The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) articles from September 2004

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) archives from September 2004

Killer looks.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 14, 2004... I enjoyed the article "Hanging With Antonio" [August 17]. But how could writer John Griffiths say that Antonio Sabato Jr. never played a gigolo? He should rent If Looks Could Kill, a corny but sexy 1996 TV movie. Based on the true story of John...

Women scorned.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 14, 2004... I was very disappointed with your Sex Issue [August 17]. It contains perhaps the least amount of coverage and information pertaining to women and lesbians. Only a handful of the couples featured were women, and we were virtually invisible in...

Survey says.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 14, 2004... Your Sex Issue survey reads like an advertisement for Focus on the Family ["Sex and Relationships," August 17]. I respect that monogamy is important to many people, but let's show some sexual diversity here! Where are our proud kinks, bears,...

Much ado.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 14, 2004... So Colin Farrell's full-frontal nude scene was cut from A Home at the End of the World ["Cutting Colin," August 17]. Is it that bothersome to gay men (and some straight women) that we don't get to catch a glimpse of Colin's wiener? I say, who...

Father figure.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 14, 2004... After reading Anne Stockwell's interview with Spike Lee in your August 17 issue ["He Don't Hate Me"], I have one question--one I've wanted to ask for a while now. I, a butch-loving queer femme, would like to officially ask Spike Lee to father...

Reader comments from www.advocate.com.(The Advocate Poll)
September 14, 2004... * "I was 'disfellowshipped after I divorced my husband to be with a woman. * "I grew up very active in the Baptist and Assembly of God churches and my story is much the same as other GLBT folks, Open rejection and shame forced me into the...

Hairy subject.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 14, 2004... I just wanted to write to say thanks to Alonso Duralde for his article "Bear or Straight?" [August 17]. It was a fun piece that most any gay man out cruising could relate to, and I found myself chuckling at some of the "keys." The Advocate is a...

Come the evolution.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 14, 2004... Andrew Sullivan's column "The Kerry Gamble" [Against the Current, August 17] was baffling, to say the least. I usually disagree with almost everything Mr. Sullivan says, but his assertion that voting for Senator Kerry is a gamble with respect...

Rants & raves.
September 14, 2004... "If the election goes the wrong way--and I think you know which way I mean--then you're all welcome to come on up to Canada." --Alberta native k.d. lang, addressing a Hollywood Bowl audience in Los Angeles, July 30 [ILLUSTRATION...

Judging McGreevey: will the public see New Jersey governor James McGreevey's dramatic coming-out as the reason he needs to resign?(Coming Out)
September 14, 2004... Much of the country hadn't heard of New Jersey governor James McGreevey before August 12. Yet when McGreevey held a nationally televised press conference dial afternoon, the nation would be stunned as the 47-year-old governor with his wife and...

Two steps down the aisle, one step back.(Marriage)(Washington, California cases)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... One week after a superior court judge ruled that Washington State's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, the California supreme court on August 12 invalidated more than 4,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples earlier Otis...

Another killing in Alabama.(Crime)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... A little more than five years after textile worker Billy Jack Gaither was brutally murdered in Alabama for being gay, a strikingly similar killing has residents there urging lawmakers to do more to protect gay people. On July 18 Scotty Joe...

Counting on black media.(Activism)(National Black Justice Coalition)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... As President Bush attempts to win over I reluctant black voters in this election year, the gay rights group National Black Justice Coalition is reminding them of his stand against equality. In a first-of-its-kind advertising campaign, touting...

Show me discrimination.(Missouri)(marriage discrimination amendment)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... Widely considered a bellwether to what will happen in states across the country this election year, Missouri voters on August 3 passed a constitutional amendment mandating manage discrimination by a 70%-30% margin. The initiative precedes as...

Across the nation.(The Nation)(Permanent Partners Immigration Act)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... Normal, III. Illinois State University announced in early August that it would offer health care benefits to the domestic partners of its employees, going a step further than the state by extending the program to both gay and straight...

