Photography
Autographed photograph of Vicki Lane, one of Montreal’s first Drag Queens. She was the star of the Cleopatra café on Saint-Laurent Street in the 1960s.
- Accession Number 2018.22.03
- Medium and Support ink, paper
- Measurements 25,5 x 20,5 cm
Historical context
Vicki Lane is a drag artist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she made her career on the U.S. East Coast before settling in Montreal in 1972. During the Stonewall uprisings in New York City in the summer of 1969, Vicki Lane worked at the St. George Hotel, a popular venue for gay men in Brooklyn.
During her fifty-year career, Vicky Lane worked in Montreal, notably with the famous Revue Fantasy Follie in the early 1970s. Her involvement wi...
- Accession Number 2018.22.03
- Medium and Support ink, paper
- Measurements 25,5 x 20,5 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, 2018.022.003
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