TORR
german
She is a pioneer of the new drag king movement. By 1981 she had already begun her gender performances and she has played a major role in defining the term Drag King.
which she shows women how they can transform themselves into men - with
clothes and accessories, by how they hold their bodies, through their
gestures and their speech, and teaches them some secrets about what
makes a man.
middle-class, middle managment macho male and is a composite of men she
has known, among them her father and her uncles. Charles Beresford, her
gay male alter-ego was created in memory of many of her gay male friends who
have died of AIDS, including her brother, Donald, who died in 1992. Other male
characters include:Jack Sprat - a middle aged cockney ex-mod
singer/songwriter who plays blues harp and sings silly songs earnestly, and
Hamish McAllister, a shipping clerk from Dumfries, and afficionado of the
Scottish poet, Robert Burns, whose bawdy poems he recites with much mirth.