Felicia "Flames" Elizondo, a transgender woman and longtime AIDS survivor, died Saturday, May 15. She was 74. According to friends and social media posts, Ms.
Elizondo was in hospice care in San Francisco at the Veterans Administration Hospital. Ms. Elizondo was a fixture in the San Francisco LGBTQ community for many years. "What I remember about Felicia are her performances and how giving she was of her time and energy," Luis Gutierrez-Mock, a queer trans man, told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview. "She was always down to raise money for friends, HIV prevention, and the trans community." Gutierrez-Mock said that he and Ms.