Ohio Lesbian Archives

  • Enthusiastic visitors

    On Monday, Annabelle and Nancy and I met Nina and two friends at the Ohio Lesbian Archives. Nina went wild listening to audio cassettes–yes, you read that right–audiocassettes of women’s, i.e., lesbian, music from earlier decades. One friend was enthralled about the different sizes and shapes of books. They are creations, after all, and the…

  • Annual Update

    Hello friends! Hope you’re staying warm in all this snow. We had a busy year in 2017. Click here to download our latest newsletter and read all about it. We will also be hosting open hours next Monday, January 22, 4:30-7:30pm at the Archives (lower level of Clifton United Methodist Church). Stop by and say…

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  • News from the Archives

    Did you get our latest newsletter? If not, check it out below! Fall/Winter 2016 Newsletter

  • Upcoming Event: Mary MacMillan, Lesbian Poet

    Join the Ohio Lesbian Archives December 11 to hear about the life of Mary MacMillan, a Lesbian poet who lived in the Cincinnati area in the early 20th century.

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  • What have we done in a year?

    We realize it’s been a full year since our last blog post – yikes! It’s not because the Archives has been inactive. In fact, we’ve been neglecting the blog precisely because we’ve had so much going on this year and we’ve been too busy to write about it. Here are a few of the things…

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  • Cataloging DINAH

    A couple weeks ago, we finished cataloging Dinah. I like to think of Dinah as one of the crown jewels of the Archives’ collection. The local lesbian newsletter ran from 1975 to 1997, an impressive feat considering nearly every issue had a call for help. Writing, compiling, publishing, printing, and distributing a work like Dinah…

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  • online catalog

    Nancy and I have been meeting weekly to input the hundreds of journals, magazines, and newsletters the Ohio Lesbian Archives has. Although detailed work, it is necessary to know our holdings. We’re using Excel to keep it simple and share-able. For now, Nancy is entering the data and I am reading out Volume, Issue, Date,…

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  • 25th Anniversary Celebration – Sat., Oct. 18th 7-9 pm

    It’s hard to believe but the Ohio Lesbian Archives is officially 25 years old! Back in spring of 1989, a handful of us began meeting regularly to collect and preserve the wonderful (and sometimes rare) materials we’d held on to. Vic and Phebe, the two co-directors, actually had talked about a Cincinnati Lesbian HERstorical Society…

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  • Holiday Open House ~ Saturday, Dec. 14th – CANCELLED!

    UPDATE Friday, Dec 13:  VIC & I ARE CANCELLING DUE TO EXPECTED SNOW STORM TONIGHT. SORRY!   Put our semi-annual Open House on your calendar now! Please come & enjoy delicious refreshments, mingle with old friends (and new) at the Ohio Lesbian Archives, located in the basement of the Clifton United Methodist Church at Clifton…

  • (Another) Open House – Happy Pride!

    Please stop by & see what we’ve been collecting, have some refreshments, say hello. Our upcoming Open House will kick off LGBT Pride here in Cincinnati. From 12-2 on Saturday, June 22nd, our little reference library in the basement of Clifton United Methodist Church will be open (usually you need to make a request to…

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