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.

Titled, The Rhetoric of Intolerance: An Open-Letter Video to Pat Robertson from Dr. Mel White, this video provides a point-by-point destruction of Robertson's homophobic social and religious paradigm. Throughout the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, Pat Robertson--founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network [CBN], Regent University, and the conservative American Center for Law and Justice, and one of the loudest voices in the Religious Right--spread a relentlessly homophobic message through his television program, The 700 Club. Mel White, a closeted gay man who ghost wrote autobiographies for such homophobic Christian fundamentalists as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham, came out in 1994 and became an outspoken queer activist associated with the Metropolitan Community Church. For documentary materials associated with The Rhetoric of Intolerance ..., see MS-00802, box 8 ["Discrimination - The Rhetoric of Intolerance"] in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Special Collections Department. [00:00:00 - 00:30:03]