Trailblazers
Be the Leader,
Be the Footprint
Eboné Bell and Merryn Johns chat about the importance of LGBTQ media… Read more »
Articles
The Learning Curve
Curve as a Co-Created Vision
From the desk of The Curve Foundation’s Executive Director, Jasmine Sudarkasa. The legacy of Curve has always been to be seen, authentically, for all of the ordinary and extraordinary stories that a life can hold. It celebrates the distinct cultural impact of lesbians and creates a public square to hash… Read more »
Frankly Speaking
Striving to Evolve
From the desk of Curve’s Publisher, Franco Stevens Welcome to the debut of Curve quarterly! So many of you have been asking me about Curve magazine's status, so here's a rundown of where we are 33 years after our first issue. As we’ll now be publishing — digitally — four… Read more »
Interview
The Sky’s the Limit for
Ahead of the Curve Movie
It could be the most important documentary about lesbian visibility ever made, achieving the greatest cultural visibility through a film that's all about being seen as an LGBTQ+ woman in the full spectrum of what that means. Ever since its release in June 2020, Ahead of the Curve by Frankly… Read more »
Opinion
The Curve Test In 2023
Using two of 2023’s most acclaimed queer-themed films, Tár and Everything Everywhere All At Once, Leo Aquino explains why The Curve Test is an important tool to measure queer women’s representation onscreen… Read more »
Volume 32 #1
Charting Our Herstory, Changing Our Future:
A Reporter’s Notebook
As a journalist, I live within the daily cycle of politics and I show how it inextricably shapes history. For lesbians, this goes well beyond that famous George Santayana quote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” How does our history—herstory—mesh with our political reality… Read more »
Volume 32 #1
Finally, A Project For All Queer Women
How many times have you been asked to describe the challenges you’ve faced based on your sexual orientation and gender identification? How has misogyny, racism, classism, ageism, and ableism impacted the quality of your life? From home to places of education and work, queer women’s experiences play out in ways that often do not address the economic security, mental health, and physical wellbeing of this large and diverse demographic… Read more »
Volume 32 #1
Radical Transformation, Radical Love:
Black Queer Women You Need To Know
Throughout Black History Month and Women’s History Month, mainstream and independent sites tend to focus on the same figures, time and time again. But, the voices of Black lesbians and queer women are too often missing from these commentaries and highlights… Read more »
Volume 31 #2
Web Access
On the rare occasion that my partner and I go out to the club, we’re inevitably asked the same question, by a stranger, at least once: “Do you live here?” Typically, this is the opening line to a conversation about a threesome… Read more »
Volume 31 #2
A Home for Lesbian History
In this Q&A, Executive Director Jasmine Sudarkasa interviews the Friends of the Lyon-Martin House, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the GLBT Historical Society on their recent collaboration with CyArk to preserve the home of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin… Read more »
Volume 31 #2
Commemorating Our Past,
Creating our Present
A few weeks ago, I spent an hour with the women of the Transgender District. I must confess that I’ve been a longtime fan of their work. Founded in 2017 by three black trans women, “the district” – as it’s affectionally known – is the world’s first legally recognized transgender district… Read more »
Volume 31 #2
It Gets Better, Wherever You Are
On September 12th, I was joined in the proverbial Zoom room by Katie Barnes, Helen Santoro and Yvonne Marquez for a breakout session at NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists’ 2021 conference. The session, entitled “Storytelling at Our Intersections,” brought us together for only the second time since a rapid-fire… Read more »