Asia's battle for pink dollars.(Singapore)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... Gay sex is still against the law and gay fights groups are prohibited from officially forming, but that doesn't mean gays aren't having a good time in Singapore. More than 6,000 revelers gathered in this conservative country on August 7 to take...

Unmarried in San Francisco: Dave and Jeff Chandler say the invalidation of their San Francisco marriage only makes them more determined to fight.(Behind the Headlines)(Interview)
September 14, 2004... The day after getting a marriage license at San Francisco City Hall on February 14, Dave and Jeff Chandler were officially married in a modest ceremony at the nearby Dolores Street Baptist Church. Then on August 12 they were officially...

Pricing threatens AIDS therapy.(Medications)(Norvir)(National Institutes of Health)( Abbott Laboratories)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... American HIV patients could find it as difficult to afford anti-AIDS drugs as it once was for residents of Third World nations, AIDS activists say, if the federal government doesn't take drastic steps. A 400% jump in the price of Norvir late...

China waking up to a pandemic.(HIV/AIDS)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... After years of relative silence on a rapidly expanding AIDS epidemic in this nation of over 1.2 billion people, the Chinese government recently launched several public projects to combat the disease, including the nation's first AIDS prevention...

Speak for thyself.(Religion)(Dennis Ray)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... Dennis Ray believed he was representing his congregation when he publicly claimed that about half of the members of a Sebring, Fla., church where he served as a choir director supported same-sex marriage. But leaders at First Christian Church...

Died.(Transitions)(Obituary)
September 14, 2004... DIED: Roger A, Gooden, 57, a longtime gay and AIOS activist who served on the board of the National Association of People With AIDS, at his home in Kansas City, Mo., July 28, DIED: Barbara Cleaver Tilsner, 66, a straight rnolber of two who...

Hired.(Transitions)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... HIRED: Ruth Harlow, a former legal director for Lambda Legal who led the landmark Texas sodomy case, as a litigator for White and Case in New York City, August 2,

Married.(Transitions)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... MARRIED: Human Rights Campaign head and former Massachusetts state senator Cheryl Jacques and partner Jennifer Chrisler, at a private ceremony in Boston, August 1.

Living outside the stereotype.(Generation Q)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... Name: Scott Williams Age: 18 Hometown: San Jose, Calif I'm feeling like I don't fit in. At school or church I'm treated like "that gay guy." But I'm also treated just as differently at the Billy DeFrank gay community center in my...

Our Lady awakens.(First Person)
September 14, 2004... Advocate intern and University of Notre Dame junior Joanna Basile offers her compelling firsthand account of the queer activism that's beginning to change even this conservative Catholic university.

Out at 16--in Texas.(High School Diary)
September 14, 2004... Paige Palmer, 16, an out lesbian high school junior in League City, Tex., joins Advocate.com as our diarist for 2004-2005. Read about her experiences exclusively on Advocate.com.

You read it here first.(Commentary)
September 14, 2004... Love him or hate him, Advocate.com columnist and talk radio firebrand Charles Karel Bouley keeps the debate lively. His new book, You Can't Say That! takes on everything from gay men's drug use to school shootings. Find Karel's archived columns...

Hollywood's homophobia: March 26, 1991.(From the Advocate)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... As The Advocate explores the "degaying" of Hollywood films in the current issue, an Advocate investigation from 13 years ago reveals how persistent the issue has been. Back then journalist James Ryan described the ways in which lesbians and...

Kiki and Herb's expiration date.(the Buzz)(Kiki and Herb Will Die for You)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... KIKI--the septuagenarian chanteuse who has often threatened to expire in the middle of a show and take her audience with her--has announced that she and Herb, her only friend and longtime musical accompanist, will make their final bow at New...

Wilde boys.(the Buzz)
September 14, 2004... GAY MARRIAGE gets a 19th-century twist with The All-Male Importance of Being Earnest, onstage in New York City through September 5. Director Hugh Hysell's adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic--set in modern-day Chelsea and the...

