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Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com 7 THE SOUND OF LESBIANS: Installment Seven

| By Sally Sheklow

hen we last left Maria and the dom – freedom to express ourselves, to be who we Oh, oh, lezzie-o-da-lee-ho Von Tramp household, the entire are and and pursue happiness in our lives. We don’t Lezzie-o-da-lee-OKAY! women’s community was in an benefit from infighting, from ostracizing factions of uproar. Word was out that the our community. We become more powerful as les- Then walking home arm in arm and happy Von Tramps were exploring bians and as women, when we support each other’s Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-lezzie-hoo Wkinky sex, playing with dominance and submis- empowerment, right? Hugging and kissing and acting sappy sion and expanding their sexual horizons far Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-loo beyond the lesbian norm. According to some, Brigita: Exactly. We need strength to fight sexism, too far. racism and . Our diversity makes us Car full of guys shouting meanly to 'em, stronger. If we let our sexuality divide us, we weak- Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-lezzie-hoo Accusations were made and mud was slung. The en our movement. Weakening our movement – isn’t “They’ll straighten out after we all screw 'em!” community accused the Von Tramps of perversion that the oppressor’s work? Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-loo and general sluttery and taking things past the point of lesbian acceptability. So far past that their very Gretel: You said it. The sexists and homophobes already have that covered. Oh, NO, lezzie-o-da-lee-ho identity as lesbians was called into question. That Oh, NO, lezzie-o-da-lay was the last straw. And so our conversation went. Under my expert Oh, NO, lezzie-o-da-lee-ho The Von Tramps would never surrender their labrys guidance, we defined the problem and brain- Lezzie-o-da-lee-Oy-VEY! jewelry, their interlocking women symbols or their stormed solutions. Every woman had a chance to dyke haircuts. If they were going to keep their lesbi- voice her ideas without censorship. Every idea was Dyke in a cop car says “Let's go get 'em,” an credentials, they would have to act and act fast. considered and every suggestion met with respect. Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-lezzie-hoo Eventually we reached a consensus. We decided to Car full of guys never knew what hit 'em But what could they do? How could they show PUT ON A SHOW! Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-loo their Sapphic sisters that playing with bondage and Everyone agreed. We got busy writing a script, discipline was NOT contributing to – or in any way Happy are they, lezzie-o-lezzie-lee-way building props and sets and painting backdrops, condoning -- violence against women? What would Oh, lezzie-o-lezzie-hay-hee-hoo rehearsing and sending out announcements. convince their accusers that their safe, sane and con- Soon the duet will become a threeway sensual adventures in sado-masochism did not make Finally the big night arrived. Women from far and Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-loo them tools of the patriarchy? wide showed up, some in couples, some on their Oh-da-lezz-hee-hee Now at the precipice of a great rift, the Von Tramps own, still others in small groups. By the time Gretel Oh-da-lezz-hee-hee needed a way to bridge the divide, to reach across the flickered the lights to get people to take their seats, Oh-da-lezz-hee-hee chasm and join hands to save Lesbian Nation. They’d the whole community was there. Oh-da-lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-oh-da-lay! Oh have to find some way to reunite the community, A little shut down maybe, a little skeptical, but they Hoo! to restore lesbian solidarity and affirm their lesbian were there! connection despite their differences. Lest the angry Oh, how the crowd cheered. The Von Tramps and mob coalesce and come after them with torches and They filled the Von Tramps’ living room, which, their marionettes took a long, deep bow. The audi- pitchforks, the Von Tramps would have to come up conveniently, doubled as a theater. In the darkened ence leapt to their feet. They whistled and stomped something quick. house the Von Tramp musicians began to play the and applauded until their hands stung. The cast overture. Brigita pulled the cord that opened our bowed again. And again. Then they all joined in, Let’s rejoin these brave women as they devise a plan home-made velvet curtain. The crowd oohed and applauding their audience and each other in what to heal this contentious community calamity. ahhed when they laid eyes on our beautiful little would become remembered in the community as the Mistress Superior was right. I, Maria, am a skilled hand-painted puppet theater with the Von Tramp Great Standing Ovulation. The din filled the house therapist. I have all the tools I need to support the women at the strings. Then the costumed mario- and echoed throughout the land. All the women so Von Tramps through any challenge. I am fully nettes danced onto the and the Von Tramps excited, overjoyed, to be connected once again. The capable of guiding them toward resolution of their broke into song. show’s message of women’s freedom to express their conflict. So, with my new-found confidence and Lonely Lezzie love and their power in the face of patriarchy really inspiration, I facilitated a group process. We sat in brought the community together. It was a profound a circle and had a wonderful discussion. (To the tune of Lonely Goatherd) moment of unity and connection, of mutual respect, understanding and appreciation. A celebration of our Liesl: If the women’s community puts us down for magnificent lesbian selves. pursuing our passions, aren’t they the ones who are Von Tramp Puppeteers: colluding with the patriarchy? High on her hormones and feeling lusty But could this momentous moment be topped by the Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-lezzie-hoo upcoming grand finale? Tune in next month when Louisa: Right. We need to find a way to show them Met a young dyke who was round and busty Maria and the Von Tramps attempt to surpass this that our freedom of sexual expression is essential to Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-loo spectacular summit of sisterhood. our liberation, to all women’s liberation. Frederica: Yeah and ain’t I a woman? Won't you join me for a little party? Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-lezzie-hoo [email protected] Gert: Good point. Let’s look at what we stand to Better leave now so we won't be tardy gain by supporting each other, by supporting diversi- Lezzie-oh-da-lezzie-o-da-loo ty within our community. Oh, oh, lezzie-o-da-lee-ho Marta: Excellent idea. Our message is about free- Oh, oh, lezzie-o-da-lay

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9 Herstyle Hot August Nights with Sexy Tattoo Artist Ivana Tattoo and How

| By Christin & Ashley Kelly-Brown

ody art. What is it? Do we like graffiti and began doing art pieces on walls. “I it? Hell, is it even art?! Well, it’s switched from walls to people, and that was it.” easy to look at a picture on the wall or a painting in a gallery The young artist has been on-tour (yes, tattoo and classify it as art. By what artists travel the world with their fans too) Babout tattoos? Sure, when many of us think working and appearing in such places as New of tattoos, we have the image of walking York, London, Berlin, Milan, Prague, and Paris. into a tattoo shop and then picking something Her bold and colorful work has been awarded off the wall of random images. But what if we many times for categories such as Best were able to have tattoos that looked more along Color, Best Black & Grey, Tattoo of the Day, the lines of a painting? Perhaps, a watercolor Best Small Tattoo and Best Individual. painting? I’m excited to write about this artist because not only is she insanely talented, but as Her art has been collected and exhibited in being one of her walking canvases, I somehow various exhibitions, and she’s collaborated with feel an inner obligation to change the minds various art schools internationally. She recently of people that are quite frankly, turned-off by published her bright and bold coffee table book tattoos. So, I’m interviewing her and getting titled “Narcissistic Rockstar” with some of her tattooed by her! Without further ado, I introduce most incredible and unique works. So, how cool to you ladies, Ivana Tattoo. is her work you might be asking? I think it’s time to give you ladies a behind-the-scenes look I first heard about Ivana Tattoo, born Ivana into the making of an ‘Ivana Tattoo’ piece. Belakova, when my wife was in the process of completing her own forearm tattoo (which is amazing). Now, the both of us have a fair amount A few months later, I remember being awaken of tattoos between the two of us (some better/ while graceful sleeping in bed (because I want more amateur than others), but this time I really for you all to think that I sleep ‘gracefully’) by wanted a piece of art. Not just any ol’ tattoo. Since the excitement of my wife in bed on her iPad Ashley knows that the type of art that I’m drawn exclaiming “Babe! She’s gonna be in Long to is both street graffiti and watercolor paintings, Beach! Ivana’s gonna be in Long Beach in she knew that she had found the perfect artist July!” After I snapped out of my sleepy state for me. After seeing her portfolio on her website and realized that our house was not on fire, I and facebook, Ashley was absolutely right. Her then became super excited and couldn’t wait work was the perfect marriage between street art another day without trying to book her. Ashley but with the ‘brushstroke’ effect of a watercolor quickly sends her an email within minutes and painting. Magical. The look of her work was so within a 24-hour span, she emailed back and new and innovative, and the fact that I had never we eventually set a date. Ivana Belakova (also seen anything like her work anywhere was super known as “Ivana Tattoo”) is originally from intriguing. So, I’m all in. Let’s get a tattoo and Slovakia and although she’s young, she has a let’s make an appointment! The only problem fair amount of amazing works that she’s known was that she didn’t live anywhere near me. Not for and the awards to prove it. When I first sat even in . She actually was living and in her chair at the Long Beach tattoo shop Outer working ...well...in Berlin. Oh, damn. But, I like Limits, I began to ask her questions about her her work! She can’t live in outside the country! craft and how she got into tattooing. “I’m self- Oh, well. It’s over. It was a good thought. taught,” says Belakova. She got her start with

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com Do you like it? I love it, my wife loves it, so would simply just wipe it away. If she sketched Us ladies knew that we were tougher than men, I’m a happy girl. I basically gave her a little bit it and she liked it, she would then turn on the but now we have some additional evidence of an idea as to what I wanted, simply because tattoo gun and well, make it permanent. Genius! from a woman who knows pain! I also asked I wanted the rest to be completely up to her. As During our session, I also asked her a few funny her a question that was quite interesting and the my wife and I are both artists, we know what questions with her being a tattooer. answer even better! it feels like when a client puts you in a box creatively and I wanted to give her creative HERstyle: “Between men and women, who HS: So, I have to ask...where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever tattooed someone?

IVANA: (laughing) you really want to know?

HS: Yes, now I DEFINITELY want to know!

IVANA: It was a guy and let’s just say that it was below the belt.

