Curve articles from August 2000

Curve archives from August 2000

COMING INTO HER OWN.
August 1, 2000... When was coming out at the dawn of the 1990s, the name Sinead O'Connor was synonymous with rebellion. Her bald head and defiant lyrics set the tone for a notorious cross-continent career. Over and over again, I listened to Sinead's album I Do...

queer stock.
August 1, 2000... DORIA ROBERTS IS AN OUT, Atlanta based musician who has produced three independent projects to date Her fourth album, a collection of political songs is scheduled for release on Election Day in November. For Doria Roberts having her own record...

Letters.
August 1, 2000... A DECADE AND COUNTING Congratulations on your 10th anniversary! (Vol. 10, #3) I have been a loyal reader of CURVE since its inception as DENEUVE and watched it grow in excellence throughout the years. As a fellow publisher... I can say...

Ask Fairy Butch.
August 1, 2000... DEAR FAIRY BUTCH: I want to try out some toys with my girlfriend to spice up our sex life. The only problem is that there is just no way I'm going to go into one of those creepy stores I see in the little town I live in. I also checked out the...

Out on the Web.
August 1, 2000... AMY RAY'S DAEMON RECORDS What the Daemon Records site (www.daemonrecords.com) lacks in bells and whistles, it certainly makes up for in terms of content about genuine musical talent. (Not a bad trade-off, if you ask me.) You may already...

HEY! BABY.
August 1, 2000... Jesse Ryan, age 16, is a peer health counselor at the Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Netowrk. She lives in Jacksonville, Fla. Gina DeVries baby dyke-in-residence, age 16 What kind of work do you do as a peer counselor on safe...

SEX ... PASSION ... REVENGE.
August 1, 2000... "IT'S THAT MOMENT WHERE THE passion overpowers all your thoughts and you go for it," says Odalys Nanin, commenting on a crucial scene in the first all-female production of Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding. Lorca's...

CHANGING THE FACE OF OUR HEALTH.
August 1, 2000... WHAT RANKS AS THE #1 KILLER OF WOMEN? If you answered "breast cancer," count yourself in the majority of folks who are misinformed about women's health. (Heart disease is the leading killer of women.) Actually, it's no wonder so many...

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.
August 1, 2000... EVERYONE KNOWS THERE ARE NO ORIGINAL IDEAS on screen these days -- no matter what they say about American Beauty. But lesbian-themed films, once the bastion of coming-out stories and suburban housewife woes, have diversified as of late and in...

HIP-HOP HER.
August 1, 2000... Women Take Over the Underground Scene "WHEN A QUEEN STEPS TO THE MICROPHONE all she wants from you is silence," raps Los Angeles underground hip-hop artist Medusa. With her profound lyrics and looks, it's easy to see why some call her the...

No Man's Woman.
August 1, 2000... IRELAND'S BAD GIRL, SINEAD O'CONNOR, COMES FULL CIRCLE ON RELIGION, POLITICS AND LOVING WOMEN When Sinead O'Connor hit the pop culture radar in the late 1980s, she was a bald-headed, controversy-courting, angry banshee whose vocal...

Written All Over You.
August 1, 2000... A Conversation with Katherine Forrest AFTER CLIMBING WAY TOO MANY STEPS UP THE SIDE OF THE HILL LEADING to Katherine Forrest's San Francisco home, I stood gasping on the porch of one of the best-known lesbian writers around -- and it...

Rumors from the Lesbian Nation.
August 1, 2000... Well you might as well call this my "postcards from the edge" missive to you, sweet peaches. My gossiphounding travels have taken me all over this great big lesbian nation of ours, sisters, and I'm here to tell you all about it -- well, at...

A MIXED BAG OF BOOKS.
August 1, 2000... IT SEEMS LESBIANS CAN'T GET enough of astrological advice, and I'm certainly no exception to the rule. So, of course, Herscopes: A Guide to Astrology for Lesbians, by Charlene Lichtenstein (Fireside $12) was the first book I grabbed from the...

12 STEPS AND THEN SOME.
August 1, 2000... LIKE MANY LESBIANS of my 40-something generation, I came of age in gay bars that were the focus of my social life for nearly two decades. I started going to the bars at 14 and spent most weekends and many week nights in bars and clubs until I...