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Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite oral history interview
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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.
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Café de Paris, menu, July 22nd, 1888
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Archival Collection
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Café de Paris, menu, June 22, 1888
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Archival Collection
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Shelby Ostensen and Mrs. Lois Craig, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1964 November 22
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library Photograph Collection on North Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 08
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Cameron House, menu, Sunday, July 22, 1883
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Archival Collection
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Frankie Perez oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Frankie Perez conducted by Elsa Lopez and Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez on November 05th, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Perez speaks about the importance of sports, and the lack of Latinx representation in teachers during high school. Perez then discusses being placed on medical hold in the military, how his transition affected his physical tests, how the 2016 election may have impacted transgendered people in the military, and how everyday military personnel feel about transgendered people serving in the military. The interview concludes with Perez discussing the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ) scene in Las Vegas, Nevada and about how culture impacts which clubs members of LBGTQ community would visit.
Archival Collection
Silverbird Hotel: Las Vegas, Nevada, 1978 June 22; 1978 October 24
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Martin Stern Architectural Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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Photograph of computer science classroom at Desert Torah Academy, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016
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Archival Collection
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A computer science class at the Desert Torah Academy on the Robert Cohen Educational Campus at 1312 Vista Drive.
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Photograph of Rabbi Shea Harlig with sons Levi and Motti, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Rabbi Shea Harlig poses with his sons Levi and Motti.
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Photograph of Rabbi Shea Harlig with sons Levi and Motti, Las Vegas (Nev.), September 22, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Rabbi Shea Harlig poses with his sons Levi and Motti.
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