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Nevada Gay Rodeo Association booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1997 May 10
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 037
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David Bryan and David Erickson holding hands at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Unidentified persons at the Aid for AIDS of Nevada booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Larry Cooper oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Larry Cooper conducted by Claytee D. White on March 05, 2018 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Cooper discusses his early life in Las Vegas, Nevada and growing up in the Westside. He talks about his educational experiences in Las Vegas, attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College (now University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), and teaching mathematics. Cooper recalls his employment at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, becoming Vice President of Emerging Markets, and relocating around the United States for work. He remembers moving back to Las Vegas in the mid-2000s, his friendship with civil rights leader Jimmy Gay, and the contributions Gay made for the African American community. Cooper describes Westside businesses, and casinos on Jackson Street. Lastly, Cooper discusses the future of the Westside.
Archival Collection
Emmanuel Ortega oral history interview: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Oral history interview with Emmanuel Ortega conducted by Monserrath Hernandez, Maribel Estrada Calderon, Elsa Lopez, Barbara Tabach, and Laurents Bañuelos Benitez on 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Emmanuel Ortega was born in Artesia, California and was raised in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico before moving to El Paso, Texas with his family at the age of thirteen. In 1998 his family relocated once again from El Paso to Las Vegas, Nevada where his father joined the Carpenters Union. They settled in Green Valley and he began attending a hybrid community college and high school program allowing him to obtain college credits. He continued at the College of Southern Nevada for two more years where he was a photography major and later transferred to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) where he studied art history. He moved back to Las Vegas in 2011 where he began teaching at UNLV and received a PhD in Ibero-American colonial art history from the University of New Mexico in 2017. He is the co-host of the podcast "Latinos Who Lunch" where hosts discuss pop culture, art, and issues of race, sex, and gender in the Latinx community.
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Interview with Gay (Gertrud Anne Yoder) Kauffman, October 11, 2006
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Archival Collection
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Access note: Audio temporarily sealed
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Walter Zick oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Walter Zick conducted by Maureen Kelly Ryan on February 22, 1977 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Zick discusses architecture and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada to work at the Basic Magnesium Plant.
Archival Collection
People sitting in shade at Sunset Park during Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1997 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Sunset Park. (5-10-97)
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Booths and people at Sunset Park for Gay Pride, image 007: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1998 at Sunset Park. Photographer: Dennis McBride. (4-25-98)
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Booths and people at Sunset Park for Gay Pride, image 010: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride (4-25-98)
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