America’s Most Captivating Couples 2009, Part II
San Francisco, California
Annie, 54, artist, author, educator
Beth, 48, artist, professor
Annie and Beth are an artist couple committed to doing projects that explore, generate, and celebrate love. “We utilize visual art, installation, theater pieces, interventions, live-art, exhibitions, lectures, printed matter and activism,” says Annie. “Each year we orchestrate one or more interactive performance art weddings in collaboration with various national and international communities, then display the ephemera in art galleries.” Their projects incorporate the colors and themes of the chakras, a structure inspired by Linda M. Montano’s 14 Years of Living Art. “Our current project, The Love Art Laboratory, grew out of our response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our prevailing culture of cynicism. We hope the Love Art Laboratory will help make the world a more fun, sexy, tolerant, love-filled place.”
We rounded up so many gorgeous couples we couldn’t fit them all in one issue. That said, we’re happy to have the cuteness continue.
Urvashi & Kate
New York, NY and Provincetown, MA
Kate, 62, “fumerist” (feminist humorist)
Urvashi, 51, political activist and writer
Urvashi and Kate met in February of 1988, at “The War Conference” on AIDS. With 20 years of togetherness they’ve created a relationship many of us aspire to. “I want an old fashioned wedding–the kind where when you get married you get a country,” claims Kate. Activist, writer and former executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Urvashi is fierce fighter for LGBT rights. Kate, with her biting wit and political savvy, keeps us laughing even when things are falling apart around us. Adds the comedian, “I predict the country will soon say, ‘Oh for heaven’s sake, it’s almost the end of the world, let the gay people get married.’”
