Queer Places:
Dylan's Sports Pub, 40 N Nellis Blvd, Las Vegas,
NV 89110
Union Cemetery
Sherwood, Renville County, North Dakota, USA
Maxine Lenore Perron (May 31, 1923 – July 6, 2018) was born May 31, 1923, in Carbondale Township, Ward County, to David Perron and Aurelia Duffney. She was raised on a farm in Wheaton Township, Bottineau County, east of Sherwood, and attended the Wheaton Township School.
She moved to California and then to Las Vegas, NV. She owned and operated several lounges in Las Vegas. She also bought and developed several properties in Las Vegas.
Dylan's Sports Pub was for three decades Max and Marie's, then Maxine's then Maxie's, run by a Maxine Perron, who was a pioneer in the local gay and lesbian community. Maxine ran a bar for what they termed queers, wrote Dennis McBride, author of Out of the Neon Closet. She was reputed to be a lesbian. She was willing in later years to take all the accolades that the gay community was willing to give her, said McBride. Maxine’s opened about 1950 on the eastern outskirts of Las Vegas. A raucous bar with donkey baseball games staged in the surrounding desert, it was often isolated by flash floods during monsoon season. Maxine’s closed in January 1989.
Later in life, due to health reasons, Perron returned to Mohall to be closer to her family. She died on July 6, 2018, at a Mohall nursing home.
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