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Flex Nightclub booth at Gay Pride: photographic print

Date

1999-05-08

Description

Gay Pride 1999 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Sunset Park. Flex Nightclub booth. (5-8-99)

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Alicia Montgomery and an unidentified woman at the Community Counseling Center booth at Gay Pride: photographic print

Date

1996-05-04

Description

Gay Pride 1996 (Dennis McBride, photographer) PFLAG/Community Counseling Center booth at Sunset Park. (5-4-96) Alicia Montgomery with pie.

Image

Dykes on Bikes in the Gay Pride parade: photographic print

Date

1999-05-08

Description

Dykes on Bikes at the third annual Gay Pride parade at Sunset Park, 1999. Photographer: Dennis McBride. (5-8-99)

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Josh Ryan as Fawn at Gay Pride: photographic print

Date

1999-05-08

Description

Gay Pride 1999 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Sunset Park. Female impersonator Josh Ryan as Fawn. (5-8-99)

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Jared E. Shafer booth at Gay Pride: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Gay Pride at Sunset Park, 1998. Photographer: Dennis McBride. (4-25-98) Jared E. Shafer booth.

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Tara Borelli (Lambda Legal Defense fund attorney) attends the Sevcik, et. Al. vs Sandoval rally at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image

Date

2012-04-10

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: Sevcik, et. Al. vs Sandoval was the court case which led in part to overturning Nevada's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. On April 10, 2012 the Lambda Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight Nevada same-sex couples; the rally depicted in these photographs was called at the Center to celebrate the filing. For more on the same-sex marriage issue in Nevada, see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 273-318. Individuals identified by the donor, Dennis McBride: Tara Borelli [Lambda Legal Defense Fund attorney]

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Gay Info Nationwide booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1998

Level of Description

Item

Archival Collection

Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00263
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 038

Archival Component

Musical group performing at Gay Pride: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Gay Pride 1998 at Sunset Park. Photographer: Dennis McBride. Musical Performer: Back Alley Sally. (4-25-98)

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Darcelvis performing at Gay Pride, image 002: photographic print

Date

1998-04-25

Description

Gay Pride 1998 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Gay Pride 1998. Darcelvis, "The World's Only Female Elvis Impersonator".

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James A. Gay III interview, 1973: transcript

Date

1973

Description

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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