Curve articles from May 2000

Curve archives from May 2000

CELEBRATING A DECADE.
May 1, 2000... "We're here to stay!" proclaimed my publisher's letter in the first issue of DENEUVE magazine. As I look back over the past ten years, I can't believe how fast the time zipped by and how much our community has changed. When we started, k.d. was...

Lesbian.com.
May 1, 2000... WHEN SUE BECKWITH DECIDED TO REGISTER THE domain name "lesbian.com" in 1995 her main purpose was to protect it from the religious right. Four years later, on National Coming Our Day, lesbian.com became something much greater when it launched as...

A LESBIAN MOM'S STRUGGLE.
May 1, 2000... I have just finished reading Debra Chasnoff's editorial, "Kids in a Climate of Hate" (vol.10, #2) and I want to thank her for writing it and you for printing it. As a mother of a 13-year-old daughter, I have been maligned by my own family...

Ask Fairy Butch.
May 1, 2000... DEAR FAIRY BUTCH: Four years ago, I left all family and friends far behind to be with my lover. We have since built a strong, stable, trusting relationship, or so I thought. The problem is that I have had no friends whatsoever during the entire...

Out on the Web.
May 1, 2000... SMART SISTER-WORDS Let's face it: it's tough to find high-quality lesbian sites that offer original content in addition to hot links. LesbiaNation (www.lesbianation.com) is one of the fastest-growing lesbian online communities, and for...

HEY! BABY.
May 1, 2000... How did you begin working at Vox? Does the paper have a particular focus? Sarah Taylor Austin, age 15, lives in Atlanta. She writes for a youth newspaper called Vox, and also publishes her own zine, Losing My Religion. How did you...

CRAZY FOR NUMBERS.
May 1, 2000... * Readership for our inaugural issue in 1991: 8,000 * Our readership today: 200,400 * Number of times we've changed the name of the magazine: 1 (from DENEUVE to CURVE, in 1996) * Number of times the CURVE office has been evaluated...

"Can We Quote You on That?".
May 1, 2000... "What is tofu anyway? I throw away my old sponges." -- Karen Williams, April 1992 "I can't stand [dental dams]. It's like going down on the Michelin Man. Anyway, there's nothing safer than a strap-on." -- Lea DeLaria, August 1992...

Love Through the Signs.
May 1, 2000... MAY? IT'S ALL ABOUT CELEBRATION! 'Tis the time of fair maidens, budding flowers and passion. It's when we line up the three "S's": sensuality sexuality and sensation. Lady Venus ushers in a luscious theme - one of pleasure, romance and beauty....

NO MORE CELLULOID CLOSETS.
May 1, 2000... WHEN BUTCHY CARRIE-ANN MOSS HELPED KEANU REEVES escape The Matrix and pulled millions of moviegoers -- black and white -- into theaters last year, directors Andy and Larry Wachowski had lesbians to thank for the "cha-ching" they heard at the...

All our best.
May 1, 2000... On the eve of its 10th year in publishing, CURVE takes a found look back -- and finds we've come a long, long way. TEN YEARS AGO, OUR PUBLISHER HAD THE CRAZY IDEA TO start DENEUVE magazine, a stylish, glossy for lesbians like herself. No,...

OUT AT ESSENCE.
May 1, 2000... (June 1993) SHE'S ATTRACTIVE, SHE'S SMART, SHE'S ELEGANT, SHE'S SAVVY. She speaks to more black women every month than any other woman in America. And she's a lesbian. She's Linda Villarosa, senior editor at Essence magazine. Essence...

ROCK ON, GIRLS.
May 1, 2000... December 1994 Georgia musicians Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are one of the hottest young rock duos in the United States. Their song "I Don't Want to Talk About It" was included in the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film Philadelphia.......

ALL-AMERICAN.
May 1, 2000... (Dec. 1993) "See, the thing is that I think that the business part of it... is that they're just afraid that somewhere there's gonna be a huge backlash. That all of a sudden the whole middle part of America, the big record-buying public,...

PLAYING HART.
May 1, 2000... February 1995 Just for a moment, try to forget about Melissa Etheridge, Cris Williamson, k.d. lang and the rest of 'em. Instead, picture your favorite female singer sporting a shaved head and a pierced nose, spinning around the stage like...

REEL WOMAN.
May 1, 2000... October 1995 Queer, quixotic, quirky and quintessentially questioning -- all apt descriptives for Barbara Hammer, the doyenne of dyke video, as she approaches her third decade of filmmaking with three new and compellingly different...

GREASEMONKEY SUPERMODEL.
May 1, 2000... September 1996 Since she was "discovered" in 1993 getting off her motorcycle in front of Los Angeles' Club Fuck, the former garage mechanic has been in high demand. In a time when the tough-tender look is in and androgyny is all the rage,...

BOUND FOR FAME.
May 1, 2000... November 1996 Instead of cowering from a role as a lesbian in a major motion picture, [Jennifer] Tilly jumped at the chance.... The role is that of Violet in the film Bound, where Tilly and co-star Gina Gershon fall in love and pull off a...

HIGH ART IMITATES LIFE.
May 1, 2000... September 1998 I completely identified with Lucy," says Ally Sheedy of her lesbian role in the sexy film High... .Sheedy sat down with CURVE on the day High Art premiered at the San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. ...

PASSING ATTRACTION.
May 1, 2000... (January 2000) First-time feature filmmaker Kimberly Peirce wrote and directed Boys Don't Cry, a film that chronicles the real-life murder of Brandon Teena, who passed as a man despite having a woman's body. Peirce: When I read about...

Rumors from the Lesbian Nation.
May 1, 2000... SHE'S A PARTY GIRL Our Ellen has turned into quite the party gal. From Sundance to Washington, she's kicking up her heels and keeping it fresh for the homos. When she and Anne discovered they didn't have tickets to an exclusive screening...

FICTION BLOOMS IN MAY.
May 1, 2000... HERE'S A SPECIAL TREAT for all you fiction lovers out there: In this column, we'll focus on a bunch of new titles for your springtime reading pleasure. And we'll also slip in a non-fiction book penned by comic Lea DeLaria at the end, just for...

The Decade of Dykes and Their Drama.
May 1, 2000... WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DECADE MAKES. Happy birthday, CURVE! And many thanks to all of you readers out there. It is because of you that I can look at my strange life (and many mistakes) as "research" for my column. Sometime I think...

Deceiving Images.
May 1, 2000... Anastacia Not That Kind Epic Records IT'S ALWAYS A BIT SHOCKING when you meet someone whose voice sounds nothing like the way they look. This is the case with Anastacia. Her press photo suggests flowery, little-girl sweetness but...

A DECADE OF CHANGES.
May 1, 2000... SOME DECADES ARE RIFE with dramatic change; others represent a kind of cultural downtime -- not much happens. The 1990s epitomized the status quo decade. The '80s saw the rise of Reaganomics and the greed that accompanied that philosophy of...