Curve articles from June 2003

Curve archives from June 2003

I love my gay TV! (Frankly Speaking).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Every other Sunday night, my neighborhood lesbian book club congregates in someone's living room over Chinese food to discuss the latest in women's literature. Sometimes we spend an entire evening debating which book to read next. But, in 1999,...

The candidate. (Out in Front).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Born in San Francisco to working-class parents from Mexico, Susan Leal says she wanted as a child only to grow up and play for the San Francisco 49ers football team. "It wasn't until I was 8 or 9 years old that it began to dawn on me that it...

Letters.
June 1, 2003... Vermont Is for Lovers In your April issue (Vol. 13, #2), you mention Vermont as a great vacation spot to go tie the knot. A wonderful idea, indeed! February 2003 was actually the three-year anniversary of the passage of Vermont's great...

When friends take lovers. (Ask Fairy Butch).
June 1, 2003... Dear Fairy Butch: I'm a 22-year-old gay male, not a lesbian, but I read your column all the time. What a great asset you are to the world of advice columnists! Here's the deal. My best friend in the whole world and I have been tight since...

Pride 2003. (Curvatures).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... CURVE IS BACK ON THE ROAD THIS SUMMER AND appearing at a Pride or women's event near you! Curious to meet some of the women behind your favorite magazine? In the mood for yummy CURVE goodies, including special issues, giveaways and prizes? Stop...

Truth and consequences. (Curvatures).
June 1, 2003... Don't Kiss, Don't Tell Lesbians around the world cheered when Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore each shared a Sapphic smooch in The Hours, but some audiences in southeast Asia will enjoy only the long looks and awkward...

Hey! Baby.(Interview)
June 1, 2003... Theresa Hernandez, 19 (along with Rachel BoldenKramer, 19), is the co-producer/director of Queer Geography: Mapping Our Identities, a short documentary that explores the lives of four queer youth in the San Francisco Bay area. Previous to...

A breed apart. (Out on the Web).
June 1, 2003... PRIDE IS HERE, AND IT'S TIME TO cruise -- cyberspace, that is, where you'll find the latest in parties, demonstrations and like-minded communities. The Stronger Sex www.dykemarch.org In 1993, activists visiting Washington, D.C.,...

Say a prayer for me now. (Sapphic Screen).
June 1, 2003... SEVERAL LESBIAN FILMS ARE STILL in distribution limboland--including the brilliantly claustrophobic Politics of Fur and the innovative thriller Nightstalker--and television's on summer hiatus (though Bravo's got Gay Weddings 2 and the ladies...

J.D. Salvatore. (Q&A).(Interview)
June 1, 2003... If you missed director J.D. Salvatore's delightful shorts Reservoir Dykes, Taxi Lesbian, Lesbianstruck and From Queer to Eternity, you'll have another chance this summer. In addition to her own films, Salvatore has collected queer recreations...

By Hook or By Crook. (Advertisement).
June 1, 2003... Lesbians, take note: This is not your usual Hollywood buddy movie. By Hook or By Crook puts a unique spin on the genre with some gender bending, a sly sense of humor and keen observations about human nature. Shy (Silas Howard of the punk...

Watching You: intriguing lesbian short films. (Advertisement).
June 1, 2003... It's refreshing to see lesbians being sexy and funny in Wolfe Video's new collection of short films Watching You. These award-winning gems reflect the feisty attitudes of a welcome new generation of dyke filmmakers. The first short, "4...

Take that! TV's top 10 "lesbian" crime-fighter shows.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Academics argue that popular forms of entertainment reveal the nature of the culture that created it. Which, in Hollywood, boils down to this: Televsion shows survive only when they grapple with the issues that reflect our deepest fears and...

The Wire (HBO).(Interview)
June 1, 2003... On HBO's hot new series The Wire, police detectives on the bartered, crime-riddled streets of Baltimore fight a never-ending drug war. At the core are two cops--an unconventional white guy named James McNulty and the less traditional but...

Tipping her hand: Sarah Waters' spellbinding novel has been transformed into a made-for-TV movie shown on BBC America and at film festivals around the world. But can the adaptation ever really match our imaginations? Tune in to find out.(Television Program Review)
June 1, 2003... "To be honest, it was the worst thing and the best thing," says Keeley Hawes, with a nervous laugh. The sultry 26-year-old plays Kitty Butler, a magnetic and talented male impersonator who captures the heart of young Nan Astley (played by...

Hot little honeys for you. (Lestbofile).
June 1, 2003... HELLO, MY LITTLE SAND DABS! What mischief have ya'll been up to since I saw you last? That's nice, butterfingers--now let me tell you what high crimes of conduct and misdemeanors of manners the ladies of the Lesbofile have been committing...

The End of Youth.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Rebecca Brown City Lights Books $11.95 Always having been a fan of Rebecca Brown, I was tremendously scared off by her last book, The Dogs. A rather hideous story about girls and dogs, and dogs as girls, this book was billed as...

Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl's Guide to Enlightenment.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Angela Watrous, Ed. Seal Press $16.95 Despite its title, this is not a how to-guide. Instead, it's a collection of 25 essays by young women exploring a wide variety of religious and spiritual practices and lifestyles. There is Tanessa...

Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Lillian Faderman Houghton Mifflin $26 Lillian Faderman is one of our national lesbian treasures, author of several well-known and ground-breaking history books, including Surpassing the Love of Men and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers....

Be a pioneer, not a settler. (Dyke Drama).
June 1, 2003... THE FIRST SETTLERS WERE WOMEN. I don't care what you learned in school; I am telling you that the first settlers were women. If you were to step into a time machine and find the actual cradle of civilization, you would see...

Pet Shop Boys. (Music Watch).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Disco 3 Sanctuary Records "Postmodern ironists cloaked behind a veil of buoyantly melodic and lushly romantic syathpop confections," says the Boys' press machine. If you know what that means, please e-mail us. What we do know is, we...

Throwing Muses.(Sound Recording Review)
June 1, 2003... Throwing Muses 4AD/Beggars Banquet Seven long, painful years we've spent minus this post-punk pop delight, though lead vocalist Kristen Hersh still puts out with solo guitar, providing plenty of entertainment for diehards as well as...

Joni Mitchell. .(Sound Recording Review)
June 1, 2003... Travelogue NoneSuch This brilliant anthology is a must-own not only for the tunes, but also for the artwork. A small, hard cover unfolds into a double CD set posing as bookends. Inside rest the inner workings of Mitchell's mind via...

Deborah Cox. (Music Watch).(Sound Recording Review)
June 1, 2003... The Morning After J Records In 1998, Deborah Cox hit platinum and gold with "We Can't Be Friends" and "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here." The 13 melodies in The Morning After are the most personal yet from this pop-soul goddess. These...

Love through the signs. .
June 1, 2003... JUNE'S COSMIC HIGHLIGHTS: SATURN rents new office space in Cancer on the 3rd for the next 2 1/2 years. Saturn carries the energy of commitment and maturity. As it moves through Cancer, there's a serious focus on sweet and render...

The legacy of identity.
June 1, 2003... PRIDE AND NAMING GO TOGETHER. At early Gay Pride marches in the 1970s, we chanted, "Say it loud/gay and proud." In the activist 1980s, when AIDS was killing gay men with such ferocity, we chanted, "Say it! Silence equals death." In the...

Quote unquote.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... "Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down. I cry, too, maybe three times a week, but it's not in closeup. It's...