Curve articles from October 2002

Curve archives from October 2002

Change is good. (Frankly Speaking).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... After seven years in the same office, we had gotten pretty comfortable. Our place in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco was a funky maze of triangle shaped corner offices, high ceilings and a bird's-eye view of one of the city's...

Recess for grown-up girls. (Out in Front).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The city of San Francisco is home to more than 50 gyms. Go to any one of these gyms, and chances are you'll spy women en clad in sport tops and spandex, swearing on StairMasters and treadmills staring blanklyat large TV monitors suspended from...

Letters.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... CONDOLENCES My heart goes out to Sharon Smith after all she's been through. I can't imagine surviving such an awful tragedy ("Turning Tragedy Around," Vol. 12, #4). But how poetic that she's managed, through the act of honoring her partner...

Our families are different. (Curvatures).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... WHEN TELEVISION NEWS VETERAN Linda Ellerbee invited former talk-show host and lesbian mom Rosie O'Donnell to help out with a special segment of Nickelodeon's Nick News dealing with gay and lesbian families, she didn't know she'd have a couple...

Hey! Baby. (Curvatures).(coming out)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Amber Layton originally wrote to CURVE because she was frustrated with the lack of youth voices in the magazine. I hope other youth will be inspired by Amber's story and lend their voices to "Hey! Baby." How old were you when you came out?...

"Can we quote you on that?".(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... "I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girl. I need an East Coast guy, a West Coast guy, and a girl." >>Pink to Maxim Blender "I carry that label of being difficult, angry, sardonic. I don't know why that is. I think part of...

Out on the Web. (Curvatures).(gay rights)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... WITH ROSIE O'DONNELL BECOMING the next gay-parent poster gal and midterm elections looming on the horizon, it's time to reassert your rights as a parent, a partner, or a voter. Fortunately, a crop of new Web sites can help you get a grasp on...

Love through the signs. (Horoscopes).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... 'TIS TIME TO REAP THIS YEAR'S romantic harvest--whatever seeds you may have planted. On September 10, enchanting Venus dons her Don Juana Scorpio disguise and murmurs, "The better to seduce you, my dear." Mercury retrogrades on the 14th,...

Calling all heroes. (Sapphic Screen).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... LESBIAN HEROES, DYKE animation and Slavic cuties riding white-water waves. You don't even have to leave the comforts of home to enjoy some of the most exciting offerings on the Sapphic screen, and the ones you have to travel for are well worth...

Deborah Dickson. (Q&A).(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2002... DEBORAH DICKSON IS a three-time Academy Award nominee (for Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller, 1987; Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse, 1997; and LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, 2001) and a winner of the Emmy and Peabody awards and the...

Dominique Swain: playing gay for the teen set.(Interview)
October 1, 2002... We've all had that nightmare, the one where you're back in high school and when you get to class you find yourself totally naked in a sea of your fully clothed classmates. For actress Dominique Swain, appearing naked at the head of the class...

Gay Games: Australia; the curve guide to getting around down under.
October 1, 2002... ORGANIZERS EXPECT MORE THAN 7,000 Americans, both men and women, will participate in the November 2002 Gay Games in Sydney, Australia. Add to that thousands of spectators, and you can safely estimate roughly 5,000 lesbians will be venturing...

Rodeo dreamin'.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Cowgirls of all stripes vied for bragging rights and a new buckle at the L.A. Rodeo 2002, held April 19--21 2002, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Griffith Park. Part of the International Gay Rodeo Association, the Los Angeles chapter is...

See Ratkovic run (and bike, and swim ...): how one of America's top female athletes, used a series of minor misfortunes to build her career into something big.
October 1, 2002... Though she'd lived in America's heart-land since 1987, Andrea Ratkovic had never seen a tornado. So when she encountered her first funnel cloud in the midst of a bike ride in 1998, the professional athlete wasn't content ducking into a ditch....

