Curve articles from May 2003

Curve archives from May 2003

Of camp and kings. (Frankly Speaking).(drag kings)
May 1, 2003... My birthday falls in mid-October and as a kid, I'd always choose a Halloween theme for my birthday parties. We'd bob for apples, carve pumpkins and, my favorite part, dress in costume. This was my first experience with drag and maybe it was a...

Funny girl. (Out in Front).(Tara DeFrancisco does stand-up comedy)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with dreams of becoming the next member of the Saturday Night Live crew, 25-year-old Tara DeFrancisco is now honing her craft by doing stand-up comedy, sketch and improvisation in. Chicago. Known onstage as Tara...

Letters.
May 1, 2003... More Queer Than Queer? While I did really enjoy the recent "sex" issue (Vol. 13, #1) and I'm glad CURVE took a risk with the story about queer youth, I've got to say that I'm disturbed by the great lengths teens will go to to rebel against...

Playing dress-up for her. (Ask Fairy Butch).
May 1, 2003... Dear Fairy Butch: I've been with my girlfriend for eight months now. She's a wonderful lover and companion. Sometimes she asks me to dress in a school uniform (you know -- pleated skirt, knee socks, twin set, etc) as a prelude to making...

Remembering Sarah Pettit. (Curvatures).(Sarah Pettit Fellowship, national competitive grant to support leading lesbian studies scholar at Yale, is established)
May 1, 2003... SARAH PETTIT, CO-FOUNDER OF OUT magazine and senior arts and entertainment editor at Newsweek, died on January 22 after a battle with lymphoma that had lasted nearly a year. She was 36. In her memory, the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian...

Hey! Baby.
May 1, 2003... Wondergirl, 19, maintains three Web sites: www.wondergirlmedia.com, www.wondergirl.org and www.modcams.com. She is a sex-worker ally and is involved in the Internet pornography industry. Tell us about your Web sites. I started my first Web...

The kids aren't all right. (Truth and Consequences).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The American Civil Liberties Union has filed two federal suits against school officials in Kentucky and Texas who are attempting to block high-school students from forming gay-straight alliances (GSAs). The Board of Education of Boyd County,...

Virginia: not for lovers. (Truth and Consequences).(sodomy law case)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Robert F. McDonnell, a Republican member of Virginia's House of Delegates and chairman of the legislature's House Courts of Justice Committee, opposed the reappointment of Circuit Judge Verbena Askew because she is a lesbian. In what Lambda...

Oh, Baby! (Truth and Consequences).(lesbian mother appeals court decision allowing health-care provider to refuse fertility treatment based on doctors' anti-gay beliefs)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... A lesbian mother in California has appealed a court decision that allowed her health-care provider to refuse fertility treatment based on her doctors' anti-gay beliefs. Guadalupe Benitez had received 11 months of infertility treatment at North...

One step forward, two back. .(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... A bill introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives would strip all references to "sexual orientation" from Minnesota law, effectively rescinding a 1993 amendment to the Human Rights Act that added protections against discrimination on...

Victim Compensation Fund. (Now, Here's Some Good News).(Peggy Neff case)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... If at first you don't succeed, go to the feds. Peggy Neff, a lesbian who lost her partner in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon, was awarded more than $500,000 from the federal September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which Lambda Legal...

GLBT. (Now, Here's Some Good News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Nondiscrimination legislation has been approved recently in New York state, Springfield, Ill. and Cincinnati, Ohio. The Pennsylvania state legislature passed a bill to extend the state's hate-crime laws to include actual or perceived sexual...

Don't just sit there. (Out on the Web).(www.womensfestival.com, www.protest.net, www.ehow.com)
May 1, 2003... ENOUGH POST WINTER WHINING. The ground has thawed, the rain has come and gone, and now you have no more excuses to stay in front of your computer - unless it's to look for something to do. Find Your Crowd www.womensfestival.com...

Love through the signs. (Horoscopes).
May 1, 2003... MAY'S COSMIC HIGHLIGHTS: It's a two-new-moon month: on the 1st, it's in earth-mama Taurus; on the 30th, in question-and-answer Gemini. Daring glances raise chances for new romance on both days. The full moon on the 15th is void of course and...

Gender cinema verite. (Sapphic Screen).
May 1, 2003... FROM INDIE FLICKS TO PORNO romps, much of the bloom this spring belongs to the budding transgender film movement. Transgender Warriors By Hook or By Crook (www.wolfevideo.com), the butch buddy flick where gender isn't nailed down,...

Director Catherine Jeiski. (Sapphic Screen).(Brief Article)(Interview)
May 1, 2003... The Young Unknowns has barely hit theaters and already Catherine Jelski's at the center of a debate. No wonder; the film's queer director -- a script supervisor on Salmonberries and Dazed and Confused -- pulled few punches with her modern-day...

Sitges, Spain. (Europe's Rising Gay Mecca).
May 1, 2003... SITGES (PRONOUNCED "SIT-JEZ") IS only a 20-minute ride from Barcelona. And although deciphering the Barcelona Metro system seems fairly simple, with easy-to-read machines that dispense the tickets, deciphering the train schedules and figuring...

Buzzing around the honey. (Lesbofile).
May 1, 2003... GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS, I AM TICKLED pink! I know, it's shocking when you see Miss Georgia embrace her genteel Southern-lady roots and get all silly like this, but pull yourselves together and see what's got me gushing all over your new CURVE....

Quote unquote. (Lesbofile).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... "Oh, people think I'm gay. I had a girl tell me I was lying one time.... told her I'm not and she was like, 'Girl, you lying. I know you gay.' I guess it was the short blond hair, or maybe it's a misconception about female rappers. But it's...

And the winner is. (In the Stacks).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST WILL BE HONORED at a gala banquet in Los Angeles on May 29 when the 15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards will be presented. Top contenders in various categories include: Lesbian Fiction Fingersmith by Sarah...

The long look back.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Paula Christian Twilight Girls Kensington Books $15 The classic lesbian pulp novel is one of my favorite forms of literature. Back in their heyday in the 1950s, these titles often had tragic endings and were usually written by...

Soft, sweet sounds.(Sound Recording Review)
May 1, 2003... Martina Sorbara The Cure for Bad Deeds Nettwerk Another Canadian soloist worth a listen, Sorbara evokes Sarah McLachlan sponged down with a little country. Guitar, piano and a bit of synthesized backdrop cushion her sweet tones...

The black sheep gets to keep all the wool. (Dyke Drama).
May 1, 2003... "YOU GET AWAY WITH SO MUCH SHIT because you're gay," my het baby sister told me not long ago, after I had weaseled out of yet another family function. At first, I was wounded. Get away with shit because I'm gay? Me? After all the struggles...

Another year, another world.(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... CONTEMPLATING ANOTHER anniversary of CURVE I think about my own queer anniversaries: coming out, relationships, friendships. I've been an out lesbian/dyke/queer for over three decades and in that time, tectonic changes have occurred in straight...