Curve articles from December 2003

Curve archives from December 2003

On a different note.(Frankly Speaking)
December 1, 2003... Meshell Ndegeocello isn't big on granting interviews. She'd rather keep to herself and just create her music. Consequently, it's been nine long years since we last interviewed her for our cover, and a lot has happened since 1994. For starters,...

Foot loose.(Out in Front)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... One weekend each December, commuters in San Francisco may notice a strange phenomenon occurring as they board the city's public transportation. Men in fairy costumes, businesswomen in tiaras, families--queer and straight--clad in an assortment...

Girls defy blackout.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... Last summer, I had the opportunity to visit the fine city of new York to see an Indigo Girls show--on the day of the big blackout! Having waited hours in line with several hundred other fans, we had little idea of the full scale of the...

A port in the storm.(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... Thank you for printing Thea Hillman's "Reshaping the Vagina Monologue" (Vol. 13, #6) and Victoria Brownworth's "The Legacy of Identity" (Vol. 13, #4). Your magazine is one of the most open and inclusive voices out there, in this increasingly...

On the other hand ...(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... A couple of years ago, I told my mother to give my girlfriend a subscription to your magazine as a gift. For two years, I have flipped through your magazine when it arrives. This year, I am going to find a couple of music or riotgrrl fanzines...

Invisible Amelie.(letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... I'm very disappointed in Victoria Brownworth's article "The Game's the Thing" (Vol. 13, #6). There is a photo of Amelie Mauresmo, and not only is the photo not labeled, but there is not one word about her in the whole article! The tennis...

Haute coiffure.(ask fairy butch)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Dear Fairy Butch, I come to you with a somewhat embarrassing issue of the sexual sort. My girlfriend and I have been together for six months and we're head-over-heels in love. Both of us are committed to making our relationship work, in...

Helping queer teens shake the habit.(curvatures)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... NO BUTTS ABOUT IT--QUEER TEENS use tobacco products at more than one and a half times the rate of their heterosexual peers. That's according to a new study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the survey takers...

Hey! baby.(pornographic Internet site)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... How does Thatstrangegirl.com differ from other porn sites? In contrast to more "mainstream" porn, my site features a diverse range of models--there's no one "look" or unifying theme. They represent a variety of body types, ethnic backgrounds...

Try a little tenderness.(Truth and Consequences; advertising same-sex vacations)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... London gay men and lesbians planning a Caribbean vacation will need to look a little further than their local Tube stop for ideas. For the second time this year, the Caribbean resort chain Sandals has had its ads turned away from the London...

Border patrol.(Truth and Consequences; US refusal to admit Canadian gay couple)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A Canadian gay couple has been turned away by U.S. customs and immigration officers after trying to enter the country as a married twosome. Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, who were the first gay couple to legally wed in Canada after the Ontario...

Can you say overkill?(Truth and Consequences)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Mirroring national efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, right-wingers in Michigan, which is just minutes away from Canada, are scrambling to prevent what they fear could be a contagious bout of same-sex marriage....

Nature or nurture?(Truth and Consequences; state sponsorship for turning homosexuals heterosexual)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A lawmaker in Brazil has been working on a bill that would provide state services for people wanting to convert from homosexual to heterosexual. Edino Fonseca, a deputy from Rio's Prona area, says, "Nobody is born homosexual.... My project is...

A new reason to fight the blues.(Truth and Consequences)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... A study published in Archives of General Psychiatry has found that depression can contribute to the early onset of menopause. Doctors at Harvard Medical School found that women with a history of depression tend to enter perimenopause (the years...

True convictions.(out on the web)
December 1, 2003... 'TIS THE SEASON TO EXPLORE NEW ways of celebrating your beliefs. Virtual Chutzpah www.jewcy.com Once in a kosher moon there comes a Web site so assured in its mission that what it lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in...

It's about time.(horoscopes)
December 1, 2003... AH, THE HOLIDAYS. THAT TIME OF year when we put so much thought into making others happy that we hardly even notice our inner child, screaming at us to just make it all go away. The overeating, the overspending, the overdecorating. What fun....

Give the gift of gay TV.(sapphic screen)
December 1, 2003... LAST SEASON, IT SEEMED EVERY reality show--from Amazing Race to America's Top Model--had a lesbian in its cast, but this season, dykes are scant on television. Sure, Marin Hinkle plays Jon Cryer's lesbian ex-wife on CBS's Two and a Half Men,...

