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Aaron Williams oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Aaron Williams conducted by Claytee D. White on August 16, 2005 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Williams recalls individuals he worked with, such as Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Gay, and the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He remembers the Westside Federal Credit Union, joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and encountering discrimination at one of the first jobs he had at the Sahara Hotel. He shares anecdotes of Robert Maheu, Steve Wynn, Lubertha Johnson, Ruby Duncan, Mabel Hoggard, and other Las Vegas, Nevada notables.
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Dennis McBride and Raul Mangubat standing in front of the Get Booked booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Rose Miztri and Rachel Parker oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Rose Miztri and Rachel Parker conducted by Claytee D. White on March 07, 2016 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Miztri discusses growing up in La Puente, California and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978. She describes her experiences in the United States Army and talks about being involved in a motorcycle accident. Parker talks about her upbringing and describes her experience being transgender while attending high school in Chicago, Illinois. Parker then recalls her first impressions of Las Vegas, Nevada in 1990 and why she was unable to get a job because of her sexuality. Later, Miztri and Parker discuss assisting transgender youth with housing, employment, and becoming comfortable in a society where tolerance and understanding of different sexual identities are constantly evolving. Lastly, both explain their involvement with Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), an international educational organization aimed to bring awareness on sexual identities.
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Richard Powell as Auntee Social at the second annual Gay Pride parade, image 001: photographic print
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Richard Powell as Auntee Social at the second annual Gay Pride parade, image 002: photographic print
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Las Vegas Gay Archives of the UNLV Lied Library Special Collections Department booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1997
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Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 037
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Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride, Inc. in the third annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print, 1999 May 08
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Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 039
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Jon Sparer oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Jon Sparer conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 04, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Sparer discusses his career as an architect of many major Las Vegas, Nevada hotels and casinos. He also talks about designing the Congregation Ner Tamid and The Center for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) community.
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Richard Powell as Auntee Social at the second annual Gay Pride parade, image 003: photographic print
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Magenta, Frankenfurter, and Columbia from Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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