Miss Leading (Tippi) appeared in the Gay Freedom Day Parade in her Anita Bryant drag for the Anita Bryant Look-A-Like Contest in June 1977. Excerpt from: NOT TRYING TO PASS AS ANYTHING BUT OUTRAGED: Cross-Dressing and Drag in Protests, Demonstrations, and Social Activism By Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Ph.D. & Ms. Bob Davis, MFA By 1977 about…
Pearly Gates of Leila and the Snakes (wearing a Doris Fish 1977 t-shirt!!) Jasper Havoc assists Doris Fish with makeup for Jane Dornaker. This feature was in the James Moss magazine “San Francisco Gay Life–Where It’s At” number 3 in 1977. Jane Dornaker, Pearly Gates, Eddie Troia, and Doris Fish met up while performing with…
Doris Fish and (presumed) James Moss. From Kalendar magazine, January 7, 1977. University of California at Berkeley Digital Library James Moss One of the people impressed with Doris’ act with the Tubes was James Moss, a former child star in Hollywood who was trying to make a name for himself in San Francisco as a…
Doris Fish performs at a Tubes show, 1976. Photo © Daniel Nicoletta. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. The Tubes Talent Hunt Poster. 1976. The Tubes Doris visited San Francisco for the first time in March 1975, and returned for an extended stay in the summer of 1976. That year she entered a talent competition…
Leila and the Snakes records sleeve. Back of Leila and the Snakes record sleeve. Signed to Greg Foss (Ginger Quest) by Jane Dornacker. Courtesy Greg Foss. Leila and the Snakes San Francisco rock band headed by Jane Dornacker in the late 1970s. Doris and Jane and Pearl E Gates met while performing with the Tubes.…
Tommy Pace as Mrs. Velour and Sandelle Kincaid as Babs Velour on set filming Vegas In Space. Photo © Daniel Nicoletta. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. Sandelle Kincaid From La Jolla, California, Sandelle came to San Francisco at age 17 and was performing in theatrical productions for Chuck Solomon and Les DeLaria. She was…
Miss X and Doris, Castro Street Fair, 1983 Photograph © by Daniel Nicoletta All rights reserved Miss X Born Dalton Bradley Chandler II, Cincinnati, OH, October 28, 1951. Currently resides in Phoenix, AZ. After dropping out of college in Ohio, he spent a couple of years in Los Angeles, where he became friends with Freda…
Phillip R Ford surrounded by a bevy of beauties. Miss X, TBD, Tippi, Doris Fish, TBD. Photo © Daniel Nicoletta. All rights reserved. Not for distribution. Stage and film producer, director and entertainer Phillip R. Ford served most of the 1980’s as “honorary straight man” in the legendary San Francisco drag troupe Sluts-A-Go-Go. He is perhaps…
Jaqueline (Jackie) Hyde An early, close friend of Doris, Jackie attended the National Art School and was a member of Sylvia and the Synthetics. To be continued…