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.

In the 40th year since the release of Desert Hearts, Merryn Johns sits down with the film’s director and its stars to discover the essence of this groundbreaking lesbian-feminist movie. Even though ...

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 ...

The number of lesbian bars in the U.S. has drastically declined since their emergence in the 1980s. America went from more than 200 bars to as few as 33, according to The Lesbian Bar Project. (During ...

Despite ongoing setbacks and challenges facing the LGBTQ+ community, one segment is blossoming. Sporty dykes are having a resurgence and winning at love and life. Here’s a recap of recent milestones ...

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 ...

In a sea of streaming services and an increasingly strange film industry landscape, where did our beloved genre of “lesbian cinema” land last year? Merryn Johns takes a look. Last year wasn’t a ...

Curve Archive and Outreach Manager Julia Rosenzweig looks back at the magazine’s history of using photo submissions to raise lesbian visibility and to showcase the diversity of our lives. “As the ...

Do you remember the first lesbian movie you ever saw? I remember mine vividly. It was Desert Hearts. The film premiered the year I graduated from high school, though I didn’t see it in a theater. That ...

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 ...

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 ...