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David Bryan and David Erickson holding hands at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Image
Jimmy Gay oral history interview: audio clip
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Archival Collection
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Jimmy Gay discusses racism in Las Vegas before and after World War II. He says that prior to WWII, there wasn't a lot of prejudice, and there were only a few African American families. After WWII, he says that the influx of soldiers returning and the migration of Black families from the South led to Las Vegas becoming the "Mississippi of the West."
Sound
Gay Community Yellow Pages booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1997 May 10
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 037
Archival Component
Nevada Gay Rodeo Association booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1997 May 10
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 037
Archival Component
Gay Kauffman Nevada Test Site Papers
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The collection includes materials from the Nevada Test Site (1955-1967) including newsletters published by the Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., Inc. and photographs of Southern Nevada flora, fauna, and archaeology. It also includes photographs of test explosions at the Nevada Test Site, as well as photographs documenting a visit from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials and a visit from John F. Kennedy to the Nevada Test Site. The collection also contains an oversized poster of an atomic explosion and one of a nuclear rocket development station.
Archival Collection
Unidentified people at the Unitarian Universalist Church booth at Gay Pride: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
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I.J. Travel float in the second annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Keys Lounge float in the second annual Gay Pride parade: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Third annual Gay Pride Parade check-in, image 002: photographic print
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Archival Collection
Description
Image
Kendall Stagg oral history interview
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Kendall Stagg oral history interview conducted by Dennis McBride on January 11, 2002 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In the interview, Stagg discusses his early life in Utah, his religious upbringing, coming out as gay, and his involvement with the gay community in Reno, Nevada. He also talks about running for Nevada State Assembly District 32 in 2000 as one of Nevada's youngest openly gay politicians. Lastly, Stagg recalls his time as president of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Student Union in University of Nevada, Reno and co-founding Reno’s first Gay Pride parades in 1999.
Archival Collection