A new Paige.(the Buzz)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2004... "THE BIGGEST surprise for me was, directing and acting in the same film? Not really two jobs. More like a job and a half," says Queer as Folk star Peter Paige about his experience starring in, writing, and directing the indie film donut hole,...

Counting on Florida: Jim Stork could become the next openly gay man elected to Congress, but while campaigning in his conservative district he's careful about touting that fact.(Campaign 2004: the road to Congress)(Biography)
September 14, 2004... Before terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in 2001, Jim Stork lived a low-key existence, volunteering his time for gay rights groups and operating his own restaurant and bakery in the predominantly gay city of Wilton Manors, Fla. But...

Coaxing young gays to the polls: a new kind of gay-straight alliance hopes to get young voters involved in the 2004 presidential race.(Politics)
September 14, 2004... As rapper Chuck D. entertained the crowd at the National Hip Hop Political Convention this summer in Newark, N.J., Dave Noble stood inside a nearby tent trying to convince a dozen young gay African-Americans that they are a powerful bloc who...

Colin Farrell bi and bi: the star of Alexander and A Home at the End of the World talks about playing bisexual two films in a row.(Film)(Interview)(Cover Story)
September 14, 2004... Colin Farrell thinks that there's something to be said for the ways of men around 330 B.c. As he studied for his role as Alexander the Great for the upcoming Oliver Stone film Alexander, slated for November, he discovered that male bonding went...

The new degaying of Hollywood: Alexander. Troy. Brokeback Mountain. De-Lovely. Straightening up history's heroes, desexing literature's love stories, Hollywood is making gay movies-without the "gay".(Film)
September 14, 2004... Is Hollywood on lavender alert? After decades of slow and steady improvement in depicting queers on-screen--front indie films like Maurice and Boys Don't Cry to well-intentioned major studio flicks like Making Love and Philadelphia and...

Carry on, Cary Grant.(notes from a blond)
September 14, 2004... Here we are previewing what's coming up this fall, and we already know the quote of the year, if not the century. It's from Betsy Drake, an actress with a minor vogue in the '40s who spent some of those years married to Cary Grant. A recent...

Grave humor: championed by John Cameron Mitchell, Jonathan Caouette's crazy, confessional film Tarnation is moving gay and straight audiences to tears and laughter.(Film)(Movie Review)
September 14, 2004... When he was 11, Texas native Jonathan Caouette filmed himself delivering an astonishing monologue as an abused wife. He was inspired, he says now, by an episode of The Bionic Woman and by his own mother, who by that tram had been in and out of...

Adopted by bears: filming Bear Cub, a movie set in Spain's gay bear culture, was an eye-opener for hunky straight actor Jose Luis Garcia-Perez.(Film)(Movie Review)
September 14, 2004... The sexy, funny new Spanish film Bear Club (Cachorro) tackles pretty hairy subjects--and not just the unshaven members of the gay bear scene. Granted, the protagonist is a handsome, husky, and promiscuous bear chaser, and the film depicts hot...

Let's all go to the lobby.(Film)
September 14, 2004... *SEPTEMBER* A Letter to True (September 8, NYC) Famed photographer Bruce Weber's tone poem on his love of dogs typically jumps all over the map to cover Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth Taylor, and 9/11. Look for godlike beauties scattered...

Bare truth: as Bare: a Pop Opera storms off-Broadway, the musical's creators tell how their own lives inspired their passionate cult hit about two Catholic boys in love.(Stage)
September 14, 2004... When he was 17, Damon Intrabartolo, an altar boy at 7 and an organist at 13, went to confession to ask his priest, what he should do about the clandestine love affair he'd been having with another teenage boy. "He basically told me that some...

Get thee to a theater.(Stage)(Calendar)
September 14, 2004... *SEPTEMBER* The Oldest Profession New York City: Signature Theatre Company, through October 10 Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel returns to the dawn of the Reagan era in this witty drama about five aging prostitutes. This...

