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[[Metropolitan Community Church]]: An article from March 1974 in the Las Vegas Review-Journal notes that Rev. Clonnie Lambert is pastor of a Las Vegas chapter of the [[Metropolitan Community Church]] (MCC).  
 
[[Metropolitan Community Church]]: An article from March 1974 in the Las Vegas Review-Journal notes that Rev. Clonnie Lambert is pastor of a Las Vegas chapter of the [[Metropolitan Community Church]] (MCC).  
  
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[[ACLU-Las Vegas]]: In 1975, The American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] opened an office in Las Vegas with a $5,000 grant from the national office. ACLU involvement in Las Vegas eventually led to the gay community's first newspaper.  
 
[[ACLU-Las Vegas]]: In 1975, The American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] opened an office in Las Vegas with a $5,000 grant from the national office. ACLU involvement in Las Vegas eventually led to the gay community's first newspaper.  
  
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== Reno Gay Rodeo (RGR) ==
 
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[[Reno Gay Rodeo (RGR)]]: This rodeo, which officially began in 1977, raised the profile of the state’s gay people and went far toward establishing community and national recognition.  
 
[[Reno Gay Rodeo (RGR)]]: This rodeo, which officially began in 1977, raised the profile of the state’s gay people and went far toward establishing community and national recognition.  
  
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<i>[[Boylesque]]</i>: Female impersonation in Las Vegas, with a focus on ''Boylesque'', which began its long run in 1977.  
 
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[[Gay Academic Union]]: Closely associated with [[Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration]], UNLV's [[Gay Academic Union]] held its first meeting in 1982.
 
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== Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration ==
 
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== AIDS in Southern Nevada ==
 
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[[Women United of Nevada]]: Founded in 1987, [[Women United of Nevada]] [WUN], was the first separately founded, lesbian-identified organization in Las Vegas.
 
[[Women United of Nevada]]: Founded in 1987, [[Women United of Nevada]] [WUN], was the first separately founded, lesbian-identified organization in Las Vegas.
  
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== Community Counseling Center ==
 
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[[Community Counseling Center]]: In 1990 the [[Community Counseling Center]] opened at 1006-1008 East Sahara Avenue. Within a short time Community Counseling becomes one of the gay community's greatest resources.
 
[[Community Counseling Center]]: In 1990 the [[Community Counseling Center]] opened at 1006-1008 East Sahara Avenue. Within a short time Community Counseling becomes one of the gay community's greatest resources.
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Despite a veto by Governor Jim Gibbons, [[SB 283]], Nevada's Domestic Partnership Act, was passed in 2009.
 
Despite a veto by Governor Jim Gibbons, [[SB 283]], Nevada's Domestic Partnership Act, was passed in 2009.
  
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Le Café

Le Café : Established in 1970, Le Café was the base of operations for the emerging gay community in southern Nevada.

  • Boys in the Band, 1969

  • Le Bistro Ad, 1969

  • Le Café billboard, 1970s

  • Gay Notes from Le Café, 07/1972

  • Le Cafe neon Sign, c1975

  • Le Café Fire, 1978

  • Le Café burns, 1978

  • Gay Notes from Le Café, 08/1972

  • Le Café bartender Kenny, 1970

  • Le Café fire coverage, Vegas Gay Times, 10/1978

  • Le Café fire news article, Las Vegas Sun, 8/25/1978

  • Le Café matchbook, 1970s - inside

  • Le Café matchbook, 1970s - outside

  • Le Café playing cards, 1970s

  • Le Café staff at Caesars Palace Bacchanal Room, 1975

  • Marge Jacques at Le Café, 1970

  • Marge Jacques' hip flask

  • Marge Jacques, c1980s

  • Marge Jacques, May 28, 1998

  • Patrick the All-American Stripper at Le Café, 1977

  • Second Le Café fire, 1979

  • Disco Le Café show flier, 1984

  • Disco Le Café show flier, 1984

  • Disco Le Café business card, 1983-84

  • Disco Le Cafe grand opening invitation, 1983

  • Disco Le Café show flier, 1983

  • Disco Le Café, 1983

  • Grand opening of Disco Le Café, 1983


Metropolitan Community Church

Metropolitan Community Church: An article from March 1974 in the Las Vegas Review-Journal notes that Rev. Clonnie Lambert is pastor of a Las Vegas chapter of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC).

