State of Transformation: Drag Queen Masculinity in Two Scottish Texts

Dec. 1, 2009

“Stop aw this homophobic shite: it’s a total drag” –Welsh, ‘A Smart Cunt’ (245) [1] ‘Drag’, the practice of cross-dressing and performing as the opposite gender, can be homophobic, suggests an against-the-grain reading of this quote from Irvine Welsh. Such a notion disturbs and complicates the stereotypical association of drag...