Series

Oral history interview with Laurie J. Lockert

• 2007-07-26 (Creation)

471 megabytes; 1 audio file (WAV, 46 min., 44 sec.) + transcript (20 pages)

This oral history interview with Laurie Lockert was conducted by Lee Ann Phillips on July 26, 2007, for the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. The interview was conducted as part of a senior capstone class on LGBTQ history at Portland State University, with instructor Christa Orth.

In this interview, Lockert discusses her family background and early life in Portland, Oregon, including the expectations her parents had, and her experience of accepting her identity as a lesbian. She shares her experience of coming out to her parents. She talks about her involvement with the lesbian community in Portland in the 1970s, and about playing tennis with other lesbians. She speaks about her early relationships with women, then talks about her marriage to Kathleen M. Roy and about raising a child. She closes the interview by discussing how the lesbian community in Portland changed, and by talking about the increasing visibility and acceptance of gays and lesbians in American society.

Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

• English

Gift of Christa Orth, October 2007 (Lib. Acc. 26361).

Preferred citation: Oral history interview with Laurie J. Lockert, by Lee Ann Phillips, SR 11137, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Forms part of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN).

Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition.

Sarah Stroman

• Gay rights--Oregon
• Lesbians--Oregon--Portland
• Tennis clubs--Oregon--Portland

• Phillips, Lee Ann (Contributor)
• Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (Subject)

• oral histories (literary works)
• Interviews