Curve articles from December 2006

Curve archives from December 2006

Reality TV, lesbian style: cover girl Megan Morris is the latest hottie from a bevy of queer beauties who have graced the runway of America's Next Top Model, which just may be the gayest show on television.(Frankly Speaking)
December 1, 2006... As more and more lesbians find their way onto reality television shows, I can't help but wonder what affect their appearances are having on our community and on middle America. Obviously, reality television is far from real. It's edited and...

Got your back.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... In December 2005, my wife and I were evicted from our apartment by our homophobic landlord who refused to add my wife to my lease after we were married. We spent the next seven months moving around, and unfortunately our subscription to CURVE...

Play ball!(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... What a thrill to see Sheryl Swoopes on your cover (Vol. 16, #8). I've been a fan of hers since the 1996 Olympics and have followed her WNBA career. The interview was great. I hope she continues to play for the Comets, but I wish her the best in...

Crushing on Kristin.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... I enjoyed Kristin Chenoweth's character on The West Wing, (Vol. 16, #8) but boy, do I really adore her now! It's just pure pleasure to read about sincere, tolerant people. I'm not going to turn into a Christian any more than she's going to turn...

Taiwan loves us!(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... I'm living in Taiwan, and I love CURVE so much. Thank you for giving me a great magazine. Taiwan has very many gay people, especially in Taipei, where I live. There are also many lesbians. But we actually do not have a gay publication....

Thanks for the welcome wagon.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... I'm writing in response to Diane Anderson-Minshall's article on Gender 101 (Vol.16, #7) and the following articles on trans issues in your September 2006 issue. First, I want to say that I've been reading CURVE for the past two years and have...

Ack! Don't skip sex, girls!(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... Lipstick & Dipstick is my favorite column in CURVE. I find it amusing and insightful and usually agree with at least one of you. Unfortunately, I had a real problem with your advice to Energizer Bunny (Vol. 16, #8). To suggest masturbation for...

We want more, more, more.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... I think it would be cool if you interviewed Jackie Warner from Bravo's Work Out. She is a great role model and season one ended with her getting out of a bad relationship. It would be interesting to know where she gets her courage from,...

Keep it coming.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
December 1, 2006... I'm an Australian lesbian who loves your magazine. It is the most liberal minded magazine in the world for lesbians. Your articles and features on issues affecting the lesbian community are great, and always leave me speechless. I recommend...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
December 1, 2006... In the Curvatures section of our October issue (Vol. 16, #8) we neglected to give credit to Steve Azzara Photography for the photos of the T-shirts from bewild.com. CURVE regrets the error.

Serves 'Em right.(OutinFront)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Haven Herrin is the perfect candidate for the United States military. She graduated valedictorian from the University of Richmond, she's in great physical condition, she's patriotic, and by golly, even now, in wartime, Herrin is ready and...

Peanut and Pearls.(OutinFront)(Desiree Fitts' nickname and favorite)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Mom played drums, big brother played them too--so it's no wonder Desiree Fitts grew up with a passionate attachment to her set of Pearls. But keeping the rhythm was just the beginning for Fitts, who went on to teach herself keyboards, bass...

Womynswork.(OutinFront)(Womynswork Project gathering insights and stories about lesbian experiences)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... When girls say Beth Neff knows the best dirt, they're not talking about some insignificant gossip--Neff knows real dirt. For 25 years Neff worked as an organic vegetable farmer and an environmental activist, managing food cooperatives and...

Hello Jovida.(Curvatures)(Jovida Guevara-Ross )(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Congrats to Jovida Guevara-Ross who joined California's Community United Against Violence, the nation's oldest LGBT anti-violence organization, as its new executive director. Guevara-Ross, former associate director of the Women's Building in...

If this house is a rockin'.(Curvatures)(Buchanan social group)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Down South, traditions run deep. For years, lavish beauty pageants and dance competitions in Atlanta have often been hosted by gay black "houses," quasi-fraternities set up to offer a safe and cordial social meeting ground. Two women,...

