died in 2013 at the age of 90, was a legendary San Francisco-based drag queen who founded the Imperial Court in 1965. He had made history four years prior as the first out gay person to seek elective office in the U.S.
with his ultimately unsuccessful bid for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Rivera, who died in 2002 at the age of 50, and Johnson, who died in 1992 at the age of 46, both were drag performers and prominent participants in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.