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Gay Skate Night at the Crystal Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Archival Collection
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Rose Pry oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Rose Pry conducted by Dennis McBride on August 24, 2008 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Pry discusses arriving to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1980s and describes the lesbian community at the time. She talks about Women United of Nevada (WUN), a lesbian-identified organization founded in 1987, the events that they held around the community, and the women who were leaders in the organization. Lastly, Pry then discusses her employment writing for the
Archival Collection
The Experience booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Event staff at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Unidentified entertainment at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1999 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Sunset Park. (5-8-99) Entertainment.
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Tamara Pickett oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Tamara Pickett conducted by Dennis McBride on November 01, 2002 and November 08, 2002 for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. In these interviews, Pickett discusses her early life and the traumatizing experiences that occurred during her childhood. Pickett remembers serving in the United States Army, beginning her transition to Tamara, and completing a sexual reassignment surgery in 1999. Later, Pickett talks about her activism work in Las Vegas, Nevada, campaigning for improved health care for transgender veterans, and her involvement with the transgender community in Las Vegas.
Archival Collection
Sunrunners booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride. Sunrunners booth.
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Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada and the Nevada Freedom to Marry Coalition at the second annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Michael Conarroe at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Jimmy Gay by Perry Kaufman, April 12, 1972
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Archival Collection
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Interview with James A. Gay III conducted by Perry Kaufman on April 12, 1972. Arriving in 1946 from Fordyce, Arkansas, Gay became the first African-American mortician in Las Vegas. He later worked as Assistant Manager of the Sands Hotel and Casino and Union Plaza while serving as an executive board member of the Culinary Union. Instrumental in the Las Vegas community, Gay worked to improved race relations, addressing social, economic, and civic issues. Gay was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1988.
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