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Fong, Sui Mon
"...Wee Kin Fong sent for his oldest song, Sui Mon Fong..."
"...Sui Mon Fong and Harry Won, co-chairs of the CCBA [Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association]..."
"Opened the Silver Café in Las Vegas in 1926 with his brother Gim Fong. Uncle of Wing Gay Fong, who developed Fongs Garden shopping center in Las Vegas in 1955."
Person
Parkinson, Alfred
Alfred Parkinson and Fred Schoonmaker were a couple who moved to a ghost town in Rhyolite, Nevada and attempted to create a gay residential area called Stonewall Park.
Lera, Bridget. “Queer Cities and Their Temporary Monuments.” Nevada Humanities. Nevada Humanities, September 10, 2020. https://www.nevadahumanities.org/blog/2020/9/9/queer-cities-and-their-temporary-monuments.
Person
Posters, 1993-2000
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Strutt Hurley Collection on the Southern Nevada Association of Pride, Inc. (SNAPI) and Las Vegas Gay Pride
Box/Folder: Oversized Box SH-077
Archival Component
The Rebel Yell Volume 46, Issue 44, featuring story on counter-protest, 2001 March 19
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada Anti-Gay Counter-Protest Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-052
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Collins, Will, 1953-
Entertainer Will Collins founded the Gay Academic Union [GAU] at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Collins is renowned today as the world's best Liberace impersonator. Collins came to Las Vegas in 1982 from Arizona State University in Tempe to pursue a degree in business. Dacoda Clayton Collins is Will Collins' child.
Person
Biography: Henry, Timothy, 2021
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 35
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