Ticket to Baton Show Lounge

Ticket to the Baton Show Lounge, with business name and address on the front of the card and "Rich Saundrs" handwritten on the back. 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: wh246s57m
Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Date Created: circa 1969 to circa 1980
Genre: Ephemera
Subject(s): Baton Show Lounge
Rich Saundrs
Places: Illinois > Cook County > City of Chicago > Chicago
Topic(s): Drag bars
Drag performers
Drag shows
Female impersonators
LGBTQ+ artists
LGBTQ+ events
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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