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Linda Gerard (born 1940) is a singer, stage actress and cabaret artist based in Palm Springs, California. Originally from the New York area, she has performed on and off Broadway in theater productions, cabaret acts and as a singer across the Eastern seaboard and later in California. Gerard is self-identified as an OWL — an older, wiser lesbian.

Early career
Gerard was a standby for Barbara Streisand and Mimi Hines in the original 60's runs of the musical Funny Girl, taking the stage as Fanny Brice many times. In the sixties and seventies, she developed an original repertoire of comedy and song which she performed at a variety of venues on the East coast.

Seventies
In 1975, she moved from New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts where she became the "most talked about cabaret singer in Ptown." She performed at and became co-owner of the Pied Piper. According to the book Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape, "During the 1970s, Provincetown's Pied Piper was the foremost lesbian bar on the eastern seaboard, if not in the whole United States. During the summer season, lines snaked around the block, women bouncers guarded the entrance, and inside, women who had come from such faraway places as Montreal and Kansas City flirted, drank, danced." Gerard became co-owner of the Pied Piper when she helped to rebuild the bar after it burnt down on New Year's Eve of 1978. She and her business partner sold the bar in 1987.

Present
Linda Gerard moved to California where she opened The Rose Tattoo in 1988, which she envisioned as "a real New York cabaret" in West Hollywood. She performed at The Rose Tattoo through much of the nineties.

In 2008, Gerard was a contestant on the game show Deal or No Deal and won.

Currently, Linda Gerard hosts Sissy Bingo, a Monday bingo night and cabaret performance at King's Highway, a diner at Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs. In 2012, Ace Hotel is releasing Linda Gerard: Fabulous Selections, a compilation record of some of Gerard's earlier recorded material including show tunes, jazz standards, sixties-era novelty songs like "See the Cheetah" and the empowerment anthem "A Woman Starting Out All Over Again."