  • Las Vegas Community Bookstore, 1984

  • Gay Switchboard Chili Cookoff fundraiser, 1983

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, 03/18/1984

  • Planned worship service, 1976

  • Program from Maureen Mackey's ordination service, 1996

  • MCC’s second Las Vegas incarnation, 1979

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, 03/29/1980

  • Las Vegas Gay Guide, v. 1:1, 1980

  • MCC-Las Vegas’ 4th anniversary, 1983

  • sock-hop fundraiser, 1984

  • worship program, 1984

  • Las Vegas’ first gay youth group, 1984

  • Holiday Bazaar, 1984

  • MCC-Las Vegas choir, 1984

  • newsletter, January/February 1989

  • Rev. Dr. Maureen Mackey and her life partner, Mary Ellen Racel, 1996

  • MCC-Las Vegas baptism at Aztec Cove on the Colorado River, 1997

  • Rev. Troy Perry dedicates the new MCC-Las Vegas church, 2000

  • Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman’s gay town hall meeting at MCC-Las Vegas,2001

ACLU-Las Vegas

ACLU-Las Vegas: In 1975, The American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] opened an office in Las Vegas with a $5,000 grant from the national office. ACLU involvement in Las Vegas eventually led to the gay community's first newspaper.


  • Valley Times, September 1977

  • Lamont Downs, April 1979

  • Steve Hinkson, 1981

  • Vegas Gay Times, volume 1, issue 1, June 1978

  • Flier for Nevadans for Human Rights Fundraiser, 1983

  • ACLU at Las Vegas Gay Pride, 2006

  • ACLU Teach-In, 1998

  • Valley Times, September 21, 1977

  • ACLU-NV and gay rights, 1984

Reno Gay Rodeo (RGR)

Reno Gay Rodeo (RGR): This rodeo, which officially began in 1977, raised the profile of the state’s gay people and went far toward establishing community and national recognition.

  • Advertisement for the National Reno Gay Rodeo, 1983

  • Flier for the Gymkhana, 1994

  • Flier for the Reno Gay Rodeo, 1979

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1980

  • Las Vegas Sun, 1981

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1980

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1980

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1980

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1980

  • Christian protestors at Reno Gay Rodeo, 1980

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1981

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1982

  • AIDS intrudes on the Reno Gay Rodeo, 1983

  • Reno Gay Rodeo, 1983

  • Nevada Gay Rodeo newsletter, September 1992

  • Nevada Gay Rodeo Gymkhana, June 18, 1994

  • Nevada Gay Rodeo brochure, 1996

  • Las Vegas Big Horn Rodeo, 1996

  • Nevada Gay Rodeo Association bylaws, 1997

  • Las Vegas Big Horn Rodeo, 2000

  • Las Vegas Big Horn Rodeo, 2002

  • Las Vegas Big Horn Rodeo, 2009

Boylesque

Boylesque: Female impersonation in Las Vegas, with a focus on Boylesque, which began its long run in 1977.

  • Las Vegas Star, August 1977

  • Las Vegas Star, July 1977

  • Panorama, September 1978

  • Kenny Kerr on the cover of the Bugle, 1993

  • Kenny Kerr's Fantasy, 1983

  • Boylesque at the Plaza, 1991

  • Suede Nightclub, 2006

  • LV Mirror 5/24/1978

  • Boylesque at Debbie Reynolds, 1996

  • Boylesque at the Stardust, 3/10/91

  • Boylesque review, 1977 - LV Review-Journal, 5/20/77

  • Frank Marino & Kenny Kerr, 11/24/1996

  • Kenny Kerr, 1980s

  • Kerr at the Bootlegger nightclub, 2007

  • Kerr at the New Frontier, 2001

  • Kerr at the Sahara Hotel, 1990

  • Kerr at the Sunset Station, 2004

  • Kerr in San Francisco, 2003

  • Las Vegas Sun 02/04/1979

  • Political fundraiser, 1984

Nevadans for Human Rights

Nevadans for Human Rights: Founded in 1978, Nevadans for Human Rights was the first gay rights organization in Las Vegas.

