ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on to popular drag performance work as one site in a constellation of practices through which queer subjects can locate modes of resistance to homophobia and transphobia, as well as begin to explore practices of survival. The informal spaces of sociality and desire, bars and pubs and clubs that house drag performance work, offer one site of resistance, refusal, and survival by keeping the party going, failing to be good. It refusing to stop coming to hear the music play despite the increasing threat of violence for those who do. In paying attention to the ways in which bodies move at a local level, it is possible to witness moments of resistance and survival in the face of violence that is part of the 'ambient homophobia'. The chapter deals with both broad narratives of homophobia and transphobia alongside a localised and frivolous exploration of Fagulous's practice, insisting that both these forms of analysis speak to one another.
