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Q-Tribe booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Candidates Forum at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada: photographic prints, 1999 April 22
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Box 042
Archival Component
James A. Gay III interview, 1973: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Interview with James A. Gay III conducted by Joyce M. Wright in 1973. Edited by Elizabeth Nelson Patrick, and transcribed for the project "Black Experience in Southern Nevada, Donated Tapes Collection," James R. Dickinson Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 1978. Arriving in 1946 from Fordyce, Arkansas, Gay became the first African-American mortician in Las Vegas. He later worked as Assistant Manager of the Sands Hotel and Casino and Union Plaza while serving as an executive board member of the Culinary Union. Instrumental in the Las Vegas community, Gay worked to improved race relations, addressing social, economic, and civic issues. Gay was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1988.
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Las Vegas Gay and Lesbian Chorus marching in the Gay Pride parade: photographic print, 1999
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 040
Archival Component
Gay Pride Pageant at FreeZone night club, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada in the second annual Gay Pride parade, image 001: photographic print
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