Conceived in the early 1990s as a "fuck you" response to Senator Jesse Helms's stance on banning obsence art from the NEA, Penny Arcade's show has been performed on and off ever since and is considered a "joyful, sex-positive, queer carnival that asks us to get up from our seats and dance, even as it nurses our political and spiritual wounds." (https://www.intomore.com/culture/bitch-dyke-faghag-whore-the-united-states-of-penny-arcade)
