ABSTRACT
As shown in the previous chapter, a consideration of the discursive part of queer festivals shows only one side of the picture of their identity-work. Texts and discourses circulating are not sufficient sources from which to understand the whole process of the construction of festivals’ collective identity. Festivals promote specific oppositional lifestyles through cultural codes and practices too. Cultural codes need to be promoted for the consolidation of festivals’ counter-character, against the ‘mainstream’. Therefore, examining queer identity-work shifts our attention to how specific practices contribute to the promotion of an ethos which opposes established cultural codes and goes hand in hand with queer anti-normative statements.
