Frankly Speaking

Time is such a strange concept. Sometimes a year seems like such a short amount of time, and other times it feels like an eternity… Read more »

I awkwardly slid down the gynecologist’s exam table and put my feet in the stirrups. My longtime doctor had moved out of state, and this was my first visit with someone new… Read more »

Somewhere along the way, “lesbian” became a word people hesitate to say out loud. It’s been mischaracterized, flattened into stereotypes, or associated with exclusionary ideas that don’t reflect the fullness of who we are… Read more »

The film premiered the year I graduated from high school, though I didn’t see it in a theater. That came later, after I had begun quietly discovering lesbian pulp novels and cautiously seeking out stories that hinted at a life I barely knew was possible… Read more »

Curve Publisher Franco Stevens reflects on the importance of the lesbian “party” in building community for queer women. Curve has been so much more than a publication to me, and I hope to you, too. We set out to create something simple but essential… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »