Introduction: Like various art forms such as film, television and literature, it allows artists to express their sense of identity, i.e. nationality, race, class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. In this case, Queen uses music to illustrate themes of gender and sexuality through the music video I Want to Break Free (1983). This essay will attempt to discuss how Queen's music video, I Want to Break Free, explores queerness in relation to queer theory. First, I will present the ideas and arguments of queer theory through Gilbert Herdt's article Same Sex Different Cultures (1997). I will then discuss Queen's depiction of drag in the music video and how it can be seen as queer rather than heterosexual. Finally, I will argue that Mercury's representation of heterosexuality in the music video could also be seen as queer as opposed to heterosexual through his performance of hyper-masculinity. Queer: In general, queer theory deals with issues of gender identity and sexual orientation. (Herdt, 1997, p. 8). This theory accepts scholarly sources that raise questions of literature, philosophy, sociology, and other academic discourses (Herdt, 1997, p. 8). However, queer theorists use these texts and reinterpret them to “search for a new culture and history sought to discover a period of past social life” (Herdt, 1997, p. 9). Herdt notes that queer theory attempts to expose and subvert the social hierarchies of “power that defines normality” (1997, 9). However, to do this, Herdt notes that within queer theory there is an attempt to deconstruct sexual identity and to reject “any classification and any notion of normality” (Herdt, 1997, p. 9). In saying this, queer theorists believe that one's sexual identity is based on society......center of paper......essentialism." The Journal of Philosophy 65. 1968. (20): 615–626Peraino , J 2003. Listening to Sirens: Music as a Queer Ethical Practice. ). New York: RoutledgeHerdt, G.H. (1997). Different cultures exploring the lives of gays and lesbians. Retrieved from 16 May 2014. Frith, Simon and Angelina McRobbie (1978) “Rock and sexuality” and the written word Ney York: Pantheon BooksRay, Amy & Emily Saliers (1995). (1983)..