Oral History Interview with Lynn Pinckney: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Title
- Oral History Interview with Lynn Pinckney: 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
- Pinckney, Lynn
- 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
- Lynn was born and grew up in Oregon. She discusses growing up in her socially conservative family. She discusses living and working in Eugene and attending the University of Oregon. She remembers the early years of the second wave of feminism when women could only use credit cards in their husbands’ names, and had difficulty getting loans to purchase a home or land. During her college years, she was politically radical and was a Marxist lesbian feminist. She spent time passing out copies of the Daily Worker to students and others in Eugene. She discusses laws against the hiring of gay and lesbian people and the professional moral turpitude clauses that kept most gays and lesbians in the closet at that time. She discusses the passage of Referendum 51 in the city of Eugene, which removed civil protections for gays and lesbians. Lynn was elected president of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) in 1985 when she was a law student. She was the first elected university student body president in the nation who ran as an out gay student. This made national news. She discusses the issues she faced while ASUO president. With her partner, Jodie Mooney, she parents two children. She discusses parenting issues and the Eugene lesbian parenting group, Rainbow Rascals. She concludes her interview by talking about the joys of living in the lesbian community, and about aging issues.
- Subject
- Apartheid – South Africa; Coming out (sexual orientation); Communism; Daily Worker; Disowned by family; Lesbian mothers -- United States; Mooney, Josephine “Jodie”; Moral turpitude; Ordinances, Municipal -- Oregon – Eugene; Oregon Assault Prevention Shuttle; Parenting; Project Saferide (University of Oregon); Rape -- Oregon -- Eugene – Prevention; Riviera Room; University of Oregon. Associated Students; Women college students -- Crimes against -- Oregon – Eugene.
- Location
- University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 2018-07-11
- Identifier
- Coll520_do044
- 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