YIKES!!!!! Whomever is brave enough to take it to that level, deserves a medal because let’s be honest, tattoos hurt. After me sitting for almost 6 hours, with us only having a 30-minute break for lunch, Ivana really shows that she has the stamina and passion for the art she’s creating. When it was all said and done, I was on cloud 9. This was my first piece that I was actually proud to show off. It was both a badge of badass girl- toughness as well as a one-of-a-kind painting on my arm forever. More recently, tattoos have become more socially acceptable. Within our own lesbian community, we’re seeing more and more women show off their ink and even tattoos that represent LGBT pride or equality. Of course we’ve seen the cute little dykes with tribal bands on their arms or even Chinese symbols, but I’ve seen more women in their late 50s-60s with tattoos recently and many of them were grandmothers. The old stigma that ‘you’re either a convict or have no future if you have a tattoo’ is slowly fading and many people are realizing that there are some truly beautiful pieces of work out there. When I went back home to the Bay Area and showed my grandmother my tattoo, she liked it. But of course, she liked Ashley’s tattoo way more. Classic.

Tattoos, graffiti, street art, watercolor paintings, splatter art...all of it is just that. ART. It may not be in a gallery or reviewed by prestigious curators, but it should be. Modern and urban artforms are now being recognized along with fine art. That’s the beauty of art is that it’s forever changing. I challenge you to go to a gallery or show in your area that revolves around urban license to the fullest. With her knowing that I art. The feeling is different, the crowd can be am a woman that loves women (as is she….. would you say has the higher threshold for a bit different, but you’re also being exposed YESSSSSSSS!!!!!), I wanted a piece of art that pain?” to a completely different side of art. And that’s represented a woman with bodacious hair, but the point. Art pushes the boundaries and so do with Ivana’s signature watercolor influence. IVANA: “Women definitely have a higher pain tattoos. Please feel free to check out the gorgeous Watching her work was absolutely amazing. tolerance. I have tattooed some men that have Ivana Tattoo’s website and view her portfolio at After she laid the initial design and tattooed the needed to stop or want to cry because they can’t www.ivanatattooart.com, where you can find outline, a lot of the graphics and sketch strokes take the pain. But I’ve had some women in my her book as well as where she’ll be next. she incorporated were drawn or ‘sketched’ on chair that can sit longer and not make a sound.” my skin first. If she didn’t like what she saw, she [email protected]

11 Golf

Kudos To Michelle Wie - Winner 2014 U.S. Women’s Open

| By Karyn Dunphy, LPGA Member, and Founder of New Thought Golf

At that time, Eva was 33. She got hooked and fell in I had a very hard time believing that was happening. love with golf. I was a budding new golf professional The pain was truly excruciating! Still in denial and at the tender young age of 46. I had just ‘turned pro’ with the help of an angelic friend of mine named Mary earlier that summer. Turning ‘Pro’ for anyone is a leap Ritchie, the paramedics were summoned and I was soon of faith. Turning ‘Pro’ at age 46 was a giant leap of faith on my way to Cedars Sinai Hospital, where I lived in for me; and it was absolutely what I needed. For the past the CICU unit for the next five days. There, I brushed two decades, I was stumbling through life working for a right up against the veil that separates us from life as we living and not following my hearts’ calling to do what I know it and ‘the great what’s next. I almost died twice loved most… golf! At that time, I was a single working that week. woman, parenting two kids, living on credit cards and barely eking out a living. I felt my life was filled with I thank God for leaving me here a little while longer. miracles and then, along came Eva. She lived a miracle- Each day, when I wake, I express gratitude for being alive based life even though she wasn’t very spiritual at all. and I pray for the well being of all of God’s creatures Whatever she thought she could do, she did it. everywhere. I practice releasing my belief in worry and to work on reducing my stress levels, (especially when We developed a solid friendship based on mutual respect I see the hospital bill of over $108,000.00 for my stay and a fervent love for the game. In retrospect, I think that and treatments). ell my friends, another Independence underneath it all, Eva somehow knew that she had to get Day has passed. Happy 238th her work done early in her because her lifespan What about insurance birthday America! I truly believe we was destined to be short. It seemed like her intuition was you say? I applied under live in the greatest country on earth guiding her. the Affordable Care Act and I am proud to be an American! here in California, known WI am also a great believer in independence. Let us Eva was hungry to join the ranks of women golf as Covered California in celebrate the ‘Spirit of Independence’. professionals and be part of the Ladies Professional Golf December 2013 before the Association (LPGA). While working full time as a cake first deadline and to this Now, a brief update in the world of women’s professional decorator, Eva’s passion and creativity abounded in her day, I still have no medical golf. The Women’s National Championships has come cake artistry as well. She said the ‘crown jewel’ of her insurance. Red tape, blue and gone. Donald Ross’s divine creation, Pinehurst No. cakes was the wedding cake that she created for Barbara tape, it’s all the same. God 2, withstood two major events handily, wiping out the Streisand. I saw the picture of it and it was truly out of just laughs and loves us all claim of many pundits that it wasn’t a good idea to stage this world. the same. two National Championships on the same golf course in two consecutive weeks. Eva had reached a plateau and it was time for her I know that Eva is out of her pain and suffering here on to spread her wings and leap from the nest. She was the physical plane of life though and if you are listening Kudos to Michelle Wie! Well done! She won the 2014 accepted to Arizona State University’s PGA Professional Eva; know that I and all of your friends here love you Women’s U.S. Open Championship in a stunning victory Golf Management Program, worked ceaselessly and and miss you! So, ladies… if you’ve got that yearning that demonstrated poise, maturity and the skills of a constantly burned the midnight oil well past midnight. in your gut to take up golf, don’t let the grass grow under seasoned veteran champion while only 24 years of age. She graduated Suma Cum Lade in Professional Golf your feet! Begin! Begin this summer! Now, she belongs in the major championship winners Management and Agri-Business, PGA/LPGA Class "A". club. Nice club to be a member of. Way to go Michelle! That’s no small feat for mere mortals. Try that on for size Remember, don’t quit! It’s just like life! The only way and see how it fits you. you can mess it up is to quit! Now, if by chance you’ve been thinking of taking up golf for some reason, begin! There was nothing else in Eva’s consciousness except To find a qualified and certified LPGA Instructor near her love for golf. When she became an LPGA/PGA you, visit: www.LPGA.com. Click ‘Teaching & Club Teaching Professional, she focused her love towards Let me tell you a true story. It could be a chapter out of a Pros’… then click ‘Find a Pro’ near you. sharing her gifts and skills in golf with everyone that book about miracles. came in contact with her. May you and your loved ones be blessed beyond measure Once upon a time, on a brilliant sun-filled day in the and until next time, “may the course be with you.” If my words sound like a eulogy for Eva Sallgren, you’d autumn of 1997, I met a be right. You see, I was one of the few that eulogized young woman at Rancho Karyn Dunphy Eva at her end-of-life celebration at the Beverly Hills Park Golf Course in West Country Club on January 12, 2014. I was first to speak while I was Founder: New Thought Golf and while eulogizing her, I experienced a heart attack practicing my putting on halfway through my remarks. Totally f-----ng amazing! the front putting green. LPGA Member Class A I remember her saying that her name was Eva There I was, passionately speaking my word for Eva Author’s note: The above opinions are those of the Sallgren. I say was because at her wonderful end-of-life celebration service and I author only, and not those of the LPGA. sadly, Eva Sallgren lost went in to the throws of cardiac arrest. I had previous her courageous and hard- experience at this because it was my second heart attack [email protected] fought battle with cancer and somehow I was able to close my remarks with a last November at the blessing and an ‘Amen’. Thankfully, I was able to slink tender young age of 49. outside the room to see if I could shake it off.

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com POETRY Forgiveness Tastes Better Than Regret By Mrag Hillsinger

Pictures pinned up by the phone Children once, now fully grown Busy now and moved away Your life in steady, dull decay

I see your spot by the table there Your magazines, your favorite chair The TV that once nattered on The crossword puzzle now you're gone

When did we have our last, worst fight? What was so important to be right? The little wounds that didn't heal Against a ticking clock so real

I'm sorry was the magic word Resentment was the sharpest sword Forgiveness would have made it better A call, a card, a written letter

I'd like to say I did my best But as my hand rests on my chest And I, like Sherlock, read the scene I'm sorry mother, for what could have been Abundance [email protected]

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13 RONNI SANLO VS. THE IMMORAL Writer-Director-Producer Andrea Meyerson’s Letter To Anita

| By John Esther

ust 10 years ago, Andrea AM: We have made Meyerson made her first great strides and our feature, Laughing Matters, work is not done yet a documentary about four but certainly when lesbian comedians. Since then, you turn on the news JMeyerson has produced and directed and every day another many documentaries about people in state legalizes same show business. In her latest documentary, sex marriage and more Meyerson focuses on someone in show and more people are business, again but this time the portrait is recognizing marriage not so flattering. equality. We are living history right now and In the late 1970s, singer and Florida Orange it is such an exciting Juice spokesperson Anita Bryant organized time. We still have a a coalition called (SOC). long way to go but we Despite the title, SOC had nothing to do with have come a long way. helping children but rather, to sock it to the It’s people like Ronni LGBT community through various forms of who fought the good anti-LGBT policies, attitudes and legislation. fight on behalf of our One of those people SOC hurt was Ronni Sanlo. rights. Sanlo was a mother who came out as a lesbian. LN: How did When she divorced, thanks to SOC-induced Meredith Baxter Florida law, Sanlo was not allowed custody become involved in of her two young children. This forced Sanlo the project? down a path she had not planned taking.

Decades later, the activist icon and educator Sanlo wrote a letter to Bryant describing the documentary? pain she endured as result of SOC. Andrea Meyerson: I have always been really When Meyerson read the “Letter to Anita” in inspired by Ronni. I never knew anybody Sanlo’s memoir, The Purple Cart: Memoirs of who was so affected by so much gay hate and a Lesbian Grandma, she felt compelled to tell laws. When I read“Letter to Sanlo’s story. With the help of Sanlo and actor Anita” I just choked up. It just really got to me. Meredith Baxter, she did. So I approached Ronni to see if she would be In this exclusive interview, LN spoke to interested in making a movie. AM: With documentaries, you know that there Meyerson about her Letter to Anita, plus her is a story there but you don’t always know what LN: How does the documentary fit into the upcoming Clambake. that story is until you start production. At least narrative of where the lesbian community is that’s how I work. Then in post-production I let Lesbian News: Why did you want to make this now as opposed to a mere 35 or so years ago? my footage guide me in unfolding the story and

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com that generations from now will know what it was like.