Living separate lives.(Curvatures)
December 1, 2006... Judging by the press, Julie and Hillary Goodridge are the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes of the lesbian community; the two have been the focus of intense media scrutiny since they announced their separation back in July. One of seven couples...

Mark your calendars: it's sexy lesbian time.(Curvatures)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Finally, someone has created the perfect hot but not het pinup calendar and we expect they'll be dyke Santa's No. 1 stocking stuffer this month. The I Heart Brooklyn Girls 2007 pinup calendar offers real gay-girls-next-door from Brooklyn (yes,...

She said, she said.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... "The gay people I hang out with are extremely talented, and I seek out talented people, 'cause I have good ideas, but I can't do anything with my hands, so I latch onto people and can say, 'Hey can you make a snake out of a bandana,' and...

Tara McPherson: illustrator.(OpenStudio)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... "Sweetly creepy" may be the best way to describe Tara McPherson's illustrations, posters and paintings. "I love that dynamic because it creates a certain tension in the work to where you're drawn in, but conversely subtly repulsed," she says in...

Considering femme-ininity.(Curvatures)
December 1, 2006... Femmes, femmes everywhere--reading, teaching, shimmying, singing, making art, learning, unlearning, connecting and discussing. Close to 600 femmes, partners and allies gathered in San Francisco in August to convene Femme 2006: Conversations and...

Goodbye Jadine.(Curvatures)(Jadine Louie )(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The affable Jadine Louie has been making the best happen for the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band for more than a decade. Her tenure as the band's artistic director and conductor ended last September when she took the podium for the last...

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia: Marcia's mad, Rosie's back, and Eva wants us.(Lesbofile)(Marcia Cross, Rosie O'Donnell, Eva Longoria)
December 1, 2006... Vampire girls and verbal backpedaling. This month, who knows where we're being pulled? "Promiscuous" "I'm reading a book about Chinese medicine which claims all people are inherently bisexual to balance their energies," singer Nelly...

Tee A. Corinne: tribute to a great lesbian artist.(Curvatures)(Obituary)
December 1, 2006... Two days before my friend, lesbian artist Tee A. Corinne, died on Aug. 27, Jean Sirius' blog charting the progress of Corinne's brief but devastating bout with liver cancer noted the following: "Tee spent much of the day sleeping on the sofa,...

Scene.(Brief article)(Photograph)
December 1, 2006... 1 Girl power at Provincetown's Women's Week 2 Surfs up at P-town's Women's Week 3 Lizzy Acker (from left) with Curvettes Catherine Plato, Danie Belfield and Ondine Kilker, and writer Ariane Conrad 4 The emotional Fat-Bottom Mama's Benefat for...

Mom's ruining my love life.(Ask Fairy Butch)(Column)
December 1, 2006... Dear Fairy Butch: I'm in a new relationship with a woman I'm wildly attracted to. I've had plenty of sexual experience (I'm 38), but suddenly I feel like I've got no clue how to make love to a woman. My new girlfriend is very tight inside and...

A threesome or better tools?(Lipstick & Dipstick)(Column)
December 1, 2006... Dear Lipstick and Dipstick: My girlfriend and I have been together for nearly three years. We have tried almost everything in terms of sex. I need some new ideas.--Bored in Bethlehem Lipstick: My personal holiday favorite is the original...

Stargazing holidays.(Astro Grrl)
December 1, 2006... Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sex: It's all about you this December. Lesbian Archers are not only charismatic and charming, they are also bold, beautiful and ready for action. What a nice change of pace! Career: You don't really care if...

Definitive lesbian tees.
December 1, 2006... With a bold line of T-shirts emblazoned "Beaver," "Camp Sappho," "Lady Rebel," "Tipping the Velvet Cafe" and "Wildflower 69," you'd think designer Tracey M. Robinson, 39, of Jersey City, would have enough on her plate selling her wares and...

