Start off Pride Month by making some new friends! 🏳️‍🌈 We all know how hard it is to make friends as an adult, especially when you’re trying to find friendships within the LGBTQ+ community. Join us at Rhinegeist Brewery on June 5th at 6pm for Friend Request, a queer speed friending event, welcome to anyone within the LGBTQ+ community!

Join Midwestern Lesbian for a Big Gay Farm Day with Foreverland Farm Animal Sanctuary! Foreverland Farm provides sanctuary for a wide range of animals, with a main rescue program focused on providing a forever home for animals that have been abandoned, abused, and neglected.

Come explore the farm and meet the rescued animals on May 31st from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Tickets include farm entry, animal interactions, vegan snacks, drinks, and more! Ticket sales directly support Foreverland Farm’s efforts to continue helping farm animals and showing them the love they deserve. Open to all ages; families are welcome!

Get ready for pride month by supporting local queer owned small businesses! Join us on May 30th at The Pitch starting at 6:30pm for a Queer Night Market! 🌚 Filled with vendors, food, drinks, music, games and more!

join us for a stitch ‘n bitch! bring your own fiber arts craft and be in community. whether you’re starting something new, working on something old or want to just bitch! happy hour until 7pm, stitchin’ ‘n bitchin’ until 9pm! see y’all there

Midwestern Lesbian is hitting the road and we’re taking Bree from The Ritz Ballroom with us! Join us in Lexington, KY for a Queer Line Dancing Night at Blue Stallion Brewing on May 23rd starting at 6:30pm.

It’s about to get dill-icious! Join us at HomeMakers Bar for a Pickle Party like no other. Featuring all things pickle: tangy snacks, pickle themed games, drink specials, and more!

We’re also celebrating Kelsey’s birthday, so come raise a glass (or a jar) in her honor! Expect crunchy vibes, salty laughs, and briny fun all night long. Whether you love 'em, hate 'em, or just wanna party in their honor, this is your moment.

Costumes and pickle flair encouraged. Let's get pickled!

We are SO excited to be partnering with @black.wonder.land for our next Sapphic Sips! 🍻 Join us on May 16th at @highgrainbrentwood for an evening of community, drinks, food, photos, games and more! Party starts at 6pm, see y'all there!

What’s it take to get your number? Find out at Hot To Go: Sapphic Speed Dating for sapphics ages 25-35! Join Midwestern Lesbian on May 15th for an evening of conversations, connections, drinks, and more! Meet your new match or find someone to go to Sapphic Sips with. 🔥

we’re taking it back to our emo days because it was never a phase!! join us on may 14th at @redtreecoffeeandart with @nymphtml for It’s Not A Phase: Queer Emo Night! put on your skinny jeans, grab your favorite hot topic band tee, heat up your flat iron and get ready to dance with us to some of our favorite emo hits! party starts at 7pm 🖤

join us in celebrating the queen city on 513 Day! May 13th is the unofficial Cincinnati holiday, celebrating all things Cincy! we’ll have drink and food specials, games, coloring sheets, a coney drawing contest (with a twist!) and so much more! come by before the FCC game, hang with us all night, or come to watch the coney drawing contest! the fun starts at 6pm, coney drawing contest at 8pm 🌭
food and drink specials available while supplies last 🍻

allies always welcome at homemakers hangouts 🫶

Join Midwestern Lesbian and Queen City Clay for a Sapphic Pottery Painting on April 26th from 5pm-7pm for an evening of painting, community, pottery and fun!

Experience a glowing, intimate evening of live music featuring string tributes to our favorite queer icons, featuring Chappell Roan and more

Join Midwestern Lesbian at The Pitch with Synapse Symphony for a Queer Live Strings Concert on April 24th at 7pm. Surround yourself with the glow of hundreds of candles while listening to a string trio cover some of our favorite queer icons. Featuring songs by Chappell Roan, Elton John, Frank Ocean and so many more.

Discounted early bird tickets available now while supplies last.

Midwestern Lesbian Presents Queer Karaoke Night!

Come party with us at Tokyo Kitty with karaoke, drinks, photobooth, and drag performances!

Calling all gleeks! Join us on April 22nd for Glee Trivia! Sign ups start at 6pm, trivia starts at 6:30pm. Top three teams get a prize! Anyone dressed up like Sue Sylvester gets a bonus point 📣

Join us at Devou Park on April 19th for a Cincy Sapphic Park Day! An afternoon of community, the outdoors, games and fun. All ages welcome! 🏞️

What we will provide: name tags, yard games, music, and more

What you should bring: snacks, drinks, blankets, chairs and an open mind

We will be at the Charles J. Volpenhein Pavilion

Join us for Go Fish, a speed dating event designed for sapphics 40 and older. A authentic, relaxed, and welcoming space where you can meet new people, have engaging conversations and make new connections.

