She was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in his movies Trash (1970) and Women in Revolt (1972).
She was probably best known as the "he who was a she" in Lou Reed's hit pop song Walk on the Wild Side.
“The boys at the baths loved me. Of course, they were all drunk and high and would've loved a French poodle barking out "Jingle Bells"!”