Oral history interview with Richard Schlegel conducted by Dennis McBride on June 03, 2006 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Schlegel discusses his involvement with Equal Rights Nevada (ERN) and the petition to amend the Nevada Constitution that prevented same-sex marriages in the early 2000s. He talks about the approach that ERN took to campaign against the petition and the role that the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage had at the time. Schlegel then describes the Marriage Protection Pledge, his experiences managing a campaign supporting marriage rights for gay couples, and explains how the outcome of the petition affected the Las Vegas, Nevada gay community.
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Kendall Stagg oral history interview conducted by Dennis McBride on January 11, 2002 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In the interview, Stagg discusses his early life in Utah, his religious upbringing, coming out as gay, and his involvement with the gay community in Reno, Nevada. He also talks about running for Nevada State Assembly District 32 in 2000 as one of Nevada's youngest openly gay politicians. Lastly, Stagg recalls his time as president of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Student Union in University of Nevada, Reno and co-founding Reno’s first Gay Pride parades in 1999.
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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Photographed as part of the UNLV Special Collections and Archives' Building Las Vegas collecting initiative started in 2016.
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