GAY was the late-night brain child of Editor, Candy Parker, who
launched the e-magazine so quickly she didn't have time to
second-guess herself. The first issue of GAY - the e-zine for lesbians
with a sense of humor - went from concept to distribution in less than
48 hours and the response was so enthusiastic, Candy had no option
but to continue.
The e-magazine now boasts subscribers representing every state in the
U.S. and quite a few international subscribers, as well.
The GAY staff is growing all the time! We're happy to tell you a little bit
about ourselves.
launched the e-magazine so quickly she didn't have time to
second-guess herself. The first issue of GAY - the e-zine for lesbians
with a sense of humor - went from concept to distribution in less than
48 hours and the response was so enthusiastic, Candy had no option
but to continue.
The e-magazine now boasts subscribers representing every state in the
U.S. and quite a few international subscribers, as well.
The GAY staff is growing all the time! We're happy to tell you a little bit
about ourselves.
Candy Parker
Editor/Columnist/
Fledgling web designer
Editor/Columnist/
Fledgling web designer
| Corporate slave by day, aspiring writer by night, Candy is perhaps the only person alive to have asked for a thesaurus as a 16th birthday present. She got the thesaurus and an IBM Selectric typewriter and spent the last 30+ years cultivating aspirations of becoming "the lesbian Erma Bombeck". Since launching GAY, Candy has taken a vow of sleeplessness and has forgotten what the outdoors looks like. On the up side, Candy's obsession with GAY has lead to recovery from her online Texas Hold 'Em poker addiction. When not sitting in front of the keyboard, either at the office or at home working on GAY, Candy likes to alphabetize her canned goods, stalk the Editors of more well-established magazines in search of publication, and polish her Partridge Family lunch box. |
Amber Foster
Columnist
Columnist
| Ambz The Ripper is the lezbot you love to hate - or hate to love. After finally accepting the fact that she was a douche in a past life, she decided to bravely remove her helmet and take on the world with her life-long curse of the reversed Midas touch. When she's not getting fatter and more pimply by indulging in her crippling addiction to World of Warcraft, Ambz likes to pass the time by fine-tuning her gag reflex via pulling her bionic hair out of the clogged shower drain. A former resident of Virgina, Ambz recently moved back to her home state of Michigan and is currently living in a 100-year-old farmhouse with a ghost that likes to open the bathroom door when she's trying to pee. After splashing her personal life and it's trepidations on the Internet for over a decade, Ambz still remains not famous, but in hindsight, she is proud of the fact that over eleventy million people are now privy to how big of an asshole she is. Numerous years spent in the food and beverage industry have made her as hard as her liver, yet the hilarity that ensues from people simply eating in public is far too awesome for Ambz not to share with complete strangers. What developed from simply venting after years of abuse was a love of writing, though she was probably born to write satire as Ambz's first words were, "That's stupid." Ambz is 100% single, ladies. She attributes her lack of another to her hatred of dogs. Repeat: She HATES DOGS, which greatly limits her compatibility in a world where every lesbian has a dog that they think is "thier child." If catching Ambz in GAY e-magazine isn't enough for you, be sure to check her out . |
Leigh Hubbard
Graphic Artist
Graphic Artist
| Leigh is a born-again Texan, originally hailing from the Catskill Mountains of New York State. She is a 48 year old *married* lesbian; meaning they have rented the U-Haul AND had cats together. By day, as a lowly cashier, Leigh hones her razor sharp wit and snappy one-liners on unsuspecting shoppers. By night she dabbles in graphic art, photo illustration and photo repair and dreams of finding fame and fortune(?) on the pages of a free e-zine. When not creating original artwork for GAY e-zine, Leigh works miracles of graphic design and photo restoration. |
MK Czerwiec
Cartoonist
Cartoonist
Kasey Loman
Cartoonist
Cartoonist
| Perhaps the most disturbing aspect about Kasey Loman is the blatant flaunting of her lesbianism in the Web comic “Hippie and BullDyke,” which is a weekly strip that has provided aid, comfort and safe haven on the world wide web to enemies of our American values for over 3 years. Every week millions of gays, lesbians, and who knows what kind of other liberal- environmental-tree hugging-tofu-eating wackos read this page to get ideas on how to change our great country to be more accepting to the homosexual lifestyle (at least that’s what I think it does, I’ve never read it myself, of course). One need not look any further than the name itself to know this site is for people like hippies … and well … bulldykes! She is also big in France, which should tell you something right there. This strip makes a mockery of decent, hard-working American patriots, such as Ann Coulter, the Reverend Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas, Condoleza Rice and … yes … even our commander in chief, President George W. Bush. Can you imagine? I cannot. This was brought to my attention by a dear friend of mine, Congressman Mark Foley who has recently undertaken visiting some of these sites for research purposes only. He is a brave man, who has surely seen many horrific scenes that have made him extremely uncomfortable, and I ask that you pray for him. |
Karen Fort
Columnist
Columnist