LN: What can you tell us about your upcoming project, Clambake?

AM: I am very excited about it. This year makes the 30th anniversary of Women’s Week in Provincetown, Massachusetts. I have been taking women there for the past 15 or 16 years. I really know Women’s Week. I really know the performers. It’s a very cultural event. Yes, there are parties, there is a lot of dancing, lots of partying but there is also a lot of culture. There are theater events and movie screenings and tons and tons of performers – both comedy and music. It’s such a great place to be. Last year, when I was with my group I realized that it was going to be the 30th anniversary and that this is another part of our history that should be documented. really honing in on the story I want to tell. As I community together in a way that we had never The town of Provincetown has been incredibly was filming everything came back down to the been brought together before. Sometimes you supportive. They gave us some money to get a letter. I wanted to bring that home and I decided have to look at the solution, not the problem. I little bit of filming done. We have a Kickstarter that in order to really tell Ronni’s story I didn’t had to honor Ronni’s message of forgiveness. It campaign going to get more funding. Folks can feel it should be Ronni telling every piece of it. I took me a while to get there. It’s the one kind visit www.ClambakeTheMovie.com to learn just felt that somebody else should narrate and I of controversial piece of this film – Ronni’s more about how they can support the project and did want a professional bring part of our lesbian culture to the screen. actor because I wanted LN: Do you care to elaborate on the title of the somebody who could project? read the letter with emotion. I knew it had AM: The word clambake came to me and I to be somebody who is realized that it was perfect. If you think about it, gay because I needed it could be a double entendre [laughs]. them to understand the impact. I never LN: What do you think about these interviews? considered anyone else Do you think that these interviews serve the but Meredith. work or should the work speak for itself?

LN: Bryant’s behavior AM: That’s an interesting question. What I galvanized the gay love about LN and any LGBT publication that rights movement but asks for an interview with me, is that to me what do you think of forgiving and her gratitude toward Anita. But is community support. As an artist, I don’t do Ronni’s decision to forgive or “thank” Anita it’s Ronni’s story. And it drove Ronni into a life this for myself. I mean I am very fulfilled by Bryant? of activism that really helped change things. this work but the fulfillment comes from other people seeing my films and enjoying them. I AM: That is an excellent question! I battled with LN: What do you want audiences to get out of seek to entertain and enlighten. Interviews are a Ronni’s decision but I have to honor my subject. Letter to Anita? good thing. It is always weird to talk about one’s And it’s true! Anita Bryant did galvanize the self but I am so passionate about my work that I community. If it wasn’t Anita Bryant, it would AM: I want younger generations who have will never shut up about my work…as you can have been somebody else. It’s a bad thing when never heard Anita Bryant’s name to understand tell [Laughs]. somebody preaches such hatred and strips what generations before them sacrificed for people of their equal rights and fights to do their equal rights. It’s important to preserve and that. But what is amazing is that it brought our document this history. I want to create art that enlightens and entertains and lives forever so

15 Comic of the month Marga Gomez | By Lynda Montgomery

LN: How was your summer; did you do any pride events? I used to do the treadmill, and bike at the gym and had a trainer but have fallen off this year since I've been writing MG: This is one of my best summers ever and it's all building and rewriting my show LOVEBIRDS. And spending too much to the spectacular Luscious Festival in August in Saratoga time at my desk. But I gained a few pounds in the last year so Springs, the first inclusive queer outdoor performance music I’ll probably be back to the gym. I don't want to have to buy festival. Gay men and lesbians romping together in nature. new clothes. All year I've been busy with stand-up and theater. My 10th solo show LOVEBIRDS premiered in in June LN: Do you have any day jobs? at the legendary La Mama Theater. In May I travelled through Europe with Olivia Cruises and made a bunch of new friends MG: I’m honored to be making my living as an out queer artist and tried some fantastic wine. I was the main stage emcee for 30 years. I also teach how to create a one person show - of San Francisco Pride and will be headlining Reno Pride in individually and in classes. I thought about being a teacher August. when I was a kid. To finally be able to share information and make a difference in someone's work is a new thrill for me. LN: Have you noticed any changes in the festivals... It's also a delightful source of income. Now I want to get my parades...etc? shows published, make some DVDs and get passive income along with performing. MG: I have noticed good stuff and bad about US Pride in 2014. I'm not feeling all the corporate sponsorship of pride. It's like LN: Do you prefer performing or writing? a rainbow infomercial sometimes. It's kind of a bummer when some Pride committees forget the reason this all started is to Now I try to forget my phone at least once a week. But I still MG: Performing is way more fun than writing. I get to see celebrate ourselves and our history and not to try to get the am addicted. On the Fourth of July instead of marveling at people at shows, after shows and get into trouble. I get biggest mainstream act money can buy whether it's LGBT fireworks I'm taking mediocre pictures of them to share applause and free hugs. When I am on a writing deadline, I or not. Let's support, celebrate and represent our community online. Can we just look at the sky? live a monk's life. Writing can be a slow painstaking process during Pride. with a few moments of ecstatic break-throughs and too many LN: What is your favorite adult beverage? snacks. But I can't do one without the other. LN: Where are you living now? MG: Expensive champagne. I don't care what label; it just Marga Gomez will be featured at the Luscious Queer Music MG: I'm bi-coastal and mostly based in San Francisco. needs to cost over 50 bucks at Bevmo. Festival August 20th through August 24th in Saratoga Springs, CA. Tickets at www.lusciousqueermusicfestival.org. Marga's LN: What’s your status on Facebook? LN: What is your favorite sit com --? hit solo comedy LOVEBIRDS will be presented Sept 19th through Oct 18th at The Marsh in Berkeley, CA. Tickets www. MG: Facebook is so messed up lately. I think everyone's status MG: Curb. themarsh.org. Visit Marga's website at www.margagomez. is "ask." That's no fun. At the moment I am single. com LN: Pets? LN: Do you Twitter? MG: None. Someday I'd like to get another dog. [email protected] MG: Yes! My twitter handle is @margagomez and my instagam handle is @themargagomez. My website is margagomez.com. LN: How do you stay in shape? I was being a major social media junkie but then I forgot my phone one day and the real world seemed to open up to me. MG: We all are in shape. Our shapes are just different sizes THE LN GRIN

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com HUMANITY HERE BEAUTIFUL... | By Karen Williams

"Do I love you because you're beautiful? in particular. I recall seeing a film, shown as an introduction our appreciation for others as well as for ourselves. The to my undergraduate studies, that accented the effects that experience of love brings out our own inner beauty. Or are you beautiful because I love you? "good" looks have on a person's ability to advance in a career. It postulated that persons endowed with good looks One interesting observation that I've made is that laughing -- Johnny Mathis were more likely to be employed and to advance in their together makes everyone look attractive. Radiant smiles, work lives. I have to admit that when I watched the movie, sparkling eyes, and belly laughter spark connection and ne of the things I love about technology I was a wee bit appalled by the subtle yet harsh truth of the deepens intimacy. Certainly these attributes contribute to is being able to recapture elements of implication that how one looks could in fact impact one's a sense that our loved one is beautiful, a precious sight to my young life that affected me, like life and its trajectory. behold! the music. One night I listened to, watched and enjoyed Johnny Mathis on Over the years, I've become acculturated to look beneath the So the lyrics sung by Johnny and other love balladeers cause Omy iPhone until dawn. I recalled that as a young girl, I surface for qualities that define inner beauty, like kindness, us to think about love and beauty in ways that awaken our heard his romantic verses as they resonated down the long compassion, generosity, sincerity, warmth, and good hearts to what is really important. After all, in this life, it hall from my dad's record player. These two lines have humor. These qualities affect the heart, which is after all really is the heart that matters. I'd go as far as to say that remained in my psyche because of the latent truism... Is my where true beauty resides. A Buddhist saying attests to this beauty is in the heart of the beholder... loved one beautiful or is she beautiful because I love her? axiom when it states that the most important pursuit in life is not treasures of the storehouse or material possessions nor Be beautiful! Perhaps the lines resonate with the old adage that "beauty treasures of the body -- physical attributes -- but treasures is in the eyes of the beholder!" Admittedly, there is a high of the heart! Our capacity for love matters, as does mutual [email protected] price placed on physical beauty in our culture, and in gay life respect and consideration. Cultivating love broadens BOOKS All In | By Teresa Decrescenzo

