Ahead of the Curve

With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track, and chutzpah for days, Franco Stevens launched Curve, the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published. The film tracks the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early ‘90s to the present day through the story of Franco’s founding of Curve. Decades later, in the wake of a disabling injury, Franco questions the relevance of the magazine in today’s LGBTQ+ community and she sets out to understand visibility work being led by an intersection of queer women today. Ahead of the Curve celebrates the legacy of a movement while considering the agenda of its future.