- 210 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book explores drag performance in London since 2009 via the pubs, bars and clubs that make LGBTQ+ communities thrive.
It studies the complex relationship between drag performance, LGBTQ+ venues and queer communities. In exploring drag performance, the book develops a greater understanding of the connection between drag performance and queer communities, in particular exploring how drag might facilitate queer communities and offer queer modes of survival and resistance for queer people. Through this, the book describes a contemporary moment in which drag performance is increasingly popular and increasingly important at a time when homophobic and transphobic violence is prevalent, and LGBTQ+ venues are often under threat of closure. Understanding the increased/increasing mainstream popularity of drag, the book examines drag performance that is connected to and resists mainstream attention in order to account for its complexity in London (and beyond).
This book takes the author's engagement with and love for drag and exerts a critical, political and queer pull in order to develop new terrains of queer studies and queer performance studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Utopian Drag
- 1 Present Drag: Hope in the Face of Drag
- 2 Classic Drag: Edginess, Visibility and Spiteful Drag
- 3 Killjoy Drag: Queer Side-Eyes and Dragging Backwards
- 4 Silly Drag: Failures, Failsafes and Plumbing the Depths of Stupidity in Drag
- 5 Besides Drag: On the Edge of the Scene
- 6 Future Drag: Drag Performers Show Up
- Conclusion: Plant Your Feet, Take a Deep Breath and Remember It Is Supposed to Be Fun
- Index