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These are feature articles that we have run in Curve Magazine sometime in the last 12 years.
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Our Fashion Issue Buyer’s Guide
Saw something you liked in the April Fashion Issue? Want to buy it and rub it against your cheek? Check out our buyer’s guide.
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While you’ve been working on your tan and trying to firm up those abs before this year’s Dinah Shore Week, we’ve been sitting down with L Word creator Ilene Chaiken and getting her to share her favorite Dinah memories. She tells us how it all got started and what The Dinah and The L Word have in store for you this year. Turkish oil wrestling anyone?
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A Q&A with Groundspark's Debra Chasnoff
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GroundSpark has just released yet another in its ever growing cache of documentary films. It’s STILL Elementary addresses issues of tolerance and education about gays and lesbians in schools. It is a follow-up of the film It’s Elementary: Talking Bout Gay Issues in Schools, released in 1996.
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A Queer Three-way
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Queer authors Julia Serano and Helen Boyd are breaking new ground in the memoir genre—and changing the way we think about gender along the way.
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A Sweet Time at Chicago's World of Chocolate
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Chicago’s got a taste for chocolate with the World of Chocolate, a benefit for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. Get all the news on those chocolate fountains, rivers and towers. |
a wo’mn called sir
People often assume me to be a black man, and in some ways I am. But mostly, I’m a black butch, which to me is about gender identity in combination with energy sensibility, style and Spirit.
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Ali Liebegott's Beautifully Worthless
Ali Liebegott’s new novel The Beautifully Worthless (Suspect Thoughts) is part epic poem, part love letter, part to-do list and part road trip opus.
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All Bettes Are Off for Jennifer Beals
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It’s easy to imagine Jennifer Beals driving through the Hollywood Hills on her way to The L Word set and I almost forget I’m trying to the get her to divulge something new. And when Beals says something like, “Oh, it’s my pleasure,” well, I swoon.
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Are You Marriage Material?
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Answer our questions to determine whether you should walk down that aisle, wait a few years until you can commit or discover that you are the antithesis of marriage material.
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Author Louise Sloan Gives Some Mothering Advice
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In Knock Yourself Up!: A Tell-All Guide to Becoming a Single Mom, Louise Sloan talks about her experience ("sweet") getting pregnant on her own and speaks with dozens of women, both lesbian and straight, who chose kids now, dates later. |  |
Author Shelley Halima's Diverse Dramas
Shelley Halima is a rare bird. Halima, 33, is one of the few straight authors to include a multitude of sexual expressions and experiences in her novels. But why shouldn’t she? Her life parallels her novel’s characters in their diversity. “One thing that bothers me about a lot of novels is [that] everyone is one color and sexuality, and that’s not how the world is. I want people from all backgrounds to be able to relate to at least one of my characters,” Halima says.
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Babes Kicking Balls
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Imagine a gathering of 300 queer women who play soccer by day, dance together at night and, through it all, celebrate each other and sportsmanship. We live in a time when many lesbians still stay closeted just to make a sports team, when NCAA coaches make news for resigning after allegations of harassing their lesbian players.
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Behind the Scenes of Dante's Cove new
The third season of Dante’s Cove has a mysterious and vibrant buzz, with new characters, new magic spells and some hot scenes that will surely pique your interest. And, according to Senior Vice President of Original Programming Meredith Kadlec, the third season of Dante’s Cove will be groundbreaking. |
Beyond the Women's Room
Gender-neutral bathrooms are not about erasing gender or making everything gender neutral. Gender-neutral bathrooms are about celebrating gender. Gender-neutral bathrooms are about creating a safe space for all genders.
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Books to Give Thanks For
Ah, another holiday party to avoid. Want to feast on tofurkey and bury your nose in a book while ignoring the rest of the family? Here are a few of our favorite page turners to get you started.
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Breaking Free of Hierarchies
Identical twin authors Harriet and Charlotte Childress speak about hierarchies and how society could flourish without them.
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Bringing the Holiday Cocktails Home
During the holidays, let’s face it—we all need a drink or three to get us through. I mean with the pushy mall dwellers, relatives you would prefer not to see and the constant anxiety of charging gifts on a maxed card, we all need to sit down and have a glass of our favorite festive beverage. So what do the ladies of CURVE drink during this time of year?
