Forms part of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN)
Collection is open for research.
Gift of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest, July 2011 (Lib. Acc. 27383).
Ellen Goldberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1949. She attended Barnard College in New York. In 1971, she came to Portland, Oregon, to teach at Jefferson High School. She was a co-founder of the Mountain Moving Cafe, a collective-run coffeehouse in Southeast Portland. She was later involved in the Women Center in Portland.
Forms part of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN).
Oral history interview with Ellen Goldberg, by Annica Eagle and Spencer Trueax, SR 11235, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Oral history interview with Ellen Goldberg, by Margot Faegre, SR 6314, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
This oral history interview with Ellen Goldberg was conducted by Annica Eagle and Spencer Trueax on February 24, 2011. Eagle and Trueax conducted the interview for the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest as part of Professor Pat Young's senior capstone class on LGBTQ history at Portland State University.
In this interview, Goldberg discusses her involvement in the founding of the Mountain Moving Cafe, a collective-run coffeehouse, in Portland, Oregon; talks about how she and other people in the collective ran it as an "anti-profit" business; and speaks about events held at the cafe. She discusses the cafe's association with gay and women's groups and talks about life in the collective. She speaks about her activities since leaving the collective, particularly her involvement in gay and women's rights activism. She closes the interview by talking about the poem that inspired the cafe's name, "The Day the Mountains Move" by Yosano Akiko.
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