| Karen spends most of her weekdays chained to a desk in her corporate cubicle. In her spare time, when she is not jumping up and down on her bed singing into a pencil, she is “voyeur extraordinnaire”, constantly observing humanity and all its idiocies. A democrat by logic and common sense, terminally single by nature, and deeply amused by all aspects of human nature, humor is the molten lava in her veins, and the sole reason she is not serving a life sentence in a maximum security psych ward. |
Monique Finley
Columnist
Columnist
| Monique Finley is a Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana native. She was lucky to be raised in the California valleys and beaches. She speaks with a Southern accent, though she didn't have one when she got to Bossier. Some call her a recovering Californian. She says, "But I'm a lesbian in the South, I'm dying to go back to Cali." Monique is the single mother of a 47 year old college student. She's never had children, but she's raising her mom. "At least I didn't have to go through the terrible twos. It's like having a teenager in the house. |
| MK Czerwiec is an artist and nurse in Chicago. To see more of her work, just click . MK has published two books of cartoons, "Scars, Stories and Other Adventures" and "Comic Nurse". Both books are available at her site. |
| If you're a lesbian humor writer, graphic artist, or cartoonist and would like to be part of the GAY e-magazine team, use the "Contact" button to reach us. |
| Kim Hancock born and raised in East Boston. She's a single parent, with a beautiful 18 year old daughter. Kim loves to write and finished her first book last year. "Chronicles of a Lesbian Bartender" will be available in bookstores soon. Kim is also a painter, though the term "starving artist" would be more appropriate. She is very happy with who she is and what she's about. Kim bartends in Faneuil Hall for one of the most famous restaurants in Boston, Durgin Park, and loves to make people laugh. People who come to the bar often say she should do stand up. You can check out Kim's blog . |
Kim Hancock
Columnist
Columnist
| Born in Dallas, Texas in the hippy-filled "Summer of Love" in 1967, Andrea is one of the few native Texans left in the lone start state. Andrea toiled 16+ years in school to get that piece of parchment that now resides in a frame on her wall collecting dust. Andrea has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and used to write speeches for President Bush (GOTCHA!) She played volleyball and fast-pitch softball in college and has traveled the world frivolously chasing various shapes and sizes of sports-related balls around a field or court. World-weary and well rounded after working in the publishing, marketing and advertising businesses, Andrea now classifies herself as legally insane (and is awaiting confirmation from a team of professionals). In her spare time she enjoys (in no particular order): - Drinking cokes with peanuts in the bottom of the bottle, - Honking her horn as she drives through tunnels, - Flipping off drivers on the highway whose cars sport a 'W' or "Bush/Cheney" sticker on their bumper, - Driving slow in the HOV lanes, and - Holding hands with her girlfriend just to give the straight people something to whisper and stare about. |
Andrea Simon
Columnist
Columnist
Nell Enriquez
Art Director -
Graphic Designer/
Photographer/Web Site
Designer
Art Director -
Graphic Designer/
Photographer/Web Site
Designer
| Nell started her artistic career with a camera that was off limits. At the age of twelve she would often find herself on her own for a few hours before her parents were to be home. She would climb outside her window up onto the roof so she could take pictures of everything. An excellent student and a good kid, using roll after roll of film would be the only origin for many lectures from her parents. She was instantly captivated to view everything in forms of lines, light, shadows and angles. She uses pictures as a frame in her memory to communicate with others the things, places and people that she's drawn to. Nell began learning about photography with film. Eventually moving on to digital photography. With technology this lead to digital editing. All of this knowledge was simply a way to get lost in the art. While studying Business, Nell found herself in the Humanities building taking a Literature course. Her gaze was distracted by the many students walking in and out of with paints, brushes... and thruth be told by the beautiful Mac Lab next door. She found out these were the Art and Graphic Design classrooms. Eventually she threw caution to the wind and dropped the Literature course and joined the Communication Design program. She is a proud graduate of this program and now does exactly what she loves. She is lucky enough to work in both these fields. Nell often donates her time and talent to praiseworthy causes. Her community is a very important part of her life. As such she has donated her artwork to non-profit organizations whose missions convey her sentiments. If you have any questions or would like more information on Nell or the services her company provides contact her . |
| Gay (adjective): alert, animate, blithe, blithesome, bouncy, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, confident, convivial, devil-may-care, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, fun-loving, gamesome, glad, gleeful, hilarious, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen, light-hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasure-seeking, presuming, pushy, rollicking, self-assertive, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, wild, zippy |
The E-zine for Lesbians with a Sense of Humor