Doris Fish shows off her incredible drag style at the 422 Oak St apartment, then walks in heels to The Mint gay bar on Market street. The sidewalk is crowded with gay men as Doris parades through under her parasol. The sidewalk outside the Mint bar is crowded with gay men as Doris parades through…
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TONIGHT! Doris Fish gets her Oscar moment at the Academy of Motion Pictures museum in LA with the screening of Vegas In Space! Will we see you there??? Phillip R Ford and Miss X will be onstage in discussion with Michael Varrati, cinematographer Robin Clark and co-stars Sandelle Kincaid and Ramona Fischer will be in…
The Doris Fish Forever Southern California Tour begins this week at RuPaul’s Drag Con at the LA Convention Center Friday and Saturday, June 19-20 SPECIAL GUEST STARS! MISS X of the Sluts a Go-Go and co-star of Vegas in Space will be reigning supreme all weekend and Vegas in Space director PHILLIP R FORD (honorary…
Thanks to all who helped out and stopped by the Doris Fish Forever booth at San Francisco Pride! We are on a mission to introduce Doris and the Sluts to a new generation of fans and remind the world that DORIS FISH WILL BE FAMOUS FOREVER! DORIS will be in Los Angeles July 19-20 at…
Doris Fish and Freda Lay at the corner of 18th and Castro sometime between 1979-1983. I think this is an extraordinary photograph. The vanguard of early San Francisco Drag in the Castro in its heyday. Its unconventional with the shadows from the telephone poles breaking it up and adding weird depth in the afternoon light.…
City Hall Sluts! This fabulous photo from Greg Foss’ collection was taken in 81-82 during the Martin Ryter era. The story is that Doris and Martin released a press release announcing that a wealthy Arabian sheik was coming to town to meet with Doris and the Mayor of San Francisco. The sheik was played by…
Exciting news from the Australian Queer Archives, we thank them for sharing these digital images with us! “AQuA recently received a very significant donation of artworks, objects and archival material relating to Doris Fish from Johnny Allen, Ron Smith and the Danny Abood Estate (Johnny Allen). These works significantly extent our existing holdings relating to…
The debut poster for the Sluts A Go-Go designed by Doris Fish. Doris loved creating the posters for their shows, so much so that the actual show itself was a mere formality. Things I love about this: the Doris portrait is naturally awesome, I drew our logo from this image. I love the phrases “Real…
Miss X comments: “I joined a band headed by my next door neighbor Mark Elliott. Trans drummer Scott Loughridge (I think), bass Jeanette Szudy who played the reporter in VIS, I sang and played keyboards, Tippi and Doris (and Freida Lay at our first performance at Previews) danced. This poster was created by Doris for…