Sammy Hoover was born in the hills of West Virginia in the early 1930s, and he has been around the block a time or two. In this documentary, the transgendered performer, now known as Barbara LeMay, recounts previous adventures as a carnival 'hootch' dancer, and being a 'homorphrodite' while in between shows at a Hollywood-area strip joint.
A student film starring transgender burlesque artist, Barbara LeMay, performing a partial reenactment of her signature act, the “hoochie show.” The film was made as a final project for a beginning filmmaking class at Los Angeles City College, though the professor banned its premiere screening for fear that the department would lose funding over the title’s “lewd” contents.
