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Mike Spadoni at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Hotel Chatham menu, October 22, 1894
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Archival Collection
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Valerie Wiener's oral history for UNLV Libraries Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project, 2015
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Valerie Wiener Papers
Box/Folder: Box 08
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Aquiles Garcia oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Aquiles Garcia conducted by Claytee D. White on January 10 and February 20, 2015 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Garcia discusses the political atmosphere and risks of being gay in Juan Perón’s Argentina in the 1940s, Las Vegas, Nevada life in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and his dual Las Vegas careers as a dancer and a casino dealer throughout the second half of the twentieth century.
Archival Collection
Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride, Inc. in the second annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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Valley Bank-Tonopah, Nevada branch, project 06905, 1982 January 22
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Martin Stern Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Box 17
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Cheryl Radeloff oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Cheryl Radeloff conducted by Suzanne Becker on July 27, 2006 for the UNLV @ 50 Oral History Project. In this interview Cheryl Radeloff discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada to accept a research position at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), then being hired as a graduate assistant for the UNLV sociology department, and finally her involvement with the UNLV Gay Straight Alliance. She also talks about receiving her PhD in 2004 and going to the American Sociological Association Job Employment Fair in 2005.
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James A. Gay III interview, 1973: transcript
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Interview with James A. Gay III conducted by Joyce M. Wright in 1973. Edited by Elizabeth Nelson Patrick, and transcribed for the project "Black Experience in Southern Nevada, Donated Tapes Collection," James R. Dickinson Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 1978. 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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Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride, Inc. in the third annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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