A week in Phoenix: it sizzles year round, so why wait for summer to visit this lesbian sunbird heaven?(Arizona)
December 1, 2006... I threw back the floor-to-ceiling blinds of my hotel room, expecting views of other hotel buildings, or perhaps a pool, and was thrilled to take in a sandy butte scattered with flowering cacti and mesquite trees. A delicious, hot breeze blew...

They're back Team Dresch 2.0: the hottest '90s dyke band is back--and they're all grown up.(THE YEAR IN DYKE MUSIC)(an interview with Team Dresch)(Interview)
December 1, 2006... Queer to the core before anyone ever coined the term "queercore," the 1994 release of Team Dresch's debut record, Personal Best, gave queer girls a soundtrack that would remain forever ensconced in the gay pantheon. But with a power so...

Canada's hottest export: The L Word introduced us to indie's next big heartbreak. The Organ is now the band U.S. dykes can't get enough of.(THE YEAR IN DYKE MUSIC)
December 1, 2006... "This is the best part of the song/where I admit that I might be wrong." I'm listening to "Brother," a track that opens Grab That Gun, the debut full-length CD from Vancouver, Canada's broody all-girl quintet the Organ. They're the kind of...

The next Sleater-Kinney: soon to be stars, Northern State is ideal for lesbians who like their hip-hop with a Ph.D.(THE YEAR IN DYKE MUSIC)(indie rock and rap bands)
December 1, 2006... It's one day before the beginning of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and Northern State has stopped off for a warm-up gig before exposing their special brand of literate girl rap to throngs of scantily clad females from all over the world....

Why do good things never wanna stay: after 11 years of indie rocking, our favorite riot grrls, the pioneering Sleater-Kinney, say goodbye.(THE YEAR IN DYKE MUSIC)
December 1, 2006... Count my heart among the many broken when Sleater-Kinney announced their "indefinite hiatus" last June. Despite initial optimistic delusions, we knew what this meant--we might as well replace "indefinite" with "permanent." After 11 years of...

The rabbi and her wife: a pioneering lesbian rabbi, her wife and the first queer synagogue in the world.(Beth Chayim Chadashim )
December 1, 2006... Beth Chayim Chadashim (Hebrew for "The House of New Life") is the oldest queer synagogue in the world. Inspired and supported by the Metropolitan Community Church--the inaugural Christian LGBT institution, founded in Los Angeles by Troy Perry...

71 of the best holiday gifts.(Buyers guide)
December 1, 2006... 'Tis the season when you desperately search for cool gifts for your friends and family without breaking your bank account--or heading to chain stores to buy what the hoi polloi have already purchased. CURVE's got your back with a bevy of fun...

Model citizen: America's Next Top Model kicked her off, but lesbian animator Megan Morris has a lot more in store for us.(Interview)
December 1, 2006... I've said it before but it's even truer now than it was just a year ago: the CW's America's Next Top Model is the gayest show on television. With a host of super gay men--including drag queen-turned-runway trainer "Miss J." Alexander and...

2006 Lesbian Theater Awards.
December 1, 2006... With so much emphasis on dykes in Hollywood, it's a surprise that the lesbians of theater get as little attention as they do. After all, it's our theatrical thespian sisters--not Tinseltown--who weave rich tapestries of queer, feminist,...

The stand-up storyteller.
December 1, 2006... Human behavior fascinates 37-year-old sociologist Kimberly Dark. She thinks other people are interested too, but they would never read a boring sociology text or journal. So she's turned her research into performance. "I don't write...

Another little piece of our hearts.
December 1, 2006... The idea of a musical based on the life of Janis Joplin was a little hard for me to swallow at first. Musical theater makes me think of Rodgers and Hammerstein, an army of scantily clad tap dancers and impossibly happy endings--in a word,...

