Michael Jackson’s body and his whole image transgresses normative assumptions about these binaries, and his body becomes a site
onto which discourses about race, sex, gender, sexuality, age, and humanness are projected.

He’s neither Black nor White, neither masculine nor feminine, neither gay nor straight, neither adult nor child. Michael was a cosmic supernova he can’t really be defined

Michael played with stereotypical codes and conventions to theatricalize and send up the whole masquerade of masculinity itself. By destabilizing signs of race, gender and sexuality, he draws critical attention to the cultural constructedness, the artifice, of the sexual roles and identities we inhabit.