January 22, 1943 – June 23, 2005
Erroll Wayne Hert took his mother’s name Vaunda for his stage name, wowing audiences as the renowned Vaunda Lee at Menjo’s, the Gold Coast, Triple XXX, and other Detroit bars in the 1970s and 1980s. He won the Camp Prize from the Performer Awards of Detroit in 1982. Hert resided in his hometown of Bedford, Indiana at the time of his death.
Michigan LGBTQ Remember 
The first gay bar I went to was the Escape ( later the Backstreet). Suddenly the music stopped and the gold lame curtains opened and on cam Vaunda Lee. She turned her back to the audience, bent over and started stomping her feet. I remember thinking to myself “My God I thought this only happened in New York or San Francisco”. She was amazing.
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