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Butch by any Other Name
Yes, it’s true: Skyler Cooper has really big muscles. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can get on to her acting. Last year, Cooper portrayed Othello as a woman in Impact Theater’s San Francisco production of the Shakespeare play, and critics were amazed at her ability to completely inhabit the role. She managed to squeeze us into her busy schedule of acting and working as a personal trainer to talk about why she has no plans to play it straight.
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Can Love Bridge the Gap?
"We've been out shopping and a stranger will say, 'Oh, is this your daughter?'" recalls Robin McGeehee, 25, in love with Katherine Adams, 44. "And she'll want to put her arm around me and say, 'No, this is my lover.'"
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Can’t Keep Melissa Etheridge Down
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Melissa Etheridge’s life has been an open book. We’ve watched her unfold, unravel and unload since she came out in 1993. We sat down between brunch and putting the twins down for a nap and talked about how the world looks through Melissa Etheridge’s eyes. |  |
Check out Our New Look
Pride month is here! In celebration, we had lesbian designer extraordinaire Parisa design a funky new shirt just for us.
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Confessions of a Doggie Dyke
I'm beginning to believe that there are two types of lesbian dog owners: those who wish their wives would let them have cats instead, and those who have canonized the canines to the equivalent of astounding, postmodern children. After spending several thousand dollars on frozen sperm - to no avail - my wife and I have joined the latter camp, and we're certainly not alone. Forget all you've heard about the gayby boom; there's an even bigger explosion of doggie dykes.
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Court Says:
In a landmark decision expected to impact similar cases nationwide, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that the former partner of a lesbian mother is entitled to visitation with the twins she helped raise since birth.
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Crime Writer Val McDermid on What Makes Her Books Tick
Scottish writer Val McDermid’s Britain is no picture-perfect village populated by kindly vicars and gentle older ladies. McDermid’s Britain has the darker, rougher feel of urban violence acted out in grim alleys, and even her country villages edge into that world of half-lit malice. It’s that gritty feel — coupled with extraordinary plotting that could run circles around any episode of CSI — that has made McDermid a world-renowned writer of crime fiction.
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Curve Rocks Peach Pride
Attention all you Southern belles: CURVE is coming to your hometown this month for Atlanta’s hottest all-girl bash. Don’t miss it!
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Dangerous Mix
Date-rape drugs: not just a straight thing any more.
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Day Trips from Mecca
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San Francisco is the place for lesbian liberation. It’s the city of refuge for queers from around the globe, a mythical, magical place where the food is sublime, the landscape divine and you can make out with your girlfriend anywhere you damn well please. |
Diana Cage Tackles the Humorless Lesbian Myth
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Tackling the myth that all lesbians are angry, militant and incapable of taking a joke, Diana Cage chats it up with listeners and guests about the stereotypes surrounding lesbians during "Humorless Lesbian Month" on her weeknight radio show. |  |
Dinah Heads to the Lakeshore
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Austin HRC gets the ladies out with a dance party this September. The event, which begins with a water taxi on one end of Lake Austin and ends on the other at Lakeshore Drive has “no meat-market feel.”
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Director’s Cut
Pride — with its hard bodies, disco divas and endless partying — often seems to be a boys’ wonderland, but several of the biggest Pride celebrations in the United States are actually run by lesbians. Here’s their insider’s guide to what it takes to put on a festival to remember.
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DIY Holiday Ornaments Make Excellent Gifts
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Whether you’re the crafty type or not, it’s always fun to give handmade holiday presents to your friends and family. And recycling things that would otherwise end up in the landfill is always a good idea. So why not combine these two concepts and make some easily customizable holiday ornaments out of all the old CDs sitting around your home? Scratched-up home-burns, dead DVDs and those free promotional CDs that come in the mail are perfect for this project. |  |
Don’t Cha Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me
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It’s Friday night in the Windy City. Temperatures fall to a frosty sixteen degrees but the inside of Circuit Nightclub is thick with the triethylene glycol haze of the fog machine. Bodies writhe and undulate on the small dance floor. The heady scent of booze, sweat and perfume is as intoxicating as the half-price drinks. Moving to the center of the floor, I am coaxed by the throbbing bass line and the words of Akon urging me to “Smack That.” |
Dorothy Allison: The Value of Redemption
Dorothy Allison says it astonishes her when people pay attention to our stories--queer stories, working-class stories, stories of the abused, despised and disenfranchised. "The world don't wanna know...it's fucking America."
