ABSTRACT
When lesbians move into the area of performing, the rules and assumptions which pull us towards society's bounded gender and sexual roles start to be challenged, either through performing characters alien to ourselves or through performing our own texts as lesbians. If and when we identify as a lesbian performer we move into another arena. Labelling our sexuality and gender brings them into being: they are creatures which haunt us, chide us and chastise us until we learn to live with or without them.