  • Vegas Gay Times first issue, June 1978

  • Florida orange juice boycott info in the Vegas Gay Times, June 1978

  • Nevadans for Human Rights potluck, 1983

  • Editorial, Nevada Gay Times, September 1983

  • Resignation letter from Nevada Gay Times, September 1983

  • Gay Pride 1984, Nevada Gay Times, June 1984

  • Vegas Gay Times association with the ACLU, July 1978

  • candidate survey, Vegas Gay Times, September 1978

  • homophobic Nevada politician, Vegas Gay Times, September 1980

  • NHR shuts down, July 1981

  • first Las Vegas AIDS death, Nevada Gay Times, April 1983

  • Tanya Corman lecture, 1984

  • NHR membership application, 1984

  • Schlegel proposal to take over the Nevada Gay Times, 1985 (part 1)

  • Schlegel proposal to take over the Nevada Gay Times, 1985 (part 2)

Gay Academic Union

Gay Academic Union: Closely associated with Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration, UNLV's Gay Academic Union held its first meeting in 1982.

  • Founding members of the Gay Academic Union, 1983

  • GAU members during Gay Pride, 1983

  • LGAU Newsletter, 1989

  • Flier for Gay Straight Freedom Alliance Meeting,2001

  • GAU's first annual Gay Pride Banquet, 1983

  • Gay Academic Union approval letter from the national organization, 1982

  • GAU newsletter, 1983

  • GAU newsletter, 1984

  • GAU fundraising, 1984

  • GAU fundraising, 1985

  • AIDS awareness, 1990

  • GAU organizational promotion, 1990

  • Lesbian Gay Academic Union banner at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas raised for National Coming Out Day, October 12, 1990

  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Organization, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1996

Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration

Las Vegas' first Gay Pride Celebration: Las Vegas held its first Gay Pride Celebration in 1983.


  • Las Vegas Sun: LV homosexuals urged to band together, 1983

  • Nevada Gay Times: First Vegas Gay Pride Week Set, 1983

  • Las Vegas Sun: Gays Need Legal Protection, 1983

  • Will Collins, Las Vegas Gay Pride co-founder, 1984

  • Las Vegas Gay Pride, 1984

  • Ephemera from Gay Pride Banquet, 1984

  • Dennis McBride and Ken Matheson, 1984

  • Nevada Gay Times, June 1983

  • Nevada Gay Times, June 1984

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 1, 1984

  • Gay Pride Las Vegas flier, 1984

  • Gay Pride Las Vegas 1984 Human Rights Seminar flier

  • Gay Pride Las Vegas festival, June 2, 1984 at Sunset Park

  • Gay Pride Las Vegas festival, June 2, 1984 at Sunset Park

  • Gay Pride Las Vegas 1984 banquet, June 9, 1984

  • Gay Pride Las Vegas 1984 banquet, June 9, 1984

  • Gay Pride Las Vegas 1984 banquet, June 9, 1984

AIDS in Southern Nevada

AIDS in Southern Nevada: In 1983<, A 32-year-old man, resident in Las Vegas for just six months, was Southern Nevada's first AIDS death.

  • First reported case of AIDS in LV, 1983

  • First community AIDS benefit, 1983

  • AIDS Brochure, 1984

  • AFAN brochure, 1993

  • Letter to a legislator, 1989

  • Golden Rainbow, 1998

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 6, 1983, 5B

  • safe-sex trick card, 1985 - front

  • safe-sex trick card, 1985 - back

  • brochure, 1986

  • Superstar Aid for AIDS Benefit, June 14, 1987

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 6, 1987, 1B

  • AFAN brochure, 1989

  • Golden Rainbow, 1990

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 19, 1991, 16B

  • Southern Nevada NAMES Project, ca. 1991

  • AIDS hysteria, 1991

  • Southern Nevada AIDS Project, 1992

  • ACT UP, Nevada protest, June 20, 1994

  • brochure, 1996

  • brochure, 1997

  • World AIDS Day, 1997

  • dedication of the Las Vegas AIDS Memorial garden at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 17, 1998

  • St. Therese Center, 1999

  • brochure, 2003

  • Sista to Sista, 2003

Stonewall Park

Stonewall Park: In 1984, Reno gay activist Fred Schoonmaker and his husband, Alfred Parkinson, initiated a series of efforts to establish a gay town in Nevada known as Stonewall Park.

