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Representatives from the Lambda Legal Defense Fund attend the Sevcik, et. Al. vs Sandoval rally at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image
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Tara Borelli (Lambda Legal Defense fund attorney) attends the Sevcik, et. Al. vs Sandoval rally at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image
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Jane Heenan and David Parks attend the Equality Won! Day celebration at Equality Nevada Community Center, 708 South Sixth Street, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image
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Jane Heenan and David Parks attend the Equality Won! Day celebration at Equality Nevada Community Center, 708 South Sixth Street, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image
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Jane Heenan and David Parks attend the Equality Won! Day celebration at Equality Nevada Community Center, 708 South Sixth Street, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital image
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Various political figures and community members stand by the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign with rainbow-colored lights in celebration of Las Vegas Gay Pride Week: digital image
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Interview of Jayce Cox (former LDS member) conducted by Ron Lawrence, 2000 January 17
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This interview was conducted by Ron Lawrence with former queer LDS member Jayce Cox [1975-2013]. The interview was recorded for an article Lawrence wrote titled, "Aversion Therapy: Torture at BYU" [Las Vegas Bugle, May 12a, 2000, cover and pp. 14-17]. Jayce's testimony was also published in "Sexuality May Be Pre-Determined by Genetics," by Ron Lawrence [Las Vegas Bugle, July 20, 2001, p. 35]; and in Wilhemina Parsons' column, "Counseling Center Rumors and News," which noted that MTV was filming a segment on Jayce Cox's experience, and that the Las Vegas media "may finally be picking it up" [Las Vegas Bugle, July 20, 2001, pp. 42-43]. Cox was also quoted from this interview in Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 106-107.
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Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
Box/Folder: Box 19, Digital File 00
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"American Indian Societies and Sexual Variance" recorded lecture by Walter Lee Williams given at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1987 February 09
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Recording of a lecture by noted anthropologist Walter Lee Williams given at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, titled, "American Indian Societies and Sexual Variance," in which he focused on "those [Native American] societies that do not have a homophobic response to same-sex relationships." The lecture was taped as part of a recorded letter to Christie Young by an unnamed correspondent. Williams, after his retirement in 2013, was arrested and convicted in 2014 for "illicit sexual contact with boys aged 14 to 16 in the Philippines." Sentenced to five years in prison he was released in 2017. Information on Williams' career and arrest, together with correspondence to/from Dennis McBride--who brought Williams into the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas as a volunteer while Williams was living in a halfway house in Las Vegas--may be found in MS-01099 [McBride's personal papers] deposited in the Special Collections Department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Box 12, folders 12-14.
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Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
Box/Folder: Box 19, Digital File 00
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