Faux Queen: A Life in Drag follows the fierce and fabulous journey of Fauxnique, the first cis-woman to win a major drag queen pageant.

This is a memoir about how a little Ballet-obsessed girl moved to San Francisco from the suburbs and found her people at the drag club. It joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinson's journey through one of the most experimental moments in queer cultural history and her rise through the nightlife underground to become a drag empress.

Jenkinson finds authenticity through the glee of drag artifice and articulation through the immediacy of performing bodies. She pens a valentine to gay men and their culture while relaying the making of an open-minded feminist. Faux Queen finds deep healing in irreverence and posits that it might be possible for all of us to come together in glorious difference on the dancefloor.