Curve articles from December 2000

Curve archives from December 2000

Playing Claus For Paws.
December 1, 2000... Your cat or dog already has a luxurious fur coat, so you'll need to be more resourceful this holiday season when buying for that pampered per of yours. With this in mind, we dug up some items to help you spoil your friend in style. Perhaps no...

"Can We Quote You on That?".
December 1, 2000... "When I was first elected to office in 1986 [to the Dane County Board of Supervisors], there were around 16 openly gay or lesbian elected officials in the nation. I knew all of them. Today, there are close to 200, and that is obviously a...

QUEERING PRIME TIME.
December 1, 2000... AFTER ELLEN WAS CANCELED, television critics far and wide prophesied that the prime-time landscape would be pretty hetero for years to come. But if a chubby, oft-naked, gay Survivor proved anything, it was that the critics were all wrong. Now...

FANTASY ISLAND ADVENTURES ON OAHU.
December 1, 2000... Naked hula girls didn't greet me at the airport in Honolulu. As far as I can tell, naked hula girls don't greet anyone at the airport. Too bad for me, because my favorite Hawaiian fantasy has always involved: a) hot women throwing flowers...

Labors of Love.
December 1, 2000... Winter had arrived, the streets outside were adorned with white lights, and Gillian, overcome with the holiday spirit, was suddenly inspired to bake something special for her girlfriend. It started out simply enough, but Gillian and Emily...

ALL HER BEST.
December 1, 2000... A Conversation with Actress Mariel Hemingway BEFORE CLAIRE OF THE MOON, before Desert Hearts, there was Personal Best, the story of a young hurdler who falls in love and finally comes into her own amid the dramatic backdrop of the 1976...

Our favorite TV lesbians.
December 1, 2000... It's how they walked, how they talked, how they dressed and how they looked. Somehow, we knew, just knew. "That tomboy on the new sitcom? She's 'really' a lesbian. The brooding misfit on the Sunday night drama? She's got a secret." And no...

Rumors from the Lesbian Nation.
December 1, 2000... WHAT THE HELL is going on in Lesboland? Is every lesbian couple breaking up, or what? First Ellen and Anne, then Melissa and Julie. Who's next? I know Ellen is our role model and everything, but really, girls. We don't have to follow her every...

TURN THE PAGE.
December 1, 2000... IT'S TIME AGAIN to turn the page on the old year and welcome in the new. And what better way to do that than with a new calendar? Two we especially love are annual favorites We'Moon Almanac and the Witches Datebook, both in datebook format....

DOING THE FAT GIRL SHIMMY.
December 1, 2000... NOT LONG AGO, I WENT TO THE CONVENTION of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (www.naafa.org). As soon as my voluptuous friend and I sat down in the hotel lobby, a photographer from the New York Times wanted to take our picture....

Homos Crash Suburbia.
December 1, 2000... What on earth is making us head for the hills or, rather, the strip malls of America? This is the question I pondered recently. It seemed as if every time I turned around, another lesbian couple was packing it in and going to parts unknown...

In the Bag.
December 1, 2000... Dar Williams The Green World Razor & Tie Entertainment www.razorandtie.com/da WHEN WE THINK "FOLK" and "women" in the same breath, Mitchell and Baez come to mind. But Dar Williams may be a new breed of women folk artists,...

A DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS STORY.
December 1, 2000... IT BEGINS AROUND HALLOWEEN and moves into high gear by Thanksgiving. You know what I'm talking about -- the Christmas pressure. True, political correctness (not to mention recognition of a whole new market) has added Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and even...