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This is a column in Curve Magazine that features people from our community who are making a difference for us all.
20 Powerful Lesbian Academics
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The 20 Powerful Lesbian Academics (profiled here in alphabetical order) is an impressive list of scholars, all of whom are equally deserving of our accolades. |
A Power Couple to Watch
Just being a former-soldier-turned-musician would be enough of a career twist for most women, but not Juliet Draper.
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Apo Hsu
As conductor and artistic director of The Women's Philharmonic in San Francisco, Apo Hsu resurrects works of female composers from their stifled past and exposes new artists for modern audiences.
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Calling All Bay Area Babes
Musicians, artists, poets and speakers from across the globe team up to celebrate female empowerment at the Second Annual Bay Area GiRL FeST 2007. The five-day fete starts at the San Francisco LGBT Center Thurs., July 19 and ends with an outdoor concert in Dolores Park Sun., July 22.
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Cheryl Chase
"Intersexuality has a lot to teach us, not just in terms of gender expression and helping intersex people directly, but about how complex life is."
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Christine Burton
... after selling the business she started at age sixty-six, Burton launched Golden Threads, a quarterly newsletter for lesbians over fifty who want to correspond with each other.
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Dancing on Razor’s Edge
Sean Dorsey, founder of trans performance organizations Fresh Meat Productions, claims it’s still scary to break new ground—hard to believe from one of San Francisco’s most influential and innovative artists.
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Daphne Scholinski
Why don't you ever wear a dress? These words echoed throughout Daphne Scholinski's childhood, taunting her with the constant reminder that she was not like other girls.
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Dr. Virginia Uribe
In 1984, Dr. Virginia Uribe sat down with students at her school
and talked about the problems gay and lesbian students face. The outcome was Project 10.
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Fashion Fetish
Liz Collins discusses fashion, design, models and KNITTING NATION, “BDSM and fetish symbols show up as motifs in my clothing both as fashion and ideas about how the body can be restrained and experience different sensations. I translate that into a visual language...
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Felice Newman
"There's a stereotype that lesbians don't have sex very often, and when they do, it dies out after they've settled in together"
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Grace Poore
"I grew up in a violent home," says Poore. "I had firsthand knowledge of what it was like to live under the tyranny of a violent parent."
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In Memoriam: Gloria Anzaldúa
On May 15, 2004, the lesbian community mourned the loss of renowned activist, theorist and writer Gloria Anzaldúa, who died at age 61 from diabetes-related complications.
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Interview with Author Joan Opyr
A humor columnist and Northern Idaho editor of New West Magazine, Joan Opyr’s still basking in acclaim for her first mystery novel, Idaho Code. We caught up with Opyr to find out what love, life and liberty in a “state that values individuality more than common sense.”
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Joo-Hyun Kang
"I want to work on coalition building, specifically with other people of color communities and organizations that are not necessarily lesbian or gay,"
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Lani Ka'ahumanu
In 1976, Lani Ka'ahumanu, former housewife and mother of two, came out as a lesbian to a welcoming community in San Francisco. In 1980, after having lived as an out lesbian for four years, she fell in love and had to come out a second time--as bisexual.
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Leslie Feinberg
With the novel, Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg helped many of us for the first time see through the eyes of a transgendered butch lesbian. To many readers, Feinberg's life is synonymous with that of her protagonist, Jess.
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Lisa Vogel
Lisa Vogel was only nineteen when she came up with the idea for the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Tired of traveling all over the country to hear a variety of sounds, Vogel decided to bring all of what was just coming to be called "women's music" into
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Margaret Poscher, M.D.
As director of the clinical HIV program at University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Margaret Poscher is unquestionably in the forefront of AIDS and HIV care.
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Miranda July
Miranda July doesn't like the term spoken-word. Nor does she want her work to be referred to as performance art. When July takes the stage, she does so to transcend the barriers of performance.
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More Than Tofu
Our favorite vengeful vegan is back with another book of yummy animal-free recipes.
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Nail Art Goes Postmodern
Frutezia's Fresh Style at Your Fingertips nail art exhibit brings the fine art of femme fingertips to a gallery near you.
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Nancy Lanoue
“A cancer diagnosis is experienced by almost everybody I’ve ever talked to as a death sentence, at first,” says Nancy Lanoue, a 13-year breast-cancer survivor. “Then you sort of start to breathe and start being able to listen to what the doctors are really saying to you. And then you figure out a way to fight back.”