  • Stonewall Park stock certificate, 1984

  • Alfred Parkinson(l) Fred Schoonmaker(r) Stonewall Park Rhyolite, 1987

  • Fred Schoonmaker(l) andAlfred Parkinson (r), 1970s

  • Stonewall Park brochure, 1985-86

  • Stonewall Park Rhyolite editorial comic, 1986

  • Stonewall Park Silver Springs, 1986

  • Stonewall Park Thunder Mountain, 1987

  • Fred Schoonmaker, ca. 1950s

  • Fred Schoonmaker and Alfred Parkinson, 1970s

  • Fred Schoonmaker and Alfred Parkinson, ca. early 1980s

  • Stonewall Park Silver Springs (Fernley Leader-Courier, May 7, 1986)

  • Stonewall Park Rhyolite flier, November 1986

  • Stonewall Park Rhyolite (Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 9, 1986)

  • Stonewall Park Rhyolite (Weekly World News, November 25, 1986)


Women United of Nevada

Women United of Nevada: Founded in 1987, Women United of Nevada [WUN], was the first separately founded, lesbian-identified organization in Las Vegas.

  • 1987 bylaws of Women United of Nevada

  • 1993 bylaws of Women United of Nevada

  • Women United of Nevada promotional brochure, ca. 1989

  • WUN business card, 1980s

  • Flier for WUN Valentine's Day Dance, 1989

  • Flier for McCalla & Fier, 1989

  • Women United of Nevada executive circle, 1989

  • Women United of Nevada newsletter, April 1989

  • Women United of Nevada newsletter, June 1989

  • Women United of Nevada promotional brochure, ca. 1989

  • Women United of Nevada Alix Dobkin concert, 1989

  • Women United of Nevada reunion dance, 1997

Bright Pink Literature (Get Booked)

Bright Pink Literature (Get Booked): Bright Pink Literature (later becoming Get Booked), opened in 1987. While more famous bookstores across the country, such as A Different Light and the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, have closed as LGBT literature has gone “mainstream,” Bright Pink Literature (Get Booked) has survived for more than 20 years.

  • Bright Pink opens, 1987

  • Flier for Bright Pink Cinema, 1991

  • Get Booked, 1995

  • Get Booked moving notice, 1996

  • Frank Marino (center) at Get Booked, 1997

  • Wes Miller, 2002

  • Get Booked advertisement, 2009

  • Bright Pink ad, 1987

  • Get Booked, July 1994

  • Pink Highways Book Tour, 1995

  • Business Card, 1996

  • Tupperware party, 1997

  • Dr. Charles Silverstein, 1999

  • Dr. Charles Silverstein, 1999

  • poet Renee Christy, 1999

  • Barrie Jean Borich, 1999

  • Barrie Jean Borich and Raul Mangubat, 1999

  • bumper sticker, 2000

  • Gay Pride, 2000

  • Get Booked, 2001

  • Tupperware party, 2002

  • Advertisement, 2004

  • Rose Pry, 2009

Community Counseling Center

Community Counseling Center: In 1990 the Community Counseling Center opened at 1006-1008 East Sahara Avenue. Within a short time Community Counseling becomes one of the gay community's greatest resources.

  • Transgender Support Group, 1998

  • The cover of City Life, 1999

  • Ron Lawrence, 1997

  • Spanish CCC brochure, 1996

  • brochure, 1990

  • brochure, 1990

  • Lesbian support group, 1993

  • Friday Night Men’s Group, 1993

  • brochure, 1995

  • Lesbian Rap, 1996

  • brochure, 1996

  • brochure, 1996

  • brochure, 1996

  • lesbian support group, 1997

  • fundraiser, 1998

  • Friday Night Gay Men’s group, 1999

  • budget cuts, 2004

  • education, 2006

  • brochure, 2007

  • Threads of the Community, 2007

  • fundraiser, 2009

  • brochure, 2009

Senate Bill 466

Senate Bill 466: Until the 1993 passage of Senate Bill 466, the history of Gay people in Nevada was largely one of criminal prosecution.

