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Guava Soleil at the Miss Gay Las Vegas Pageant at Gipsy nightclub, 4605 South Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image

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Creator

Photographer (pht): Guava Soleil (Drag queen)

Date

1988-08-08

Description

From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This series of photographs of the Gipsy nightclub arson fire was downloaded from the Internet on August 20, 2018 and includes Guava Soleil's captions. Efforts to reach Soleil were unsuccessful. Soleil's caption for image no. 4648 reads, "Sportswear cataGORY ... (in the diamonds) the Legendary Iguana Woman/Mathew Flores." For more on the Gipsy fire see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 36-37. Also see the Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 9, 1988, 11E; the Bohemian Bugle extra, August 9, 1988; and the Las Vegas Bugle, December 1993, pp. 20-22. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: unidentified female impersonator; unidentified female impersonator; the Iguana Woman [real name: Matthew Flores (died October 28, 1989)]; Guava Soleil; unidentified female impersonator

Digital ID

pho036579

Physical Identifier

0263_4648
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    Citation

    pho036579. Dennis McBride Photograph Collection, approximately 1904-2018. PH-00263. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1319xj59

    Rights

    This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Dennis McBride transferred all right, title and interest he had in the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) to UNLV. However, some material may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

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    Digital Provenance

    Original archival records created digitally

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    Format

    image/jpeg