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2004 Honorarium Awards awarding "The Laramie Project" production, 2004 August 14

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Item

Scope and Contents

The Honorarium, first celebrated in 1994, is an annual awards ceremony where the LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada recognizes significant members of the Las Vegas queer community, as well as community supporters and allies. For more information on the 2004 Honorarium, see "Gay, Lesbian Center to Host Honorarium" [Las Vegas Sun, August 11, 2004, 9B] and "The Center to Honor Community Leaders [QVegas, August 2004, 20]. Of particular interest at the 2004 Honorarium is recognition of the cast of the Las Vegas Academy's production of The Laramie Project which drew a raucous protest from members of the virulently homophobic Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kansas, led by Fred Phelps and members of his family. See "Las Vegas Academy Theater Cast to Receive Youth Activist Award [Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 14, 2004, 14B]; "Group Plans to Picket Play at School: Anti-Gay Protesters Target High School [Las Vegas Sun, May 6, 2004, 1B, 8B]; "Anti-Gay Group Targets LV School: Protest Set on Content of Student Play" [Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 7, 2004, 1B, 13B]; "Counterprotest Planned by Community Groups" [Las Vegas Sun, May 7, 2004, 7B]; "Anti-Gay Group Outnumbered" [Las Vegas Sun, May 12, 2004, 1B, 4B]; and "Anti-Gay Protesters Picket School: Hundreds Turn Out to Support School Targeted by Church" [Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 13, 2004, 1B, 4B]. [00:00:00 - 01:26:47]

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 19

Archival Component

Nevada Desert Experience sign: photographic print

Date

1980 (year approximate) to 2000 (year approximate)

Description

A protest at the Nevada Test Site circa 1980-1999. A Nevada Desert Experience sign says, "Healing the Earth, Healing ourselves. One planet. One air. One water. One land. One people."

Image

Sister Rosemary Lynch next to a sign in the desert: photographic print

Date

1997-05-10

Description

Sister Rosemary Lynch protesting at the Nevada Test Site near Camp Desert Rock July 7, 1987. The sign next to her reads "Desert Rock Airstrip."

Image

Nancy Harjan holding a memorial balloon: photographic print

Date

1995-05-28

Description

Nancy Harjan is pictured holding a balloon on behalf of an unidentified woman's son, Michael, who died of Leukemia (May 14, 1957-December 6, 1973). The photograph was taken at a protest at the Nevada Test Site, led by the Lenten Desert Experience on April 11, 1982.

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Corbin Harney and unidentified protestors: photographic print

Date

2000-04-21

Description

Japanese Delegation protesting at the Nevada Test Site on Good Friday, 2000. Corbin Harney is in the foreground. The yellow sign on the left reads "A-bomb victims want abolition now!"

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