Curve articles from October 2004

Curve archives from October 2004

That's entertainment!(Frankly Speaking)(Editorial)
October 1, 2004... Welcome to our very first entertainment extravaganza. This supersized issue is a bonanza of the hottest lesbian names and faces in Hollywood. To start off, what would this issue be without a little L Word? We have exclusive interviews with...

The country closet?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I recently went to see singer Terri Clark. She has been on the country scene for the last 10 years, but only recently achieved mainstream success. She projects the image of a tough, shit-kicking cowgirl. While she has said that her image is a...

Fear of commitment.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... As a strict vegetarian for 13 years and vegan for five, I was disappointed by Julia Bloch's article "Steakout" (Vol. 14, #4). I am sick and tired of the lack of commitment and the utter disrespect folks who call themselves vegetarians yet still...

Marching for all Women.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I was thrilled to see such a diverse crowd at the March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C. While reproductive rights may not be as pressing in the gay and lesbian community, I think we all felt it was imperative to show our support for our...

They like us, they really like us.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I just recently discovered CURVE at BooksaMillion, and my girlfriend and I love reading it. (My girlfriend spends hours poring over it, as a matter of fact.) Too often, letters to the editor are complaining or criticizing... but this one is...

Prison isn't an Olivia cruise.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I just had to write to tell you how disappointed I was in "Women on the Inside" by Silja J.A. Talvi (Vol. 14, #4). Prison is a very serious topic, and so are women's rights. Please do not mix the two by implying that women are somehow victims...

Missing a very funny lady.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... How could you print an article on lesbian comedians ["Funny Girls," Vol. 14, #4] and not mention Vickie Shaw, who is one of the best?! As a producer of lesbian comedy for the past 11 years, I have had the pleasure of working with most of the...

Girls rule!(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I was disappointed when I turned to the "When We Were Wed" feature in your May issue (Vol. 14, #3) and saw that the lead photo was of two men. I in no way begrudge the happiness of the couple, or want images of men banned from your pages, but...

Boys drool!(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I am a gay male and recently purchased CURVE. It truly is better quality than any of the "brother" magazines. I have been sharing it with my non-gay friends, who enjoy it as well. In particular, I want to really thank Michele Fisher for her...

We've come a long way, baby.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Isn't it ironic that I am watching the United States debate how appropriate or inappropriate gay marriage is. That citizens and politicians could, and would, actually sit around and question the fundamental right of love. That our country would...

Our animal family.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... I picked up a copy of your May issue (Vol. 14, #3) in the Castro this week. I am strongly moved to write you regarding "Family Reunion" by Dawn Prince-Hughes. There's a lot of behavioral and anatomic evidence that we differ from the other...

Got something on your mind?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... E-mail us at letters@curvemag.com; write to CURVE Letters, 1550 Bryant St., Ste. 510, San Francisco, CA 94103; or fax to (415) 863-1609. Please include your full name, city and state. Letters may be edited for clarity and length.

Hello lucky seven!(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... My girlfriend and I were fortunate enough to be chosen to be one of the seven lesbian couples [united in a ceremony by Christine Chavez]. We met through a CURVE personal ad over seven years ago. Thank you for introducing us! --Gail...

Bad judgment.(Curvatures)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS PASSED A sweeping ban on same-sex couples that out-laws any "partnership contract or other arrangements that purport to provide the benefits of marriage"... New Zealand courts ruled that the sperm donor pop of a lesbian...

PETA holds "snarl-in".(Curvatures)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS and a chorus of barking canines held a "snarl-in" to urge lams pet food to stop conducting animal testing after a recent PETA undercover investigation reported deplorable conditions at an lams...

Red wing gives no bull.(Curvatures)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... WHEN HOWARD DEAN'S organization Democracy for America announced its Dean Dozen--12 hand-picked political candidates who best embody the spirit of grass-roots democracy--lesbians were delighted to find one of our own on the list. Native American...

Passages.(Curvatures)(Obituary)
October 1, 2004... SALLIE MARANDA FISKE, 75, a lesbian media pioneer, died in February. Fiske was fired in 1977 after coming out on the air during her daily talk radio show. Longtime women's music promoter Joy Rosenblatt, 57, died in Chicago. Gloria Anzaldua, one...

Raelian love: having a Bush bash.(Curvatures)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The U.S. Raelian Movement--the world's largest atheist, UFO-related organization--announced its full support for same-sex marriage when Raelian priests gathered in Boston this spring to marry lesbian couples. "By definition, human rights are...

Lesbian chic, redux.(Curvatures)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... REMEMBER THE LESBIAN CHIC CRAZE OF THE '90S? Hot supermodels straddling lesbian icons on the cover of major magazines? Well, it's back again, thanks to The L Word and Ellen DeGeneres. The Boston Globe called the latter "completely hip" for...

