Johnny Bates / Lois Lane

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Info

Birth Date: January 25, 1963
Death Date: September 2, 1987
Birth Place:
Place of Death:
Titles: Her Royal Sovereign Imperial Majesty, Princess Royal 5, The Pussy Cat Empress, Dowager Empress 9

Also known as Johnny Bates. Lois Lane was Princess Royal of the 5th reign of the Imperial Court of Southern Colorado.[1] They passed away from HIV and is memorialized in The AIDS Quilt. They are buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. [2]

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Community Impacts

In the years after her passing, the Pikes Peak Gay Community Center organized a fundraiser in her memory to benefit gay charities.
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References


  1. UCPPE. “Court History.” United Court of the Pikes Peak Region via the Internet Archive, April 10, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080410104321/http://www.ucppe.org/Court%20History.htm. ↩︎

  2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. ↩︎

  3. “Community Vision.” Newspaper. Pikes Peak Gay & Lesbian Community Center, September 1992. Pikes Peak Pride Center Collection. Box 4, Folder 22. PPLD Special Collections. ↩︎



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Research and writing within is by Nico Wilkinson, unless otherwise stated.