Annie Jump Navarro, known as “Nova” takes herself very certain behaviors, such as touching the chips or deliberately seriously in Nell Stark’s excellent poker love story. Nova is not touching the chips, looking back at your cards (as if you an online champion, whose meteoric rise to poker stardom cannot believe what you see or have forgotten what cards has been interrupted by the Federal government’s shutdown you hold), and so forth. Skilled players can easily read the of all poker websites in the United States. This plot device behavior and playing style of an amateur. actually took place across the country in 2011. All such sites have been blocked since then, as legislation unfolds and That’s what happened to Nova as soon as she sat at a “live” litigation continues. Nova has not only lost a ton of money table. She was immediately off her game, couldn’t read that has been frozen indefinitely, possibly permanently, she anyone, but everyone could read her, and as a result, Nova has lost her ability to earn a living. Her sponsor has offered was systematically beaten – and beaten down. Her nerves her a lucrative financial opportunity, but only if she can go became frayed, her self-confidence waned, and her hopes to Las Vegas and win a bracelet at one of the many major for a bracelet and a bundle of cash were fast fading. Enter tournaments taking place leading up to the Main Event – Vesper. Stylish, sophisticated, great looking and a casino WSOP. No ladies events for Nova. She has the skill and host who comped Nova to a high-roller suite as a favor to All In the desire to go up against the major male players in a Texas Nova’s sponsor. By Nell Stark hold ‘em showdown. However, there are more than a few Bold Strokes Books obstacles between her and the brass ring, the bracelet (and Nova does not know what to do about Vesper, who appears www.boldstrokesbooks.com the two million dollars for finishing in first place). immune to Nova’s playboy charm and good looks. But this is a love story after all. Vesper is in the closet, and with The biggest hurdle is the very fact of Nova’s experience her good looks is the object of considerable male attention, being solely online. Think about it. If you are at home on including rich drunks, whose behavior she more or less he real world of professional poker is your computer, whether you’re grooving to the sounds of thinks she needs to tolerate until one boor goes too far with essentially a man’s world. It was 1978 your favorite music, watching “Desert Hearts” for the tenth her, causing a ruckus that threatens to cost Vesper her job, when Barbara Freer broke the gender time, or doing an “Orange is the New Black” marathon, and throws Nova even further into turmoil. Eventually, barrier by becoming the first woman entrant you are alone, thus can dress and act any way you want to, Nova and Vesper come together in some very touching in the World Series of Poker (WSOP), and including a running commentary on what you’re watching. sexual encounters. Love blossoms. Other things happen Tin 1982, the “Ladies” World Championship event was Not so if you are with friends in front of your flat screen. with some predictability, but it’s still an engaging read. added. It wasn’t until 2001 that the “ladies” were included Everyone has to be reasonably quiet, and for the most part in the coveted “Texas hold ‘em” competition. Even now, the confine comments to intermission or bathroom breaks. It’s If you are a poker fan, you will like “All In” a lot. If you ladies are diminished by the men. The winner of the 2013 the same with online poker. You can shout at the other don’t know a thing about poker, you should still enjoy a “ladies” event won under $200,000, while the male winner players. They can’t hear you. You can sit, stand, recline, well-paced love tale. If poker bores you, this is not the book of the main event won more than twelve million dollars. For jump up and down, and express yourself with any choice for you. the most part, the women who are featured in the televised of language. This you cannot do when you play poker live. To the contrary. That’s why they call it a “poker main event are oddities: actresses, starlets, cutie-pies, no [email protected] one to be taken very seriously as a poker player. face.” The idea is to show no emotion, to not allow anyone to “read” your expression, offer no “tells.” A tell is when you telegraph your intentions or the quality of your hand by

17 QUEERLY QUESTIONING Does Birth Control Matter For Lesbians? | By Juno Parrenas, PhD

n no way is it humanly possible for me to have Lobby, it seems that we have to brace ourselves for the freedoms. This is a different kind of capitalism than what an accidental pregnancy due to consensual sex. ’s persistent efforts at pushing us back we had in the nineteenth century, yet it resonates with With that in mind, does access to birth control to the nineteenth century, when infanticide was the that time. It appears that we are headed to a new Gilded matter to non-reproductive people such as conclusion of an unwanted pregnancy, when the poor Age with deep inequalities. But the Carnegies of the day myself and perhaps as some of you LN readers? were sent to debtors’ prisons, when people who had sex are not patrons of public arts, libraries, education and IThe answer is an absolute and resolute yes. with people of the same sex were sent to insane asylums other places meant to placate the masses. It is instead and when we spoke of society as “Christendom.” The the opposite: they use their wealth to take away anything Birth control medication is by definition a medical Hobby Lobby decision shows us that these efforts are that should be public and commonly held, whether that issue. It is used to alleviate menstrual cramps, remedy frighteningly successful. is health care, green spaces, water or education. hormonal problems and treat the painful condition of endometriosis. In addition to its medical utility, birth To say that this country is going backwards in time is not In the face of this, what are we supposed to do? I ask control helps to equal the playing field such that it entirely fair, since these efforts have to be understood as a this as I witness the growing power of the marriage allows women to exercise control over their own bodies. backlash to the social welfare state. A social welfare state between and vicious wealth Nineteenth century opponents of women’s education provides healthcare to its citizens, who are its present in this country. Planned Parenthood’s email list asks used such bodily difficulties endured by women to argue tax base and financial assistance to children, who are the me to #jointhedissent because it’s #notmybossbusiness that women had too weak a constitution to be educated state’s future tax base, as well as affordable educational whether or not my colleagues need birth control let alone pursue a profession outside the home. Such opportunities for its current and future workforce. The medication. Can this counter the rhetoric and money logic back in the nineteenth century was limited to elite right-wing response to this kind of state support has been behind #teamlife that says women alone can control women alone: working-class women were expected to argue for “fiscal responsibility,” a code-word against their own fertility without their boss’ “handouts”? to work as domestic laborers, washerwomen and investing in society. agricultural workers among other low-wage or enslaved [email protected] jobs. Here and now, we see a new kind of citizen emerging: the privately held corporation, in which it has the legal Living through the aftermath of Burwell v. Hobby rights and freedoms that trump women’s rights and TRANSGENDER Life as a Spork: Stick a Spork in me; I’m done! Pt. 2

| By Chris Angel Murphy

left y’all with many questions. Did they get the When I share my life story with different groups, I used done with surgeries. Even with my dad’s passing, it job? What happened with the email exchange? to joke about my “spork life” and even brought along provided closure and moving forward it is freeing and How come they no longer identify as a “spork?” titanium spork for visuals (thanks, Havilah). One day scary to know I am the only person who can get in my when I was doing a presentation with PFLAG (Parents own way. First and foremost; I’m happy to report I am and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) at a high school, it I EMPLOYED! I’m working at TEEN LINE as hit me that it didn’t fit anymore. I keep describing my I’m not sure who you are. Maybe you’ve read this their Marketing and Research Coordinator as well as gender identity (genderqueer) as fluid, yet I was using whole time, or maybe you’re only catching this round. gender and sexuality outreach. TEEN LINE is a peer- a binary system to describe it, which is counter to how Regardless, I can tell you this: my life is incredible. I to-peer hotline from 6PM-10PM PST every day. The I truly feel about it. Folks I speak with regularly are have grown from an uncomfortable, shy, suicidal kid teen listeners also offer support via text, email, and we mourning the loss of my Spork symbolism (so many into a young adult who is confident, open, and happy. have a message board. Those of you who may work cute jokes), yet are optimistic I will find new language The opportunities for growth during my youth have led with youth in Southern California may know us by our that is more encompassing. It’s more important that me to where I am today, and nearly all (if not all) have Youth Yellow Pages. Fingers crossed, by the time you I be authentic and honest with my journey, including been resolved in one way or another. This is largely read this we will have launched our new website (http:// picking up and leaving language as necessary. due to the kindness of strangers who have helped me to teenlineonline.org/) and our free app. Honestly, I’m Language is powerful; it evolves, and so do I. live authentically and keep pushing me today to live up thrilled to be part of a team of people who are so driven to my full potential, whatever that entails. and passionate about what they do; it is truly inspiring! The past three years have been intense, rewarding, Moreover, I can say without hesitation that I enjoy what life changing, challenging, inspiring, and productive. Thank you to LN for providing me this space to share I am doing every single day. Sometimes I thought I would never make it to the part of my process! It’s hard to believe it’s been 3 next semester, day, or even moment. Other moments years, yet I am grateful and hope my words did some As far as the email exchange, we talked a bit more passed too quickly. It blows my mind that I was able good! ☺ about Coexist and I let the contact fizzle out. It was to graduate from USC with my Master of Social around then that I was offered this position and had to Work and find employment so quickly, or that I could [email protected] focus on healing from my surgery as well as prepare to complete my last gender confirming surgery and have start on the right note. that process behind me. My gender and sexuality journey will always be a process, yet at least I am

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com Theorhetically Speaking Backwoods Suburbia | By Nikki McCauley

here’s no doubt when there is no fear Never knew strength always called frail and weak One Mother to another… there’s a knowing And who I am, and what I am about is very clear Always felt alone like a fledging Burden of sister No more need for forgetting the fairy tales Made friends with bugs and gnomes hoping no one noticed To raise her son I like fairy tales Fell in love with going to concerts cause everyone’s f***ed up On the run until Approaching the end of days And loving Until I learn how to fly TRefusing to sip from the chalice And since I started smoking at three Disappearing –telling so many lies I was exiled Seems a poetic justice Evading probing questions about likeness of our eyes Found solace in Alice Addicted to nicotine and flicking ashes He’s hungry and he cries Rejected, and estranged My family thought it was cute and funny Through his suffering I was too Romeo So, I blew like a chimney the wind and leaves Realizing I was neglecting In love with Juliet A free spirit That which I was protecting I like spells I like legend Unfounded, off the leash, swinging on branches My options I despise I toll Franklin’s bell Pi**ing on trees Either way a lie is a lie I search for princesses in towers Careless until burning branches And my confession or my defection Once saw Jack, there is a bean stalk Stoke the fire inside of me Would cause my father’s absence There’s a tear in the veil Leaving all of us my brothers and sisters Shall we continue- she pressed play Homeless and poor But the morning sickness that is the hardest part I was as honey to a swarm of bees My mother, I’d come to despise… The lesson I learned… was learn to enjoy the sting So my only option, my only solution Feeling like a carrot in the pot Molested Was to take this charted course hand to the sky I asked the reporter to pause Infested by daddy’s seed Reconsidering my cause Sick every morning knowing A bright redlight flashed indicating our time I am the first shot heard around the globe My brother’s my baby Was concluded… she stood up… Never imagined I’d be a tale told Wonder why I act a little bit crazy Audiences is interested, listening, paying attention Fridge on the fritz And I said, thank you, I can take it from here. Outer body experience, witnessing, Happy then intensely angry The guards opened the cage and took her down In a dimension; where I’m more than an extension Loving then throwing things A dark corridor. The next time you see me, you’ll be a best seller and Of the hand dealt to me Said I needed shock therapy Hollywood will be begging you for a movie deal. Difficult to conceive… Riddling me- no medication An over comer they call me! Breast feeding [email protected] When grandma tore him away from me Former member of the agony of defeat Redefining my defensiveness ---Having to defend My over protecting tendency staring in to my mother’s eyes Many years the bereaving For the iniquity I see in him Never knew normal, being always sickly Kin to kin THE COACH’S CORNER Let Go of Fear and Let Your True Colors Shine! | By Kristi Pallino

