Curve articles from June 2000

Curve archives from June 2000

"FAMILY" PORTRAITS.
June 1, 2000... And, the results are in! This year, we took a different approach to our annual Lesbian Life photo contest. In the past, although we hadn't actually specified any categories, we tended to notice that certain themes repeated themselves. Women...

Letters.
June 1, 2000... MORE FOR THE GILLIAN FILES I was so thrilled to see Gillian Anderson on your cover (Vol. 10, #2). She has done some fantastic work for the gay and lesbian community which has been overlooked for far too long.... In addition, she is...

Ask Fairy Butch.
June 1, 2000... DEAR FAIRY BUTCH: I am an ultraFemme, Lipstick Lezzie, etc. -- you know what I'm getting at. For months I have been trying to find a comeback to comments from my heterosexual friends, especially since most of my friends are straight. They...

Out on the Web.
June 1, 2000... CHICKS WITH CLICKS Chickclick.com is a playful, smart collection of sharp-tongued humor, well-written articles on women and lesbians, advice on everything under the sun, and a growing list of other goodies. One recent feature touched...

HEY! BABY.
June 1, 2000... What is your personal definition of drag? I guess most people think of drag performance as getting up and lipsyncing in front of an audience with socks in your pants (or bra, as the case may be), but I think "drag performance" could also...

REPORT CARD ON HATE.
June 1, 2000... THE NATIONAL COALITION OF ANTIVIOLENCE PROGRAMS (NCAVP), a network of 25 community-based organizations, recently released a report documenting anti-lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual violence in 1999, and it looks like we've got a long way...

THE BROKEN TALE OF A LOST WOMAN.
June 1, 2000... The latest theater production from the award-winning team of out lesbians Amy Pivar, Paula Kimper and Frieda Rosen, Broken Tale of Mouse, premiered May 9 as a part of the Women at Wings Lesbian Play Series in New York City. The play,...

Love Through the Signs.
June 1, 2000... YOUR HEART IS ALL EARS IN JUNE. Croon, swoon, gaze at the moon. Trust your instincts. Watch jealousy -- it'll stall you out at the altar of love. On the 2nd, the New Moon stirs up your curiosity. Take a class. Read a book Go to a lecture. It's...

EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL.
June 1, 2000... "I THINK ONE OF THE PROBLEMS is that no one is quite clear on who the teen girl is," insists Diana Williams, assistant director of Clueless. "Are they all about Prada, Jane magazine, and Dawson's Creek? Or are they the sports jock who wants...

PARIS IN OUR BACKYARD.
June 1, 2000... Can't afford Paris this year? Here's a tip: Head north to Old Montreal, in the French speaking province of Quebec, for a little bit of French-Canadian charm. Old Montreal is an ideal place for a honeymoon, a sexy romp or a serene singles'...

Rumors from the Lesbian Nation.
June 1, 2000... I'M STILL CATCHING MY BREATH after all that marching on Washington, brunching on U Street, sashaying through AfterGroove. I tell you, I've never seen so much Lambda in all my life. The Millennium March on Washington for Equality brought more...

BOOKS BY THE BI.
June 1, 2000... BOOKS ON BISEXUALITY HAVE been piling up on my bedside table, so now they'll finally get their due. Let's start with the recently released paperback by Marjorie Garber, Bisexuality and The Eroticism of Everyday Life (Routledge $21), originally...

CAN I JUST SAY HOW MUCH I LOVE MICHELLE TEA?
June 1, 2000... She's a fierce and feisty San Francisco dyke writer who's also one of the founders of Sister Spit, a nationally known troupe of lesbian performance artists. Valencia (Seal Press $13), named after a dyke-populated street in San Francisco,...

Out of Town, Out of Mind.
June 1, 2000... IS IT THAT TIME OF YEAR ALREADY? Gay Pride day again, ugh. I would be so proud if just one year I could go into a Pride weekend happy and well adjusted. And I would be the proudest of the proud if I could get to one parade on time and one...

Deceiving Images.
June 1, 2000... Noe Venable No Curses Here Intuition Records IF YOU'RE PLANNING ON lumbering across some dusty highway on your way to somewhere, U.S.A., you might want to take two journeys, one with wheels on road, the other with Noe Venable in...

THE PRIDE MARKET.
June 1, 2000... PRIDE It's been 31 years since the Stonewall Rebellion in late June 1969, gave birth to our modern queer movement. I was a teenager then, a high school fresh(wo)man and newly out lesbian at a time when being out was as dangerous as it was...

From Folk-Singer to Salad-Spinner.
June 1, 2000... Our favorite all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer is now a Tupperware lady? Some would say it's a stretch, but it's all in a day's work now for Phranc, composer of songs like "Bulldagger Swagger" and "I'm Not Romantic." Now the circuit...