Frankly Speaking
Touchstone Moments in Curve History
Curve’s mission has always been to provide a platform for the voices and stories of the lesbian community… Read more »
Frances Stevens
Community
Hey Baby! What Curve
Offered Lesbian Youth
With America’s best-known newsstand magazine for lesbians being started by 23-year-old Frances Stevens, it made sense that the publication, among its regular departments, would have a column focused on lesbian youth… Read more »
Feature
30 Years of Melissa Etheridge
From the days of Deneuve through to the last days of publishing Curve as a newsstand magazine, Melissa Etheridge was always a firm favorite with us… Read more »
Sport
A Salute to Megan Rapinoe
I still remember the first time I interviewed Megan Rapinoe. I didn’t know was just how memorable our conversation would be… Read more »
From the Curve Archive
Curve’s Own Excellence
in Lesbian Coverage
Each winner turned the achievement they had been recognized for back onto Curve magazine. It turns out that an honorary winner of the Curve Award for Excellence in Lesbian Coverage is Curve magazine, itself… Read more »
Feature
The Day Sinead O’Connor Came Out
In this the year of the singer’s death, I wanted to revisit the August 2000 issue of Curve in which O’Connor came out. On the cover. As a lesbian. Or did she… Read more »
The Learning Curve
Envisioning Lesbian Excellence
The 2023 Curve Award for Excellence in Lesbian Coverage is inspired by the solidarity and interdependence at the heart of lesbian publishing… Read more »
The Learning Curve
Curve as a Co-Created Vision
From the desk of The Curve Foundation’s Executive Director, Jasmine Sudarkasa. The legacy of Curve has always been to be seen, authentically, for all of the ordinary and extraordinary stories that a life can hold. It celebrates the distinct cultural impact of lesbians and creates a public square to hash… Read more »
Volume 31 #2
A Home for Lesbian History
In this Q&A, Executive Director Jasmine Sudarkasa interviews the Friends of the Lyon-Martin House, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the GLBT Historical Society on their recent collaboration with CyArk to preserve the home of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin… Read more »
Volume 31 #2
Commemorating Our Past,
Creating our Present
A few weeks ago, I spent an hour with the women of the Transgender District. I must confess that I’ve been a longtime fan of their work. Founded in 2017 by three black trans women, “the district” – as it’s affectionally known – is the world’s first legally recognized transgender district… Read more »
Volume 31 #2
It Gets Better, Wherever You Are
On September 12th, I was joined in the proverbial Zoom room by Katie Barnes, Helen Santoro and Yvonne Marquez for a breakout session at NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists’ 2021 conference. The session, entitled “Storytelling at Our Intersections,” brought us together for only the second time since a rapid-fire… Read more »
Transgender And Non-Binary Youth Influencers Launch Book Collection With Kids Media Disrupter A Kids Book About
A Kids Book About named Favorite Things in 2020 by O, The Oprah Magazine… Read more »