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Drive Like the World Is Ending
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Detroit, like Americans themselves, has been slow to accept that we can no longer drive like there's no tomorrow. So the auto industry has begun rolling out fuel-efficient vehicles. We take a look and some of them.
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Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers new
The London Times praised her 1906 opera The Wreckers as “among the great things in art.” Virginia Woolf was her companion and confidant, and, in 1930, the focus of her passion. She ought to be a household name both in classical music and lesbian history. Yet, the first U.S. performance of her most important opera will take place this September 30.
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Evening the Playing Field
In the virtual gaming world, real-life female programmers have always seemed to take a back-seat to the busty, lusty Lara Croft-esque digital women created by their male counterparts. That may no longer be the case.
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Fifth Annual Gender Odyssey Addresses Families
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The Fifth Annual Gender Odyssey consisted of a multitude of receptions, workshops and special events like films, barbeques, parties and a concurrent, smaller first-of-its-kind conference for families raising gender variant and transgender children and teens. |
Finding Her Inner Stripper
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A perverse spin on the art of jungle gym gallivanting, good pole dancing is the latest in trendy workouts, with classes popping up at Crunch Fitness and independent dance studios around the country. She just had to try. |  |
Get Your Drink On
It’s Pride Season! Here are a few of our favorite ways to stay tipsy during for parades, parties and babes. If you’re lucky enough to find true love this June, try making her a drink she’ll never forget—we guarantee she’ll be coming back for more.
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Gifts They Won’t Forget
Tired of giving the same old stuff every year? Instead of the usual toys, gadgets and scarves (which might get returned anyway), why not give something more unique? A share of their favorite company’s stock or a letter from Santa are sure to be unforgettable.
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Happier Holidays
If your ho-ho has become ho-hum, try something new this year — with a little imagination, you can always reinvent a reason for the season. Interviews with some folks who made the holidays theirs.
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Has Jodie Foster Come Out?
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The actor gets tongues wagging at the 16th annual Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast.
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Have a Gay Valentine's Day!
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Does February 14th send you into a fit of swooning, googly-eyed giggles, or anti-consumerist, oh-now-you-recognize-my-relationship rage? Either way, here are some fun, off-the-beaten path ways to celebrate.
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HomoRevoluton Tour Wraps in Ohio
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The HomoRevolution Tour 2007 is wrapping up performances after the successful first year with the homo-hip-hop tour. Gay and lesbian hip-hop artists from all over the nation gathered together in March of 2007 and began to spread vocal awareness of homosexuality and personal experiences through up-beat tempos and hardcore lyrics. |  |
Inside the Director’s Studio
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In 1986, years before The L Word, Ellen, Ani or curve hit the scene, Donna Deitch broke some major ground with her now-iconic tale of lesbian love in the 1950s. One of the few lesbian films of the time that proved its staying power beyond the immediate years following, Desert Hearts set the bar and is still arguably the standard par excellence in lesbian film. At the time though, the then 40-year-old Deitch could never have predicted what her film would come to mean, or if commercial or critical success awaited. “I had no idea,” she says. “I was in the middle of a process. … All I knew … was that I had to finish it and I had to sell it.” |  |
Inside the Director’s Studio
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In 1986, years before The L Word, Ellen, Ani or curve hit the scene, Donna Deitch broke some major ground with her now-iconic tale of lesbian love in the 1950s. One of the few lesbian films of the time that proved its staying power beyond the immediate years following, Desert Hearts set the bar and is still arguably the standard par excellence in lesbian film. At the time though, the then 40-year-old Deitch could never have predicted what her film would come to mean, or if commercial or critical success awaited. “I had no idea,” she says. “I was in the middle of a process. … All I knew … was that I had to finish it and I had to sell it.” |  |
Inside the Director’s Studio
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In 1986, years before The L Word, Ellen, Ani or curve hit the scene, Donna Deitch broke some major ground with her now-iconic tale of lesbian love in the 1950s. One of the few lesbian films of the time that proved its staying power beyond the immediate years following, Desert Hearts set the bar and is still arguably the standard par excellence in lesbian film. At the time though, the then 40-year-old Deitch could never have predicted what her film would come to mean, or if commercial or critical success awaited. “I had no idea,” she says. “I was in the middle of a process. … All I knew … was that I had to finish it and I had to sell it.”
