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Flex Nightclub booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Dykes on Bikes in the Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Josh Ryan as Fawn at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Jared E. Shafer booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada Records
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The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada Records (1992-2023) and include news articles, institutional records such as bylaws, agendas, and meeting minutes, ephemera, and programs for the Center’s annual Honorarium fundraiser. Additional materials include materials relating the the wellness clinic.
Archival Collection
Musical group performing at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Darcelvis performing at Gay Pride, image 002: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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James A. "Jimmy" Gay oral history interview
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Oral history interview with James A. Gay III (Jimmy Gay) conducted by Perry Kaufman on April 12, 1972 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Gay discusses becoming the first African-American mortician in Las Vegas, Nevada and his work improving race relations, social, economic, and civic issues.
Archival Collection
Gay Info Nationwide booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1998
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Archival Collection
Archival Component
James A. Gay III interview, 1973: transcript
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Archival Collection
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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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