Bella Maffia: Nip/Tuck's Roma Maffia takes center stage with a harrowing pregnancy for her lesbian character, Liz Cruz.(TV)
September 14, 2004... "She's the voice of reason," says Roma Maffia of Liz Cruz, the pragmatic lesbian anesthesiologist she plays on Nip/Tuck, FX's lilt show about two Miami plastic surgeons constantly stuck in one (a)moral dilemma after another. "She's the most...

Look who's walkin': thirty-eight years after "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," Nancy Sinatra collaborates with Morrissey on a smokin'-hot new album.(Music)
September 14, 2004... Halfway through our interview, Nancy Sinatra gasps. "Will you excuse me?" A minute later, she's back. "I forgot something in the oven." What lunchtime delicacies await the oldest daughter of the Chairman of the Board? "I was reheating some...

Party arty: dance beat meets high art in Technova's new CD.(Music)
September 14, 2004... Technova * Electrosexual * Hydrogen Dukebox Now that the screaming faddishness of the once white hot electroclash scene has quieted down a bit, it's time to start sifting through the sound in search of something lasting and worthwhile....

Scream two: punk rock rappers and lesbian couple Scream Club keep it real--and real funny.(Music)
September 14, 2004... Scream Club's Cindy Wonderful and Sarah Adorable have big plans for their band and their relationship. "We want to be the Siegfried & Roy of rap chicks!" says Adorable, laughing. Las Vegas might not be ready for the self-described...

Major label action.(Music)
September 14, 2004... *SEPTEMBER* Jill Sobule, Underdog Victorious (September 7): The "I Kissed a Girl" girl returns. The lead single, "Cinnamon Park," borrows its hook from Chicago's "Saturday in the Park." (Artemis) Dolly Parton, Live and Well (September...

Indie rockin'.(Music)
September 14, 2004... *SEPTEMBER* Athens Boys Choir, Rhapsody in T (in release): The pair serve up spoken-word poetry, transgender activism, fury, and Southern charm. What's not to like? (Daemon) Scream Club, Don't Bite Your Sister (September 15): Olympia,...

Through a joke, darkly: Augusten Burroughs is the gay humorist of the season, as he has come back with an excruciating new collection.(Books)
September 14, 2004... Augusten Burroughs burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with his best-selling memoir Running With Scissors, which hysterically chronicled his unusual upbringing (his mom basically gave him away to be raised by her wacky psychiatrist). Since...

Meet the must-reads.(Books)(Buyers Guide)
September 14, 2004... *SEPTEMBER* Alice Walker: A Life Evelyn C. White (W.W. Norton, $29.95) The indomitable writer, poet, and activist shines in this new bio. Along with a fresh look at Walker's oeuvre and candid shots of her with daughter Rebecca and Oprah on...

For the love of Pat.(R family)(Short Story)
September 14, 2004... My seventh-grade locker was green. Four elementary schools merged into one junior high--Sawmill was its name. My mom was dead and there were now new people who had not a clue. Swimming in dread, I began. Around day 3, I was caught in the hall...

Priorities.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... Your August 31 issue was one of the best you have published in many months. I appreciate your addressing things that are of importance to the gay community rather than sugar-coated reviews of TV shows, movies, and interviews with entertainment...

Voted off.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... I just read the issue featuring Chrissy Gephardt and Keith Boykin and felt compelled to stand up and defend gay Republicans from the all-out assault we continue to sustain from those who claim to be progressive and tolerant. Boykin was...

Conventional warfare.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... In your story "Party Crashers" [August 31] I find it typical that the purple Teletubby (Jerry Falwell) gets to kick off the Republican convention, which will renominate Bozo the Clown (George W. Bush). That alone should send a message to gay...

Doctor dread.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... Brava to Kate Nielsen and her health section article "An Immaculate Infection" [August 31]! As a lesbian being treated with severe endometriosis (a disease of the uterus), I can identify with everything she spoke about in her well-written...

