Digital Transgender Archive
Victoria Fernandez in brown coat with companion
Victoria Fernandez in a brown suede coat with a companion. Victoria Fernandez, who performed as Vicki Starr, was a Puerto Rican trans woman best known for dancing in San Francisco's topless clubs during the 1960s. Her collection tells the story of how she used photography to express her gender and personality from the 1950s to the 1980s, from photobooth strips to Polaroids, often showing her with lovers and friends from queer community.
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- Identifier
- 1544bp55s
- Collection
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Victoria Fernandez/Vicki Starr Collection
- Institution
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GLBT Historical Society
- Date Created
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circa 1970
- Genre
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Photographs
- Topic(s)
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Latino/a/x transgender people
Strippers
Trans women
- Resource Type
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Still Image
- Analog Format
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Photographic print
- Digital Format
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TIFF image, 10 MB, created February 1, 2025, Epson Expression 10000XL
- Language
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English
- Rights
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Copyright undetermined
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