A mistake I have made in the past is conflating gender and sexuality. What does this mean? It means, sometimes when we see someone performing a gender (masculinity and femininity) in a "non-normative" way, we assume their sexuality is also "non-normative", meaning NOT heteronormative. So when I would see a drag queen I would automatically assume they are gay, however, drag performers like David, stage name Suzette Veneti, or even Maddy Morphosis from RuPaul season 14, show us that gender performance and sexuality are separate things.

Some scholars that discuss doing gender or gender as a performance are Kathryn Bond Stockton, Candace West, Don Zimmerman and Judith Butler.

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