Hollywood wedding belles.(Curvatures)
October 1, 2004... YOU KNOW THAT MYTH ABOUT THERE BEING ONLY FOUR OUT LESBIAN celebrities? Well, unless you read the papers very carefully, you might not realize that Rosie O'Donnell wasn't the only Tinseltown dyke to get married during last spring's same-sex...

Mapping the dyke 'hood.(Curvatures)
October 1, 2004... IF YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK OR PROVINCETOWN, you know you live in a gay mecca. But what about the rest of us in Kansas City and Santa Fe? According to 365Gay.com, Urban Institute demographer Gary Gates and researcher Jason Ost have the answer. They...

Curve tour 2004.(Curvatures)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... We're hitting the open highway again! If the CURVE Tour takes us to your neck of the woods, stop by and say hello--we've got a great deal on a subscription and some gifts for you. Sistahs on Stage (SOS) Music Festival (in Asheville, N.C.)...

Cherokee lesbian pride.(Curvatures)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A NATIVE AMERICAN LESBIAN couple who received a marriage license from the Cherokee Nation found themselves at the center of controversy in June, when tribal officials struggled to halt same-sex weddings. According to 365Gay.com, the tribal...

From the mouths of babes.(Ask Fairy Butch)(Letter to the Editor)
October 1, 2004... Dear Fairy Butch: I am 53 and newly divorced from a man I was with for 27 years. I've had romantic feelings for women all my life, but until now, I haven't allowed myself to act on them. Now I want to change that. I have been reading a lot...

R.I.P.!(Mr. Lady)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... SAY IT'S NOT SO! Mr. Lady, the venerable dyke rock label founded by Tammy Rae Carland and Kaia Wilson, is shutting down operations. Don't fret: Current co-owner Dusty Lombardo says the bands will live on. The Butchies went to Yep Roc Records;...

Breaking all the rules.(Lesbofile)
October 1, 2004... HEY THERE, GOOD LOOKING! I'VE been waiting for your lovely hands to turn my page. Now that we're together, I can hardly hold myself back. Let's dive right in, shall we? Will the Funny Lesbian Comic Please Stand Up? Lesbians are funny...

Quote unquote.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... "I remember wondering if Velma was a boy or a girl, but the way I could tell was that Velma always had, uh... um... breasts." >> Former Freaks and Geeks and current ER star Linda Cardellini on her role as nerdy Velma in Scooby-Doo to the San...

Reality dykes: queer girls finally get a chance to mix it up on two new reality TV shows. Thankfully, they don't have to eat bugs.
October 1, 2004... Reality TV hasn't been kind to lesbians. Still, in the last few years, we've started to gain some modest ground. A lesbian couple competed on Amazing Race; a bald, African-American beauty named Ebony came out on America's Next Top Model; and...

Guilty pleasures: famous queer women offer up their favorite TV shows.
October 1, 2004... Jillian Armenante, actor (Judging Amy; Girl, Interrupted): "My favorite TV show as a singledigit child was Upstairs Downstairs, which ran via WGBH in Boston on Channel 13. I was very young and very hooked, speaking in nothing but a Cockney...

I want my gay TV.
October 1, 2004... Just imagine a queer TV channel--all day, all gay. Think it'll never happen? Think again. This season brings the country's first all-queer television channels, providing news and entertainment that's especially for us (and it's about damn...

Cho revolution: comic Margaret Cho makes out with Anna Nicole Smith, tours with the Indigo Girls and gets out the vote--all in a day's work.
October 1, 2004... Lesbians--perhaps even more than the hordes of gay men who flock to her shows--love Margaret Cho. There are so many reasons: her endless activism; her open bisexuality; her struggles with Hollywood's sexism, racism and fatphobia; and even her...

10 Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... CURVE hoped to be the first to announce POWER UP's infamous Top 10 Most Powerful Gay Women in Showbiz for 2004--the power list once spoofed on Saturday Night Live and used as a reference by the Democratic Party to garner a little rainbow...

Six degrees of Guin Turner: lesbian superstar Guinevere Turner is the real center of the dyke universe. Just don't ask her why.(Interview)
October 1, 2004... Forget what you've heard about Kevin Bacon. When it comes to lesbians, the real six degrees of separation radiate outward from 36-year-old L Word scribe and actor Guinevere Turner. Although sometimes it's more like nine degrees, and sometimes...

L is for Lynch: Kelly Lynch celebrates the anniversary release of Three of Hearts along with her much-applauded turn as gender-bending Ivan on The L Word.(Interview)
October 1, 2004... There's one thing Kelly Lynch wants you to know: She turned down a million bucks to play the ice-pick-wielding bisexual in Basic Instinct because she's committed to portraying lesbians as multidimensional people who would, most likely, never...

L Word trivia.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Thought you knew everything about Showtime's uberhip dyke drama? Maybe not. Didya know that Suzanne Westenhoefer, the first lesbian comic to be on Letterman, actually lives on the street where The L Word ladies are supposed to live? "They...

