Photos of Vicki Marlane in Evening Wear, 1960

Multiple portraits of Vicki Marlane in the 1960s. 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: jd472w88m
Collection: Vicki Marlane Collection
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Date Created: Mar. 1960
Genre: Photographs
Subject(s): Vicki Marlane
Topic(s): Drag community
Drag queens
Female impersonators
Trans women
Resource Type: Still Image
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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