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Home Game, missing
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In the Frame of a Square, 2004
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Bay City Luv: Singin' 'n Livin' on the Edge, 2005
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Set of photographs including Mrs. Chase, Dolores Givens' wedding, party for Rogalleane [?] Castlebery, a musical at St. Paul, and Sis Conway
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Photographer's notations: Mrs. Chase, Wedding - Dolores Givens, Party for Rogalleane [?] Castlebery, Musical at St. Paul, Sis Conway, Copy Louise Harris.
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Recorded radio broadcast of Eddie Anderson, Randolph Townsend, and "Pro-Life" Andy, 1990 October 22
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Eddie Anderson was an outspoken and iconoclastic radio commentator in Reno, NV in the 1980s and '90s, who covered liberal politics and issues in his call-in program, Radio Free Reno. The program recorded here was broadcast on October 22, 1990, and includes a lengthy biography of conservative activist Janine Hansen of Nevada's Independent American Party; a short interview with then-Nevada State Senator Randolph Townsend; commentary on Question 7, Nevada's pro-abortion initiative petition legislation; pungent comments on Nevada's U. S. Representative Barbara Vucanovich; and comments suggesting that Jesus Christ was gay. It was at the end of this broadcast, captured on this tape, that "Pro-Life" Andy Anderson [Charles F. Anderson (1927-2011)], a notorious religious bigot and anti-abortion crusader who drove a Volkswagen around northern Nevada with a big fetus on the roof to emphasize his point, broke into the studio while Anderson was still on-air and assaulted him for his comments on Jesus. Andy Anderson and Eddie Anderson [no relation] had been acquainted since the early 1970s when both were janitors at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center. Andy Anderson was found guilty of battery in March 1991 and sentenced to community service. See "Abortion Foe Punches Reno Talk Show Host" [Reno Gazette-Journal, October 23, 1990, 1B]; "Pro-Life Andy Anderson Turns Himself In, But Cops Won't Take Him" [Reno Gazette-Journal, November 10, 1990, 1B]; and "Abortion Foe Guilty in Attack" [Reno Gazette-Journal, March 23, 1991, 1A]. Eddie Anderson's description of the attack may be found on pp. 144-145 of his oral history deposited in the Special Collections Department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas [HQ75.4 A54 2000]. Also see Anderson's manuscript collection in Special Collections [MS-00457].
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3rd Annual Big Horn Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1998 March 06 to 1998 March 08
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This is a video recording [in two parts] of the 3rd Annual Big Horn Rodeo in Las Vegas, held March 6-8, 1998. For a history of the gay rodeo in Nevada, see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 196-204. [Part 1: 00:00:00 - 01:30:22; Part 2: 00:00:00 - 01:29:22]
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"The Rhetoric of Intolerance: An Open-Letter Video to Pat Robertson from Dr. Mel White", 1995 to 2000
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Titled, The Rhetoric of Intolerance: An Open-Letter Video to Pat Robertson from Dr. Mel White, this video provides a point-by-point destruction of Robertson's homophobic social and religious paradigm. Throughout the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, Pat Robertson--founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network [CBN], Regent University, and the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, and one of the loudest voices in the Religious Right--spread a relentlessly homophobic message through his television program, The 700 Club. Mel White, a closeted gay man who ghost wrote autobiographies for such homophobic Christian fundamentalists as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham, came out in 1994 and became an outspoken queer activist associated with the Metropolitan Community Church. For documentary materials associated with The Rhetoric of Intolerance ..., see MS-00802, box 8 ["Discrimination - The Rhetoric of Intolerance"] in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Special Collections Department. [00:00:00 - 00:30:03]
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Peter Todd benefit, 1992 October 25
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Peter Todd was a significant figure in the gaming, entertainment, and financial industries of Las Vegas, as well as a queer activist in the Las Vegas AIDS community. Todd was co-founder, with Bree Burgess, of the Golden Rainbow AIDS organization and served as financial officer for Aid for AIDS of Nevada [AFAN]. When Todd was diagnosed in 1992 with lung cancer that had spread to his liver, he had no medical insurance. This benefit was a fundraiser to help cover expenses for Todd's treatments. The event's host/emcee was queer entertainer RIchard Powell [d. October 29, 2021]. The event included performances by Las Vegas Strip entertainers, testimony from Todd's friends and a thank-you speech from Todd himself, who died April 8, 1993. For biographical information on Todd, see "Four Individuals Win AFAN Humanitarian Award" [Las Vegas Bugle, April 1991, pp. 26-28, 30], and "Todd Honored as LV Men's Club 'Man of the Year' " [Las Vegas Bugle, September 1992, 24]. For information on the benefit event, see "300 Persons Honor Peter Todd at Benefit" [Las Vegas Bugle, November 1992, 18]. For Todd's obituary, see the Las Vegas Sun, April 9, 1993, 2B, and "Peter Todd Leaves Golden Legacy of Memories" [Las Vegas Bugle, April 1993, 20] [00:00:00 - 01:59:06]
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Promotional vide for Jahna Steele aka Jahna Reis, 1992 to 1995
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Jahna Steele, aka Jahna Reis [d. January 24, 2008], was a renowned transgender performer in Las Vegas whose reputation became international through the 1990s and 2000s. Steele hosted The World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Contest at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 2004. For information on Steele, see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 153-154. For Steele's obituary, see the Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 29, 2008, p. 4B. Also see "Jahna Steele: Woman of Steele" [QVegas, December 2005, 34] and "Jahna Steele" [Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 10, 2010, 4J]. This videotape is a promotional item of Steele's entertainment career. [00:00:00 - 00:06:38]
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