ife is like a kaleidoscope, every facet of the values and beliefs of the folks that shaped us. First we must learn to separate ourselves from our the broken colors representing a different fear. Scan your body and see where the fear is located. circumstance in your life. As life goes on, the For many years I searched for answers of my own, Describe what it looks like, and what it is saying to colors shift up to down, down to up, and side because some of the values I was taught did not feel in you. Fear is really only a product of your mind. It is to side. alignment with my soul. My soul wanted more out of not who you are! L life, but my mind and body were not on board. My soul Each piece of the kaleidoscope is shaped by the was held back from being and doing what it came here Once you no longer identify with your fear, you can thought and perspective we have assigned to it. Outside to do. Looking at the disjointed kaleidoscope of my become the Master of your life. Set your intention experiences are interpreted depending on our beliefs life, I felt a growing frustration inside. to live as you were purposefully brought here to be. and our attached baggage: each circumstance becomes Doesn’t it feel powerful to look fear in the eyes and what we say it will become. We are also a product of Eventually I came to a realization that what webbed all say, "You have been dictating my life, but I'm not our own thoughts. these colors together was my fear. Having been a Life going to let you hold me back from living fully any Intuitive Coach for many years, I had heard thousands longer!" The mind is a powerful tool—a tool we were not given of stories. I noticed that somewhere in each of my instructions how to use. What if we were told to build clients' stories was their own fear. I could see that fear Now it is time for you to answer this powerful, a house without instruction? We can imagine how long stops the natural flow of our soul’s nature. thought-provoking question: if fear wasn’t a factor in it would take to build, and how many overwhelming your life, where would you be, and who would you be? feelings of frustration and stress that would present. Year after year the voice of fear tells us, "It will never Likewise, we may have been taught how to maneuver work, you don’t have the money, or time, you are not as What a wonderful journey awaits the authentic you!! around the external obstacles in our lives, but what smart or talented as the others, no one will accept you, about our internal ones? or love you.” This is the message most of us hear from I love you, Kristi our fear. Some of us have huge fear and some have Growing up, we were shaped by our living environment. small fear, but it impacts all of us. [email protected] We were trained to learn, we were taught right from wrong, we were taught to be a big girl and not to cry. Yes, fear is part of life, but we do not have to give it We took the learning and traveled with it, holding onto power over us. We can take our power back!

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Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com OUTFEST Gala Opening Night Anatomy of a Love Seen

Buck Angel and Partner with Ella Amy Walmann, Director Mockingbird Sings Outfest Ln 40Th Anniversary Cake and Friend

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Outfest Lee And Ella Outfest Meryl & Diane Cast of Life Partners film

Marina And Producer Marina And Cast Semo And Carlena

21 MOVIES EYE C Standing Their Grounds

| By John Esther

ensationalized in the New York press as The defendants were black, poor, gay and female. And they were violent; they were attacked and convicted because “Attack of the Killer Lesbians” and other many played into the racism, classism, homophobia and they dared to display an identity which does not fit into homophobic slurs, a group of young, gay sexism in America. patriarchal paradigm. If the women in this case had been women were tried and prosecuted in a court white, middle class and not gay, instead of black, working of law simply for defending themselves The trial may have lasted nearly a year but it only took class and gay, you can bet the outcome of the investigation Sagainst a non-gay man. the all-white jury of 10 women and two men five hours of and trial would have been entirely different. deliberation before finding On April 26, 2006, a group of young African-American Brown, Dandridge, Hill This is a reality these women from Newark, New Jersey women from New Jersey were walking through Greenwich and Johnson guilty of know all too well. Here people live under the constant threat Village in New York City when a man named Dwayne second-degree assault. of violence not just by local gangs and drug addicts but by Buckle approached one of them. Words were exchanged. the police, too. The brother of one of these women had been When words failed, violence ensued. As a result, Buckle had The judge sentenced the killed by the police. (Another interviewee in the film is been stabbed. women from 3-11 years, killed before the completion of the film.) with Johnson receiving In the aftermath, Buckle said the attack was “a hate crime the longest sentence for The irony of the April 16, 2006, is that the women went against a straight man.” On another hand, four of the seven bringing out the knife. to New York because “we thought we could be ourselves” women involved -- Venice Brown, Terrain Dandridge, (The other women without being harassed and persecuted. It seems even in Renata Hill and Patreese Johnson -- tell another, more involved in the incident a “progressive” place like New York City, discrimination convincing, tale, supported by Blair Dorosh-Walther’s pleaded out and are not against black, gay women still exists. riveting documentary, Out in the Night. featured in Out in the Night). I know there is a general optimism that things are getting According to the testimony of these women, a movie theater better for rights of the LGBT community via strides in surveillance camera and the documented inadequacies Tracing the lives and events of Brown, Dandridge, Hill marriage equality, the repeal of DOMA and “Don’t Ask, of both law and order procedures, it was Buckle who first and Johnson before the incident, the evidence surrounding Don’t Tell” (and they are) but as Out in the Night illustrates, accosted the women and started the fight. There were also the incident and trial and the aftermath of the sentencing, we still have a long way to go. two men who intervened on behalf of the women. Those Dorosh-Walther’s documentary makes a pretty clear and men were never found. convincing argument that a miscarriage of justice occurred. [email protected] These women were not attacked and convicted because

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com MEREDITH BAXTER An interview with the iconic actress on life's lessons and “Letter to Anita” By Michel Khordoc

23 mmy Award winning Meredith Baxter is most known for her role as Elyse Keaton on the hit 80s “”. Her warmth, humor and contagious smile made her one of the most popular women on television with millions of viewers religiously following her on the small screen each Eweek. The author of the bestselling Memoir “Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame and Floundering,” Baxter revealed how her success deceitfully masked a tumultuous personal story and a harrowing private life.

In it she shares her incredible highs such as working with Robert Redford, Doris Day & Michael J. Fox, not to mention bravely on The Today Show; and her lows including a thorny relationship with her mother, a difficult marriage to and a bout with breast cancer, to finally reveal the real woman behind her iconic All-American mother image.

Baxter achieved success early in her career with a string of hit television series including “Bridget Loves Bernie,” the critically-acclaimed drama “Family,” and of course, most notably, the long-running and extremely popular “Family Ties.” She then made a seamless transition to drama quickly becoming one of the most sought-after Baxter also founded the Meredith Baxter Foundation the awkward new situation in front of her. actors for television movies. for Breast Cancer Research after becoming a successful breast cancer survivor. She has also created her own The Lesbian News couldn’t be more honored to catch up In 1991, she earned an Emmy nomination for her skin care line, Meredith Baxter Simple Works, which with the iconic actress. performance as the lead character in “A Woman she uses the profits to help find her foundation. The Scorned: The Story.” She reprised her intent is that funding will go toward prevention and As Meredith Baxter is keeping that acting bug rolling acclaimed role in “Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, The research, including the funding of free mammograms and the speaking engagement roles coming, she most Last Chapter.” In 1993, Baxter earned another Emmy for low-income women. definitely provides a shinning example of how women nomination for her performance in the CBS School can “make it”, not just in Hollywood but in life in Break Special, “Other Mothers,” portraying the lesbian Not surprising from a woman whom, in film, television, general, on their own terms. mother of a teenager who encounters . and on stage, has been noted for her accessible portrayals of intelligent, independent women who LESBIAN NEWS: First of all congratulations on your Ever since putting all her cards on the table, the most struggle with the challenges before them. marriage to Nancy. This is your fourth marriage - so, is well-known hippie mom of the sitcom world, far from the fourth time a charm? dropping out of the spotlight, has been keeping quite Baxter recently participated in the Andrea Meyerson a busy schedule. Despite what people may think, documentary called LETTER TO ANITA, which made MEREDITH BAXER: I'm just beginning to appreciate coming out as a Lesbian actually helped Baxter enjoy its LA premiere at this past 2014 Outfest Los Angeles how much marriage entails. I think I spent the first a genuinely more fulfilled life. She’s enjoyed a string Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. 50-some-odd years of my life with a distorted, fantastical of personal and professional victories and milestone to image of what marriage was; What it promised, what it now achieve health, happiness, strength and acceptance. The hour-long documentary directed by Andrea required, what it could bring to me. Based on those old Meyerson revisits Anita Bryant's late 1970s anti-gay ideas, it's no wonder I had to go through 3 marriages So just what has Meredith Baxter been up to lately? campaign, through the eyes of Ronni Sanlo. Narrated before I figured it out. Where to start? How about … she put a ring on it! by Meredith Baxter, the film explores the painful legacy of singer Anita Bryant's infamous "Save Our Children" LN:Can you share about your wedding day - how special Baxter, back in December of last year, finally said “I campaign. was it? What kind of ceremony did you have? Did you do” tying the knot with her long time partner Nancy each write your own vows? Locke. The happy couple married last December in Los LETTER TO ANITA is told through the life experiences Angeles. Close friends and family – including Baxter's of activist Ronni Sanlo and Baxter, documenting the MB: Ah...A stellar day. it was early December 2013..the five children – looked on as the couple exchanged parallel journeys of their very different lives. The film coldest day of the year, as I recall it. So it was nifty that handwritten vows in an intimate ceremony. offers insight into pieces of the LGBT historical puzzle, it was an outdoor wedding, up in Topanga Canyon at a from the anti-gay campaign started by Anita Bryant in spot called the mountain mermaid....rustic, weathered, She has as well devoted much of her time to public 1977, to coming out late in life on national television in picturesque...kinda like us. Our guests became appearances and various speaking engagements 2012. LETTER TO ANITA portrays a story of love and Popsicles as Nancy and I cried and declared out love speaking out on issues about which she is passionate: loss, family and solitude, acting and activism. and commitment to each other. We wrote our own vows, personal stories on breast cancer, substance abuse, so of course, there was a lot of laughter as well. Thank domestic violence and LGBT issues. A champion of On the acting side, Baxter is now back on our small goodness we had the dinner and dance inside so folks women’s rights, she is an active supporter of NARAL screen having joined the cast of MTV’s brand new could thaw out! and Planned Parenthood. For her work on “My Breast,” drama series “Finding Carter”. The show’s storyline she received a special award for public awareness from focuses on a teenage girl, Carter (Kathryn Prescott), LN:What was your reaction to the Supreme Court the National Breast Cancer Coalition. Baxter is a member who is picked up after a party she’s at gets busted decision back in June 26 of 2013 to overrule DOMA and of the board of The Center to Prevent Handgun Violence only to be identified as a missing child. She then finds Prop 8? Did you and Nancy know then you would get and has lobbied extensively on behalf of the Brady Bill, out that the woman who raised her not only isn’t her married? Who proposed first? the National Crime Bill and gun control measures. She mother, but actually kidnapped her when she was just has also worked with members of the California Senate a toddler. The series follows Carter as she struggles to MB: I think Nancy and I had proposed to each other and Assembly on state legislative matters. reintegrate into her real family and come to terms with several times before DOMA was overthrown but

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com truly, nothing could top that decision. It made it a real The City”. As a writer yourself how much of a show’s possibility, not just a fanciful hope. success do you think rests on the quality of the script?

