

Frankly Speaking
The Politics of Being: Dismantling Binaries and Redefining Freedom
This issue of Curve arrives during a political moment plagued with attempts to draw hard lines—between genders, identities, and, by implication, freedoms… Read more »

From the Curve Archives
What Would Urvashi Vaid Do?
As we enter 2025, we find that many steps remain to secure LGBTQ+ rights. Curve’s archivist Julia Rosenzweig examines the inspiring legacy of lesbian activist Urvashi Vaid… Read more »

The Curve Test
Applying The Curve Test To Alex Hedison’s Acclaimed Film, ALOK
Writer, performance artist, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) identifies as transfeminine, non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns.
As mentioned in our From… Read more »

Interview
Melissa Etheridge Has Big Plans
For 2025
Few people have experienced the highs and lows of the music business to the degree that Melissa Etheridge has. Since releasing her self-titled debut in 1988, she has won two Grammys (and been nominated for many others); been hailed as the… Read more »

Opinion
What Does It Mean To Be Butch?
When I was a closeted young adult, I would sometimes wear dresses, not high femme fashion like a Victorian dress, but dresses nonetheless, to throw the scent off people wondering if I was gay. Shockingly, when I have worn dresses… Read more »

Books
A Cultural Family Album
of the Black Diaspora
Brooklyn natives Jannah and Kiyanna have made it their life’s work to fossick for and preserve Black ephemera from all around the world, and they do so with the care of highly educated, hip, and creative queer antiquarians… Read more »