Reader comments from www.advocate.com.(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... * Those poor gay Republicans are deluding themselves if they believe for one little second that the majority of the Republican Party can stand them, let alone even begin to take them seriously. Their presence at the convention will be tolerated...

Daddy's boy.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... Ron Reagan? Gay? Who cares ["Ron Jr. on the Record," August 31]? After 24 years in the national spotlight, Ron Reagan remains a big zero whose only claim to fame is that he's the son of the 40th president of the United States. Just be glad his...

Historical record.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... On page 62 of your August 31 issue, David Ehrenstein writes, "Zero Mostel... nearly lost his career when [Jerome] Robbins gave up his name to HUAC," the House Un-American Activities Committee. Actually, Mostel did not nearly lose his career,...

Extra fry.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... Your catalog of the creative output of the polymath Stephen Fry ["Bright & Brassy," August 31] should have given special mention to his hilarious Waugh-channeling 1991 novel The Liar, which manages to be both a Cold War spy thriller and a gay...

Status seekers.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... In your August 17 issue, Todd Henneman interviewed Tom Trevor about his experience of learning that a sexual trick from a Hawaiian vacation was HIV-positive ["Scared of Sex"]. Trevor said that after that experience he avoids sex because "men...

Sex and shame.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
September 28, 2004... Where does Michael Lucas get off being a spokesman for a safer-sex campaign ["Porn Star Wants You... Safe," August 17]? He needs a little more understanding of the in-depth issues involved in why gay men have unsafe sex and why high drug use...

Correction.(reader forum)(Correction Notice)
September 28, 2004... In our August 31 story "Doctor Phobia," the Mautner Project for Lesbian Health was misnamed and mischaracterized- as a group devoted to preventing cancer in lesbians. Mautner has grown to become a national organization that deals with a variety...

My Vermont (begin strikethrough)civil union(end strikethrough) divorce.(my perspective)
September 28, 2004... The moment of the Big Kaboom, when I knew our relationship was over just 14 months after our Vermont civil union, I knew instinctively that I would not be attending the lesbian support group at the gay and lesbian community center for help....

Rants & raves.
September 28, 2004... "When Golan Cipel took on the governor, he bit on more than he could chew." --George R. Zoffinger, president of the New Jersey Sports Authority, defending Gov. James McGreevey against allegations of sexual harassment by Golan Cipel...

DOMA's unlikely victims: a Washington State lesbian couple's bankruptcy was the catalyst for an all-out battle over the federal gay marriage ban.(At Issue)
September 28, 2004... Lee Kandu's financial hardship wasn't supposed to launch her into the national gay rights spotlight. But after she and her wife, Ann, were both diagnosed with cancer in October 2002 and forced to file for bankruptcy a year later, that's exactly...

Coming out and facing danger.(Hate Crime)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... A former Advocate cover subject who was profiled on MTV's documentary program True Life: I'm Coming Out in 2002 is recovering after he was brutally attacked in what he says was a gay bashing. Matt Beierschmitt, 23, was leaving a bar in the...

Fun with Dick and George.(Dick Cheney)(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... In the week leading up to their national convention, Republicans were sending mixed signals about the party's stand on equality for gays and lesbians. During a campaign speech in Iowa on August 24, Vice President Dick Cheney, noting that his...

Battle in the Bay State.(Election)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... Massachusetts lawmakers passed the initial version of a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage last March. But if two Internet entrepreneurs have their way, that will be the end of it. Boston-based Thomas Gerace, 33, and Carl...

Across the nation.(The Nation)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... Los Angeles, Calif. St. David's Episcopal Church on August 24 became the third Southern California parish in one week to end its affiliation with the national church over, among other things, the ordination of gays and the blessing of...

Our own kingdom?(Australia)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... Some Australian gay men say they have the answer to Prime Minister John Howard's call for a nationwide ban on same-sex marriage: create their own kingdom. Proclaiming the tiny and uninhabited Coral Sea Island of Cato as the world's first...

