Special Report: Ahead of the Curve (2020)

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The Projection Booth

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks with co-directors Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow along with Franco Stevens about their documentary, Ahead of the Curve. It's the story of how Stevens created the first mainstream lesbian magazine in the United States via her creativity, tenacity, and a string of good luck at the track.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:09.3	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:21.9	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:24.8	Turn it off.
0:30.1	Turn it on.
0:36.1	Hey, Andrew!
0:36.9	Yeah! Please welcome our panel of power dykes, Francis Stevens, publisher and editor-in-chief of Deneuve, the hottest lesbian magazine.
0:54.3	Deneuve, the leading lesbian magazine. Danube, the leading lesbian magazine.
0:56.3	There wasn't a glossy magazine for lesbians anywhere.
1:00.0	She decided I'm going to make one.
1:02.4	That's total rock and roll.
1:05.5	I love my job.
1:07.3	I love my job.
1:09.1	Whoever was incurred, like that was it.
1:11.6	That's how you knew what was going on. Like the ladies musicians, the latest artists.
1:14.6	I think it's only in hindsight that I can fully appreciate what Franco had to sacrifice.
1:20.6	It was very hard to be out and open in the late 80s.
1:26.6	I think we should do away with gays if possible.
1:31.0	A lot of people lived in fear.
1:33.0	Once I had a guy spit in my face.
1:35.6	We did not see ourselves represented in any positive mainstream way.
1:41.4	There was nothing that showed what my life was all about. I was the one that was supposed to start this magazine.
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