LN: You and Nancy have been together for almost a MB: If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. I've decade, what do you think are the keys to long-term always believed it's possible for a decent actor to take relationship success? poorly written material and sometimes improve upon it but for the most part, if it ain't on the page..... MB: Communication...total trust that we will be heard and respected and a commitment to hang in there, no LN: Speaking about writing, what motivated you to pen matter what. Leaving is not an answer or an option your autobiography, “Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering”? LN: Back in 2009, the National Enquirer reported that you were on a lesbian cruise, which started the MB: They asked me to! I also realized I had a lot to say whole media frenzy about your sexual orientation. about where I'd been in my life, choices I'd made that Do you think paparazzi and the tabloids should have took me down and how I learned to live a happier life. limitations? (sounds like I could write for Reader's Digest.)

MB: Of course they should but that's like suggesting LN: How cathartic was the writing process for you? that babies have good table manners. MB: Well, I'd heard that you don't know what you think LN: Were you at all resentful you were sort of forced to until you start writing and I can say that was very true come out because private information was leaked and for me. Not everything I learned was presented in the published in the tabloids? book...some deep secrets didn't reveal themselves until months after I'd finished. I better live a long life because MB: Oh yes. I felt badgered, victimized and put-upon. I am a slow learner! But once I got over myself, with the help of fantastico Howard Bragman, I came to see it was not just about me LN: Did you ever expect it to be a best-seller? What do ...that, as I said on The Today Show, it was a political you think drew such a wide range of readers to your statement. The more people come out, the more normal, story? everyday thing it is. If people knew me from another Michael J Fox, talking so openly about his Parkinson, context, maybe from TV, they can see that just adding MB: I never liked the term "celebrity memoir"...it took away some of the fear and misunderstanding the "lesbian" label to me has not changed me at all. sounds like it deserves a terrible review without even about a condition that he has. Public figures coming out being read. I think people responded to my book because does the same thing about something that we are. LN: You then teamed up with Howard Bragman who’s they identified with aspects of the story: sad childhood, mostly known to work with celebrities on damage divorce, emotional abuse and abandonment, drugs, LN: Recently you did a documentary Letter To Anita control campaigns, what “damage” did you see needed alcohol, domestic abuse.....face it...there was enough for directed by Andrea Meyerson based on Ronni Sanlo's “control”? What was your ultimate fear? several TV movies. But it was all true. life. What can you tell us about your role? MB: Exposure...judgment. An end to my career. LN: You’ve been doing a lot of public speaking MB: I simply get to narrate the incredible journey and appearances talking about a variety of topics from words of Ronni Sanlo. (we were Facebook friends LN: How has your life changed since your official public alcoholism, breast cancer, domestic violence and LGBT long before this project ever came about!) I'd long coming out on The Today Show with ? issues to name a few. What do you hope people in held a silent horror (even as a very young person) attendance take away with them? about Anita Bryant's hateful actions towards the gay MB: I'm much more open, relaxed, a bit of a political community and the fear mongering that she promoted. activist..much much happier. MB: I only speak on what I've experienced. We can hear I was very moved by Ronni's brave and rigorous path a message of growth and change easiest from someone to compassion for Anita and her need to find their LN: With marriage equality making major strides who has traveled that path. I speak on how desperate similarities so she could also find forgiveness. That's across the country and as the gay marriage legalization an misguided was my thinking and how I changed a profound message for us all...truly a template for a continues to garner attention both nationally and that. I speak with humor..since laughter carries a good path to serenity globally, do you think it’s easier for celebrities to come message. I want people to walk away with how and a out today? few workable steps to get them started on a clearer path. LN: You’re currently have a recurring role on MTV’s new coming-of-age drama series “Finding Carter”. MB: Possibly. But everyone has their own concerns. Its a LN: What do you, on a personal level, take away from What can you tell us about the show? very personal decision. I was wanting to come out when it? all the fuss started around me..I just didn't know how to MB: It's a show that will draw mainly teens, in my do it. I'd not have chosen the way it actually unfolded MB: I'm in a program that promises that no matter how opinion. there are nicely complex characters, which but gotta say...It was over-the-top but thorough. I never far down the scale I might feel I've gone in my life... always is appealing. had to do that again! my experience will benefit others. so I speak to that benefit...which makes everything from my past worth LN: You play the grand-mother to Carter, the lead role LN: You were quoted saying that “coming out was the while and I have no regrets. played by actress Kathryn Prescott (known for her best decision you’ve ever made”. How important do work on “Skins”). What attracted you to that role? you think it is to have actors and/or public figures alike LN: You were recently commissioned by a large come out? And why? insurance group in Hawaii to speak on “What I’ve MB: It was offered to me! It's always attractive to be learned so far”. Having had such a turbulent life with wanted. I only learned a short while ago that MTV MB: WELL...As I said somewhere above...It does help many highs and lows, what is the most important life apparently has a history of both hiring gay actors and to have popular nationally recognized faces identify as lesson you learned from it all? reflecting the gay community in it's programs when gay. there are still those who view with possible... a highly laudable approach to programming! fear, misunderstanding and judgment. It's just a little MB: Probably just what I wrote above. I cherish that I harder to hold onto those perceptions if they look at have learned to let go of the resentments from my path. LN: The drama series is based on an original script by me...oh...it’s just Meredith from Family Ties. Not so there is no blaming anymore. I get to be responsible for “Bones” writer Emily Silver and executive produced by scary. all my choices. Terri Minsky who wrote several episodes of “Sex and

25 Room With a View Girl Trash: All Night Long Lies and Love Shape A New Lesbian Film | By Val Watersun

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received an awesome screener just the other day. Angela Robinson. This became the foundation for Girltrash: It was the soundtrack from a new movie released in All Night Long, a musical comedy. Of course, the music was January 2014 called Girltrash: All Night Long. It was important to the film—not only are the characters singing about so remarkable that I had to check out who wrote the what they’re going through, but the main characters compete in arrangements and who was performing the songs. a battle of the bands. ITo my delight, I discovered it was an American garage, And the music is amazing, even sans the film. But show Rose punky-pop rock band called Killola, which I know from SWSX. They are independents who got their start in 2003 Rollins rapping “By 2 a.m.” as a villain named Monique, in Los Angeles. The band is currently made up of actress Gabrielle Christian and Mandy Musgrave singing, “Fantasy Lisa Rieffel (vocals), Dan Grody (drums) and Johnny Crush” as characters Colby and Misty, all the way through to Dunn (bass, guitar) and they are legendary for exposing Lisa Rieffel and Michelle Lombardo belting out “San Fernando their work to a huge audience by giving away free copies Rose” as Daisy and Tyler, and you have a creative musical and of their EPs on the streets of LA. This created a large cult- visual success. This is an album I will listen to often. The voices like fan base which the band enhanced by further free and arrangements are powerfully pleasing. downloads and a persistent, accessible Internet presence. Though the original soundtrack, available on CD or directly Their first studio album, Louder, Louder!, was released in from iTunes, contains only the songs from the film, the early 2006. With the help of friends and fans, they recorded deluxe version has the original songs plus instrumental and the album at locations all over Los Angeles, spending almost other alternate versions and a read-through showing how the extra footage and music on them. The band has continued this nothing on production. Yet this eight-song album sold steadily songwriters presented the songs. practice of extras during each tour of the U.S. and they steadily on the Internet and at live shows. They also developed a large release a new album just about every year. They also continue 'Til next month, following in England. This led to a 2007 tour of the United to push the boundaries of technology. In 2010, they offered the Kingdom, touring there even before they toured the U.S. After first ever live performance via album by setting up a show and Nat touring England, the group recorded a twelve-song album called asking people to plug in their free USBs at a particular time to Live in England and gave it away as a free download to fans. [email protected] watch the live performance. When Killola released their second album, I am the Messer, In 2009, the band began writing and producing original music they included limited release USB flash drive bracelets with for a script written by noted film and television producer,

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29 Living Out ANIMAL ACUPRESSURE

