| CURVE MAGAZINE CELEBRATES ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY WITH PARTIES, HONORS AND SUPER-SIZE ISSUES
SAN FRANCISCO (July 21, 2005) — Founder and publisher Frances Stevens took a big chance, and a quarter-million readers have thanked her for it. “We wanted to be bold, direct and proud,” says Stevens of the magazine’s origination, “and we knew putting ‘lesbian’ on the cover was the best way to do that.”
It All Started With a Dream
Spotting the gaping hole in lesbian publishing, founder and publisher Frances Stevens, now 37, started Curve (then known as Deneuve) in 1990 by maxing out all her credit cards, saving every extra penny from her three jobs and convincing a few worthy women to volunteer their free time. Today, with dozens of celebrities having come out in the publication, the magazine, buoyed by recognition and success, is a fixture on Hollywood’s “it” list, and we’re producing more pages than ever before.
Curve Celebrates in Style
Pride came early this year as Curve kicked off an entire year of celebrations in May. Across the country, Curve hosted cocktail parties, dances, women’s weekends, film festivals and an all-day benefit fund-raiser for Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls and the Point Foundation. Still to come is Elevate Philly in July and the She Rocks Festival in San Francisco in August, featuring five emerging female-fronted bands.
And Now, for Some History:
In our May anniversary issue, we recount all the highs and lows of our sassy publication and its weighty impact on the queer community over the past 15 years. Plus, an in-depth interview with our bold publisher and founder, Frances Stevens, illuminates how she launched the nation’s best-selling lesbian publication in the country in 1990.
ABOUT CURVE:
Curve, the nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine, offers up the latest celebrity interviews, investigative features, news, politics, fashion and style, travel and so much more. Now 15 years old, Curve has a readership of nearly a quarter-million for each issue. Curve, which is read by more women than any other national gay and lesbian publication, has been named Best Gay and Lesbian Publication by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Visit Curve online at www.curvemag.com.
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