Oral History Interview with Diane DePaolis: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project

Title: Oral History Interview with Diane DePaolis: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
LC Subject: Lesbianism Lesbian community
Local Collection ID: Coll 520
Repository: University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Interviewee: DePaolis, Diane
Interviewer: Long, Linda, 1956- Raiskin, Judith L.
Description: The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project collection consists of interviews of 83 people for the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, conducted by Professor Judith Raiskin and Curator Linda Long at the University of Oregon starting in the summer of 2018.
Abstract: Diane was born in Danbury, Connecticut. She graduated from Stanford University in 1971. She worked with the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program from 1973 to 1974. She graduated from the University of Oregon Law School in 1976. Dominick Vetri was one of her professors. She clerked in Portland in 1975, and also worked in legal aid. Diane discusses coming out in 1976. She discusses living in the lesbian community in Eugene, and her passion, women’s softball. She describes Eugene in the 1970s and 1980s. She discusses the pain of the anti-gay political movement in Oregon. She discusses the leaders of the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA). Diane also discusses work on revamping the Oregon criminal code to make solicitation of anal or oral sex not deviant crimes. She talks about the efforts by the OCA to have local cities and small towns pass anti-gay laws. She also discusses a case of voting fraud in Junction City, Oregon. Diane discusses self-esteem issues and drug use in the gay community. Diane went to the March on Washington in 1993. She discusses the joy and feeling of freedom when she took an Olivia Cruise. She discusses marriage equality; in 2004, she married her partner, Nadia Telsey.
Subject: Coming out (sexual orientation); Homosexuality – law and legislation – Oregon; Junction City (Or.); Lane County Legal Aid and Advocacy Center; Lively, Scott; Mabon, Lon; March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation; Practice of law – United States; Self disclosure; Self-esteem; Stanford University; Telsey, Nadia; University of Oregon. School of Law; Vetri, Dominick R.; Voting fraud; Women lawyers.
Location: University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
Date: 2018-07-24
Identifier: Coll520_do011
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: University of Oregon Libraries
Local Collection Name: Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
Type: Moving Image
Format: video/mp4
Set: Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
Institution: University of Oregon