Orly Ravid.(Q&A)(Interview)
December 1, 2003... Israeli-born, Manhattan-raised Orly Ravid, 32, arrived in Los Angeles intent on selling a screenplay about a lesbian Palestinian freedom fighter. She failed. But from that effort came a career in film distribution and marketing, for her own...

Sin city finally gets its reputation back: Las Vegas, NV.
December 1, 2003... VEGAS IS FOR ADULTS AGAIN. AFTER years of trying to change its image, the city is again embracing the term "Sin City." And as Vegas morphs back into the adult playground it once was, hotel-casinos like Treasure Island have adjusted to fit...

When we're 64: the first wave of baby boomers are about to become seniors. And they're changing the face of LGBT retirement.
December 1, 2003... TWO YEARS AGO, BERTIE HALPERN SLIPPED ON some ice, fell on the pavement and broke her shoulder. But the physical pain, she says, was nothing compared to the heterosexist hospital environment, complete with an X-ray technician whose opposite-sex...

Holiday gift guide.
December 1, 2003... Holiday gift guide. Need a hint about what she's getting this year? We've combed the catalogs, Scoured the specialty shops and rummaged around on the Web to find the best ideas ever for your special someones. (We even added two new...

Get comfortable: a Q&A with Meshell Ndegeocello.(Interview)(Cover Story)
December 1, 2003... With the release of the lyrical Comfort Woman this fall and the instrumental Dance of the Infields next month, Meshell Ndegeocello is once again in the spotlight. A cozy conversation with the funky soul diva herself. Ever since she was...

What's cooking: lesbian chefs share their favorite recipes for holiday feasts.
December 1, 2003... What's cooking? What does a professional chef like to cook when she's at home in her own Kitchen? You'd be surprised. From comfort food to showy stacked creations, Three talented chefs share their favorite recipes so you can make something...

That's amore.(lesbofile)
December 1, 2003... GOODNESS GRACIOUS, GIRL, WHY have you been dawdling so long when you could be in here with Miss Georgia, catching up on all the important things in life? Like who's kissing whom, and who's not kissing whom and who's calling whom "woo-hoo" at a...

Qoute unqoute.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... "Joyce and I have both been surprised by how changed we feel. After exchanging vows, we spent the weekend in Toronto, giving us a chance to test-drive being newlyweds in a wonderfully accepting city. We stopped calling each other 'partner' and...

Comeback chicks.(music watch)(Sound Recording Review)
December 1, 2003... Pat Benatar Go Bel Chiasso Records Pat Benatar was the '80s queen of rock. Period. So much so that "Shadows of the Night" and "Heartbreaker" were synonymous with late-night cruising and neon-lit skating rinks. The 11-track Go is...

Not even a mouse.(dyke drama)
December 1, 2003... 'TIS THE SEASON, MY ASS! NOTHING. That is what everybody is getting from me this year. In fact, the people in my life will be lucky if this year I don't steal something from them. The Grinch will look like the prince of peace himself after...

Red-hot winter reads.(in the stacks)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Katherine V. Forrest, Ed. All in the Seasoning: And Other Holiday Stories Spinsters Ink $14 Linda Alvarez Dyke the Halls: Lesbian Erotic Christmas Stories Circlet Press $12 What would the Christmas season be without a few queer holiday...

Daphne Gottlieb.(Q&A)(Interview)
December 1, 2003... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB'S NEW POETRY COLLECTION FROM SOFT SKULL Press, Final Girl, takes the central female figure of the classic slasher flick--the woman who survives until the last scene, either to kill or to be killed--and refigures her...

My parents are homos.(according to)
December 1, 2003... MY PARENTS ARE THE WORLD'S biggest homos. And I love them for it. Of course, I mean "homo" in the loving, nonderogatory sense of the word. And it's undoubtedly the most accurate description for the two people responsible for creating who...

The gift of giving.(brownworth)
December 1, 2003... MY CLOSE FRIENDS JOKE THAT I begin preparations for Christmas sometime in August. Of course, it would be a joke if only it weren't actually true. Like a fifth of American children, I grew up poor. The clothes I wore came from the...