The Kinsey Sicks began in 1993 when a group of five friends (largely lawyers and professional activists) went to a Bette Midler concert in San Francisco, dressed as the Andrews Sisters.
[1] In July 1994, The Kinsey Sicks (then consisting of Ben Schatz as "Rachel", Irwin Keller as "Winnie", Maurice Kelly as "Trixie", Jerry Friedman as "Vaselina", and Abatto Avilez as "Begoña") drew a large and enthusiastic crowd at their first public performance on a street corner in San Francisco's Castro District.
The documentary The Kinsey Sicks: Almost Infamous, covering the history of the group and their run at the Las Vegas Hilton was released in 2008.
Their stage productions have included The Balled Sopranos, Motel Sicks: A Dragapella Summer Vacation, Everything But the Kitsch 'n'Synch and GreatesTits, all of which premiered at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center.
In 2010, the group began releasing music videos, many about current events, such as the oil-spill satire BP is Creepy, the TSA-mocking Rocky-Horror parody Touch-A Touch Me, TSA Security, a satirical video about Republican Party economic policy titled The Official GOP Economic Platform (as sung by The Kinsey Sicks),[11] which suggests a policy of selling the poor to curb the national deficit,[12] and the black comedy song Get A Gun about America's obsession with firearms.
Other music subjects include pop icons, such as the Lady Gaga parody Bedroom Ants and modern internet and TV culture in videos like, I Must Watch YouTube and Why the F@#k Aren't We Famous.
Also released in July 2014 was a 20th anniversary historic video The Kinsey Sicks: Live in the Castro (1994), which featured footage from the group's first-ever street performance.
That August, group returned to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Gilded Balloon with their show, The Lady Cocks of Bang Boys.
In 2017 the group began touring a highly political and autobiographical show titled, Things You Shouldn't Say, an abridged version of which was performed in their third year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.