Interview Clippings of Felicia Flames and Sandy Stone

This item contains potentially sensitive content related to transphobic violence. A collection of clippings from interviews with Felicia Flames and Sandy Stone. Pages are presented in the order they were found and donated. This item comes from the Felicia “Flames” Elizondo papers (#2021-06) at the GLBT Historical Society. Felicia Elizondo, who performed as Felicia Flames, was a Chicana trans woman and drag queen associated with San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. She was a regular at Gene Compton's Cafeteria at the time of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, a historic 1966 uprising by trans and queer people. Elizondo performed for many years at Aunt Charlie's Lounge alongside her close friend Vicki Marlane. This collection contains Elizondo's writings, photographs of her and her community, ephemera she collected about local drag and queer topics, and materials about Marlane and her legacy.

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Identifier: qf85nb748
Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Elizondo, Felicia
Drucker, Zachary
Stone, Sandy
Publisher: Vice
Date Issued: Dec. 12, 2018
Genre: Autobiographies
Places: California > Alameda County > Oakland
California > San Francisco County > Tenderloin
Topic(s): AIDS activists
Chicano/a/x LGBTQ+ people
Chicano/a/x transgender people
Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people
Latino/a/x transgender people
Trans women
Trans-exclusionary radical feminists
Transphobia
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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