<P>''¿ love creates something that was not there before.'' ¿ Hedwig</P><P><STRONG>John Cameron Mitchell</STRONG> and <STRONG>Stephen Trask</STRONG>¿s <I>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</I> opened on Valentine¿s Day,1998, in New York City, and ever since, it and its genderqueer heroine have captivated audiences around the world. As the first musical to feature a genderqueer protagonist as its lead, the show has had an extraordinary life on film, Broadway and in the music field. A glam rock musical with a complex relationship to issues related to art, eroticism and matters of identity formation, <I>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</I> is a darkly exuberant fairy tale about a child that discovers she is one of a kind, but also potentially among her own kind, if she dares travel past borders that confine and try to stabilise her being and identity. </P><P></P><P>Caridad Svich examines this exhilarating work through the lenses of visual and vocal rock ¿n¿ roll performance, the history of the American mu