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Showing posts with label Imperial Court. Show all posts
10 October 2014

Anderson Toone (1958–) drag king, performer, musician.

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Annie Toone ran away at 16 and played drums and harmonica in New York, and then at 19 in San Francisco for blues legend Mike Bloomfield and...
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19 January 2013

Nicole Murray Ramirez (194? - ) sex worker, changeback, LGBT and Latino activist

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Ramirez was a Catholic alter boy, and initially wanted to be a priest. But being gay did not become so. She was a sex worker in Los Angele...
01 June 2012

Vicki Marlane (1934 - 2011) performer

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After being raised by alcoholic farmers in Minnesota, Vicki started as a dancer in a Minnesota gay bar in 1950. Vicki was then employed by H...
16 June 2009

Allyson Allante (1955 - ) performer.

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Raised in Long Beach, Long Island, New York, Allyson Anderson was 14 when she was at the Stonewall Tavern on June 27, 1969, and apprehended ...
12 October 2008

José Sarria (1922 - 2013) caterer, drag performer, activist.

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José was born in San Francisco, the child of unmarried Columbian and Nicaraguan immigrants. He was raised by his mother and then by his godm...
04 October 2008

Michelle DuBarry (1931 - 2026) performer.

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Russel Alldread was born in Bowmanville , Ontario. His boy soprano won him first prize a t the 1939 Port Hope Music Festival, singing “Cobbl...
23 May 2008

James Herndon (1889 – 1983) orderly.

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As a child James was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington , Kentucky for an eye injury and left there. He became friendly wit...
20 April 2008

Stormé DeLarverié (1920 - 2014) singer, gender impersonator.

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++Updated May 2014, June 2017. K. Stormé DeLarverié was born in New Orleans. She was a jazz singer as Stormy Dale in the '40s, and t...