Medaling in Athens.(The World)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... Among the few out gay athletes at the 2004 Olympic Games, Johan Kenkhuis of the Netherlands (right, in 1999, and above, right, in Athens) took home the silver in the Men's 4x100 freestyle relay.

Their last headline: Aleta Fenceroy and Jean Mayberry were behind the headlines for years, but the duo known as "Fenceberry" needed to move on.(Behind the Headlines)(Interview)
September 28, 2004... As the activist duo known as "Fenceberry," Aleta Fenceroy and Jean Mayberry played a big role in gay and lesbian politics for eight years. Every day they would comb the Internet for gay-related news stories and letters, format the clips into...

Livelihood at risk for reggae stars.(Sponsorship)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... International sports-clothing giant Puma was a major sponsor of the Jamaican team at the Olympic Games in Athens, including some notoriously antigay Jamaican singers at concerts during the event. But an outcry from international gay rights...

Equality by boycott.(Economy)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... Joining a popular trend of withholding consumer dollars to protest wrongdoing and injustice in society, the newly formed Atlanta-based group Boycott for Equality is organizing a nationwide economic "walkout" in support of gay rights. Cofounder...

A friendlier Bible.(Christianity)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... A new translation of the New Testament is the first to bill itself as "women-, gay-, and sinner-friendly." Good as New: A Radical Retelling of the Scriptures, published by British company O Books (and called As Good as New in the United...

Died.(Transitions)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... DIED: Charlie Clifton, 45, a longtime AIDS activist who served as executive director of the Test Positive Aware Network in Chicago, of a pulmonary embolism, August 15. DIED: Jaye Zimet, 43, a design director for book publisher Penguin...

Dennis Triglia, the Libertarian candidate for the Hawaii state legislature from the Big Island.(Married)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... MARRIED: Dennis Triglia, the Libertarian candidate for the Hawaii state legislature from the Big Island, to longtime partner Richard Charboneau, in Canada's British Columbia province, August 28.

Faisal Alam, as director and president at the board for the gay Muslim group Al-Fatiha Foundation.(Resigned)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... RESIGNED: Faisal Alam, as director and president at the board for the gay Muslim group Al-Fatiha Foundation six years after founding the organization, effective August 31.

Bartending and the priesthood.(Generation Q)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... While I was bartending one evening, a friend of mine joked about how ridiculous it now seemed that we had met a year earlier at a college gathering for those who were considering the priesthood. I glanced up from pouring his vodka and tonic...

McGreevey, pro and con.(Commentary)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... Is Jim McGreevey's coming-out a step forward for gay equality or a step back? Get views on both sides from the opinionated writers on Advocate.com.

Everything your kids want to know about sex ...(Books)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... ... but you were afraid to tell them. Find out how to overcome that fear from psychiatrist Justin Richardson and pediatrician Mark Schuster, the ga) men behind a new advice book for parents delt), only on Advocate.com.

Lucky by numbers.(Entertainment)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
September 28, 2004... Learn the stories behind all the songs on Melissa Ethefidge's new DVD. Lucky Live [see page 67], from the woman herself, exclusively at Advocate.com.

Congressman Studds comes out: September 15, 1983.(From the Advocate Archives)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... New Jersey governor James McGreevey is far from being the first prominent politician to come out amid a scandal. Following public revelations in 1983 of an affair he had engaged in 10 years earlier with a young male page, Democratic congressman...

A magical musical about mum.(the Buzz)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... HEATHER REID and bandmate Leisha Hailey first broke our hearts in their punk band the Murmurs. (Reid's last name back then was Grody.) Now, with Hailey on TV's The L Word, Reid is shining on her own in Dear Bernard, a spunky new musical that...

Sapphic survivors.(the Buzz)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2004... WHEN WORD first hit that CBS's smash reality series Survivor was entering its ninth season with two openly gay women in the cast, many queer viewers asked, "Where have all the lesbians been hiding?" Indeed, the photos of Ami Cusack, 31, a...