Bay Area Reporter reports. Lake was 70.Lake was a beloved performer in the Bay Area, and a mainstay in San Francisco’s queer underground scene.
She was a sex worker, a porn actor, a cabaret artist, a songwriter, and a member of the legendary San Francisco theater group The Cockettes.Lake’s friend, Birdie Bob Watt, called Lake a trailblazer. “She’s been inspirational to a lot of people as far as her ability to navigate her own path,” Watt said. “...In telling her story she gave a lot of other people power, as well as giving power to herself.”In the 1990s, Lake co-authored a memoir titled The Unsinkable Bambi Lake with Alvin Orloff, the manager of Dog Eared Books Castro.