Faux Queen

Faux Queen: A Life in Dragis the memoir of a ballet-obsessed girl who moves to San Francisco from the suburbs and finds her people at the drag club. It joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinsons creation of her drag persona Fauxnique the people and cultural practices that crash her identity into being her journey through one of the most experimental moments in queer cultural history and her rise through the nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a major pageant-winning drag queen. Jenkinson finds authenticity through the glee of drag artifice and articulation through the immediacy of performing bodies. She pens a valentine to gay men and their culture while relaying the making of an open-minded feminist and queer ally.Faux Queenfinds deep healing in irreverence and posits that it might be possible for usqueer straight and almost everyone on either side and in betweento come together in fabulous difference on the dance floor.