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Various political figures and community members stand by the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign with rainbow-colored lights in celebration of Las Vegas Gay Pride Week: digital image

Date

2013-08-30

Description

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: In recognition of Gay Pride Week the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority changed the bulbs outlining the Welcome to Las Vegas sign from yellow to rainbow-colored. For a detailed description of this event, see Dennis McBride journal entry for September 8, 2013. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: James Healey [Nevada State Assemblyman, District 35, Democrat (gay)]; Heidi Swank [Nevada State Assemblywoman, District 16, Democrat]; Nelson Araujo [Democrat (gay); representative from the Office of U. S. Senator-NV Harry Reid]; unidentified man; unidentified man; Larry Edwards [African American female impersonator]; unidentified man

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Stormy Caldwell oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02540

Abstract

Oral history interview with Stormy Caldwell conducted by Dennis McBride on March 26, 2005 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Caldwell discusses the gay community in Lake Tahoe and Reno, Nevada. She talks about her involvement with Stonewell Park, an idea of a separated gay community during the 1980s. Caldwell then discusses buying land on Thunder Mountain, Nevada and the possibility of Stonewell Park being built in that area.

Archival Collection

Pamela Dallas oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02544

Abstract

Oral history interview with Pamela Dallas conducted by Dennis McBride on February 07, 2004 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Dallas discusses working alongside gay activist Fred Schoonmaker and her involvement with Stonewall Park, an idea of a separated gay community during the 1980s. She talks about fundraising for Stonewall Park and the homophobia that the community of Silver Springs, Nevada had towards the construction of Stonewall Park.

Archival Collection

Hand-drawn homoerotic sketches, "Brotherly Love" typescript, scrapbooks of gay pornographic images, magazine and newspaper clippings, 1950s-1990s

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Anthony M. Valentino Erotica Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00568
Collection Name: Anthony M. Valentino Erotica Collection
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component

Conference participant materials, National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) Seventh Annual Conference, 1998 October 01-04

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00251
Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
Box/Folder: Box 05

Archival Component

Gay Academic Union (GAU) presenting flowers to comedienne Joan Rivers at R&R Assordid Sundries: photographic print, approximately 1984

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Ron Lawrence Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00424
Collection Name: Ron Lawrence Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-049

Archival Component

Members of the Lambda Pride Coalition from Las Vegas participating in the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade: photographic print, 1984

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Ron Lawrence Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00424
Collection Name: Ron Lawrence Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box SH-049

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Lee Plotkin introduces Las Vegas Mayor candidate Oscar Goodman at Gay Pride, image 003: photographic print, 1999

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Item

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Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00263
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 040

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Dee Atwood at the rally against the passage of Proposition 8 at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image

Date

2008-12-13

Description

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 second 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. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: Deneen "Dee" Atwood

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Transcript of interview with Hanford Searl by Dennis McBride, November 2, 1996

Date

1996-11-02

Description

Dennis McBride interviews Hanford Searl about a number of things: his being gay, his being gay in Las Vegas and other places, religious issues. Also, some information about working at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and for Bob Brown at the Las Vegas Valley Times.

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