Abstract
Queer performance signals a wide array of events, including musical theater, opera, performance art, dance, theater, film, and video art, that depict alternative identities and modes of life. A term that gained popularity in the 1990s, “queer” can signal deviation from cultural expectations, especially with regard to sex, gender, and sexuality, but also with other vectors of difference such as race, class, nation, and ability. Queer performance can be a synonym for gay and lesbian art, and can also be understood more widely as staged or everyday acts that unsettle political, social, and/or aesthetic norms around gender and sexuality. Queer performance thus paradoxically signals both gay and/or lesbian art and those that critique mainstream gay and lesbian aesthetics and politics.
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