Oral History Interview with Maura Scanlon: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Title
- Oral History Interview with Maura Scanlon: 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
- Scanlon, Maura
- 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
- Maura was born in Massachusetts but grew up in Colorado. She grew up in a liberal Irish Catholic Family. She went to Colorado State University in 1967 where there was a small group of lesbians with whom she socialized. She moved to Eugene in 1975-76, and came out as a lesbian at age 26. Maura describes a sit-in with a group of lesbians at a restaurant, a “zap” at the restaurant with a group of lesbians to draw attention to its anti-gay policies. Maura describes a lesbian talent show and explains that many lesbians had part-time jobs and therefore had more energy to put into the lesbian community. She got a degree in librarianship from the University of Oregon, and a teaching certificate. She describes the jobs she had in Eugene and in Creswell, a conservative community. Maura describes the fear of being found out she was gay while working at a Creswell school. She discusses working at Peralandra Bookstore in Eugene. Maura talks about spirituality and meditation. She also talks about becoming involved with a man, and the changes this brought to her life.
- Subject
- Ballot Measure 9; Bisexuality; Center for Sacred Sciences; Communal living – Oregon; de Frisco’s Tavern; Full Moon Rising planting crew; Gold star lesbians; Hasbians; Homophobia; Lesbian identity; Lesbian separatism – Oregon; Massage therapy; Meditation; National Organization for Women (NOW); Non-Monogamy; Sheklow, Sally; Shit jobs; Spirituality; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States; Wild Iris (restaurant); Zoo Zoo’s (restaurant).
- Location
- University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 2018-08-23
- Identifier
- Coll520_do054
- 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
