Fame Brushed

When Nashville debut artist Megan McCormick’s people called my people (namely, a nice PR man named Jon of Shore Fire Media and me), I was skeptical about doing an interview.  What hook could this young 23-year-old artist have?  A new record.  Like thousands of others out there trying to rocket onto the greater public...
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Author Jaye Maiman wrote seven Robin Miller mysteries for Naiad Press and then disappeared.  I felt as though I’d been abandoned by a friend as I hunted for another character as complex as Robin Miller.  I eventually discovered Kathryn V. Forrest’s Kate Delafield mysteries, but it wouldn’t keep me busy indefinitely.  I always wondered...
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Comedian Marga Gomez had just come off a busy night that would lead into a busier day and another night as she works her way through San Francisco’s Pride Week events when I caught up with her. The Cuban/Puerto Rican New York transplant’s emotive comedic social commentary is unlike any other. This...
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My mission: Find out what makes Lillian Faderman tick – The Lillian Faderman, who, before there was an Ellen or Rosie or Kate Clinton, told the world about women who loved and had sex with women. Her literary and scholarly achievements are so well-documented, and her contribution to lesbian history is so...
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We were soaked in this perception that being gay was a desperate, dreadful thing and the gay people could get over it if they just had enough willpower. We absorb that prejudice and it does crop up in our books and I see it now and I cringe. We’re almost writing an...
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Melissa Etheridge is easily one of the all-time greatest female rock icons. With her next cd coming out April 27th, 2010, on Island Records, Melissa returns to her rock roots. And she is truly at the top of her game.
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…you could put a million closets in front of me and I would find her clothes. She was so stylized and part European at heart. She was a lot to handle, but she was probably the love of my life. Thank God it didn’t last long or it wouldn’t have been...
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Suzanne Westenhoefer is the first openly gay comedian ever to appear on television and arguably the funniest. New adventures are what keep her young and active though, including a hot marital partner (ah, c’mon, let’s call Jennifer Houston “Lover”), a new column in Curve Magazine and a very funny role in the hit online...
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Independent aggressive folk artist Tret Fure’s career spans four decades. From her early days at Michigan coffee houses to playing blues guitar to rock to punk to her long-lasting partnership in women’s music with Cris Williamson to her current work in aggressive folk, her music continues to evolve. I had a chance...
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I glanced at the photograph sent by her publicist and decided, yes, she is potentially going to replace Sela Ward as the woman of my fantasies. Then I heard her voice with it’s gentle British accent. After speaking with her in a disjointed interview caused by the “DSL gentleman” who needed to...
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