She was a muse for designers Marc Jacobs, Alexis Bittar, and Patricia Field, as well as photographers Nan Goldin, Alice O’Malley, Tanyth Berkeley, David Armstrong, Steven Klein, and Michael Sharkey. As lead singer and songwriter for the punk-rock band Transisters, she performed at CBGB, SqueezeBox at Don Hill’s, and other trendsetting hubs of downtown culture. In the 1990s, she became an icon of downtown nightlife, writing plays for and performing with the Blacklips Performance Cult and editing the group’s zine, Leif Sux. She studied art at Parsons School of Design and received an associate degree in gender studies from the City University of New York, City College. A native of Connecticut, Dzubilo moved to New York in 1982. His papers are housed in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and his work is collected in major museums around the country.Ĭhloe Dzubilo (1960–2011) was an artist and AIDS and transgender activist. Jerome died at the height of the AIDS-art-activism era in San Francisco from complications related to HIV. Jerome's iconography pays homage to a wide cast of saints and sinners: Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Saint Lucy, Satan, imps, priests, cherubs, demented clowns, cannibalistic birds, pigs, and gay icons. His canvases included pistachio shells, lockets, discarded bottle caps, and small scraps of paper. This humble, self-possessed artist painted exquisite miniatures with everything that you would find in a drag queen's handbag: nail polish, glitter, make-up, lipstick, and eye liner.

He majored in studio art at Cleveland State and earned a master's degree in ceramics at the San Francisco Art Institute. Jerome Caja (1958 – 1995) was born in Cleveland into a Catholic family of 11 boys.

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