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal: Lawsuit Poorly Timed, 1985

  • Reno Gazette-Journal: Anti-gay law stay on Nevada books, 1985

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal: Gay activists work against sodomy laws, 1993

  • Letter from Assemblyman Jim Gibbons, 1993

  • Letter from Assemblyman, John Bonaventura, 1993

  • 1985 sodomy law challenge (Reno Gazette-Journal, September 12, 1985)

  • 1993 sodomy law challenge (Las Vegas Sun, February 5, 1993)

  • 1993 sodomy law challenge – flier (June 1993)

  • 1993 sodomy law challenge (Las Vegas Sun June 17, 1993)

  • 1993 sodomy law chellenge – Nevadans for Constitutional Equality draft bylaws

  • 1993 sodomy law challenge – Nevadans for Constitutional Equality brochure

  • 1993 sodomy law challenge – Nevadans for Constitutional Equality brochure

  • 1993 sodomy law challenge – Nevadans for Constitutional Equality brochure

Center Stage, Inc.

Center Stage, Inc.: Nevada’s first queer theatre troupe was Center Stage, Inc., founded in 1999.

  • Poster for Hidden: A Gender , 2000

  • program for Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, 1999

  • program for A Very Gay Christmas Carol,2000

  • cast of Hidden: A Gender, 2000

  • The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, 2000

  • Sappho in Love, 2001

  • admission ticket for Hidden: A Gender, 2000

  • poster for The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told,2001

  • program for Sappho In Love, 2001

  • flier for The Second Coming of Joan of Arc,2000

  • poster for Twilight of the Golds,2003

  • cast of Last Summer at Bluefish Cove,1999

  • cast of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told,2001

  • cast of A Very Gay Christmas Carol,2000

  • Twilight of the Golds,2003

Question 2

Question 2: The fight for equal rights suffered a severe blow with the 2002 amendment to the Nevada constitution that denied same-sex partners the right to marry.

  • 1999 Fundraiser

  • Proclamation of Freedom to Marry Day, 1998

  • "Strange Bedfellows" Political Cartoon, Las Vegas CityLife, 11/02/2002

  • Pro Question 2 Mailer, 2002

  • Equal Rights Mailer, 2000

  • "Mormon Church backs bill", Las Vegas Review-Journal, 09/10/2002

  • Equal Right to Marry Project at the Clark County Library, August 2, 1996

  • Equal Right to Marry Project at the Clark County Library, August 2, 1996

  • Equal Right to Marry project fundraiser, August 3, 1996

  • Nevada Freedon to Marry Coalition mass wedding at the Foley Federal Building, Las Vegas, February 12, 1998

  • Nevada Freedon to Marry Coalition mass wedding at the Foley Federal Building, Las Vegas, February 12, 1998

  • Nevada Freedon to Marry Coalition mass wedding at the Foley Federal Building, Las Vegas, February 12, 1998

  • Mormon-sponsored homophobia - opening round in the Question 2 fight (Nevada Beehive, December 15, 1999-1)

  • Mormon-sponsored homophobia - opening round in the Question 2 fight (Nevada Beehive, December 15, 1999-2)

  • Coalition for the Protection of Marriage solicitation letter, December 20, 1999-1

  • Coalition for the Protection of Marriage solicitation letter, December 20, 1999-2

  • Question 2 petition, 1999

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s first press conference at Christ Episcopal Church, September 11, 2000

  • Las Vegas Business Press, January 3, 2000

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 15, 2000

  • Coalition for the Protection of Marriage signature petition

  • Coalition for the Protection of Marriage donation disclosure form

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 17, 2000

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 18, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada bumper sticker

  • homophobic political campaign sign exploiting the Question 2 issue (August 18, 2000)

  • Equal Rights Nevada flier (September 2000)

  • anti-Question 2 poster (October 1, 2000)

  • Equal Rights Nevada brochure (October 11, 2000)

  • Equal Rights Nevada brochure (October 11, 2000)

  • anti-Question 2 yard sign (October 17, 2000)

  • pro-Question 2 yard sign (October 17, 2000)

