The Ghost Writer; Sissyboy
by Richard Knight, Jr.
2010-02-24
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If the Cockettes, the psychedelic drag-queen troupe from the late 1960s, had had grandchildren they might look, talk and act as outlandishly as the 12 troupe members of Sissyboy do in their eponymous documentary. This gender-bending shock-drag troupe that hails from Portland, Ore., worked together for about three and a half years, practicing their blend of political glam guerilla theatre. At one point they met nascent filmmaker Katie Turinski, who saw a hot subject in the group and started documenting their performances and off camera observations. The group eventually did a West Coast tour of three cities, traveling aboard the RV of the parents of one of the members, returning to their home base for a final show. Turinski captured all of this in her lively documentary of the group.
