Curve articles from February 2003

Curve archives from February 2003

Spicing up Valentine's. (Frankly Speaking).
February 1, 2003... One of my favorite questions to ask my friends is this: "What was your best date ever?" Although it may be coincidence, I've started to spot a pattern in their answers. What I've noticed is that femme women tend to respond with the most...

Wedding belles. (Out in Front).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... When her daughter Kathryn announced she was marrying a woman, Gretchen Hamm embarked on a soul-searching journey. The result? "I knew what I would do if she were marrying a man--and I set that as my standard for her wedding to a woman. I...

Letters.
February 1, 2003... We Are Everywhere Thank you for highlighting a person of the growing number of genderqueers or bigendered in Hey! Baby (Vol. 12, #7). Many of us cannot identify as fully male or 'fully female and feel at odds with both the gay and the...

Ask Fairy Butch. (Curvatures).
February 1, 2003... Dear Fairy Butch: My girlfriend loves to be penetrated in the ass and the vagina at the same time, but I want to be able to kiss and touch her during the process. We've tried using a small dildo in her ass while I am inside her vagina, but...

Election Day wrapup. (Curvatures).
February 1, 2003... OK, SO THE END OF 2002 brought about Republican control of the House and Senate. Still, most voters nationwide chose to support equal rights for LGBT communities. Here's a comprehensive briefing on what happened last year. BALLOT...

Hurts so good. (Curvatures).(17th-century lesbian poetry)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Think you've got it bad this Valentine's Day? Try spending a lifetime writing love poems to the object of your affection, only to be persecuted for your intellectual curiosity and felled by a plague in a convent. Long before The Well of...

Yes officer, we have no lesbians. (Curvatures).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... This just in from the "HUH?" files: London's Gay and Lesbian Police Association has decided to drop the word "lesbian" from its title and is now called the Gay Police Association (GPA). After a three-month investigation into "whether the word...

Out on the Web. (Curvatures).
February 1, 2003... BLAME IT ON THE AFTERMATH OF the terror attacks, the downturn in the economy, or the continued influence of the religious right, but 2002, as most dykes know, was a turbulent time for relationships. The new year, however, brings hopeful...

Love throuqh the signs.
February 1, 2003... ON JANUARY 1, SLEEP IN LATE NEXT to your favorite warm body. Then feast on leftovers! Simultaneously, Mercury turns ret rograde in Capricorn, scrambling both plans and communication until the 22nd. On the 7th, romantic Venus laces up her hiking...

Dawn and Out With the Dolls (Indican).(Movie Review)
February 1, 2003... www.dolls-themovie.com Skip all the usual boys-with-guns crap at the thearer this month and catch Down and Out With the Dolls, a hilarious indie flick about an all-girl band trying to make it in the Portland rock scene. The movie follows...

Femme Fatale (Warner Brothers).(Movie Review)
February 1, 2003... www.femmefatalethemovie.com Perhaps you're worried it's Basic Instinct redux, or maybe you're just waiting to see it on video this spring. Regardless, it's a mistake nor to see Brian DePalma's edge-of-your-sear thriller Femme Fatale on the...

Director Nalini D.D. Cheriel. (Q & A).(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2003... Anderson-Minshall, Diane Screenwriter Nalini Cheriel (Deedee to her friends) has scores of fans -- most of them from her days as a rock drummer in Seattle. That's set to change with the release of Down and Out With the Dolls, a girl-power...

Dykes on DVD (Various Distributors). .(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... www wolfevideo.com Several new DVD rereleases this winter indicate that film technology has finally caught up with the gay cinema movement. First up is the pseudo-queer classic In Like Flint (Fox), the campy, '60s-era spy masterpiece in...

South Beach: The next new lesbian hot spot.
February 1, 2003... "More over, sister; the party's here now," said comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer as she sat down on my lap. "Don't tell my girlfriend, OK?" she added with a conspiratorial smile. We were lounging on a cushy velvet couch in the VIP room at...

Romancing the girl.
February 1, 2003... This Valentine Day, don't y we didn't tell you. The Curve guide to lesbian dating is here--from where to meet your next girl to what not to say and what to do once you find her. Where to Find Her It's like that line in Go Fish. She's...

Rumors from the lesbian nation. (Lesbofile).
February 1, 2003... Happy New Year, Homos! Flask forward to the probable, almost certain, future gossip headlines coming your way in 2003. You'll see top stories for the coming year here first: our predictions for the lesbian nation news in brief. Stewart...

Quote unquote.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... "I am a gay performer. I talk about queer life, and the majority of my work revolves around queer culture. How could I not be a gay performer? Just because I don't identify myself sexually as a lesbian or bisexual or anything doesn't mean that...

Women get with a world beat. (Music Watch).
February 1, 2003... Beth Orton Daybreaker Astralwerks What keeps Beth Orton's third release, Daybreaker, from falling into the "easy listening" category? Partly the re-appearance of the ultra-trendy Chemical Brothers, who inject an even heavier dose...

Hot new words for the new year. (In the Stacks).
February 1, 2003... Maura Spiegel and Lithe Sebesta Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History Workman $13.95 While not specifically lesbian--oriented, Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History will probably attract lesbian fans. It's the...

Reclaiming lesbian sexuality. (Brownworth).
February 1, 2003... On September 4, 2002, I was sexually assaulted. It was a hot, sun-drenched, late summer day backlit by an impossibly blue and near-cloudless sky. Midafternoon, my little street was deserted. I saw and heard no one--only birds and far-off...

Just another walking stereotype.
February 1, 2003... SO WHAT IF I DRIVE A FOUR-wheel-drive vehicle? "It's not a lesbian car," I hear myself whine to people who give me that knowing look when they see me get out of my vehicle for the first time. Well, it's not a lesbian car, but it is a gay...