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Interview With Author Lauren Sanders
Lauren Sanders’ scarily romantic (and romantically scary) new novel, With or Without You (Akashic Books), takes us back to the “me era” of the ’80s, when the Gipper was president, big hair reigned and adolescence could be particularly lonely. Sanders, who won a Lambda Literary Award for her previous novel, Kamikaze Lust, and works as editorial director at Lambda Legal, has created a sorrowful, elegant book about what can happen when we look to celebrities to slake our thirst for connection.
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Interview with Poet Amy King
Lambda Literary Award finalist Amy King’s Antidotes for an Alibi (BlazeVOX) offers a poetic vision that is as styled as a modern cityscape and as intimate as the details that often shape the poems’ otherwise metaphysical reach. We spoke with her about her poetry, her politics and her process.
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Is Marrying a Man the Answer?
Three days after our second anniversary she took a one-way flight out of the country. Since her visa had expired, it was no longer wise for my little Koala (I prefer not to divulge her real name) to stay here.
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Janet Jackson Exclusive Interview
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She’s one of the most successful female pop artist and the most searched woman on the Web. But she didn’t get there by slacking off. Janet Jackson’s latest release shows how much Discipline she has. |  |
Joan Nestle Rocks!
Curve’s Stephanie Schroeder chats with the famed co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
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Just Married
Newlyweds Melany and Christie Walters-Beck took the plunge in dual ceremonies last year — one was a legal ceremony held July 4 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and another was a celebration for family and friends held July 12 in their hometown of Ontonagon, Mich. (population 2,000!).
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Keeping the Faith
When faced with a decision to accept their gayness or remain connected to the religious communities they grew up in, more women of color are choosing instead to have it both ways. Find out how they’re making it work.
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l.a. Eyeworks’ Founders Make Specs Cool
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L.a. Eyeworks co-owners and co-designers Gai Gherardi and Barbara McReynolds have changed the way people think about eyewear, creating original, invigorating eyeglasses since 1979. That was the year the two women opened their first store on Los Angeles’ now famous Melrose Avenue. It has since blossomed into a multimillion-dollar worldwide enterprise. |
Laurel Holloman Gets Personal About Tina
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In person, there is something savagely sweet about actor Laurel Holloman. It’s been there since her 1995 debut as Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love. Thirteen years later, Holloman is one of the most talked about actors on The L Word. |
Lesbian Phenomenology
"It was the Diversiless dykes who took care of me like family, who stayed with me throughout the trip back, and who will remain with me from here on."
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Lesbian Undercover
While researching her novel Grave Silence, lesbian mystery writer Rose Beecham went undercover as a fundamentalist Mormon searching a polygamist husband. Here’s what she saw.
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Making School Safe for Queer Kids
Alana Flores, then in the tenth grade, didn't think of herself as a celebrity when someone left a picture of a bound, gagged, naked woman in her high-school locker. Scribbled across the picture was the ominous threat, "Die, dyke!"
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Mean Girls on the Internet
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The Internet has given bullies a new way to torment while staying anonymous. Victoria A. Brownworth explores how bullying on social networking sites and blogs can damage a reputation and, in one tragic case, lead to suicide.
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Michelle Tea Talks About the Next Generation of Sister Spit
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She’s a founder of the legendary, 1990s traveling poetry troupe Sister Spit (who recently re-banded with a new lineup) and curator of her own San Francisco reading series, Radar. Now Michelle Tea talks with Curve about the Next Generation Tour. |  |
Micia Mosely’s Hilarious “Where My Girls At?”
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Mosely might be coming to a state near you. She is taking this one-woman act on the road and will be touring the East Coast before setting her sights on the international realm.
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No Wave Pioneer Lydia Lunch Talks About her Latest Book
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One of the artists responsible for the No Wave movement in New York City at the end of the ’70s, and beginning of the ’80s, writer, singer, photographer, artist, Lydia Lunch has recently published a memoir chronicling her early years, . |  |
Not Like Everyone Else
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Coming to terms with the knowledge that we aren’t like everyone else can bring about anxiety and fear. It helps to know that others have been there. However, as musician Julie Schurr tells us, those living in the Midwest do not have the same resources as those of us living on either coast.
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Our Fight for the Right to Marry
As the fight for the right to marry heats up nationwide, it's fair to ask whether it, like virtually every other political issue framed in recent years by the radical right, is a marriage borne of mutual interest, or just another shotgun wedding.
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Queer Books Bloom in Spain
There’s a boom in Spanish-language publishing abroad, where lesbians are eager to see their sexual identity reflected in translated books. Find out what it means for lesbians in the United States who would prefer to read the classics en Español.
