Ahead of the curve
2000
DVD
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 magazine. Decades later, in the wake of a disabling injury, Franco learns that Curve will fold within the year and questions the relevance of the magazine in the face of accelerating threats to LGBTQ+ community. To forge a path forward, Franco reaches out to women working in today's queer spaces to understand what queer women need, and how Curve can continue to serve the community.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781942584728
Description:
- 1 videodisc (83 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note:
- E.
- Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Cinematographers, Svetlana Cvetko, Clare Major ; editor, Jessica Congdon.
- DVD.
- For private home use only.
- Described video for the blind and visually impaired.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Audio track in English, captions in English, accessible audio track in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: WOL#5901D
Control Number: 3077205
UPC: 754703764980
Publisher: New Almaden, Calif. : Wolfe Video, [2000]Subjects:
- Businesspeople -- United States.
- Entrepreneurship -- United States.
- Gay people in popular culture.
- Lesbian business enterprises -- History.
- Lesbian businesswomen -- United States -- Biography.
- Lesbians -- United States -- Biography.
- Periodicals -- United States.
- Stevens, Franco.
Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Lesbian films.
- Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Congdon, Jessica, 1972- editor of moving image work.
- Cvetko, Svetlana, director of photography.
- Frankly Speaking Films, production company.
- Major, Claire, director of photography.
- Medow, Rivkah Beth, film director, film producer.
- Rainin, Jen, film director, film producer, screenwriter.
- Wolfe Video (Firm), film distributor.