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arriage apartheid has ended in our he entire can lead to disease. state (woo hoo!), so it would seem family needs like there’s no reason to continue bodywork, This is as true for animals as it is for humans. 1000s referring to my lawfully wedded don’t you of year of observation and recent scientific studies have wife as “my partner.” I’m trying to think? This proven that acupressure can: get used to calling her “my wife” in everyday M includes horses, dogs and interactions, but I still catch myself saying T • Build the immune system cats for a lot of families. “partner.” I did it just the other day when I was • Strengthen muscles, tendons, joints, and bones explaining why I needed my laptop screen replaced People are recognizing and told the tech guy that my partner had stepped that what is good for • Balance energy to optimize the body’s natural ability on it. I gauged the situation in that second-nature them is also good for their to heal queer safety check thing we do, and added, “She favorite animals. • Release natural cortisone to reduce swelling and feels pretty bad about it.” inflammation Acupressure for animals This little coming out moment could easily have been • Release endorphins necessary to increase energy or has actually been around glossed over but techman picked up on it. “My partner’s relieve pain the same way,” he said, “he’s awful clumsy.” Family! for 1000s of years. In ancient Chinese communities the Homo-connections like that are little high points, health of their livestock was as important to survival • Enhance mental clarity and calm required for focus in affirmations of who we are like finding out someone as their own health. There have been a number of training and performance went to your old high school or your grandparents all meridian and acupressure point charts that still exist • Resolve injuries more readily by increasing the blood came from the same village outside Kiev. It was a from hundreds of years ago (pre-dating human charts) supply and removing toxins. sweet little kinship moment and I wasn’t going to spoil and references in texts referring to animals, so we know it by arguing that she is not, in fact, clumsy, it’s just that Animals in our society can enjoy the same benefits of it was dark and I’d left the laptop on the floor. In any that it was common practice to offer their animals’ case, “my partner, she” and “my partner, he” conveyed acupressure or acupuncture. acupressure as their human’s. Dog- athletes that compete our identities just fine. in sports like agility and Acupressure, like coursing are just as prone I could’ve said “my wife” but “partner” is more my acupuncture, is based to damaging muscles and comfort zone. At some point “partner” became the on Traditional Chinese sustaining injury and thus kinder, gentler thing to say because “lover” felt too brash for mixed company, “girlfriend” didn’t translate Medicine (TCM) need bodywork. Horses from lesbianese and Wifey and I were way beyond philosophy and techniques. are constantly in pain since “roommate,” although my mother, rest her soul, never The only difference is it is not natural for them did stop referring to her that way. “Partner” always that in acupuncture very to have riders on their sounded cartoonish to me, as in Yosemite Sam’s Howdy fine needles are used to backs. Horses are far more Pardner! Eventually I caved and adopted it as a sort of stimulate the acupoints. sensitive than most people social grace. Then I got used to it, kind of like I got While in acupressure we understand and truly used to wearing a swimsuit--I’d rather skinny dip but use our hands and fingers appreciate body work. The now that I swim in a public pool I make the concession. to stimulate the acupoints beauty of working with It’s officially acceptable for two women or two men and help move chi, life- animals is that they don’t to be spouses but it’s still so new. “My wife” seems a promoting energy, along hold on to their hurts the little pushy and in your face when I’m not necessarily the energy pathways called “meridians.” way humans do. After an acupressure session, they just in a pushy in-your-face, which, believe it or not, I often shake and get going – it’s so rewarding to see! am not. Sure, I call her Wifey in person but referring According to Chinese Medicine, when the vital to her as “my wife” to anyone who doesn’t already The general public has become accepting of bodywork know us is awkward. As out as I am – and I am WAY substances such as chi and blood are flowing out – I feel weird calling my wife “my wife” to, say, harmoniously and nourishing the internal organs and the for their animals because people know how good it is the letter carrier or my dental hygienist (not that I can tissues of the entire body, then there is a healthy balance for them so it must be good for their animals, too. It’s say much when my mouth’s loaded with cleaning and illness will not occur. When there is a disruption an emerging career choice and it offers our animals so accouterments anyway.) Can a woman say “my wife” in the flow of the body’s vital substances, the body is many benefits. or a man say “my husband” with the same neutrality as compromised and pathogens can enter the body, which a heterosexual mentioning their husband or wife? Our Amy Snow and Nancy Zidonis and Amy Snow are the marriage is legal, yes, thank god(dess) and more than authors of: Acupressure, Acu-Dog: A Guide to Canine half of the U.S. population supports our right to marry, Acupressure, Acu-Cat: A Guide to Feline Acupressure, a hard-fought victory. But this new social shift that and, Acu-Horse: A Guide to Equine Acupressure. They we’ve pursued for so long is still fresh. Most people I talk to are accepting and even congratulatory, which founded Tallgrass offering books, manuals, DVDs, Apps is lovely but it makes me feel self-conscious, like I’m for mobile devices, and meridian charts. Tallgrass also announcing something personal when I just want to tell provides hands-on and online training courses worldwide Comcast that the account is in my wife’s name. Oh, including a 300-hour Practitioner Certification Program. well. We’re normal now. I guess we’ll all just have to Tallgrass is an approved school for the Dept. of Higher get used to it. Education through the State of Colorado, an approved [email protected] provider of NCBTMB Continuing Education credits, and accepted by NCCAOM. To contact them: phone: 888-841-7211; web: www.animalacupressure.com; email: [email protected]

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com The Weekender TRAVEL Not Mints, but Pie on Wildlife Tours of a Lifetime the Pillow | By Barbara Horngren | By Barbara Horngren

like to find a mint on my pillow after turndown uperlatives seem to be the only words The company’s Peru expeditions feature Machu service in my hotel. I like the cookies some to describe Wild Planet Adventures and Picchu and Cusco, which is surrounded by the Incan places provide, too. But I think this autumn The its expeditions. National Geographic Sacred Valley, combined with the excellent wildlife Caldwell House Bed and Breakfast’s turndown Adventure calls it “One of the Best viewing at Manu Biosphere Reserve, the #1 park in service is going to make it my new favorite place Outfitters on Earth.” In 2007, Fodor’s, the world for biodiversity. There are some 13 species Ito spend a night or two. Sthe travel guidebook company, named Wild of primates here and an estimated 1,000 different At the Salisbury Mills, New York, hostelry, it’ll be a Planet’s “Costa Rica: Ultimate Wildlife Eco- types of birds. It’s also the habitat for, among other miniature pie that rests atop the pillow at the end of the day. Tour” one of the “Top 10 Must-Do-Trips.” This animals, spectacled bears, tapirs, and ocelots, as well “We wanted to put the ‘sweet’ back into ‘sweet dreams,’” year National Geographic Traveler magazine has as a wide variety of medicinal and other plants. says Dena Finneran, who co-owns The Caldwell House named Wild Planet’s “Brazil – On the Jaguar’s Bed and Breakfast with her husband, John. “Anyone can Trail, Pantanal to Amazon” in its “2014 World’s Included in Wild Planet’s “Peru: Amazon and Machu do a mint. We wanted to offer something fun and really 50 Best Trips.” Picchu,” too, is Tambopata Biosphere Reserve, which delicious this fall when pie season is in full swing.” is home to the world’s largest macaw and parrot clay In fact, in its 23 year history, any number of the lick (exposed clay that the birds eat as part of their Mrs. Finneran, who has a cookbook in production, will company’s expeditions have been heralded in “Best” diet). The macaw and parrot activity at the clay lick be making every miniature pie herself, using seasonal lists – included are wildlife/eco-tours to Thailand, peaks from mid-August through the end of October fruits for filling and locally-sourced ingredients whenever possible. She has put together a two-month “Sweet Africa, Panama’s Coiba Island, India…. and, during this period, travelers can see upwards Dreams Calendar” of the inn’s mini-pie treats (which is of 1,000 birds at a time, including five species of subject to change based on seasonal availability). But, In all, Wild Planet Adventures conducts safaris in macaws and 15 species of parrots and parakeets. The guests who call ahead may request their favorite pie for Africa, Baja California, Belize, Borneo, Brazil, Costa sky is literally full of color and sound. pre-slumber bliss. Rica, the Galapagos Islands, India, Laos, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Thailand, and Zambia. Animal-loving Among the wildlife the company showcases on its Sweet Dreams Mini-Pie Calendar travelers will find its small-group tour destinations Borneo trips are orangutans (both in the wild and at an teeming with wildlife. orangutan sanctuary) as well as several other primate 9/1-7 – Blueberry Pie species, including proboscis monkeys, Borneon Wild Planet Adventures’ philosophy is this: Interacting gibbons, tarsiers, and slow lorises; pygmy elephants; 9/8-14 – Blueberry/Peach Pie with nature has the power to transform lives. So its and the island’s “gliders.” Borneo has 60+ gliding guides explore remote wildlife environments and species – lemurs, lizards, squirrels, geckos, frogs and 9/15-21 – Peach Pie study wildlife patterns in destinations not often – or various snakes, among them – that don’t fly as birds easily – accessible to the general public. They want do, but can shift their weight and adjust their tails and 9/22-28 – Pecan Pie to make the company’s itineraries ones that balance limbs to control a kind of gliding flight. 9/29-10/5 – Apple Pie diverse and complex ecosystems and habitats, so that Wild Planet’s travelers can enjoy game viewing In Zambia, Wild Planet uses a combination of jeep, 10/6-12 – Apple/Pear Crumble Pie that is aligned with the animals’ seasonal, daily, and walking and canoe safaris to offer its broad diversity nocturnal migration. of game viewing. Zambia is said to have the highest 10/13-19 – Apple/Pecan Pie standards of guiding in Africa, and the company’s The trip National Geographic Traveler magazine travelers get to see the country’s trackers put their 10/20-26 – Pumpkin Pie lauded recently, “Brazil – On the Jaguar’s Trail, exceptional skills to work. This itinerary combines Pantanal to Amazon,” starts in the Pantanal, the the remote Nsefu sector of South Luangwa National 10/27-31 – Pumpkin/Pecan Pie world’s largest wetlands and home to the largest Park and the relatively untraveled Kafue National concentration of jaguars on earth. Wild Planet Park, among other animal-filled places. The Caldwell House, a multi-award winning bed and averages 1.5 (but sometimes as many as seven) jaguar breakfast, is located in the heart of the Hudson River sightings per day in the area’s virtually unknown These give you just a taste of what Wild Planet Valley, close to the United States Military Academy at Taiama Ecological Reserve. And, when jaguars Adventures has to offer people for whom wildlife West Point; Brotherhood Winery (as well as many of the are sighted, they often can be watched for extended viewing “makes” a vacation. The company’s Shawangunk Wine Trail wineries); the largest outdoor sculpture park in the U.S., Storm King Arts Center; and, periods of time, especially when the animals hunt expeditions take you out of your more-than-likely for those interested in vacation shopping, the 200-plus caiman (South American alligator-like reptiles) along “urban jungle” of daily work life and put into stores at Woodbury Premium Outlet Mall. It’s also within the riverbanks. Besides jaguar-watching, though, the real jungle…and rainforest…and river…and walking or easy-driving distance of some of the area’s the wide variety of safari activities include hiking, biosphere. To gather more information on current most beautiful hiking/biking trails. boating, horseback-riding, and jeep explorations trips, schedules, itineraries, and prices, go to www. for sightings of such other species as giant otters, wildplanetadventures.com. Built in 1802, The Caldwell House Bed and Breakfast hyacinth macaws, giant anteaters, and anacondas. has many original features, as well as artworks and [email protected] antiques. But it offers modern amenities, too: Each guest A unique feature of Wild Planet’s Brazil trips room includes a private bath (some with Jacuzzi tub for is seeing the transition of eco-systems from the two), smart TV with Netflix/Hulu, free Wi-Fi, individual temperature controls, and more. For price and other biologically rich, freshwater wetland of the Pantanal information, visit www.caldwellhouse.com. to the Amazonian rainforest, the world’s largest. In the latter, the company’s travelers can see rare primates through an exclusive program designed by a primatologist.

