The Curve Test
for LGBTQ+ Women, Trans, &
Nonbinary People in Films and Series

Films and series that pass the Curve Test help broaden and deepen representation beyond the stories that reduce LGBTQ+ women, trans, and nonbinary people to stereotypes. This test is not intended to be used as a weapon to shame. Films and series that don’t pass are not to be condemned. Rather, the test is intended as a tool for conversation, a barometer to help us see which films and series are pushing the movement forward and where we need to put more attention.

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    About more than coming out More than stereotypes Cast & crew LGBTQ+
    About more than coming out Characters not reduced to stereotypes Cast & Crew are LGBTQ+
A League Of Their Own 2022 Pass Pass Star
Ahead of the Curve 2020 Pass Pass Star
Aimée & Jaguar 1999 Pass Pass  
All Over Me 1997 Fail Pass  
Ammonite 2020 Pass Fail  
Anaïs in Love 2021 Pass Pass Star
Anne+ 2018 Pass Pass Star
Anything’s Possible 2022 Pass Pass Star
Beautiful Rebel 2024 Pass Pass Star
Below Her Mouth 2016 Pass Pass Star
Benedetta 2021 Pass Pass  
Better Than Chocolate 1999 Pass Fail Star
Blue is the Warmest Color 2013 Pass Fail  
Booksmart 2019 Pass Pass Star
Bound 1996 Pass Pass Star
Boy Meets Girl 2014 Pass Pass Star
But I’m A Cheerleader 1999 Pass Pass Star
Carol 2015 Pass Pass Star
Chasing Amy 1997 Pass Fail  
Chavela 2017 Pass Pass Star
Chutney Popcorn 1999 Pass Pass Star
City of Trees 2019 Pass Pass  
Cloudburst 2011 Pass Pass  
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same 2011 Pass Pass Star
D.E.B.S. 2004 Pass Pass  
Desert Hearts 1985 Pass Pass Star
Disobedience 2017 Pass Pass  
Duck Butter 2018 Pass Pass Star
Dyke Central 2014 Pass Pass Star
Eileen 2023 Fail Fail  
Elena Undone 2010 Pass Pass Star
Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt) 2020 Pass Pass Star
Everything Everywhere All At Once 2022 Pass Pass Star
Feel Good 2021 Pass Pass Star
Fire 1996 Pass Fail  
Gentleman Jack 2019 Pass Pass  
Gia 1998 Pass Pass Star
Go Fish 1994 Pass Pass Star
Happiest Season 2020 Fail Fail Star
Heartland 2016 Pass Pass  
Heartstopper 2022 Pass Pass Star
Heavenly Creatures 1994 Pass Fail  
Her Story 2015 Pass Pass Star
High Art 1998 Pass Pass  
High School 2022 Pass Pass Star
Holding Moses 2022 Pass Pass Star
I Can’t Think Straight 2008 Pass Fail  
If These Walls Could Talk 2 2000 Pass Pass Star
Imagine Me & You 2005 Pass Pass  
Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love 1995 Fail Pass  
It’s Only Life After All 2023 Pass Pass Star
Jenny’s Wedding 2015 Fail Fail  
Kajillionaire 2020 Pass Pass Star
Kiss Me 2011 Pass Pass Star
Kissing Jessica Stein 2001 Fail Pass  
Lesbian Bar Project 2022 Pass Pass Star
Lianna 1983 Fail Fail  
Lost and Delirious 2001 Pass Pass  
Lost Girl 2010 Pass Fail Star
Love My Life 2007 Fail Pass  
Loving Annabelle 2006 Pass Pass  
Ma Belle, My Beauty 2021 Pass Pass Star
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story 2023 Pass Pass Star
Motherland: Fort Salem 2020 Pass Pass Star
My Days of Mercy 2017 Pass Pass Star
My Name Is Andrea 2022 Pass Pass Star
Nellie & Nadine 2022 Pass Pass  
Nimona 2023 Pass Pass Star
Nyad 2023 Pass Pass Star
Orange is the New Black 2013 Pass Pass Star
Our Flag Means Death 2022 Pass Pass Star
Out at the wedding 2007 Pass Pass Star
Pariah 2011 Fail Pass Star
Paris Is Burning 1990 Pass Pass Star
Personal Best 1982 Pass Pass  
Pirate Radio 2009 Pass Pass  
Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Pass Pass Star
Rafiki 2018 Pass Pass  
Rebel Dykes 2021 Pass Pass Star
Saving Face 2004 Pass Pass Star
Seaside 2019 Pass Pass Star
Sense8 2015 Pass Pass Star
Set it Off 1996 Pass Pass  
She-Ra: Princesses of Power 2018 Pass Pass Star
Sheer Qorma 2021 Pass Pass Star
Shitts creek 2015 Pass Pass Star
Signature Move 2021 Pass Pass Star
Single White Female 1992 Pass Fail  
Snapshots 2018 Pass Pass Star
Steven Universe 2013 Pass Pass Star
Summerland 2020 Pass Pass  
Tár 2022 Pass Pass  
Tell It To The Bees 2012 Fail Fail  
The Brandon Teena Story 1998 Pass Pass Star
The Children’s Hour 1961 Pass Fail  
The Color Purple 1985 Pass Pass  
The Danish Girl 2015 Pass Pass Star
The Divide 2021 Pass Pass Star
The Feels 2017 Pass Pass Star
The Half of It 2020 Pass Pass Star
The Hours 2002 Pass Pass Star
The Intervention 2016 Pass Pass Star
The L Word 2004 Pass Pass Star
The L Word: Generation Q 2019 Pass Pass Star
The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2018 Pass Pass Star
The Watermelon Woman 1996 Pass Pass Star
The World to Come 2020 Pass Pass  
The World Unseen 2007 Pass Pass Star
Thelma 2017 Pass Pass  
Tomboy 2011 Pass Pass Star
TRANSFINITE 2019 Pass Pass Star
Transparent 2014 Pass Pass Star
Twenties 2020 Pass Pass Star
Under the Bridge 2024 Pass Pass Star
Vida 2018 Pass Pass Star
Vita & Virginia 2018 Pass Pass  
Walk with Me 2022 Pass Pass Star
Wild Things 1998 Pass Pass  
Women of Brewster Place 1989 Pass Pass Star
Work In Progress 2019 Pass Pass Star
Wynonna Earp 2016 Pass Pass Star
Yellowjackets 2021 Pass Pass Star
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