Jacquelynn Smith was born on November 11, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Nevada Southern University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. After graduation Jacquelynn began work for defense contractors who worked at the Nevada Test Site and National Laboratories. Jacquelynn also worked for the defense contractor EG and G Incorporated. Jacquelynn Smith passed away on November 7, 2015.

Michael Loewy was the founder of Desert Mountain States Lesbian and Gay Conference and the Lesbian and Gay Academic Union at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Loewy moved to California in 1987, but remained involved with the gay community in Las Vegas. In 2002 he graduated with a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2003 he won a Foundation Award, "Honoring the Pioneers of Gay Las Vegas."

Thomas R. Schiff studied photography at Ohio University where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1970. He began experimenting with panoramic photography in the 1980s and in the mid-1990s he started using a Hulcherama 360-degree panoramic camera to take photographs of building exteriors and interiors.

Ruthadele Stearns Doyal Lathrop was born Ruthadele Margaret Tapper on February 17, 1918 in Wisconsin, the daughter of Samuel E. Tapper and Meta G. (Brennecke) Tapper. In 1944, Ruthadele married her first husband, James Anthony Cone in California. They divorced soon after and Ruthadele married Charles R. Stearns and had a son, Charles “Chic” Stearns, Jr. In 1963, she married her third husband, Jerry M. Doyle. By 1969, they were no longer together and she married William O. Lathrop.