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Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00456

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite conducted by Dennis McBride on August 29, 2000 for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. In the interview, Cummings and Midnite discuss their work as female impersonators in Las Vegas, Nevada during the late 1960s and 1970s. They also talk about other impersonators and performance venues in Las Vegas and around the United States. They explain the distinctions between transgender and straight performers, and the perceptions of transgender and straight audience members. Other subjects Cummings and Midnite cover include their early lives and arrivals to Las Vegas, and the history of sex reassignment surgeries beginning in the 1930s.

Archival Collection

Alicia Montgomery at the Community Counseling Center booth at Gay Pride: photographic print

Date

1996-05-04

Description

Gay Pride 1996 (Dennis McBride, photographer) PFLAG/Community Counseling Center booth at Sunset Park. (5-4-96) Alicia Montgomery with pie.

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Gay Life Newsletters, 1984

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Gay Life Newsletters
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00458
Collection Name: Gay Life Newsletters
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component

Las Vegas, Nevada Anti-Gay Counter-Protest Collection

Identifier

MS-01083

Abstract

The Las Vegas, Nevada Anti-Gay Counter-Protest Collection (2001) documents the counter-protests against supporters of Reverend Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church at their anti-homosexual demonstrations. The counter-protests were held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus and the Liberace Museum on March 10, 2001. Materials in this collection included a typed excerpt from the journal of Dennis McBride recounting his experiences on the day of the protest. Also included are photographic prints of counter-protestor Joshua Dart at the demonstration, a poster from the demonstration, correspondence between McBride and Dart, and an issue of the Rebel Yell featuring a front page article about the demonstration.

Archival Collection

Gay Pride parade paused at Naples and Paradise Road, image 001: photographic print

Date

1997-05-10

Description

Gay Pride 1997 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Gay Pride 1997 parade; paused at Naples and Paradise Road. (5-10-97)

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Mass holy union ceremony performed at Gay pride, image 003: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride. Another photo of the mass holy union ceremony performed at Gay pride 1998.

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Mass holy union ceremony performed at Gay pride, image 004: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride. Another photo of the mass holy union ceremony performed at Gay pride 1998.

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Tabitha Krast, Beth Fraley, and Debbie Lujan at Gay Pride: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Gay Pride 1998 at Sunset Park. Photographer: Dennis McBride.(4-25-98) (L-R: Tabitha Krast; Beth Fraley; Debbie Lujan)

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Gay Pride parade paused at Naples and Paradise Road, image 004: photographic print

Date

1997-05-10

Description

Gay Pride 1997 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Gay Pride 1997 first annual parade. (5-10-97) Naples and Paradise Rd.

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Will Collins with his son at the second annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Gay Pride 1998 (Dennis McBride, photographer) 2nd annual parade; Will Collins with his son Dacoda Clayton Collins.

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