Oral History Interview with Gail Winterman: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Title
- Oral History Interview with Gail Winterman: 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
- Winterman, Gail
- 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
- Gail was born in 1955 and grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia. All four of her grandparents had emigrated from Russia. Her parents were leftist. In high school, Gail moved with the hippie crowd. She went to Pennsylvania State University and studied psychology and animal behavior. While studying in Georgia, she read Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion and became interested in Oregon. She considered Eugene the “hippie Mecca of the West.” Gail lived in a communal house on Hansen Lane, and discusses others who lived in the house. She began working at Metropol Bakery. She describes her life in Eugene and in the lesbian community. She talks about collectives and cooperatives in Eugene at that time. She considered herself bisexual, but during her time in the lesbian community, she didn’t give it much thought. She discusses the constraints she felt in the community and its rigid cultural norms. She describes her new relationship with a man. She also talks about becoming a nurse, and starting Volunteers in Medicine.
- Subject
- Amazon Kung Fu; Bisexuality; Collectives; Communal living; Community life; Cooperatives; Gertrude’s Café (restaurant); Heterosexuality; Hippies; Lesbian identity; Lesbians – Identity; Male Privilege; Mama’s Home Fried Truck Stop (restaurant); Martial arts; Metropol Bakery; Parenting; Perry’s; Riviera Room; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States; Volunteers in Medicine; Wallflower Order Dance Collective; Whitebird Clinic.
- Location
- University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 2019-08-27
- Identifier
- Coll520_do073
- 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
