Eulogy for Don McLean: A Class Act Ends Its Run, A Personal Remembrance

An obituary for performer Don McLean. It describes his life as a drag queen and the impact he had through his work. 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: xd07gt18j
Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Driver, Carl
Contributor(s): Van, Eddie
Date Issued: 1984
Genre: Clippings
Subject(s): Beverly LaSalle
Donald McLean
Lori Shannon
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Topic(s): Drag queens
Eulogies
Female impersonators
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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