Oral history interview with Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite conducted by Dennis McBride on August 29, 2000 for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. In the interview, Cummings and Midnite discuss their work as female impersonators in Las Vegas, Nevada during the late 1960s and 1970s. They also talk about other impersonators and performance venues in Las Vegas and around the United States. They explain the distinctions between transgender and straight performers, and the perceptions of transgender and straight audience members. Other subjects Cummings and Midnite cover include their early lives and arrivals to Las Vegas, and the history of sex reassignment surgeries beginning in the 1930s.
2nd annual Gay Pride parade 1998 at Sunset Park. Photographer: Dennis McBride. (4-25-98); Kenny Kerr sits in the back of a gold convertible as the Grand Marshal.
Patrick W. Carlton Papers on the Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project
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Collection Number: MS-00829 Collection Name: Patrick W. Carlton Papers on the Oral History of the Public School Principalship Project Box/Folder: Box 10