Rumi Missabu

Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

A documentary profile on Rumi Missabu, the iconoclast cofounder of San Francisco's infamous Cockettes. Through archive footage, animation and new interviews with stars from SF's queer art past, his lurid tales in and out of the spotlight are revealed as he reinvents himself at the end of his life.

The underpaid staff of a seedy hotel rises up in revolt, and by the time head elevator girl Maxine starts spouting a surreal mix of folk songs and Marxist maxims, followed by an uproariously explicit sex scene, you’ll be ready to join the cause.