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.

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 ...

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 ...

For 34 years, The Dinah has been the world’s premiere event for lesbians and queer women. Featured in numerous films and TV shows, including The L Word, the annual Palm Springs festival has been a ...

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 ...

The origin story of one of Italy’s greatest rock stars, Gianna Nannini, who chased her dream despite obstacles from her family and the music industry. The main character, played by Letizia Toni, is ...

The Canadian folk singer dishes on not being defined by lesbianism and playing house with Bitch. Since she hit the women’s music scene in 1980, Ferron has been sharing her soulful, poetic songs with ...

In a grassy area by the river, twenty women stand in a circle. They’re in a women’s retreat; they’ve gathered for a radical body-positive exercise. The exercise centers on the Yoni (the Tantric word ...

For five years, I wrestled with a concept of something intangible, unformed. The framework, nebulous and bold, lingered in the back of my mind, growing alongside a rising ache: a frustration with the ...

Author and award-winning activist Shaley Howard reflects on butch identity. When I was a closeted young adult, I would sometimes wear dresses, not high femme fashion like a Victorian dress, but ...

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 ...