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One More Hit
“Guerilla art” is how Erica Cho describes her work, which almost sounds comical coming from the gentle, feminine, almost ethereal voice floating through the phone receiver. “I don’t really privilege one audience over another. The more spaces I can hit, the more satisfying it is to me.”
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Open Studio: Jenny Hart
“Be assured: No geese in bonnets. Ever,” promises Jenny Hart, the one-woman brains and brawn behind Sublime Stitching, a burgeoning embroidery empire.
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Patricia Nell Warren
"What these kids want more than anything is for adults in our community to take an interest in them," Warren says. The founder of Wildcat Press, Warren plans to publish several young writers this year.
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Peggy Shaw
"People say menopausal women grow beards and become dried up," Shaw says. "Well, I think that must be the definition of a man--a hairy, dried up woman."
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Queer Queens of Comedy
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A theatre filled with hair gel, a couple mullets and about a hand-full of men. Can you guess what the show is? If you can’t guess, than you have never been to a lesbian comedy show. There were more leather coats than a cattle ranch in Texas. But there were even more laughs in the audience at the Queer Queens of Comedy show on at the El Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz on March 10th.
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Robbin Burr
When American Airlines announced earlier this year it would extend employee partner benefits to same-sex couples, none could have been happier than Robbin Burr, a 20-year employee at the company and co-chair for the airline's gay, lesbian, bisexual and tr
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Romance Novelist C.C. Saint-Clair
High school English teacher by day and romance writer by night, C.C. Saint-Clair has been turning on the ladies of her Australian homeland for years with her steamy prose.
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Sex in the SiPy
In a genre dominated by X-ray vision, caped-crusader flight, leaping-tall-buildings-in-a-single-bound superheroes and walking, talking anthropomorphic animals, you’d think that comics whose story lines feature the love-worn lives of two women might languish under the radar. Not Terry Moore's self-published comic Strangers in Paradise.
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She’s Stacked: Curve’s Rachel Pepper
Book review editor and book columnist Rachel Pepper, who over the years has also served as music editor, distribution manager and catalog model (and who has written for every single issue of the magazine, for god’s sake), says her favorite Curve piece of all time is her February 1995 feature on Ani DiFranco.
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Sonya M. Hemphill
Employing lesbian actresses to depict lesbian roles is a critical aspect of our overall mission," says Sonya M. Hemphill, the 28-year-old, Harlem-born founder of the NYC African-American lesbian theater company, Think It's Not When It Iz, Inc.
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Staceyann Chin: More Than a Mouthful
For anyone who doubts that a diminutive, 110-pound pixie of an individual can carry a one-woman show, you obviously haven’t seen Staceyann Chin’s solo performance Border/Clash: A Litany of Desires. Or, more importantly, heard her slamming poetry lines with such artillery fire rapidity and precision, you’d think the special effects team was doing a stage trick with her mic.
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Steamy Pages: Dodie Bellamy
Dodie Bellamy’s breakthrough hit novel The Letters of Mina Harker (a new edition of which was released fall 2004 by University of Wisconsin Press) introduced readers to a brave new world where Dracula’s lady stalker resurfaces in grimy, polyamorous, contemporary San Francisco. Her latest, Pink Steam (Suspect Thoughts), takes the horror genre further than anyone has dared: the confessional memoir.
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Striptease
As Peggy Lee sings, “Chicks were born to give you fever.” Is burlesque passé? Think again. These steamy gals strip and strut their stuff like nothing you’ve ever seen — and reclaim burlesque’s feminist possibility in the process.
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Sue Hyde
“There’s this idea that if there’s a lesbian on television, in Congress, or on the cover of a magazine that things aren’t that bad," says Sue Hyde, a self-described rabble-rouser and director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's annual Creating Ch
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Susan Leal
If Susan Leal succeeds in her bid for the San Francisco mayor’s office this November, she’ll make history as the first out lesbian elected mayor of a major U.S. city.
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Tara McPherson
Cute and cuddly meets broken-hearted goth in the work of Brooklyn’s hottest illustrator.
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Top 10 Reasons We Love Odalys Nanin
Half of Los Angeles has a crush on Cuban lesbian playwright Odalys Nanin, founder of Macha Theatre, the country’s only Latina lesbian theater company, and the star of the wildly popular Garbo’s Cuban Lover.
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