Collected Item: “On Their Way to the Gay Rodio”
Your Name
Blue Miller
Your Pronouns
he/him
Instagram handle, if any
@blueveggies__
Work Title
On Their Way to the Gay Rodio
Work Year (We are not accepting images older than 5 years)
2025
[Image Rights] Do you confirm that you hold the rights to this image?
Yes
[Eligibility] The Curve Photo Contest proudly centers and uplifts people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women and nonbinary people. Please share how you self-identify, using language that feels most accurate to you. Feel free to include all intersections of your identity. (Examples: lesbian, trans person of color, Latinx queer woman, radical faery, butch, etc.)
Queer trans man
[Artist Statement] Tell us more about your photo by sharing a brief artist statement OR answering this prompt: "This is what being ______ means to me..." (Max. 100 words)
Long before considering myself a photographer, I have loved capturing photos of the intimacies and sub-cultures that I am enveloped in. I am surrounded by beautiful queer love that I am privileged to witness, experience, and capture. In this photo is my dear friend and lover, who was also my childhood friend, kissing their lover, who has since become my dear friend.
[Visual Description] Describe your photo so we can provide alt-text. Example: "Two women holding hands and smiling as they walk in a pride parade, surrounded by rainbow flags."
Two trans dykes tenderly embrace one another and kiss in front of a row of outdoor plants on a sunny day. They are both decked out in all blue, with the butch on the left wearing a denim jacket and the non-binary on the right wearing a plaid shirt with a denim cowboy hat.
[Agreement] In the event that you win the 2026 Curve Photo Contest, do you consent to having your photograph printed for the sole purpose of displaying at The Curve Foundation's one-day event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) during Lesbian Visibility Week? The Curve Foundation will cover printing costs, but will not cover costs for mailing the print after the event ends.
Yes
[Agreement] Do you consent to The Curve Foundation storing, sharing, and using this image and its description as we deem appropriate, including disseminating on our social media, website, and Curve Archive and Curve Quarterly?
Yes
[Agreement] By checking 'I understand' below, I acknowledge that this contest upholds values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I confirm that my submission does not contain anti-LGBTQ+ or other discriminatory, hateful, or exclusionary content.
I understand