Aug
17
1:00 PM13:00
Jul
27
2:00 PM14:00
Queer Comic Artist Panel and Q&A
Join the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives for our panel on queer comic artists! We will be hosting artists Sarah Webb, Christine Lêsantos, Mo McMasters and Leigh Luna to answer questions about and discuss their creative work.
RSVP to the event here.
Meet the Artists!
Sarah Webb is an illustrator, visual development and background artist, and cartoonist from Alaska. She currently lives in Los Angeles, and graduated from MICA in Baltimore. Her work focuses on creating immersive worlds and narratives, and is inspired by the otherworldly and odd within everyday life and nature.
Christine LêSantos is a queer Vietnamese-Chinese-American Los Angeles based comic artist, illustrator, writer, and story artist. She has professional experience in storyboards, storyboard revisions, and writing for television animation.
Mo McMasters is a Los Angeles-based artist who runs their own risograph press. They've made comics about clown cryptids from outer space, post-apocalyptic mental health crises, and freak accidents with bees.
Leigh Luna is a cartoonist from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently living in Los Angeles, California, working in both animation and comics. Her debut comedy graphic novel, Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure, was published by Scholastic in 2023, with a sequel scheduled for release in 2027. Leigh is currently a Color Designer on the animated series The Mighty Nein.
Moderated by Anna Chung Witt, a creative working in the animation and video games industry based in LA.
Poster designed by Sonja von Marensdorff.
Jul
13
2:00 PM14:00
Join us for the world premiere of Betsy Kalin’s now finished film.
Join us for the world premiere of Betsy Kalin’s now finished film.
May
25
2:00 PM14:00
Mazer Movie Night
Join the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives for our May Movie Night! We will be showing The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love which is celebrating it's 30th anniversary!
94 mins, 1995, Directed by Maria Maggenti, rated R.
This will be hosted on the first floor of our building at 626 North Robertson, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Free but tickets are required: Click here for tickets.
Click here to see the trailer
Apr
27
2:00 PM14:00
Mazer Lesbian Comics Club
Event will take place on the first floor of the Werle Building.
Join us at our next event! We will be hosting a spin on the classic book club - participants will be able to choose from a lesbian focused comic book, graphic novel, manga series or zine and discuss it at our event. We will also have a DIY zine / crafting station featuring material from the archive.
Book Menu includes:
Manga: She Loves to Cook, And She Loves to Eat
- Available physically from LAPL and LA County
Graphic Novel: The Deep Dark
- Available digitally from LAPL and LA county
- Available physically from LAPL and LA county
Comic: Cosmoknights
Available for free
- Available digitally from the Queer Liberation Library, LAPL, and LA County
- Available physically from LAPL and LA County
Parking available on Robertson Blvd and in the WeHo Library parking garage.
Mar
9
2:00 PM14:00
Open House - Sunday, March 9, 2025 2-4pm.
Join us! Open House, Sunday, March 9, 2025 2-4pm. (NOTE THE DATE CHANGE)
There is street parking and a paid lot across the street from our building. There is also parking in the West Hollywood Library lot (validation offered by the Library) and parking structure across the alley behind our building (The Werle building).
Feb
24
2:00 PM14:00
Celebrating 35 Years of Black Lesbian Organizing in Los Angeles
Join Us Saturday, February 24th at 2:00 pm
In the West Hollywood Park Public Meeting Room - Council Chambers
625 N San Vicente Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90069
Please RSVP by clicking the link below. https://Mazereventrsvp.eventbrite.com
This event is free and parking validation will be provided in the structure attached to the West Hollywood City Council Chambers.
Questions? Email us at contact@mazerlesbianarchives.org
Oct
28
2:00 PM14:00
Join us Saturday at 2pm October 28, 2023 in the West Hollywood City Council Chambers
It's 50 years since the founding of Olivia Records, the lesbian recording company that launched the women's music movement. But who were the volunteers behind the scenes who helped distribute the albums, daring to place lesbian music in record stores and radio shows? Come learn about Olivia's L.A. years in the mid-1970s, when album distributors did the tough work and created a lasting international network of fans and customers.This intimate panel with Olivia historian Bonnie Morris and former Olivia worker Sandy Ramsey features rare Olivia papers that Sandy will be donating to the Mazer!
This event is presented by the City of West Hollywood and One Archives, and is part of the 2023 Circa Queer History Festival Presented by One Institute and sponsored by The June L. Mazer Mazer Lesbian Archives.
May
27
4:00 PM16:00
A Special Women's Music History: A Celebration of the Betsy York Collection
The Mazer showcases another collection, this time it's the collection of Betsy York, a Women's Music Producer and Distributor.
