Robert “Cyclona” Legorreta (b. September 15, 1952 in El Paso, Texas) is a Chicano performance artist. He attended Belvedere Elementary, Griffith Junior High, and Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, growing up at the backdrop of the early Chicano movement.

By around 14 years old, Cyclona began crossdressing alongside artist and Garfield peer Mundo Meza (1955-1985). Parading down Whittier Boulevard in psychedelic jumpsuits, false breasts, and thick makeup, the two were subjected to beatings by police and violent threats throughout their own neighborhood. Cyclona’s presence served as inspiration for later performance artists Gronk and Patssi Valdez, who went on to form the Asco Collective with Harry Gamboa Jr. and Willie Herrón III.

Cyclona as a persona emerged in Gronk’s 1969 play Caca-Roaches Have No Friends, whose appearance and homoerotic cock scene were met with outrage amongst Chicano families. Other notable performances include Piglick, a food orgy protest in Asco collaboration outside his sheriff’s station, and The Marriage of María Concita Teresa and Chingón at California State University, Los Angeles.

Cyclona was also a founding member of the Southern California Gay Liberation Front in this time period. By the 1980s, he became active in Latino AIDS-related advocacy, performing with Cara a Cara Latino AIDS Project at the Sunset Free Clinic and VIVA!, serving on the organization's advisory board in late 1980s to early 1990s.

Though his legacy is rooted in gay activism and networks since the 1960s, he now solely identifies as homosexual citing failures of gay rights movement in regards to class and racial discrimination. The term gay has largely been used to reduce and even criticize the Cyclona persona as solely feminine, curatorial efforts misrepresenting him as a drag queen, transvestite, and transsexual. Beyond identification, Cyclona continues to respond, “I am perception, perceive me as you will.”

This collection has been rehoused under California State Library Grant Preserving California LGBTQ+ History “Preserving Jotería: Rehousing the Gronk and Cyclona Papers”.