BusinessWorld
June 7, 2021 | 12:03 am
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LONDON — Frances “Franco” Stevens was just 23 when she launched a glossy lifestyle magazine for lesbians in 1991, after raising funds by taking cash out on credit cards and betting on the horses.
The gamble paid off and now 30 years on, documentary
Ahead of the Curve celebrates
Curve magazine’s groundbreaking history and explores its future.
“At that time … there was nothing that showed lesbians in the positive everyday view,” Ms. Stevens, who started the magazine in San Francisco, told Reuters.
“I would say the biggest controversy we had with starting was putting the word lesbian on the front cover because that meant every time somebody wanted to buy it, they were essentially coming out to anyone standing around them, anyone who saw it in their house.”