The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will host an exhibition from the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, well beyond LGBTQ+ Pride season. Outliers and Outlaws: Stories From the Eugene Lesbian History Project opens Sunday, June 8 and runs to Oct. 26, focusing on the community of balabustas—a Yiddish term meaning “mother of the house”—that thrived from the 1960s through ‘90s in Eugene, Ore.

The private lives and public pursuits of 83 women are represented through photos, archival footage and other artifacts. The exhibition celebrates not only their creative achievements—remembering the bands, plays and community events they organized through the mid-late 20th century—but their political ones too. A key feature of Outliers and Outlaws looks back on the 1992 Freed

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