Drag nightclub Les Girls ran from 1963 to 1994 on the corner of Darlinghurst Road and Roslyn Street. For 30 years it was an icon of Kings Cross. The cast of eleven ‘girls’ included Carlotta who would lip synch songs by artists such as Eartha Kitt and Shirley Bassey.  The show evolved over the years to include songs by Kylie Minogue and Tina Turner. The costumes were locally made and were laden with sequins, feathers and beads.

Many visitors couldn’t believe the ‘girls’ were not female.

"In the early seventies she had one of Australia's first sex-change operations. Carlotta remained the face of Les Girls as it became a rite of passage for suburban mums and dads to experience Kings Cross. It would have seemed a ridiculous idea when the venture started out that it would end up being a show that ran for twenty five years and ended up playing to RSL audiences in the suburbs and being the inspiration for the movie Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"

_{Louis Nowra Kings Cross- a biography 2013 pg 318}

"Kings Cross was a place that controlled you ... we were terrified of putting a foot wrong [and] you wouldn't dare complain about the bad working conditions. Once they broke a chair over a girl's head when she wanted to leave."

Carlotta and Prue McSween , Carlotta, I'm not that type of girl 2003