Otherwise known as "The Widow Norton". Eventually became a drag entertainer; if you've ever watched the wonderful documentary "Word is Out", the segment with George Mendenhall (if I remember correctly) talks about the impact of shows, especially closing them with insisting that the audience sing along with "God Bless us Nelly Queens".
Saria organized yearly pilgrimages to the grave site of the Emperor Norton, and rented city buses to do so (at his expenses).
He recounted how he found a loophoole in the San Francisco laws prohibiting city busses from leaving the city limits, *unless it was to inspect city property*, and he had the gravesite declared city property, or at least I heard him so say on one of those bus trips, as a member of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Marching Band & Twirling Corps, which Saria had persuaded to liven up the proceedings (even more).