Vicki Marlane and Bobby Outside Airplane

A photograph of Vicki Marlane and her partner, Bobby, posing in front of a Pacific Southwest Airways plane. PSA ended operations in 1988, dating the photo to 1988 or earlier. Vicki Marlane (1934-2011) was a legendary San Francisco drag queen and transgender woman. Marlane had a long career; starting in the 1950s, she performed as a female impersonator, stripper, and carnival sideshow performer, and she continued to perform in drag almost until her death in 2011. In her last decades, Marlane led the Hot Boxx Girls, the in-house drag troupe at Aunt Charlie's Lounge. This item comes from the Vicki Marlane Papers at the GLBT Historical Society.

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Identifier: br86b403w
Collection: Vicki Marlane Collection
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Date Created: circa 1980 to circa 1988
Genre: Photographs
Subject(s): Vicki Marlane
Places: California
California > San Francisco County
Topic(s): LGBTQ+ partners
LGBTQ+ relationships
Trans women
Transgender people
Resource Type: Still Image
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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