Queercore : how to punk a revolution: an oral history / editors, Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warfield, Liam, editor.

Crasshole, Walter, editor.

Leyser, Yony, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay culture.

Genre:

interviews.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : PM Press, [2021]

Summary:

Through exclusive interviews with protagonists like Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, John Waters, and many more, alongside a treasure trove of never-before-seen photographs and reprinted zines, Queercore traces the history of a scene originally ''fabricated'' in the bedrooms and coffee shops of Toronto and San Francisco by a few young, queer punks to its emergence as a relevant and real revolution. Queercore gets a down-to-details firsthand account of the movement explored through the people that lived it; from punk's early queer elements, to the moments Toronto kids decided they needed to create a scene that didn't exist, to the infiltration of the mainstream by Pansy Division, and the emergence of riot grrrl as a sister movement &; as well as the clothes, zines, art, film, and music that made this movement an exciting, in-your-face middle finger to complacent gay and straight society. Queercore will stand as both a testament to radically gay politics and culture and an important reference for those who wish to better understand this explosive movement.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Extremely Forward Introduction

Introduction

1: Wrecking Nerves: Stonewall to CBGB (1969-1976)

2: Gloriously Wrong: The LA Scene (Early '80s)

3: Nothing Was Sacred: Vaginal Davis in LA

4: Faction: Toronto's "Fabricated"Scene (mid-1980s-early 1990s)

5: Caught in the Cracks: Between Gay and Punk

6: Let's Get Back to Gay Liberation: AIDS Activism and Beyond

7: Freaks on the Edges: The West Coast Scene (late 1980s-mid 1990s)

8: Bodies Colliding: Machismo (and Machisma) in the Punk Scene

9: Groovy Underwear: Pansy Division Flirts with the Mainstream (1994)

10: The Name Game: Homocore vs. Queercore

11: We Had Our Photocopiers: The Queer Zine Explosion

12: Why Don't You Just Get Together?The SPEW Convention and Homocore Chicago (1992-2001)

13: Baseball Bats and High-Heel Shoes Punks on Parade (San Francisco 1989/Chicago 1993)

14: We Were So Ready: Riot Grrrl Emerges (early 1990s)

15: Tempers Flare: Tensions in Toronto (late 1980s)

16: Contagious Euphoria: Queercore on Screen

17: Smoke Signals: Theater and Performance

18: Manufacturing Gay: Assimilation and Its Discontents

19: A Herd of Cats: The Queercore "Agenda"

20: All the Labels: Navigating Gender

21: I Don't Want What You Want: Thoughts on Style

22: "Where Are They Now?"/Where Are We Now?

Afterword: Smashing Orthodoxies

Glossary of Protagonists

A Queercore and Queercore-Influential Filmography

Selected Zines

Queercore Essential Records (Chronologically)

About the Editors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781629638201

162963820X

OCLC:

1259589929