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Get Booked Bookstore in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Judy Corbisiero oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Judy Corbisiero conducted by Dennis McBride on September 05, 2003; and April 21, July 02, and December 10, 2004 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In the interviews, Corbisiero recalls her early childhood in New York City, New York, coming out in the late 1970s, and meeting her then-partner, Janice Summers. She describes forming Summercor, Incorporated (a portmanteau of their last names) with Summers to produce women musicians, with a focus on lesbian artists, while living in New York. Corbisiero also talks about musicians she worked with, running political fundraisers during music events, and meeting her next partner, Gudrun Fonfa. She then explains moving to Las Vegas, Nevada with Fonfa in 1983 to promote women's music and culture in Las Vegas and throughout the West Coast.
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Lavern Cummings and Tony Midnite oral history interview
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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.
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"The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love" film screening in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Gay, Hazel
Hazel Gay was born in Fordyce, Arkansas in 1923. Hazel met her husband, Jimmy Gay, when she was about twenty years old while she was attending school in Thornton, Arkansas. Eventually, Gay and Jimmy were married secretly with no one knowing until several weeks later. Gay and her husband went on to have four children, all currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before the family moved to Las Vegas, they lived in Fordyce, Arkansas.
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Slides of 20th century cities and buildings including Frank Lloyd Wright's studio, home, and architectural projects; examples of International and modernist style architecture including Le Corbusier's La Ville Contemporaine; Egyptian pyramids and tombs; General Motors exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair; New York-New York Hotel and Casino; Sydney Opera House; and the National Congress of Chile building, 1984
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frank Reynolds Professional Papers
Box/Folder: Box 02 (Restrictions apply)
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Mark Russell lecture, Arthur Ashe lecture, Cokie Roberts lecture, Terry Waite lecture, "Defense Reorganization Revisited," Andrea Mitchell lecture, and "Politics in the Press:" audio cassette tapes, 1992 September 15, 1992 December 03, 1993 February 22, 1993 October 25, 1994 December 15, 1998 May 20, 2003 December 02
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Barrick Lecture Series Records
Box/Folder: Box 06
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T-Shirt Color: Gray; Front: National US&R Task Force, Ohio Task 1 Force, Dept. Emblem; Back: OH-TF 1 Miami Valley Task Force; Handwritten Text: WTC Deployment 9/12/01-9/22/02 "God Bless Our Brothers of FDNY", Lt. David Rescue Technician, approximately 2001-2012
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Collection Name: New York-New York Hotel and Casino 9-11 Heroes Tribute Collection
Box/Folder: Box 79
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