Lame lesbians: if injury really does love company, can love be far away?
October 1, 2002... Cathy, a pitcher on a Chicago softball team, was wildly infatuated with her catcher. Throughout the season, she attempted to woo her by using the passive-aggressive dating techniques prescribed by Cosmopolitan magazine, bending these girlish...

Really? Sue Wicks? The great big coming-out story you almost never heard about.
October 1, 2002... If you'd blinked, you might have missed the story's beginnings entirely. Earlier this summer, when Time Out New York reporter Bilge Ebiri interviewed Sue Wicks, forward for the New York Liberty, he perhaps didn't know he would soon be...

Reporting from Ground Zero.
October 1, 2002... ROSE ARCE, A PRODUCER AT CNN, LEFT HER WEST VILLAGE APARTMENT AROUND 8:45 A.M. ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, and headed for coffee at a local deli, as she did every other workday. She knew something was wrong by the expressions of the people around...

Rumors from the lesbian nation. (Lesbo File).
October 1, 2002... We on TV If you haven't recovered from the horror that was Tara arid Willow's last episode on Buffy the Vampire Slayer--and who has recovered from that mess?--do turn your television (if you haven't killed it by now) to the other teenage...

Fascinating fall finds. (In the Stacks).(Bibliography)
October 1, 2002... FAMILY MEMOIRS ARE ALL THE rage, although lesbians have been slow to pick up on this trend. Here are two biographies to take you farther into the stacks. To be honest, when I first began We Became Like a Hand: A Story of Five Sisters by Carol...

Le Tigre. (Rock Steady).
October 1, 2002... Remix Mr. Lady Records Electropunk trio Le Tigre takes it even closer to the dance floor than their last year's release, Feminist Sweepstakes, with Remix. The result? Rave-a-licious fun dipped in radical politics served up with a...

Kissing Jessica Stein soundtrack. (Rock Steady).
October 1, 2002... Verve Records Community consensus may be that the bittersweet (to put it kindly) ending to the lesbian romantic comedy Kissing Jessica Stein was somewhat lame, but the soundtrack makes up for it. Encapsulating the old-fashioned love...

Seiko. (Rock Steady).
October 1, 2002... Area 62 Flora Records Japanese pop star Seiko has endured three decades of musical trends in her country, not unlike Madonna in the United States. Because of her perseverance and evolving looks, the J-pop industry often considers her...

Ladyfest East. (Rock Steady).
October 1, 2002... 28 Days Records If you can't make it down to the actual festival because you've misplaced your combat boots and other riot gear, this two-disc compilation should do. Though you will be missing out on the event's highlights, such as metal...

Sheila Nicholls. (Q & A).(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2002... SHE'S LIVED OUT OF HER VAN (like Jewel), launched her own record label (like Ani), produced chick-centric concerts (like Sarah), and worked with Glen Ballard (like Alanis). But make no mistake: British-born Sheila Nicholls is all her own woman....

Comfort is for sofas. (Dyke Drama).
October 1, 2002... WAN NA KEEP THAT SPARK IN YOUR marriage? You can start by closing the bathroom door. I mean, a little tinkle while your lover is in the shower is kinda cute (unless you're in the shower, too), but a full-on poop with the door wide open? Yikes!...

Girl jocks unite! (According To).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... A SCENE FROM MY CHILDHOOD IN New York City: Our local block was too crowded with traffic for us to play our daily bout of street hockey on it. So we went to our next venue, which was a smelly alley behind a seedy liquor store off Astoria...

Teaching by example. (Brownworth).(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Victoria A. Brownworth The end of summer will forever be inextricably connected to the beginning of school. In the 40 years since I entered first grade, I have marked the calendar by the school year: for the first half of my life, as a...

In memoriam.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
October 1, 2002... June Jordan, award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and political activist, died on June 14, 2002, at her Berkeley, Calif., home after struggling for nearly 10 years with breast cancer. The author of 26 books, Jordan is one of the country's...