While many famous lesbians and lesbian celebrities are afraid or reluctant to come out, Catie Curtis has been out her whole career. Catie Curtis is an American singer-songwriter born in 22 May 1965. She has recorded 11 albums. Her most recent, Hello, Stranger, was released in 2009. Curtis was raised in the small city of Saco, Maine. She got her start in music at age 15, when she was hired to play drums for a musical theater production at the amusement park in her hometown. The show’s production manager gave Curtis her first guitar saying, "I will give you this if you promise me you'll learn to play it."



Her songs have been featured in Alias, Dawson's Creek, Felicity and Chicago Hope, as well as in several independent films. She won the Best Album Award from the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards for her self-titled 1997 album. In 2005, she and Mark Erelli won the Grand Prize in the International Songwriting Competition for their song People Look Around, a song written in response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

She said:

"I feel like as a musician I’m in a very unique position among women musicians because I’m a lesbian with a partner who always wanted to be somewhat primary as a mom. She wanted to leave her job and be home with our child. Most women musicians I know are in partnerships with men and don’t have that choice to have their child home with the other mom. I feel like it’s unusual for straight women to be in that position. So I feel very lucky to be able to play music and be a parent. Generally with my schedule I travel just long weekends. I actually feel like I have a great schedule for being a parent because I’m home all day every day for a lot of the time. It’s worked really well for us."

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