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Readers Wanted: Meet Our Editor
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Our illustrious executive editor is on tour with her new mystery novel, Blind Leap. Catch Diane Anderson-Minshall in February at the Palm Springs Lesbian Book Festival or at several upcoming events.
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Remembering Jane Rule
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American-born author Jane Rule died November 27 at age 76 in her adopted home of British Columbia, Canada due to complications from liver cancer. Rule famously took the literary world by storm when she published Desert of the Heart and became an icon of the gay rights movement in the ’70s as one of the few out lesbians in Canada.
On the 40th anniversary of her novel in 2005, Rule spoke with Curve in an intimate interview about her life’s work, both in the literary and political worlds. |
Riding a Bi-Cycle
"Bisexual" has been a dirty word in the gay community for a long time.
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Romantic Leads
Lessons to learn from the sexiest lesbian movies of all time.
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Ruth Ellis
As we hurtle towards the millennium, 100-year-old Ruth Ellis is a reminder of the century past, born July 23, 1899, in Springfield, Ill., into a world of oil lamps and horse-drawn carriages.
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Screenwriter Guinevere Turner Talks About Her Latest Work
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We caught up with screenwriter Guinevere Turner at the opening of the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival at 12 Galaxies to get the skinny on her latest short film, Go Fish, her next project and her involvement with POWER UP. |
Sexual Healing: Staci Haines
With her groundbreaking book, "The Survivor's Guide to Sex", somatics practitioner and sex educator Staci Haines asserts that empowered sex after abuse is not only possible, but vital. Haines recently talked with Curve about desire, shame and working thro
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Sexual Revolutionary
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Nonconformist and provocative, Billie Myers is an artist that breaks down the barriers that bind humanity and spits in the eye of the oppressors. Myers’ thoughtful lyrics and sultry vocals overlay a danceable pop sound that’s gotten booties shaking on both sides of the Atlantic. Her latest single, “Just Sex,” melds brutal honesty with overt sexuality in a way that makes you shiver, shake, stand up and shout. Insightful? Always. Unpredictable? You bet. Offensive? Myers doesn’t care.
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Sheryl McDougald Takes on Many Forms
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British Columbian artist Sheryl McDougald takes her queer female imagery mixed with Renaissance forms from art galleries to music videos, television and movies. |
Show Me Your...Hands?
Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley recently released a study that claims lesbians can be identified by the relative lengths of their index and ring fingers.
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Sister Outsider Revisited
In her book "Sister Outsider", Audre Lorde writes: "Being an open lesbian in the Black community is not easy, although being closeted is harder."
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Skip the Gym, Work Out at Home
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Every year we resolve to go the gym and then don’t. So this year we’re trying something new to get in shape for spring: workout videos at home. We test out these fun, challenging and campy DVDs to get you in your best shape this season. |
Steakout
We all know vegetarianism is as lesbian as, well, apple pie. But there’s an 800-pound T-bone in the middle of the room.
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Strip Artist
“Rhymes With Orange” cartoonist Hilary Price has created a syndicated comic that keeps them coming back for more
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Team G.L.A.M — America Fireball Run
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This year’s Insurance Office of America Fireball Run, a cross-country rally to raise awareness of missing children, will include the first ever openly gay team, Team G.L.A.M.
Billed as “The Race to Recover America’s Missing,” the 3,700-mile rally will begin in Orlando, Fda, on September 27 and ends in Los Angeles on October 7. Teams will compete for points in various driving challenges.
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Tell Us Why You Think Harry Potter Is Gay and Win a Copy of The Order of the Phoenix
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is totally gay. And I’m not talking about the recent announcement from creator J.K. Rowling that Professor Dumbledore is gay, I mean the whole theme behind the Harry Potter books is one familiar to many in the LGBT community: abandonment, the meaning of home, the search for love and acceptance, and the fight against oppressive forces.
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Telling Herstories
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Since her retirement from the Houston Independent School District, Arden Eversmeyer has been leading a life full of stories.
