From the Charles S. Sprague and Benjamin Gill Papers on Nevada Mining (MS-00570).

From the Charles S. Sprague and Benjamin Gill Papers on Nevada Mining (MS-00570).

From the Charles S. Sprague and Benjamin Gill Papers on Nevada Mining (MS-00570).

From the Charles S. Sprague and Benjamin Gill Papers on Nevada Mining (MS-00570).

From the Charles S. Sprague and Benjamin Gill Papers on Nevada Mining (MS-00570).

Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Kathleen Collins, and Christian Frank shooting a scene for a western movie, most likely Black Cyclone (1926), directed by Fred Jackman and shot by Hal Roach at the Home Ranch, Logandale, Nevada.

I've known Christie Young for many years and was grateful she agreed to be interviewed for the Las Vegas Gay Archives Oral History Project. Not only is she frank in what she says, but her background as a researcher in sexual issues and as a straight woman involved in the gay community give her a unique perspective. Ancillary to her donation of this interview transcript to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Christie has generously donated her personal journals which detail more than a decade of her life including the years she worked with Las Vegas's gay community . Christie shares the project's concern that documentation of the gay community is ephemeral and vanishes rapidly; her determination that her contribution to that community be preserved greatly enriches our knowledge and will benefit future scholars.