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Velvet Park No 11 Summer Issue 2006

Velvet Park No 11 Summer Issue 2006 Magazines

LESBIAN NEWS - The Latest Lesbian Lowdown Stateside. In this issue - Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls. Love Pride and Marriage? There's something about Mary Cheney. Diana Cage Mommy DearestGay Games, Let the Games Begin This July, in Chicago, lesbian wrestlers from East Germany, softball players from Taiwan and soccer players from South Africa will join some 12,000 gay and lesbian athletes from over 70 countries to compete in 30 sports during Gay Games VII. Meet some of the amazing lesbian athletes and Ambassadors (elite athletes who support the event) behind Gay Games VII. Let the Games begin. Institute of Musical Arts: Rock 'n' Roll Camp June Millington was a member of the 1970s' band Fanny, one of the first all-women rock bands signed to a major label. In 1974, June left the band and, later, met Ann Hackler, who was executive director of the women's center at Hampshire College. June and Ann shared a passion for supporting women in music and, thus, went on to found and run the Institute for Musical Arts, now in operation for the past two decades. Originally located in California, and now permanently situated in Goshen, MA, the IMA is an umbrella organization housing a recording studio, a performance venue, and a summer rock and roll camp for girls. Musician Julie Wolf and spoken word artist Alix Olson sat down for a chat with June and Ann to discuss musical herstory, politics, and the construction of alternative feminist spaces. Vp Interview; Guinever Turner "Would you like some champagne?" asks Guinevere Turner, as she reclines on the bed of her Palm Springs hotel suite where she was staying during the Dinah Shore weekend. Guinevere seems perfectly suited for the entertainment lifestyle familiar, and at ease with reporters and fans. She attended this years' Dinah Shore for the requisite L word book signing, the Power-Up event, and did press interviews for The Notorious Bettie Page, of which she was one of the writers. Her suite was filled with fashionable urban hipsters who had come in from LA and elsewhere to enjoy the notorious weekend of Lesbians Gone Wild. Velvetpark conducted the last interview of the evening over cigarettes and a bottle (or was it two?) of champagne.