From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This first of two rallies based at the Center was called to protest passage of California's anti-same-sex marriage legislation, Proposition 8, in early November 2008. For details of the two rallies see Dennis McBride journal entries November 16, November 23, and December 21, 2008. African American comedienne, Wanda Sykes, performing on the Las Vegas Strip, attended this rally and chose the moment to come out. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: Wanda Sykes [African American comedienne]

From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This series of photographs of the Gipsy nightclub arson fire was downloaded from the Internet on August 20, 2018 and includes Guava Soleil's captions. Efforts to reach Soleil were unsuccessful. Soleil's caption for image no. 4647 reads, "I was just starting out and background girls were hard to find ...." For more on the Gipsy fire see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 36-37. Also see the Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 9, 1988, 11E; the Bohemian Bugle extra, August 9, 1988; and the Las Vegas Bugle, December 1993, pp. 20-22. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: unidentified female impersonator; Guava Soleil; unidentified female impersonator