Launched in 1991 as Deneuve magazine, Curve was America’s best-selling lesbian magazine for nearly three decades. As Curve’s 30th anniversary approached, founder Franco Stevens reimagined how Curve will serve lesbians and queer women in its next chapter. Her journey to this historic decision is captured in the documentary film Ahead of the Curve.

Franco, along with a dynamic Advisory Council, started The Curve Foundation to empower the Curve Community – lesbians, queer women, trans women, and nonbinary people of all races, ages, and abilities. The Curve Foundation champions LGBTQ+ women’s and nonbinary people’s culture and stories 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 conversations and events that bring our community together.

Franco reacquired Curve magazine and donated it to the Foundation so it can leverage the brand and amplify the organization’s mission. Curve magazine is now a nonprofit project of The Curve Foundation. On a quarterly basis, we curate articles from the Curve Archive and publish them with present-day commentary, filling a critical niche by providing a way to understand our history – a portal into the hard-won lessons from our past that can inform our actions into the future. The Curve Foundation brings the archive to life through the Curve Quarterly as a resource to ensure LGBTQ+ women’s culture and history is known and preserved.

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