15 cities)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... www.craigslist.org During the dot-coin boom of the 1990s, a man named Craig Newmark literally transformed the lives of San Francisco residents when he launched a free, community-run bulletin board. Now up and running in over 15 cities,...

Love through the signs. (Horoscopes).
April 1, 2003... MARCH'S COSMIC HIGHLIGHTS: Rebellious Uranus jams into dreamy Pisces on the 10th, sparking a paradigm relationship shift. Pisces is one of the most romantic signs, but isn't always realistic. Uranus demands the truth and nothing but. Your...

Afternoon delights. (Sapphic Screen).
April 1, 2003... AFTER BIG-BUDGET FILMS WITH mere glimpses of lesbians--Salma Hayek's Frida and Nicole Kidman's The Hours--it's refreshing to see quirkier dyke fare is our there, from after-school specials to African musicals to ass-kicking anime. ...

Erin Greenwell. (Q & A).
April 1, 2003... The film has an after-school special feel. Was that intentional? Yes and no. I love traditional story lines because they are accessible to everyone. So I did write a very nostalgic coming-of-age, first-love story, but it starred a lesbian...

Finding the dykes: ...with only an open phone book. (Get out there, Already!).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... In the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I traveled to various locations in the United States about once a month for business, I often made a game for myself of finding local lesbian culture using only the tools available to me in my hotel...

Safe haven. (Get out there, Already!).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Is it illegal to discriminate in public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression? In most places, yes! But jurisdictions in some parts of the country have got your back. Here's where your rights to...

Traveling light. (Get out there, Already!).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Creative ideas for those times when you've just got to get out of town but need to hang onto your wallet. Pitch a tent. Who wants to stay at a grungy roadside motel, anyway? (Best bet: Pick a public campground, such as a national park,...

Across the border. (Get out there, Already!).
April 1, 2003... I mostly traveled alone in Mexico, City, and I always had some anxiety about reaction, to my appearance as a butch lesbian. Sometimes, I was perceived instead as a teenage boy, which was easier, but potentially dangerous if I was found out. ...

Are you going to Michigan? (Get out there, Already!).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Maybe it's political, maybe it's subjective, maybe it's totally arbitrary--but whatever your reasons, chances are you have an opinion one way or another on whether the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is for you. Hell Yeah Hell No...

Do something different. (Get out there, Already!).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... You've done Provincetown, Michigan and the Dinah Shore. You've eaten beignets in New Orleans and sunned on Sappho island. Stumped for ideas for your next adventure? Here are 10 off-the-beaten-track trips that are sure to invigorate your mind,...

Sleeping trouble: one bed. Two women. Please. (Get Out there, Already).
April 1, 2003... Between packing, getting to the airport, going through airport security, locating luggage and finding the hotel, I would guess that even the travel pros break a swear from time to time. But for me, the stress doesn't end when I arrive at my...

Where we're calling from. (Get out there, Already!).
April 1, 2003... Quick facts on where we go and what we like to do. Top month to travel for lesbians: October We love to go abroad--61% of us took at least one international vacation in the last year. 1. San Francisco 2. New York City 3....

Rumors from the Lesbian nNtion. (Lesbofile).
April 1, 2003... Bombs Away Angelina Jolie, 27, is still raising eyebrows with her wild, wild ways. The bisexual Tomb Raider beauty is busy mine-sweeping Cambodia to build a home for herself and her adopted Cambodian son, Maddox. Angelina, who served as a...

Quote unquote.
April 1, 2003... "I can't think of anybody I'd rather be doing a love scene with than Wendy. The moments when you feel a little uncomfortable, you can have a good laugh. It was much more comfortable than many love scenes I've done with guys." Leslie Hope,...

Ivan E. Coyote. (Notes from Far-Flung Places).(One Man's Trash)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... One Man's Trash Arsenal Pulp Press $13.95 What is my fascination with Ivan E. Coyote? May be it's that she was a member of Taste This, the collaborative that put together Boys Like Her a few years ago. Or maybe it's because the photo...

Francesca Lia Block. (Notes from Far-Flung Places).(Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year HarperResource $16.95 Francesca Lia Block will be known to many CURVE readers as the author behind the Weetzie Bat books, a series of punkish, queer-friendly novels that helped revolutionize...

Gloria E. Anzaldua and AnaLoulse Keating, eds. (Notes from Far-Flung Places).(This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation Routledge $24.95 Many CURVE readers will remember 1981's This Bridge Called My Back, a ground-breaking anthology of the voices of women of color that became a staple of...

Lynn Breedlove. (Q & A).(Interview)
April 1, 2003... Lynn Breedlove is the lead singer of the lesbian punk band Tribe 8. Her first novel, Gods peed, out in paperback this April from St. Martin's Press, tells the story of the drug-using, punk-rocking, lesbian bike messenger Jim. Breedlove recently...

Grabbing the knob. (Dyke Drama).(advice on coming out)
April 1, 2003... BEING PRESSURED TO COME OUT? By friends, a lover, or yourself? If I were to write this column a decade ago, which I did, my advice would have been different, which it was. Back then, it was all about social responsibility and pride in your...

Tipping the Velvet. (Soft, Sweet Sounds).(Sound Recording Review)
April 1, 2003... CD41 (UK) This title may be familiar to CURVE readers, seeing that the CD is inspired by the historical fiction of the same name. A passionate, well-written lesbian love story, the book takes you right onto the vaudeville stages with...

Tracy Chapman. (Soft, Sweet Sounds).(Let It Rain)(Sound Recording Review)
April 1, 2003... Let It Rain Elektra Tracy Chapman's sixth studio effort, Let It Rain, follows two years of musical silence from the "Fast Car" folk pop icon. With a new producer (borrowed from PJ Harvey), Chapman is still Chapman, only wiser....

The Donnas. (Soft, Sweet Sounds).(Spend the Night)(Sound Recording Review)
April 1, 2003... Spend the Night Atlantic Though the Donnas have been signed over to a megalabel, we won't begrudge them their luck. We will, however, point our that the girls look a little cleaner. Bye-bye, New York Dolls meet grunge. We can deal...

Dee Dee Bridgewater. (Soft Sweet, Sounds).(This Is New)(Sound Recording Review)
April 1, 2003... This Is New Verve Records As if taking "Dear Ella," her tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, on the road for four years were nor enough for Dee Dee Bridgewater, she has now accomplished another jazz fere. Comprised entirely of music by Kurt Weill,...

Compilation. (Soft Sweet, Sounds).(Being Out Rocks)(Sound Recording Review)
April 1, 2003... Being Out Rocks Centaur What a sweet compilation this is. Without even burning a CD, you get a collection of favorites all on one, serving our cause. To benefit the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, Being Out Rocks features a...

Demons and killers. (Brownworth).(Aileen "Lee" Wuornos)
April 1, 2003... I FIRST HEARD OF AILEEN "LEE" Wuornos, known for over a decade as America's first female serial killer, when I was working as a reporter in 1990. I read a squib that came over the Associated Press wire. Lee, a prostitute who worked from cars on...