BALA holds community meetings on Sunday afternoons every other month. The meetings serve many purposes. They’re an opportunity to hear about our progress developing the archives; to learn about upcoming events BALA is presenting; to ge...

BALA co-presented the feature film Snapshots with NCLR (National Center for Lesbian Rights) at the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and the Victoria Theater in San Francisco. Snapshots  is a feature length narrative about three generations...

Marie Cartier, author of Baby You Are My Religion, was BALA’s featured author at Laurel Book Store on March 25, 2018. The book explores the role lesbian bars played in the 1950s and 1960s. Cartier asserts that the bars were the only pu...