Parslow, Joe (2018) Queer Stages: LGBTQ+ Venues, Drag Performance, and Hope. Urban Pamphleteer #7, 7. pp. 22-24.

Abstract

In Cruising Utopia José Muñoz proposes that ‘popular culture is the stage where we [queers] rehearse our identities’ . Understanding the stage as both a performance space and a temporal moment that queers are often told to get over, Muñoz argues that performance offers a mode critical, hopeful engagement with an increasingly homophobic present. Starting there, this piece cruises on the line between academic enquiry and practical account, exploring the complexities of my position in opening Her Upstairs, a queer bar and performance venue in Camden, London.

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Official URL:	http://urbanpamphleteer.org/lgbtq-night-time-space...
Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Gender Queer Sexuality Writing and Criticism
Depositing User:	Joe Parslow
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2021 08:11
Last Modified:	20 Jul 2021 09:31
URI:	https://crco.cssd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1663