From the Curve Archive
Alive and Kicking
Curve Archive and Outreach Manager Julia Rosenzweig sits down with Curve Publisher Franco Stevens… Read more »
CURVE Staff
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 31 #2
Franco Stevens And Jewelle Gomez –
On Visibility And Vampires
This year, two women who dedicated their lives to increasing lesbian visibility - in the queer community and in the mainstream - came together to celebrate Lesbian Visibility Day. Curve magazine founder Franco Stevens and author/activist Jewelle Gomez reflect on their work over the last 30 years and consider the… Read more »
Volume 31 #1
Curve Comes Home
Franco Stevens came on the Bay Area scene in the late-1980s, eager to immerse herself in the lesbian community she knew existed there. She went to A Different Light bookstore in the Castro looking for a magazine that would connect her to San Francisco’s vibrant lesbian scene only to be told that no such publication existed. She took a job at this same bookstore, and met other women hungry for the same sort of magazine… Read more »
Updated Archive, Volume 3 #6
The Iconic Melissa Etheridge
There is perhaps no other celebrity who is as iconic in our community as Melissa Etheridge. We looked to her to see how it was done. Somehow she managed to remain true to herself while becoming a super-famous rockstar, all the while singing about loving another woman in all its heartrending glory… Read more »
Updated Archive, Volume 4 #2
From The Soul: Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello landed on the April 1994 cover of Deneuve magazine just two years into a musical career that has seen her showered with critical acclaim, 10 Grammy nominations, and credit for sparking the neo-soul music movement. The wide-ranging, explosive, unapologetic, and joyful cover story helped set… Read more »
Updated Archive, Volume 6 #3
The Queen Of Butch: Lea Delaria
Question: What does a lesbian bring on a second date? Answer: A U-Haul. Most Curve readers would remember the first time they heard that joke, and it was probably around the same time they heard of stand-up comic Lea DeLaria — because Lea wrote that joke and regularly performed it… Read more »
Updated Archive, Volume 4 #6
Jewelle In The Crown
The women who gravitated towards Curve were often so unique and multitalented that it was entirely possible a lesbian might be both the subject of one article — and the author of another! Jewelle Gomez is one such lesbian… Read more »
SONiA disappear fear ~ A Concert For LESBiAN ViSiBiLiTY DAY
SONiA disappear fear has been an out lesbian since the earliest days of her career, when she chose to refuse changing the pronouns in her songs to fit popular music’s mainstream mold of girl-loves-boy narratives, opting instead for loud and proud declarations of sexual, spiritual and artistic independence… Read more »
LGBTQI+ Student Athletes Are Under Attack. Here’s How Schools Can Step In.
LGBTQI+ student athletes already have a lot on their mind between navigating COVID-19, coursework and their sport… Read more »
Trans Day Of Visibility Offers Chance For Community To Stand In Solidarity And Support
Visibility within the transgender community is often a Catch-22, especially for trans people of color, or those living in rural, conservative areas… Read more »
