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: Maxine Perron opened Maxine's bar at 5110 East Charleston Boulevard in about 1952-53. The bar closed in 1989. For more on Maxine's, see The Green Felt Jungle by Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris [New York, NY: Pocket Books, July 1974], p. 97. Also see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 2-23. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: Maxine Perron

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: William "Bill" Schafer astride his three-wheeled motorcycle Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: William "Bill" Schafer

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: William "Bill" Schafer astride his three-wheeled motorcycle Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: William "Bill" Schafer

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: William "Bill" Schafer astride his three-wheeled motorcycle Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: William "Bill" Schafer

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 first of two rallies based at the Center was called to protest passage of California's anti-same-sex marriage legislation, Proposition 8, in early November 2008. For details of the two rallies see Dennis McBride journal entries November 16, November 23, and December 21, 2008. McBride's thumb is wrapped from an accident he had the morning of November 15, 2008 when he severed his tendon on a broken wine glass. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: Dennis McBride; Barbara "Babs" Daitch; Deneen "Dee" Atwood

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 first of two rallies based at the Center was called to protest passage of California's anti-same-sex marriage legislation, Proposition 8, in early November 2008. For details of the two rallies see Dennis McBride journal entries November 16, November 23, and December 21, 2008. African American comedienne, Wanda Sykes, performing on the Las Vegas Strip, attended this rally and chose the moment to come out. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: Wanda Sykes [African American comedienne]

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 first of two rallies based at the Center was called to protest passage of California's anti-same-sex marriage legislation, Proposition 8, in early November 2008. For details of the two rallies see Dennis McBride journal entries November 16, November 23, and December 21, 2008. McBride's thumb is wrapped from an accident he had the morning of November 15, 2008 when he severed his tendon on a broken wine glass. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: Dennis McBride; Deneen "Dee" Atwood