Avant-Drag!

A city tour of a different kind: *AVANT-DRAG!* profiles ten drag performers of diverse gender identities, sexualities, and backgrounds. Through their radical and captivatingly surreal performances in public spaces, they deconstruct gender, sexuality, nationalism, religion, and ethnicity. Their resistance against police violence, transphobia, and racism, far from the glittering mainstream, is both glamorous drag extravaganza and political action.

*AVANT-DRAG!* is a deeply entertaining collage that documents a vibrant, activist, and tender community of care. Weighty questions about drag as art and political protest, the appropriation of queer representation in the mainstream, and whether drag should be paid work are passionately—and stylishly—debated at a dinner party. No gods, no masters, no patriarchy!