Lives
This Era’s Ending Now
Oh, hi. I’m a queer Taylor Swift fan. Surprised? I can understand that. You wouldn’t necessarily think that this longtime Curve writer would consider herself a Swiftie. And yet, here we are… Read more »
Articles
Science
Making Waves in Ocean Justice
When she walked into her first student board meeting. Tiara Moore saw “30 eyeballs all on white faces.” She calls up this startling memory in her paper, “The Only Black Person in the Room,” which was published in a scientific… Read more »
Sports
Play On, Sports Queens
On a recent Friday night in March, a Minneapolis sports bar is booming with chants for The Minnesota Frost (Professional Women’s Hockey League), The Minnesota Golden Gophers (University of Minnesota women’s ice hockey)… Read more »
Awards
Revealing the 2025 Curve Power List
As a highlight of Lesbian Visibility Week, the Curve Power List celebrates LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary individuals making seismic shifts in North America-shaping culture, policy, and social change. From sports and entertainment icons to corporate leaders and politicians… Read more »
Archive
The 2025 Curve Photo Contest
2025 marks the third year of The Curve Foundation’s re-invigorated annual community Photo Contest! Curve magazine held an annual lesbian lifestyle photography contest for eleven years… Read more »
Frankly Speaking
Our Visibility is Our Power
Last year, Lesbian Visibility Week (LVW) was a time for celebration and visibility, a reminder of how far we’ve come. But this year, we find ourselves in a very different situation… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »