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Tule Springs talk program and news clippings

Date

2005-05-13
2005-05-16

Description

A program guide from the "Tule Springs Then and Now" educational project involving Shadow Ridge High School of Las Vegas, Nevada and members of the Tule Springs "Big Dig" of 1962/1963. Also included are newspaper clippings from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Charles Rozaire and his involvement with the educational project.

Text

Bristol, Shelley, 1953-

Shelley Bristol is an AIDS activist in the Las Vegas, Nevada community. During the early 1990s Bristol was a legal prostitute in Winnemucca, Nevada. By 1993 Bristol left the brothel and decided to become an AIDS activist. During this time there was a great demand for legal prostitutes' testimony in AIDS prevention campaigns in Nevada. Besides providing her testimony about her experience with HIV/AIDS testing as a prostitute, Bristol also volunteered as a hotline operator with AIDS for AIDS of Nevada.

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