Personal Narrative on Tenderloin Gay History

A 2018 personal narrative by Felicia Elizondo documenting LGBT life in San Jose and San Francisco's Tenderloin from the 1960s to the present. Like many autobiographical fragments in Elizondo's collection, it consists of isolated pages from various sources which were found together. 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: xw42n8345
Collection: Felicia Elizondo/Felicia Flames Collection
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Elizondo, Felicia
Date Created: 2018
Date Issued: 2018
Dates Covered: 1960 to 1970
Genre: Autobiographies
Subject(s): Felicia Elizondo
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
California > Santa Clara County > San Jose
Topic(s): Chicano/a/x LGBTQ+ people
Chicano/a/x transgender people
Gay men
Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people
Latino/a/x transgender people
LGBTQ+ people
Trans women
Transgender people
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: In copyright
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