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A curvy message
Advocate, The, July 19, 2005
If you're hoping to further the empowering message Curves exercise studios sends to women, you may want to read up on the company's born-again Christian cofounder Gary Heavin, who has reportedly asserted that a woman's place is in the home. Heavin, who in 1992 launched the Waco, Texas--based chain that now has more than 7,000 fitness centers, has donated millions of dollars to antiabortion groups and denounced the acceptance of gays and lesbians.
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At a franchisee training session in Waco in May, Heavin spoke of his idea of a woman's proper role and of his opposition to homosexuality, said "Anne," a lesbian franchise owner who declined to give her real name. "The unavoidable truth for all us small-business owners is that the franchise makes money," she said. "So like good little children everyone had to shut up and take it."
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