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Curve Film Club is delighted to present DESERT HEARTS (1985) with director Donna Deitch and a special guest! 🎬 This Q&A event will celebrate the beloved film’s 40th anniversary by spotlighting a live conversation between Donna Deitch and a surprise guest actor. 2026 marks the 40th anniversary for this film, and The Curve Foundation is the first to celebrate it!

LEARN MORE and RSVP through our official event page

A virtual watch party and filmmaker Q&A featuring The Lesbian Bar Project! We’ll be viewing the first episode, which spotlights Pearl Bar in Houston, Texas, and its founder, Julie Mabry. Pearl Bar holds a special place for us, as we collaborated with them last year to bring a community event to life.

Filmmaker Erica Rose will join the event for a Q&A with The Curve Foundation’s co-founder and filmmaker Jen Rainin!

The Lesbian Bar Project, created by filmmakers Erica Rose and Elina Street, was launched to document the remaining lesbian bars in the United States—just 21 when the project began in 2020.

Hosted at Rikki’s women’s sports bar in SF, the Lesbian Pie-Eating Contest doubles as a fundraising spectacle for Lesbian Visibility Week – North America.

The Curve Foundation’s first live book reading, with acclaimed Cuban American writer Achy Obejas! Achy will be reading from her newly published bilingual poetry collection, The Boy Kingdom/ El reino de los varones—a meditation on being a queer mom to two sons.

A live virtual conversation led by Franco Stevens, Publisher of Curve magazine, who will speak with special guest and Curve Power List 2025 Honoree Kelly Moffat, the Co-Founder and COO of Kirrin Finch, a company that makes menswear-inspired apparel for women, trans, and non-binary folks.

A book discussion and Q&A with Hannah O’Grady, the Editor of So Gay for You, the new dual memoir by The L Word’s  Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig! Hannah will be in conversation with Franco Stevens, Publisher of Curve and Co-Founder of The Curve Foundation. 

Jul 9, 2025 | 5pm PT/ 8pm ET

Join us for a FREE virtual conversation and Q&A with author and educator Bonnie J. Morris as we discuss her sexy time-travel adventure, “Sappho’s Bar and Grill.”

Join us for the OPENING RECEPTION of QUEER & PROUD Art Exhibition: A Celebration of Lesbian Visibility.

🗓 Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Location: SF LGBT Center, 1800 Market St, San Francisco, CA
🌟 FREE WITH RSVP

Presented by The Curve Foundation and SF LGBT Center this three-part exhibition features rare ’90s images by Curve Magazine photographers Chloe Atkins, Phyllis Christopher, and Jessica Tanzer; winning entries of the 2025 Curve Photo Contest, and art from Tanya Wischerath’s mural Living Lesbian Legends.

Plus, enjoy live music from DJ Page Hodel and sip on award-winning wines from Hall Wines. Select photographs will be available for purchase, with proceeds supporting the artists, The Curve Foundation, The SF LGBT Center, and Lesbian Visibility Week.

Check out LesbianVisibilityWeekUSA.com for an extensive lineup of events for Lesbian Visibility Week! 

Including: panel discussions, art exhibitions, Lesbian Flag raising ceremonies, Lesbian Flag building illuminations, wellness events, dance parties, comedy shows, trivia, and much more!

Join us for this virtual event co-hosted by Wanderground and the Lesbian Herstory Archives, where we’ll be sharing a rich collection of materials from Curve magazine, along with lesbian publications from New England and New York. These materials are sourced from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the Wanderground Lesbian Archive/Library, and Curve magazine’s digital archive. It’s a unique opportunity to peek into these archives from the comfort of your own home!

The Curve Film Club will be discussing D.E.B.S., the 2004 lesbian action-comedy and cult classic directed by Angela Robinson.Watch the film ahead of time and come prepared to discuss your favorite themes, scenes, and characters!

Join The Curve Community in watching There Are Things To Do, an award-winning documentary about LGBTQ+ activist Urvashi Vaid. This is a live virtual screening.

Following the film will be a brief, pre-recorded Q&A with Vaid’s partner, the comedian/ activist/ author Kate Clinton, and a live community discussion of the film.

Join us for a fun-filled evening of trivia questions on Thursday, December 5! Test your knowledge on lesbian culture, history, and Curve magazine! Meet new friends and win exciting prizes! This event is open to everyone who wants to celebrate and learn more about the lesbian community. Get ready to show off your trivia skills and have a great time with us!

You can participate as a team of up to 4 or by yourself—all are welcome. All you’ll need is a paper, a pencil, and your brain.

RSVP is required to attend this virtual event.

A dive into Curve’s archival photos, letters, and documents housed at the Ohio Lesbian Archives.

Author Q&A with Georgia Beers about her sapphic romance novels. 

Join The Curve Foundation on October 13th, 2024 at Pearl Bar in Houston, Texas as we make LGBTQ+ history!

When: Sunday, October 13, 2024, 3:00-7:00 PM CDT

Funded by a generous grant from the AKR Foundation, we’ll be collecting Curve and Deneuve magazines to start an archive as part of the LGBTQ+ History Research Collections the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections! If you can’t make it to the event you can send your magazines straight to the University of Houston before or afterwards. Learn how to here.

This event will also include:
BBQ from Sloan Rinaldi of the Netflix series Barbecue Showdown (Season 3) and fourth-generation Houston Pitmaster!
Lesbian trivia
Drag performances
Pearl Bar’s Pride Market

A virtual discussion about the 1994 sapphic film Go Fish, directed by Rose Troche. 

With special guest Jenni Olson!

A virtual discussion about the 2017 sapphic indie comedy-drama film Signature Move.

An online tour and Q&A for the virtual exhibit “30 Years of Lesbian Life in Curve Magazine”, curated by the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.

Author Q&A discussing Diary of a Misfit.

Three mystery genre authors investigate the lesbian sleuth

Author Q&A discussing Hild