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Ten Powerful Lesbian Doctors
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They’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath—or some modern version of it—and these lesbian doctors make it their business to lead the way in providing the best in research and medical care for the lesbian and transgender communities. |
Ten Reasons We Love Vermillion Lies
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What do global warming, lobster squeaky toys and a circus of zombies have in common? They’re all a part of the “thrift store cabaret” that is Vermillion Lies. Drawing upon the dance, circus and art classes they took as kids, Zoe and Kim Boekbinder (vermillionlies.com) have put together a vaudeville-inspired show that will quite literally have you laughing your pants off. Their quirky quips and amusing antics form an engaging and entertaining experience. |
The Best Books for Valentine’s Day
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Give your sweetie something different this year. Why not grab one of these new erotica books for lesbians and learn to read aloud to each other? We review these adventurous, provocative and steamy stories from a wide range of writers.
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The Clothes That Make the Wo/Man
While no one can claim there’s a lack of gay designers, for a gay designer to produce a specifically queer-themed women’s line that defies traditional notions of femininity — well, that’s rarer in the fashion industry than a model wolfing down a pint of Häagen-Dazs without making a post-snack trip to the bathroom. But Parisa Parnian is one such fashion rebel out to leave her mark on gender-divided clothing with her clothing line, Rigged OUT/Fitters.
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The Exorcist
It happened in the ’80s. A man with a ponytail and brown corduroys told me he was a lesbian in the body of a straight man.
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The Invisible Queer Muslim
Since September 11, 2001, I’ve felt torn between my loyalties to Muslims who don’t understand my queerness and queers who don’t understand my Muslimness.
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The Wedding Dance: Your Guide to Being a Dancing Queen
At last! You’re finally going to a lesbian wedding reception, which means you don’t have to hide in the bathroom from weird second cousins or estranged aunts who thrust you out on the dance floor toward tuxedo-clad, sweaty men while ignoring your proclamations that you’re a lesbian. You can — and should — cut a rug in your big dyke boots to all the top wedding reception dances. So grab this quick guide and get out there and move it and groove it.
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Theater Books Sure to Get Your Inner Thespian Revved Up
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Theater junkies and armchair thespians alike will love these two volumes of queer theater. The plays they contain between their covers tackle issues like sexuality, lesbian culture and coming of age. These two books will make a great addition to any library and shouldn’t be missed.
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Too Much Drama? Never. More of the Best Lesbian Theater
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Our December issue gives you The Best of Lesbian Regional Theatre by highlighting the women behind the scenes: crew, actors, directors and playwrights. You can’t have the main course and not wash it down with dessert, so here’s a little something to refresh your thespian palate and a toast to some of the best regional plays themselves and the theater houses who hosted them. Bon appétit. |
Top Ten Reasons We Love Holly Riddel
Riddel, who holds a degree in marketing, was a personal assistant to Sting, toured with Lilith Fair selling a trendy line of nail polish, worked in the music industry and is currently handcrafting extraordinary rings that lesbians are clamoring to get their hands on.
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Vote for Curve’s Founder and Publisher Frances Stevens and SF’s Fillmore District
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HGTV has partnered up with Rebuilding Together, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, for its Change the World, Start at Home campaign. The mission is to rebuild communities and the vibrant, historical Fillmore District in San Francisco, where our illustrious publisher Frances Stevens lives, has been nominated for this much deserved makeover.
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Warm up Your Winter
Winter cries out for an open fire and a good, lusty book. No better way to avoid the family than by throwing yourself into a naughty story about dykes in love, or, preparing for Valentine’s Day to remember (yes, it’s coming up — are you ready?)
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We Love Monica Nolan’s Pulp Fiction
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We have a chat with writer Monica Nolan about her latest book, Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary, a tribute to 1950s and ’60s pulp fiction with a lesbian twist.
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When We’re 64
The first wave of baby boomers are about to become seniors. And they’re changing the face of LGBT retirement.
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Why Lesbians Love La Lucha
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Imagine awakening to the realization that your government is so out of touch with the needs of your community that it’s become a farce of the democratic process. Imagine deciding this renders your government illegitimate, and in response, you disengage from further sham political processes and create a zone for your community that is more or less autonomous, where the rights and needs of your community members are heard, protected and served.
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Why You Should be Watching The Wire
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Now in its fifth season, HBO’s The Wire has us riveted to our televisions as it explores what crime and corruption can do to a city. Not to mention Sergeant Kima Griggs, the first African American lesbian character to play a major role in a series. |
Women Helping Women
Women for Women International has been helping women worldwide since the early 1990s.
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Women’s Work
Being lesbian-owned isn’t a guarantee that a company is a great place to work, but we admit we’re partial to queer higher-ups. Here are three up-and-coming dyke-owned ventures that are making a splash.
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