Photo of Felicia Elizondo, with Letter to Oprah

Photo of Felicia Flames posing with Santa hat and holding her two dogs. On the back of the photo is a letter written to Oprah, expressing her "Christmas wishes" and recounting her AIDS diagnosis and activism. 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: s4655g96z
Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Elizondo, Felicia
Date Created: circa 2002
Genre: Cards
Photographs
Subject(s): AIDS Memorial Quilt
Oprah Winfrey
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Topic(s): AIDS activists
Chicano/a/x LGBTQ+ people
Chicano/a/x transgender people
Christmas
Drag queens
HIV/AIDS
Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people
Latino/a/x transgender people
Trans women
Resource Type: Still Image
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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