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 times a year, the magazine continues to evolve.

As Lesbian Visibility Week arrives, we're bursting with excitement to unveil the inaugural Curve Power List, a celebration of 50 LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary individuals who are creating seismic shifts in the United States. From sports and entertainment icons to corporate leaders and politicians, these individuals are breaking barriers, challenging norms, …

LOVE LIES BLEEDING. Equal parts brutal, sexy, and bizarre, Love Lies Bleeding is a sensory thriller ready to entice you and shock you. Lou, played with a captivating uncertainty by out and proud Kristen Stewart, lives a draining, banal life as a gym manager when she meets the determined, muscular, and beautiful Jackie (out and queer …

Jan 23, 2025 · On Wednesday, December 11, 2024, The Curve Foundation proudly screened There Are Things To Do, an award-winning documentary about LGBTQ+ activist Urvashi Vaid.The short film captures Vaid’s time in Provincetown with her long-term partner, comedian and activist Kate Clinton.It chronicles just a small slice of Urvashi’s lifetime commitment to fighting for equality through community and calls ...

From Stonewall activist Stormé DeLarverie to renowned author Leslie Feinberg, butch women have been influencing American lesbian culture since before the genesis of the contemporary Western identity that emerged in the 1940s-1950s. It became a formal identity within the underground lesbian bars of the time, where butch/femme dynamics simultaneously reflected and subverted mainstream gender norms.

As the nightmarish reach of Fegan’s actions started to become known, the pair was working on the songs that would become 2013’s Heartthrob, the aforementioned album that would catapult them into a more mainstream limelight.I wondered if learning about Fegan impacted their creative process or even their desire to continue making music.

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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 »

Jan 23, 2025 · Writer, performance artist, and activist Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) identifies as transfeminine, non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns. As mentioned in our From the Archives piece in this issue, Vaid-Menon is related to Urvashi Vaid, the late “powerful lesbian activist” and immigrant woman of color who died from breast cancer in 2022. Vaid was known for her un- apologetic pursuit of ...

Chloe Atkins first connected with Deneuve and Curve and Franco Stevens when she was a Bay Area shutterbug. “In the 1990s I was trying to make a living as a freelance photographer in San Francisco, so I was taking my portfolio around and showing art directors of all the magazines, ad agencies, and anyone else who might be interested,” recalls Chloe.