From the Las Vegas Bugle Photograph Collection on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (PH-00336). UMC AIDS Unit - 10th anniversary - 1995. Includes Dr. Jerry Cade. (See Las Vegas Bugle 9-10-95, 10-15 for complete identification.);
From the Las Vegas Bugle Photograph Collection on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (PH-00336). Stamped on verso: "Seattle Filmworks Print 7 Roll 72312742 23 FEB 95"
From the Las Vegas Bugle Photograph Collection on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (PH-00336). Southern Nevada Association of Pride, Inc., Board of Directors, 1996. See oversize copy for Identification. Handwritten on oversize sleeve: "Southern Nevada Associtation of Pride, Inc. (SNAP) Board of Directors. (1996). Standing, L-R: Lisa Catherine, Susan Carratelli, Rick Grumbach, Dean Facklam, Craig Walker, George Pettus, Michael Wirick, Tony Clark. Seated, L-R: Strutt Hurley, Anne Davis Mulford, LeeAnn Human, Sherry Mulligan, Sue Ann Melfi."
The Lee Plotkin papers document Plotkin's political work and associations as an LGBT activist and spokesman for the Las Vegas gay community, and include correspondence, press releases, copies of his columns, institutional and legislative documents, brochures, fliers and other ephemera from 1955 to 2006.
Oral history interview with Jon Sparer conducted by Stefani Evans and Claytee D. White on August 29, 2016 for the Building Las Vegas Oral History Project. Sparer discusses his involvement in the Jewish, and LGBTQ+ communites, and his career as an architect in Las Vegas, Nevada. He also talks about working on projects that included The Mirage Hotel and Casino, the Congregation Ner Tamid, and The Center (The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada).
The alphabetical subject files (1955-1997) contains newspaper clippings articles, business information, conference materials, and community organizational materials related to the Las Vegas, Nevada Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) community. Subjects include HIV, LGBTQ businesses, censorship, conferences, education, entertainment, human rights, publications, religion, rodeo, and social events.
The Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (approximately 1904-2018) contains over 5,000 individual photographic prints, negatives, digital images, and postcards that depict various events, people, and locations, across southern Nevada, particularly from the 1960s to the 1990s. The postcards depict a large number of hotels and casinos in cities throughout Nevada including Las Vegas, Tahoe, Reno, and Boulder City. The photographs depict a variety of events held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives, local branches of the Las Vegas Public Library, and local community spaces and stores. The collection also includes a detailed list of photographs from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) events taking place across Las Vegas from 1996 to 2018 including Pride parades, social gatherings in bars and nightclubs, holiday celebrations, and political marches and demonstrations.
The additional accessions series (1970-2020) contains additional material related to the Las Vegas, Nevada Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) community, including articles, newsletters, serial publications, conference materials, certificates, awards, and proclamations. Also included are artifacts related to LGBTQ social and political activities in Nevada. Also included are audiovisual materials that have been reformatted into digital files by the donor.
The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) records span the years 1994 to 2002 and are comprised of material documenting the organization's involvment in gay issues in Las Vegas, Nevada. PLAN was founded in 1994 as the umbrella organization for Nevada's progressive groups and institutions. This collection is comprised of material documenting the Minority Status and Child Protection Act of 1994 and the Coalition for Unity and Equal Rights Nevada, and contains a number of files from that effort, including opinion surveys, meeting agendas and campaign plans.