Frankly Speaking
Building Community,
One Party at a Time
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 »
Archive
The Black Orbit:
A Search Engine for
the Margins
In this manifesto, Mel Oliver invites us to join her curated queer digital archive, The Black Orbit, where the documentation of diverse lesbian existence is a compendium of resistance… Read more »
COVER
The Party’s Not Over
This summer, The Dinah made a seismic announcement: That after more than three groundbreaking decades, founder Mariah Hanson had made the monumental decision to bring the event to a close following its 2025 edition. Merryn Johns investigates… Read more »
PHOTOS
The Last Dinah
The Dinah 2025 was the last edition of this world-famous lesbian event as we know it, for now. Wish you were there? Luckily, Curve was. Photography on this page, and cover insets, by Elodie Hekimian-brogan. In this photo spread, Elodie Hekimian-brogan captures the energy and excitement of The Dinah 2025,… Read more »
Books
A Very Lesbian Career
Roxy Bourdillon is living the lesbian dream: that is, she gets paid to be a professional lesbian.
Merryn Johns meets her British editorial counterpart, and chats about the DIVA editor’s memoir,
What A Girl Wants… Read more »
Archive
The Art of Lesbian Advice:
Ask Fairy Butch Revisited
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 titled “Seeking Out.”… Read more »