Representing Lesbian Love
In each issue, Deneuve’s writers and advice columnists provided sex positive and empowering perspectives on lesbian love and sexuality.
Readers sought relationship advice from the “Ask Fairy Butch” column from the fall of 1996 onwards. The columnist offered advice on issues ranging from lesbian bed death and incorporating toys in the bedroom to finding representative lesbian pornography to avoiding sexually transmitted diseases.One of Curve’s most popular features was its photo contest, which began in 1995. The photographs illustrated many aspects of lesbian and queer life, from romance to travel to domestic life and pet ownership. This process was meaningful to both readers and staff. As the January 1997 issue described,
“Once again, we invited you to send us photographs reflecting any and all aspects of lesbian life and once again almost a thousand images flooded into our office, bringing new meaning and power to lesbian visibility. Selecting the winners was a labor of love – so many beautiful women, so many emotions: from laughter, to love, to solitude, to friendship, to celebration and beyond.”