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  • Join us for Book Club!

    Sign up here Sunday, October 20th from 2-3:30pm. Please join us as we discuss It Came out of the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, edited by Joe Vallese

  • Join us for Book Club!

    Sign up here Sunday, September 22nd from 2-3:30pm. Please join us as we discuss Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

  • Join us for Book Club!

    Sign up here Sunday, August 18th from 2-3:30pm. Please join us as we discuss Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club.

  • Join us for Book Club

    Sign up here Sunday, July 21st from 2-3:30pm. Please join us as we discuss Emily Austin’s Everyone in this Room will Someday be Dead.

  • Adopt-A-Bookshelf!

    Since settling into our new home in Over the Rhine, the Ohio Lesbian Archives has been on a mission to transform our space into a haven for historical LGBTQ+ preservation and celebration. We’ve already been able to shelf a wonderful portion of our robust collection. However, we still have over 38 boxes of books, waiting…

  • Growing Up Gay in O’Bryonville: Edmund White’s Life in Cincinnati

    Growing Up Gay in O’Bryonville: Edmund White’s Life in Cincinnati

    Learn about the Cincinnati roots of renowned gay writer, Edmund White, through a personal talk from scholar Nick Radel, author of Understanding Edmund White. 

  • Join us for Book Club!

    Sign up here Sunday, June 16th from 2-3:30pm. Please join us as we discuss Nancy Garden’s Annie on my Mind.

  • Join us for Book Club!

    SIGN-UP LINK: here Sunday, May 12th from 2-3:30pm. Please join us as we discuss Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit.

  • Sign up for our book Club!

    This will be a monthly event with new books being announced each month. To sign up for April’s discussion of Hijab Butch Blues, please fill out this form The discussion will be about the entirety of the book 🙂

  • Collection Highlight: The Well of Loneliness

    If you’ve been keeping up with the OLA, you’d know that we recently moved to a new location in OTR! With moving comes a lot of unpacking, and as a new volunteer, this has given me a great opportunity to get a look at many of the pieces in our collection. One of my favorites…