"Holly came from Miami, F.L.A."

Only if you are around my age or listen to classic rock stations that you recognize those lyrics and you will also know that there really is a Holly. They are from Lou Reed’s classic “Walk on the Wide Side” from 1972.

Transgender Icon Holly Woodlawn Fights for Life at Cedars-Sinai
Hollywood Reporter
By Seth Abramovitch
July 6, 2015

She is a transgender icon five decades ahead of her time. Now Holly Woodlawn, among the most gifted and irrepressible of Andy Warhol's stable of "superstars," is fighting for her life at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Doctors there have found lesions on her liver and brain, but have not yet determined the cause. Woodlawn is too weak to undergo the biopsy that could offer a diagnosis.
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Born Haroldo Danhakl in Puerto Rico in 1946 and raised in Miami Beach, Fla., Woodlawn was bullied relentlessly as a teenager. By 1962, she decided she'd had enough, and hitchhiked to New York City, a journey immortalized in the first lines of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."
"Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.," the late rocker sings in the 1972 classic. "Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way. Shaved her legs and then he was a she. She says, 'Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side.' "

Woodlawn chose Holly as a first name because she adored Holly Golightly, the mischievous society girl played by Audrey Hepburn in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Her surname came years later, at the request of Warhol, who was determined to put her in his next film. ''We were watching this episode of I Love Lucy,'' Woodlawn told The New York Times in 2000. "And behind her was this sign on the No. 4 train, 'Woodlawn,' and we said: 'That's it. Holly...Wood. Holly Woodlawn.' ''

There is a “Go Fund Me” page for her; they are trying to raise $50,000 to either cover her medical expenses or her funeral.