Greta Garbo, Mi Amor.(my love)(Mercedes de Acosta's lover)
December 1, 2006... Were Mercedes de Acosta alive today, she would be a dream come true for lesbians and tabloids alike. Born in 1893, she was her era's version of a radical butch dyke: a short-haired, outspoken feminist who looked sexy in slacks. She was even a...

A look back at Miami: the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival feels a lot like a very sexy, queer version of Cannes. No wonder lesbians love it.
December 1, 2006... Most of the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival happens in the dark, but some of it goes on through the wee hours until sunlight floods the mini-bars of South Beach's countless boutique hotels. And while the eighth annual film fest last April...

The button pusher: lesbian director Katherine Brooks talks about making one of the year's most controversial films, Loving Annabelle.(Interview)
December 1, 2006... Katherine Brooks has gone from directing some of the most iconic and influential small-screen duos in history to writing and directing an award-winning feature about a bad girl sent off to Catholic school and the conflicted female teacher she...

Two directors, ten questions: lesbians helmed two of the year's most fascinating flicks. We chat up the women behind Fabulous! and The Gymnast.(Interview)
December 1, 2006... Dreya Weber, actor and producer of The Gymnast The aerial dance sequences are stunning. In a studio movie, stunt doubles would have done those scenes. How were they done in your film? All of the aerials in The Gymnast were performed by...

Music to our queer ears: from hip-hop to punk rock, these music docs rock our world.(Video recording review)
December 1, 2006... Whether she's into rap or rock, the music lover in your life will dig this month's picks. Pick up the Mic explores the thriving underground homohop scene, while Rise Above looks at the history of the iconic queercore band Tribe 8. Wherever your...

Ilil Alexander: filmmaker.(Q+A)(Interview)
December 1, 2006... Four years of hard work finally paid off for Israeli filmmaker Ilil Alexander, whose documentary Keep Not Silent won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2004. The film tells the stories of three Orthodox Jewish lesbians living in...

Veronica Precious Bonahan: spiritual poet, activist.(Q+A)(Interview)
December 1, 2006... Veronica Precious Bohanan is a Chicago-based spiritual poet, writer and activist illuminating the world with her first book of poetry and prose, Om: My Sistagyrl Lotus. As the pioneer of her own publishing company, UnSilenced Woman Press, half...

Gifts galore: try a little night music to warm up your holiday party.
December 1, 2006... Making a list, checking it twice, so many options! All the heavy hitters in the music world release new material at this time of year, but these three discs are highly recommended. Mind How You Go, Skye (Cordless) While I always...

Kaki King: musician.(Q+A)(Interview)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... Guitar goddess Kaki King has wowed fans across the nation with her unique style and jaw-dropping skill, building a reputation as a show-woman who promises to amaze you with her technical prowess. King takes a new stance on her current record,...

A need for speed: some girls just love things with wheels.(Tech Girl)(Buyers guide)
December 1, 2006... Even if you're a subway junkie, chances are good you've got some form of wheels in your life. We all know carpooling and hybrid vehicles are good, SUVs, well, not so much. But how's a dyke to choose the best from the rest? Here are a few of my...

Pick a cause--any cause will do: as the year draws to a close, it's time we all become the collective voice of peace and justice.(Politics)(Column)
December 1, 2006... As the year draws to a close, we don't need the endless fear-mongering by President George W. Bush or North Korea's Kim Jong Il or Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to tell us that the world is a very scary and volatile place. War, terrorism, torture,...

Discount dyke drama: the best things in life are free ... or maybe not.(Dyke Drama)
December 1, 2006... I once worked with a dyke who was so cheap she would have taken dick if it were free. When she entered the lunchroom, we would hunch over our food like wolves guarding a fresh kill because she treated our plates like her own personal buffet....

Top ten: reasons we love Lisa Myers.(Interview)
December 1, 2006... It's impossible not to love Lisa Myers, a not-suitable-for-children comedian with a quick wit and a foul mouth. Though you have to see her act to get the full effect, here's why she has such a loyal following. 1. She's dirty! X-rated and...