The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag

“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us-the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.”

-Sasha Velour

This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Sasha Velour illuminates drag as a unique form of expression with a rich history and a revolutionary spirit.

Each chapter strips off a new layer, removing one tantalizing glove and then another, to revealall the twists and turns in...