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Celebrity list for the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, February 1958-1962
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Archival Collection
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Mixed Content
List of celebrities at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, October 1958
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Archival Collection
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Mixed Content
Invoice statements to the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1971
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Archival Collection
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Mixed Content
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.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Cyril Wengert with an unidentified man, 1960 - 1965
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Archival Collection
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Lee Plotkin oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Lee Plotkin conducted by Dennis McBride on August 02, 10, and 16; and October 04, 2006 for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. In these interviews, Plotkin talks about his reaction to Lieutenant Governor of Nevada Myron E. Leavitt's claim that attending the Nevada Gay Rodeo violated Nevada's sodomy laws in the early 1980s. Plotkin recalls his childhood, coming out during high school, his early involvement with the Las Vegas, Nevada gay community, and his memories of Lieutenant Governor Leavitt and Leavitt's family. Plotkin also discusses the development and activities of LGBTQ organizations and demonstrations, including Golden Rainbow and Gay Pride. Lastly, he talks about the repeal of Nevada's sodomy laws in 1993, the defeat of Nevada Citizens' Alliance's anti-gay initiative petition Minority Status and Child Protection Act of 1994, and the growth of the Las Vegas LGBTQ community.
Archival Collection
Photograph of people sitting and standing around table with documents, Tonopah (Nev.), 1930-1950
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Archival Collection
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Film transparency of Clark County, Nevada records of the marriage of Guy Edward Whataman Hudson and L. Margaret Newton, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 22, 1929
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Archival Collection
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Film transparency of Clark County, Nevada records of the marriage of Guy Edward Whataman Hudson and L. Margaret Newton, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 22, 1929
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Archival Collection
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Photographs of James Cashman's hunting trip album in Kingston Canyon, Nevada National Forest, circa 1936
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Archival Collection
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