Abstract
This article provides a contextual introduction to the performative lectures that I delivered at the Cruising the 1970s (CRUSEV) conferences in Valencia in April 2018 and Edinburgh in March 2019. These contributions revisited the work of radical drag performers from the United Kingdom and Spain, such as Rampova, Ocaña and Bloolips, alongside that of popular cultural icons of the time. The lectures took the form of antitainment, mixing elements of light entertainment, such as music and video, with socio-political commentary. The aim of the contributions was to compare and contrast the freedoms being explored in the 1970s in the United Kingdom, where the gay liberation movement was in full swing, with the complex reality of Spain, which was emerging from four decades of dictatorship under Franco. The article also situates these lectures in relation to other examples from my wider practice.
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