  • Equal Rights Nevada fundraiser, October 17, 2000

  • Equal Rights Nevada poster (October 17, 2000)

  • Dennis McBride fighting Question 2 in Boulder City, NV, November 2, 2000

  • first passage of the question (Las Vegas Sun, November 8, 2000)

  • first passage of the question (Las Vegas Sun, November 8, 2000)

  • Las Vegas City Life February 28, 2002

  • Coalition for the Protection of Marriage’s “Marriage Protection Pledge for political candidates

  • Equal Rights Nevada’s Gill Foundation booklet

  • Equal Rights Nevada bumper sticker (June 27, 2002)

  • vandalism (Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 13, 2002)

  • future Nevada gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid supported Question 2 in 2002 (Nevada Beehive, September 15, 2002)

  • pro-Question 2 ad (Nevada Senior World, October 2002)

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 3, 2002

  • pro-Question 2 political campaign ad (Nevada Beehive, October 15, 2002)

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 3, 2002

  • second passage amends the Nevada State constitution (Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 6, 2002)

  • homophobic political campaign sign still exploiting anti-same-sex marriage hysteria two years after Question 2 passed in Nevada (September 8, 2004)

Las Vegas Transgender

Las Vegas Transgender: Transgender people have long been part of Las Vegas history, even though they have usually been left out of the social and political development of the gay community, and have been far slower in establishing a community of their own. But by 2009, Las Vegas held its first annual Transgender Health Fair and participated in the National Transgender Day of Remembrance.

  • Christine Jorgensen in Las Vegas, 1953

  • Jennifer Fox in Las Vegas, 1970

  • Hedy Jo Star, 1950s

  • Transgender beauty show to benefit the Lighthouse AIDS Ministry, 1996

  • Jane Heenan, 1999

  • Denise Jay, 1999

  • Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2009

  • Resource Guide, 2009

  • Celeste Tate outed, 1990

  • I Changed My Sex!, by Hedy Jo Star, 1963

  • Sequel to I Changed My Sex!, by Hedy Jo Star, 1964

  • Hedy Jo Star costume label, ca. 1970s

  • Transgender support group at the Community Counseling Center, 1996

  • Turnabouts brochure, 1997

  • Coquette Society, 1999

  • Transgender Support and Advocacy brochure, 2000

  • Andrea Hackett, Las Vegas City Life, 4-17-03

  • Transgender beauty contest, 2004

  • Jahna Steele, 2005

  • Christina DiEdoardo, Las Vegas Sun, 5-31-05

  • Trans.lation flyer, 2009

  • 1st Annual Transgender Health Fair, 10-31-09

  • Transgender Day of Remembrance, 11-20-09

  • Transgender Day of Remembrance, 11-20-09

  • Transgender Day of Remembrance, 11-20-09

  • brochure, 2010

  • QVegas transgender cover story, January 2010

SB 283

Despite a veto by Governor Jim Gibbons, SB 283, Nevada's Domestic Partnership Act, was passed in 2009.

  • AB 496, 2001

  • Las Vegas Mercury, 2003

  • Stand OUT for Equality rally,2008

  • Wanda Sykes at Stand OUT for Equality rally, 2008

  • Nevada’s First Lady Dawn Gibbons, 2009

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 21, 2009

  • Reciprocal Beneficiary Relationships, aka the Family Fairness Bill, 2001

  • Las Vegas Sun, April 17, 2001

  • Las Vegas Sun, April 27, 2001

  • Las Vegas Sun, July 8, 2003

  • Stand Out for Equality rally at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, November 15, 2008

  • Stand Out for Equality rally on Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 13, 2008

  • Stand Out for Equality rally on Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 13, 2008

  • SB 283 – Nevada Domestic Partnership Act, 2009

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 28, 2009

  • Equality Days, April 21-22, 2009

  • Equality Days breakfast, April 22, 2009

  • celebrating Nevada State Senate passage of SB 283, April 21, 2009

  • Stand Out for Equality lobbies Republican Nevada State Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, April 22, 2009

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 17, 2009

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 20, 2009

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 26, 2009

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 31, 2009

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 1, 2009

  • Las Vegas City Life, August 27, 2009

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