Honors
Meet The Curve Emerging Journalists Of 2025
The Curve Foundation and the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists are delighted to introduce the recipients of the Curve Fellowship for Emerging Journalists… Read more »
Articles
Photography
The Queer Gaze of Dona Ann McAdams
I first discovered the photography of Dona Ann McAdams when I was a theatre student in Australia, leafing through journals looking for examples of feminist and queer performance art. It was the 1980s… Read more »
HISTORY
This Black Lesbian
Journalist Should Be
On Your Reading
List
Anita Cornwell was a Black lesbian journalist who was intentional about naming. (Anita studied Journalism at Temple University and graduated in 1948.)… Read more »
INTERVIEWS
Drag Kings Are Back, This Time With
Their Own Reality Show
The heyday of drag kings gained significant traction in the 1990s and early 2000s, with scenes in New York, London, Sydney, and San Francisco. In 2003, Curve ran this article… Read more »
Lives
Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig Go from The L Word to Authors
Now is the perfect time to celebrate the enduring legacy of The L Word. For six seasons plus a three-season reboot (titled The L Word: Generation Q), queer women had a television show all our own… Read more »
Frankly Speaking
New Survey Highlights Urgent LGBTQ+ Concerns
I wanted to take a moment to share some pretty eye-opening, and honestly, gut-punching, findings from our new Kantar/CURVE/DIVA Survey, which we released during Lesbian Visibility Week… Read more »
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 »
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 »