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Reese Steiner, a fourth-year English major at Ohio State, and her girlfriend, Lauren Branch, a recent graduate from North Central State, didn’t plan on testing their relationship by opening a business.

“If we get through this without breaking up or anything, then we’re golden,” Branch told The Lantern, the Ohio State newspaper.

The business is a bookstore and coffee spot that the couple are calling Little Gay Bookstore and Queer Beans, devoted to queer literature and providing a safe space for the queer community of all ages in Columbus’ Short North gayborhood.

“Columbus is definitely great, and we’re definitely grateful that we have any queer spaces. But I think it’s important and time that there is a sober one,” Steiner said. “I’m also really excited to do the coffee shop and just have a space where people can exist, be sober, just hanging out.”