The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.

~ Judith Butler

Judith Butler Gender Performativity

Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together (22)(rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?)

~ Duvert Summers

Duvert Summers A Boy Being Boy Performativity Queer