Join us with @psl.cincinnati and @nkyagainstice for a Whistle Kit Workshop to assemble whistle kits at HomeMakers Bar on April 15th starting at 6pm. Learn how communities use whistles to alert each other when ICE or federal agents are nearby.

You can drop in at any time during the evening to help build kits, learn how they’re used, or plug into community defense efforts.

Midwestern Lesbian is back for the 3rd annual spring LGBTQ+ bar crawl, and this year we’re taking it over the river to Covington! Join us on April 11th starting at 2pm for a fruity bar crawl to kick off spring and celebrate our community!

Tickets include:

• Midwestern Lesbian Carabiner

• A Little Bit Fruity Sticker Pack

• Drink specials at each bar

• Free access to the after party at Galaxie

Stops and Suggested Timeframe:

1. The Well - 2pm-4pm

2. Braxton Brewing - 3:30pm-5:30pm

3. Second Story - 5pm-7pm

4. West Sixth - 6:30pm-8:30pm

5. Galaxie - 8pm-10pm

After party at Galaxie starts at 10pm!

Crawl will happen rain or shine, tickets are non-refundable after April 9th

Calling all single sapphics in Cincinnati! We're taking over Afterlife for an evening of flirtation, drinks, games and community. Join us on April 9th from 7pm to 10pm for a Sapphic Singles Night with Midwestern Lesbian! 💋

This event is designed to help anyone in the single sapphic community find their next romance, friendship, business connection or just a little fun.

Your ticket includes entry to a night of games, conversation starters, crafts, and more! Come ready to talk, mingle, and meet other singles in the area.

How to join:

1. Grab your ticket through the Pinyada app or website

2. Then join us at Afterlife from 7pm-10pm, meet people, step outside of your comfort zone and make connections!

3. After the event, scroll through the RSVP list to find people you talked with, or didn’t have the chance to talk to, and request to match with them directly through the app, you can even do this anonymously! Whether it's for romance, friendship or a business connection.

If it’s a match, chat directly with your matches through the app, even after the event. Giving you the opportunity to build real connections beyond the event.

We're so excited to hang out with everyone at our Cbus Sapphic Park Day that of course we had to have an after party with @slammersbar ! Join us after our first park day in Columbus on March 29th for an after party at Slammers Bar from 4pm-7pm! Support your local lesbian bar, be in community, eat, drink and be gay! Hope to see everyone there 🫶

Midwestern Lesbian is hitting the road and heading to Columbus! Join us for a park day at Schiller Park, an afternoon of community, the outdoors, games and fun!

What we will provide: games, name tags, friendship bracelets, music, and more!

What you should bring: snacks, drinks, blankets, chairs and an open mind!

We will meet by the pond, close to the community center

Late Bloomer is an evening for sapphics 30 and older. A night to unwind with community, meet new people, and be in bed by 10:30. We’ll have games, name tags, drink specials and more!

What does "sapphic" mean? An umbrella term for women and gender non-conforming individuals, who are attracted to women. It's a broader term than "lesbian" and encompasses individuals who may identify as lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, or other queer orientations, as well as trans, non-binary, and cisgender women. Think ABCD, Anyone But Cis Dudes

Celebrate the start of baseball season with us for a Pennant Flag Craft Night! Join us on March 25th from 6pm-9pm at HomeMakers and make your own flag for your favorite team, phrase, name or anything you'd like! All crafting supplies provided 🏳️‍🌈⚾️

We're taking over Winterhaus at Fountain Square, with Boy Clothes! 💚

Winterhaus is a new tradition that celebrates Fountain Square as Cincinnati's own front yard! A heated, glass-enclosed, 65ft x 65ft tented retreat in the heart of Downtown Cincinnati, complete with a full bar! Sapphic Sips starts at 5pm and goes until 8pm! We'll have name tags, games, drinks and more. See y'all there!

We all know how hard it is to make friends as an adult, especially when you’re trying to find friendships within the LGBTQ+ community. Join us at Rhinegeist Brewery on March 19th at 6pm for Friend Request, a queer speed friending event, welcome to anyone within the LGBTQ+ community!

Instead of navigating awkward small talk, we’ll use fun, curated prompts to get right to what matters: shared interests, local favorites, and what makes a great friend. Whether you're new to the city, looking to expand your social circle, or just want to meet other queer people, this is the place to be!

Details:

Location: Rhinegeist Brewery Taproom - 1910 Elm St. Cincinnati, OH 45202

Timeframe: March 19th 6pm-9pm

Check-in: 6pm-6:30pm

Round 1: ~ 6:30pm

Round 2: ~ 7:30pm

Mingling: ~ 8:30pm

This event is for anyone in the LGBTQ+ community who is 21+

join us for an evening of trinket trading! be in community and trade some of your old trinkets for new ones! 🪀🎲

allies always welcome at homemakers hangouts 🫶