We are pleased to present the Curve Power List for 2025. Raquel Willis (she/her) is an award-winning author, activist, and media strategist dedicated to collective liberation, especially for Black ...

Curve editor Merryn Johns reflects on a female photographer whose work possibly altered the course of her life, and discovers that they share a female gaze across hemispheres—and a love for Vegemite.

We asked, and you nominated. Here are the top 50 outstanding individuals who made our inaugural Power List for their incredible work in the public eye, behind the scenes, in our community, or the ...

The Curve Foundation and the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists are delighted to introduce the recipients of the Curve Fellowship for Emerging Journalists. The endowment, sponsored by The ...

Former Curve magazine editors-in-chief Merryn Johns and Diane Anderson-Minshall have a conversation about a pivotal Curve cover story. We put out an open call to submit original images and we were ...

Real-life besties Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig sit down with Janelle Beck to discuss their joint memoir So Gay for You, which is a New York Times bestseller—and the phenomenon that was the ...

For five years, I wrestled with a concept of something intangible, unformed. The framework, nebulous and bold, lingered in the back of my mind, growing alongside a rising ache: a frustration with the ...

Author and award-winning activist Shaley Howard reflects on butch identity. When I was a closeted young adult, I would sometimes wear dresses, not high femme fashion like a Victorian dress, but ...

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, and we are so ...

The Brandon Teena Story is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir. The documentary features interviews with many of the people involved with the 1993 murder of ...

Artist-in-residence Ava Calbreath was inspired to dive into ‘Ask Fairy Butch’ and visually represent some of the highlights of the beloved Curve advice column. The result was a conceptual art project ...

It’s about an Indian-American lesbian woman who agrees to be her straight sisters surrogate! That’s definitely about much more than coming out, and is not a stereotype (in my opinion). Plus, the movie ...