Jane Carney Oral History
Item
Title
Jane Carney Oral History
Identifier
2024.005.004
Type
Oral History
Description
Jane Carney moved to Riverside in 1977 as a business lawyer and was highly active in political organizing in the area. She ran for California State assembly in 1992, helped bring the Federal District and Appellate Courts to downtown Riverside and had a large role in the legal history of Riverside’s AIDS Anti-Discrimination Ordinance battle in the early 1990s. The oral history begins with Carney discussing how she came to Riverside and her early legal career in the area. She details meeting Connie Confer and their work to help confirm California Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird, afterwhich Carney became closely involved in election campaigns and political fundraisers. Carney then provides details on the work of the Riverside Coalition Against Discrimination and the homophobic climate in context of the ballot battle of the AIDS Anti-Discrimination Ordinance in Riverside. She details the overruling of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and the important role of Riverside’s Virginia Philips in writing the case opinion. Carney also discusses her close involvement with the formation of the Riverside Justice Center through the Riverside County Bar Association. The oral history closes out with Carney reflecting on the role of drag in the acceptance of lesbian and gay people as well as the climate of coming out in the 1980s in Riverside.
Subject
LGBTQ
LGBTQ Community
LGBTQ History
Discrimination
Political organizing
Gay and Lesbian Political Coalition for Elections (PACE)
Elected Officials
Homophobia
Local Politics
AIDS epidemic
Coming out
Spatial Coverage
Riverside (Calif.)
Temporal Coverage
1970s-present
Creator
Jane Carney
Catherine Gudis
Date
July 5, 2023
Contributor
A People's History of the I.E.
Format
Audio
Language
English
Rights
Duration
00:58:56