Karina fever: why does it seem every woman in America--queer and straight--is lusting after Karina Lombard, The L Word's breakout star?(Karina Lombard)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... I'M MARRIED. WE'VE GOT THE MATCHING RINGS, THE NOT-SURE-IF-it's-legal wedding certificate and a full 14 years of blissful family photos. But still, when Karina Lombard--The L Word's seductive Marina--coos to me, "Oh, you make me feel so good,"...

We love short shorts.(Sapphic Screen)(Movie Review)(Video Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... SAPPHIC SHORTS USED TO BE THE unpopular cousins of the lesbian feature flicks we all adore. But, thanks in large part to queer film festivals, chick organization POWER UP, and lesbian-owned Wolfe Video, the uglyduckling genre has finally...

Other picks.(Sapphic Screen)
October 1, 2004... DOCUMENTARIES: Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman, Lourdes Portillo's engrossing and complex investigation into the murder of up to 400 young women in Juarez, Mexico, is a must-see for both feminists and crime buffs. If you missed it...

Back in black.(Q & A: Debra Wilson)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... Debra Wilson was at the National Black Lesbian Conference a while back, trying to get in the door of a workshop for butch lesbians. "I was trying to sit in and they wouldn't let me because I didn't identify as butch. I kept thinking, what are...

The meow mix.(Music Watch)(Sound Recording Review)
October 1, 2004... Various Artists The L Word Soundtrack Tommy Boy Records Our community loves a good mix--that includes The L Word. (Can we please come together as a community and oust Jenny instead of Marina? I mean, please.) Anyway, at least...

Other licks.(Music Watch)
October 1, 2004... ON CD: Leave the Light On, Beth Hart: You might recognize Hart's rough-and-tumble melodies--she did the soundtrack to promote several CBS daytime soaps, and her 1999 hit "L.A. Song" was featured on Boomtown. But this CD explores more raw...

Under her skin.(Q & A: Avril Lavigne)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... When 17-year-old Avril Lavigne stepped into the spotlight two years ago--with the third best-selling album of 2002--thousands of young queer women found their new rock god. From her defiant attitude (flipping off reporters) to her fashion sense...

But can she write?(In the Stacks)(Packing Mrs. Phipps: A Jo Jacuzzo Mystery)(Amalee: A Novel About Amalee, Her Family, Her Friends, and Her Family Friends)(Dish It Up, Baby!)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Anne Seale Packing Mrs. Phipps: A Jo Jacuzzo Mystery Alyson Books $13.95 Dar Williams Amalee: A Novel About Amalee, Her Family, Her Friends, and Her Family Friends Scholastic Press $16.95 What happens when singers...

Other page-turners.(new books release)(Bibliography)
October 1, 2004... EDITOR'S PICKS: Spring Fire, Vin Packer: The first lesbian paperback novel--which sold an amazing 1.5 million copies when it came out, in 1952--is available again after 40 years out of print. Packer (nee Marijane Meaker, who wrote the...

Our cup of Tea.(Q & A: Michelle Tea)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... San Francisco author Michelle Tea is perhaps best known for her novel Valencia, a rousing romp through pre-dot-com San Francisco. She took time out during her move across town to speak with CURVE about her new anthology, Without a Net: The...

Play-mation.(Out on the Web)
October 1, 2004... DO YOU FIND YOURSELF LAGGING online for hours at a time? Time to turn that serious-researcher frown upside down and engage in some virtual stimulation. Lights, Mouse, Action www.dfilm.com Forget sappy e-cards and humorous Web...

Chick clicks.
October 1, 2004... GAMES Lesbians have gone gaga for the action-adventure game Beyond Good and Evil, thanks in large part to its investigative-reporter heroine, Jade. Donning green lipstick and clothes that suit an action hero, Jade uses stealth force and...

Closet space.(Dyke Drama)
October 1, 2004... ARE YOU A "CLOSET CASE"? I know I am... sometimes. My wife and I love to travel. We've tried staying at gay-friendly places, and enjoy the protection and comfort they afford, but we agreed early on in our adventures that we would not limit...

If Dr. King could see us now.(According to)
October 1, 2004... I FELT NOTHING BUT SHOCK recently when a conservative black minister from Chicago stood side by side with the predominantly white, anti-gay Family Research Council, and told the media sternly, "If the Klan were to march against gay marriage,...

Referendum on humanity.(Brownworth)
October 1, 2004... THE ELECTION DRAWS NEARER, AND voters of all genders must consider what is important to them as they go to the polls come November. There are many concerns. Civil rights for queers, which the Bush administration opposes. The economy, which the...

Photo play.(ranking lesbian and gay films)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... In The Queer Movie Poster Book (Chronicle Books), Jenni Olson surveys marketing campaigns for lesbian and gay films from the first major U.S. release (1961's The Victim) to unabashedly out queer flicks like Better Than Chocolate (whose sexy...