Camille Paglia on the Kinsey Sicks

Salon.com, November 17, 1999

"Finally, I was very amused by a letter from Bob Rothery about the Kinsey Sicks, a San Francisco drag troupe that advertises itself as "America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet." The four gay men, who call themselves Trixie, Winnie, Rachel and Trampolina, do risque song satires like "Beaver" (instead of "Fever"), "I Will Swallow Him" and "Titanic: Why Must Celine Go On?" Rothery says of the Kinsey Sicks, "They give Bobbie McFerrin a Jewish mother's spin with 'Don't Be Happy -- Worry.'" A New York gig is in the offing. As a devotee of Glennda Orgasm (Glenn Belverio's immortal drag alter ego), I am of course delighted to hear that, at the dawn of the new millennium, drag creativity still booms!

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