31 Positive Reflections Persistence - The Key To Winning | By Dian Katz, MS

hereL.A. are GAY probably & aLESBIAN lot of times know I have in the past. If only I knew this years qualities. Take more risks. Of course I’m not we all have striven for something ago, I probably would have done a lot of things talking about jumping off a cliff and hang andBEACH just couldn’t CENTER’S get the results differently. You see, what happened with Barbara gliding. Risk take in the area of whatever we we desired. So instead of trying Corcoran is two things. First, her action tells us want. In other words, don’t be afraid to write again,BEACH we finally CLASSIC gave up. What that she is a “half glass full” kind of person. She a letter to someone who rejected us in the area Tif on the other hand, that next attempt was doesn’t see nor accept defeat. She finds a way to of career. Find out what they were looking the lucky one? What if the next answer was make lemonade out of lemons. Although many for and why we weren’t chosen. Now a little a “yes” rather than a no? When is enough, would love to think and act in this manner, they disclaimer here, this doesn’t necessarily apply enough? Or is it? find it extremely difficult. Why? Because of their in the area of romance. When someone says conditioning and wiring to believe in the glass no, she/he usually means no. Don’t continue Look around and you will probably hear a being half empty. Whenever there is rejection pursuing someone to the point of stalking. Take success story somewhere about those who and/or failure, and paired with negative things a few no’s as a good indicator. simply wouldn’t give up on their dreams. They said to oneself, a great disservice is being done didn’t let challenges and roadblocks stop them. to one’s brain. The individual’s brain is picking The type of persistence represented in this They understood the philosophy of never give up the connection or message that one cannot column is the kind used in business and personal up until you get what you want. achieve at the particular task. achievement goals, not getting another to love you. Barbara Corcoran from Shark Tank was one Pairing, connections, wiring, can all make a of those people. Her story inspired me enough person give up too soon. However, don’t be Getting back to practicing behaviors where one to write this column. I heard her on a Podcast discouraged. There is a way out. If one can must face rejection again and again, makes one of the Do Over Guy and she said something condition oneself to believe everything is too stronger. Strong emotional character is what so interesting about pursuing what we want. difficult for success, one can ALSO rewire and usually wins the gold so to speak. Those who do Barbara goes on to tell her personal story. She “re-pair” those connections to believe anything not let the odds or the roadblocks detour them, originally auditioned for the cast of Shark is possible and the glass really IS half full. are often the ones who make huge differences Tank, AND was chosen amongst a slew of in the world. other millionaires and billionaires. Barbara was Getting back to Barbara, she had a “can do so excited, she went out and bought a whole anything” attitude. Her wiring and conditioning As mentioned in previous columns of mine, new wardrobe and prepared for the show. was extremely positive. She also had something remember... If it wasn’t for the inventors such Next, something unexpected happened... They else that one must have to make this attitude as Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Albert contacted her back and said they changed their really work well. She had high self esteem. In Einstein and so forth, we wouldn’t have a lot mind and she would not be on the show. other words, she believed in herself and wasn’t of the things we do today. It was these types going to let anyone bring her down or stop her. of folks that were emotionally equipped to not If you’re like me, your mouth is probably give up until they achieved what they desired. dropped right about now. If I had gotten that If we take a look at the very successful people in They certainly didn’t win the first with the first excited about a big break, only to be let down, I life, most of them didn’t get this way overnight. try. They failed again and again and again. If would have been very disappointed. More than There really is no overnight sensations unless they were alive today, I’m sure an interview likely, many of us would feel disappointed. Now you are on YouTube. However, when your self would point out that they used failure as a this is where her story gets really interesting. esteem is high and you believe in yourself, you springboard. It was once revealed that one Barbara wasn't going to accept not being don’t give up as easily. You perceive rejection as failure was just another pathway or avenue that part of the cast. She wasn’t going to accept part of the formula to success. When you know didn’t work. So that way could be marked off disappointment. She was going to take this it’s all part of the bigger picture, it’s easier to the list. information and do something with it. So she deal with and move forward. wrote to the Producers and told them why she How about you? Maybe you just need to take should be part of the cast and how she would be So what can we do today that will help us your failures and say, that way didn’t work. I an asset to Shark Tank. The Producers contacted achieve our dreams? We have to develop those can now just cross them off my own list and her once again and told her, not ONE PERSON two qualities that Barbara demonstrates - A try another new way. In doing so, you too will who was not chosen, contacted them afterward. can-do-anything attitude and increase our self develop your own “Can-Do-Attitude... AND... because SHE did, they wanted her on esteem. You may be asking how exactly do we their show! It sealed the deal! do this? The answer is simply.. PRACTICE. [email protected] Take any opportunity that is challenging and How many of us just give in to the rejection? I use it for a springboard to these two kinds of

Lesbian News Magazine | August 2014 | www.LesbianNews.com FEMASTROLOGY | By Victoria Bearden August 2014 Astrological Forecast

ummer is at its height and it’s time Aries (March 21-April 19) This should be an Libra (September 23-October 22) This is a for all those Leo birthdays. And absolutely great month to spread your wings great month to spend time with friends and remember, Leos expect a big party and and fly. Creative and romantic vibrations abound. colleagues. Whether it’s work or play, collective lavish gifts! The emphasis this month Luck is on your side with new ventures. Healing efforts are favorable. You may be tempted to put is fire. The Sun, Mercury, Venus, and energy is more available. Take advantage of this some responsibilities off to the side, but when Jupiter will all be rolling through the Fire Sign S favorable period and expand your horizons. This it comes to money, make sure you are paying Leo, which is exciting, dramatic, and potentially fun. Some of this energy will be bouncing is a good time to make progressive decisions. attention. off Uranus in Aries, sparking innovation and positive surprises. Take some time to be creative. Taurus (April 20-May 20) If you want to get Scorpio (October 23-Novemeber 21) The This year has been demanding and August would some things straightened out regarding your Mars/Saturn pairing in your sign could make be a good time to make a conscious choice to home or property holdings; this is a good time you unstoppable! Put this energy into projects revel a bit. for that. You may feel a little over burdened, but at work and in your personal world. Harness your vitality should be improving. You should your strength and put it to good use. This is a Lucky Jupiter has just recently moved into Leo, which have more energy for goals and projects. Make very favorable time for you out in public. Take will be noticeable. Jupiter is the planet associated with choices about who you’d like to commit to, in advantage of it. “good fortune.” Leo is associated with the Sun and work and the personal arena. the 5th House, which is also pretty darn fortunate. So, let the games begin! This month should be favorable Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) for more risk taking, particularly if you have an Gemini (May 21-June 20) Aside from the The fiery planetary vibes this month could emphasis in Fire Signs in your own birth chart. fact that you still might be fuzzy about be your ticket to Fun City. Travel and romance your “big picture” goals, this month should be are favored. Creativity is high. You might be If you are planning a party, try the weekend starting a rocking’ good time for friendships and new tempted to simply enjoy the good vibrations. And with Friday, August 8th. There’s a Full Moon in connections. Stay focused or you’ll tend to over what’s so wrong with that? But if you have some Aquarius on Sunday, August 10 and lots of great commit yourself. You can only be in one place at goals to tend to, this is great time to do that, too. “group” energy to work with. a time after all. Or maybe two, loll. Definitely a good time to be a Sag. The Sun enters the Earth Sign Virgo on August 23 and things take on a slightly more serious, work-oriented Cancer (June 21-July 21) Good vibrations Capricorn (December 22-January 19) Pay tone. There’s a New Moon in Virgo on August 25, in the financial department may motivate attention to business and important social which will be followed by a slightly weird few days, you to spend some of your hard earned cash. Go connections. People expect you to show up as the Sun in Virgo opposes mysterious Neptune in ahead, you deserve it. Work should go well now, to certain functions, and you should. This is a Pisces. So, expect things to be on the spacey side and you may have the opportunity to combine potentially productive time. Don’t worry about from about August 25 through August 31. This might business with pleasure. Some relationships the things that didn’t quite work out last month. be great for creative endeavors, or even spiritual ones, require some scrutiny, however, as you will not Get some new energy going and you will be but not so great for logic, order, and clarity. feel like putting up with power plays. happy with the results. If certain chapters in your life need to close, let them. Opportunity Days: August 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 21, Leo (July 23-August 22) Happy Birthday! 28 Things should really being looking up. Aquarius (January 20-February 18) Lots of Femastrology Horoscopes for August 2014 Opportunities might come right up to your front energy is moving around in your relationship door, so make sure to open when it knocks. If department. This could be extremely fortunate in For all the Sun Signs: Everyone will notice a nice shift you would like to travel this is a good time to do business, and even better in the personal arena. in energy this month with planets moving through the it. Perhaps a trip to Vegas? Luck is on your side Single Aquarians take note! sign of Leo. Saturn in Scorpio is direct now, which now, so roll those dice. will be particularly beneficial to those of us with Pisces (February 19-March 20) This is Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) Virgo (August 23-September 22) If you feel a wild, weird, and magical time for you. prominent in our birth charts. Saturn Direct will be the pull towards for a little “down time” You could make some terrific decisions if you felt by most as a progressive push involving work and productivity. Early Virgos and Pisceans should take you’ll probably get a lot out of it. Work will be really connect to that amazing intuition of yours. care during the last week of the month, as the Sun/ calling to you, but you’ll get more done if you are But don’t fly off into your imagination too far. Neptune opposition may scramble their brains a bit. feeling refreshed and rested. Take a good look You’ll need your wits about you. Many practical at the people you are spending your time with, decisions are coming up for your review. [email protected] and how you are feeling when you spend time with them. Get rid of any “energy vampires” that might have latched on.

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