About the Event
Join us while we share the Betsy York Collection with Betsy York herself and Sandy Ramsey. Both women were instrumental in the history of Women's Music. Join us and find out what it was like to distribute this music for Betsy York and how she went Coast to Coast doing it! We will play samples of Women's Music throughout the event.
This event will be online via Zoom, for more information and to get your ticket now, click this link to our Eventbrite page!
Sep
5
2:00 PM14:00
Book Reading and Conversation with Katherine V. Forrest (Zoom Event)
Katherine V. Forrest will be reading from her newest Kate Delafield mystery, yet to be published!
About this Event
Join the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives on Saturday, September 5th 2:00 PM PST for a virtual book reading and conversation with the pioneering lesbian writer, novelist, editor and literary critic Katherine V. Forrest. She will be reading from her newest Kate Delafield mystery, yet to be published!
"When the series first began in 1984, introducing LAPD detective Kate Delafield, it not only marked the beginning of one of mystery fiction's most successful series, it also created one of the most lucrative genres in gay publishing: the lesbian mystery. With this series, Forrest's complex and determined lesbian detective became the most celebrated figure in lesbian fiction." (A quote from the Los Angeles Review of Books)
This is a Zoom event so please RSVP to get the Zoom link on the day of the event. Donations are welcome and much appreciated!
Please contact us at contact@mazerlesbianarchives.org if you have any questions.
Jun
28
7:30 PM19:30
McCabe's & June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives Presents: Singing OUT w/ Crys Matthews and Heather Mae
McCabe's & June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives Presents: The Singing OUT Tour - the first ever VIRTUAL Pride Tour! Featuring award-winning singer-songwriters Heather Mae ("the queer Adele") and Crys Matthews ("the Woody Guthrie of our generation").
Get your tickets here.
Mar
15
2:00 PM14:00
Reviving the Revolution CANCELLED
The City of West Hollywood's Lesbian Speakers Series and the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives
EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Will be rescheduled on another date TBD.
REVIVING THE REVOLUTION: EMPOWERED LESBIANS AND QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR READ AND DISCUSS THEIR WRITTEN WORKS
Please join us for this fantastic event featuring authors CB Lee, Jewelle Gomez, Verónica Reyes, Alicia Vogl Saenz and Suzette Zazueta (Moderator).
Free event!
Free parking! RSVP by clicking HERE
Aug
11
2:00 PM14:00
May
25
3:00 PM15:00
May 25, 2019 for the new SCWU Documentary by Director / Executive Producer Angela Heine
Join us, The Mazer and the City of West Hollywood and the Los Angeles LGBT Center when we screen “SCWU (Southern California Women for Understanding) And Our Name Spells Lesbian.” We also invite former SCWU members to join us for a small reunion by attending this event. Time to be determined.
Mar
3
2:00 PM14:00
Breaking Barriers
Please RSVP for this free event here —> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-barriers-tickets-55460540971
Dec
22
to Jan 19
Out of the Box at The Center Long Beach
Long Beach you are cordially invited to Out of the Box: Rare or Unseen photos. This exhibit will be up until January 19, 2019.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is hosting a gallery which is exhibiting 50 or more rarely seen or unseen photos. These photos will be beautifully mounted on metal throughout The Center Long Beach. Each photo will include a caption identifying its story.
Dec
2
2:00 PM14:00
MEMORIAL- Join us to Celebrate Jinx Beers!
Join us to share your thoughts, feelings and experiences with and about Jinx.
All at the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
Nov
4
2:00 PM14:00
Out of the Box: Rare or Unseen photos.
You are cordially invited to Out of the Box: Rare or Unseen photos.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is hosting a gallery which is exhibiting 50 or more rarely seen or unseen photos. These photos will be beautifully mounted on metal throughout the Werle Building in West Hollywood. Each photo will include a caption identifying its story. This event is on exhibit at the LGBTQ Long Beach Center, January 19, 2019 at 5pm.
Sep
30
5:00 PM17:00
Dust & Lust: Writing in and About Lesbian Archives
On September 30, 2018 starting at 1pm, The Mazer is sponsoring three events all in the Lambda Lit series. For more information visit https://lambdalitfest.org/
Sep
30
1:00 PM13:00
Mazer is co-sponsoring three Lambda Lit Fest events!
The Mazer is sponsoring three events all in the Lambda Lit series.
Jul
22
2:00 PM14:00
May
6
2:00 PM14:00
JUNE MAZER GRAND RE-OPENING
JUNE MAZER GRAND RE-OPENING
The Simone Wallace Collection of Sisterhood Bookstore
Mar
8
7:30 PM19:30
Giving Tongue: A celebration of Lesbian/Queer Poets
The Lambda LitFest and Boston Court Performing Arts Center are proud to present Giving Tongue, a reading that features a multi-cultural and multi-generational line-up of lesbian- and queer-identified poets.