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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lois Elfman meets out American-Canadian ice dancer Kaitlyn Weaver. How does a woman in a sport that celebrates conventional femininity adapt when she comes out? This being ice skating, that is indeed ...

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 ...

why they are so compelling today. I wanted to take a moment to share some pretty eye-opening, and honestly, gut-punching, findings from our new Kantar/CURVE/DIVA Survey, which we released during ...

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 ...