The Curve Foundation champions lesbian, queer women, transgender and nonbinary people’s stories and culture through intergenerational programming and community building.

We bring the Curve magazine archive to life, providing context and a throughline between the critical conversations in the 1990s and early 2000s and today; we support the journalists who tell our stories; and we host events that bring our community together.

Our work is critical to move the LGBTQ+ community out of a scarcity framework towards a future based on abundance. We dream of a world where we can see each other for who we are and embrace wonder at what makes us different; a world where our community doesn't define our unity through our shared oppression, but through our ability to come together in joy and solidarity.

Join us in shaping this future. Your support, whether through donation, volunteering, or participation in our events, makes a meaningful impact on the lives of those we champion. Together, we can create a world where unity and joy define our LGBTQ+ community.

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Curve Magazine: Butch is Back! Featuring Phranc, dapperQ, Chloe Atkins, and Studs

Butch is having a moment in plain sight. From Lea DeLaria on and off-Broadway, to Jenni Olson’s Masc film retrospective on the Criterion Channel. Key to this revival, for me, was when towards the end of last year, just as we were wrapping up our final digital issue of Curve Quarterly, I saw that Phranc […]

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The cover of Curve's Volume 33 Issue 4 digital quarterly. Features headshots of Megan Rapinoe, Melissa Etheridge, and Sinéad O'Connor.

Curve Magazine: Megan Rapinoe, Sinéad O’Connor, and Melissa Etheridge Shine in Our Latest Issue!

In the final quarter of 2023, we present you with the last Curve quarterly for this year! And we thank you in advance for reading. We started this particular publishing initiative to give The Curve Foundation, its efforts and achievements, journalistic coverage while connecting the current day Curve community to the milestones of Curve magazine’s […]

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2023 Curve Award for Emerging Journalists

The Curve Foundation and NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+Journalists are thrilled to announce to recipients of the third annual Curve Award for Emerging Journalists. The recipients of the 2023 Curve Award for Emerging Journalists are Christiane Cordero, Daric L. Cottingham, Hannah Schoenbaum, Salgu Wissmath, and Sarah Youngblood Gregory. The award, sponsored by the Curve Foundation, […]

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