Abstract Like all radical community endeavours, queer performance in the United States has been shaped through resistance to restrictive ideologies. National insecurity over ‘indecent’ (read: queer) artistic expression in the US has been aimed at artists working in a variety of genres, and here I focus specifically on queer solo performance artists. This essay explores the dangerous realities that queer artists present to an imagined unified US national identity. I argue that queer solo performers operate as artistic activists, challenging homogenous fantasies about US culture through the queering of experience. Aesthetically disparate, their work is connected by common threads of vulnerability and precarity. The article asks how their work disrupts U.S. insecurities concerning intersections of sexuality, gender identity, race and religion.

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危险的真实：主动破坏中的酷儿独奏

摘要与所有激进社区的努力一样，美国的酷儿表演是通过对限制性意识形态的抵制而形成的。在美国，对于“不雅”（阅读：酷儿）艺术表达的国家不安全感一直针对从事各种流派的艺术家，在这里，我主要关注酷儿个人表演艺术家。本文探讨了酷儿艺术家呈现给美国的统一想象民族身份的危险现实。我认为，酷儿的独奏演员是艺术活动家，他们通过对经验的质疑来挑战关于美国文化的同质幻想。从美学上讲，他们的工作是由脆弱性和脆弱性的共同线索连接在一起的。文章询问他们的工作如何破坏美国在性，性别认同，种族和宗教交汇方面的不安全感。