Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid 1980's as an offshoot of punk. It is distinguished by a discontent with society in general and a complete disavowal of the mainstream gay and lesbian community and what those involved believe to be its oppressive agenda.^[1] Queercore expresses itself in DIY style through zines, music, writing, art and film. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music to emerge during the 1950s. ... 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As a musical genre, it may be distinguished by lyrics exploring themes of prejudice and dealing with issues such as sexual identity, gender identity and the rights of the individual; more generally bands offer a critique of society endemic to their position within it, sometimes in a light-hearted way, sometimes seriously. Musically, many queercore bands originated in the punk scene but the industrial music culture has been influential as well. Queercore groups encompass many genres such as hardcore punk, synthpunk, indie rock, power pop, no wave, noise, experimental, industrial and others. Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Sexual identity is a term that, like sex, has two distinctively different meanings. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... It has been suggested that Chicago Industrial be merged into this article or section. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Defining characteristics of synthpunk (also known as synth-punk) bands include being founded at the same time (late 1970s) and place (California) as many US punk bands, performing with those same punk bands, in those same punk clubs, with records released on those same punk labels, preferring electronic instruments such... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Power pop is a long-standing musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop music. ... No Wave was a short-lived but influential music and art scene that thrived briefly in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk scene there. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ...

The early years

J.D.s, created by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, is widely acknowledged as being the zine which launched the movement^{[citation needed]}. "J.D.s is seen by many to be the catalyst that pushed the queercore scene into existence," writes Amy Spencer in DIY: The Rise Of Lo-Fi Culture ^[2]. At first the editors of J.D.s had chosen the appellation "homocore" to describe the movement but replaced the word homo with queer to better reflect the diversity of the scene as well as to disassociate themselves completely from the confines of gay and lesbian orthodoxy. The first issue was released in 1985, with a manifesto entitled "Don't Be Gay" published in the fanzine Maximum RocknRoll following soon after; inspiring, among many other zines, Holy Titclamps, edited by Larry-bob, Homocore by Tom Jennings and Deke Nihilson, Donna Dresch's Chainsaw, and Outpunk by Matt Wobensmith, these last two later functioning as music labels. These zines, and the movement, are characterised by an alternative to the self-imposed ghettoization of orthodox gays and lesbians; sexual and gender diversity in opposition to the segregation practiced by the mainstream gay community; a dissatisfaction with a consumerist culture, proposing a DIY ethos in its place in order to create a culture of its own; and opposition to oppressive religious tenets and political repression. J.D.s is a queer punk zine founded in Toronto by G.B. Jones and co-published with Bruce LaBruce, that ran for eight issues from 1985 to 1991. ... G.B. Jones is an influential artist, filmmaker, and musician from Toronto. ... Bruce LaBruce (born 3 January 1964) is a Canadian writer, film-maker, and photographer based in Toronto. ... The word queer has traditionally meant strange or unusual, but it is also currently often used in reference to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual communities. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... A fanzine (see also: zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular subject for the pleasure of others who share their interest. ... Maximum Rocknroll Issue #1 Maximum Rocknroll (also known as MRR) is a widely distributed, monthly punkzine based in San Francisco, USA. It features interviews, columns, and reviews from international contributors. ... Tom Jennings (born 1955 as Thomas Daniel Jennings in Boston, Massachusetts) is the creator of FidoNet, the first message and file networking system for BBSes. ... Deke Nihilson is a zine editor, musician, actor and activist who lives in the United States. ... Dresch (far right) with the Screaming Trees. ... “Consumerist” redirects here. ... The DIY punk ethic refers to the idea of doing it yourself, i. ...

1990s

In 1990, the J.D.s editors released the first queercore compilation, J.D.s Top Ten Homocore Hit Parade Tape, a cassette which included bands from Canada, such as Fifth Column; Nikki Parasite and Bomb from the U.S.; from England, The Apostles, Academy 23 and No Brain Cells; and, from New Zealand, Gorse. During this period of queercore in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, many of the punk rock bands involved were not necessarily queer but their ethics were motivation for supporting this movement. Other bands, such as Los Crudos and Go!, had one queer and outspoken member. The sexuality of band members has never been an issue in the choice to align oneself with the Queercore movement or not. Other early queercore bands included Anti-Scrunti Faction, who appeared in J.D.s, and Comrades In Arms, Homocore editor Deke Nihilson's band. Shortly after the release of the tape J.D.s ceased publication and a new crop of zines arose, such as Jane and Frankie by Klaus and Jena von Brücker, Shrimp by Vaginal Davis and Fanorama by REB. The zine BIMBOX published statements such as "BIMBOX hereby renounces it's [sic] past use of the term lesbian and/or gay in a positive manner. This is a civil war against the ultimate evil, and consequently we must identify us and them in no uncertain terms, a task which will prove to be half the battle." ^[1] Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Cassette culture was in part an offshoot of the mail art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. ... Fifth Column, from left to right: Caroline Azar, G.B. Jones, Beverly Breckenridge. ... Parasites are an American pop-punk band originally formed in 1985 by guitarist and singer Dave Parasite (a. ... Bomb was a San Francisco-based rock band started in 1986 by singer/bassist Michael W. Dean, guitarist Jay Crawford, and drummer Tony Fag (Anthony Paul Short, A.K.A. Blind Tony Fag). ... The Apostles are an experimental punk rock band who developed within the confines of the 1980s Anarcho Punk scene in the UK, but did not necessarily adhere to the aesthetics of that movement. ... Academy 23 was the name given to the new experimental music project created by Andy Martin and Dave Fanning immediately after disbanding their former group The Apostles. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Los Crudos was a hardcore punk band, prominent during the 1990´s. ... GO! is an American hardcore punk band that was active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, reuniting in 2006. ... Anti-Scrunti Faction were an all-women punk trio from Boulder, Colorado, USA. The band made their first appearance in 1984 on the Restless Records compilation LP entitled FlipSide Vinyl Fanzine Volume 1, assembled by the fanzine Flipside from California, with the song Big Women. In 1985, Anti-Scrunti Faction... Vaginal Davis on cover of EP. Clarence Dennis Williams, also known as Vaginal Davis or her dominatrix-alter-ego Veronika VIntrest, (born February 23, 1969) is a punk rock drag queen and an avant-garde performance artist. ... Fanorama issue #27, which came with 3-D glasses Fanorama (a. ...

The first queer zine gathering occurred at this time; "Spew", held in Chicago in 1991, offered an opportunity for all those involved in the scene to meet. Although organizer Steve LaFreniere was stabbed outside the venue at the end of the night, he quickly recovered and the event was deemed a success.^[3] Spew 2 took place in Los Angeles in 1992^[4], and Spew III in Toronto in 1993. These Spew events also included musical performances by queercore bands. Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

Among the better known bands from the early 1990s are Fifth Column, God Is My Co-Pilot, Pansy Division, PME, Sister George, Team Dresch,Tribe 8, and Mukilteo Fairies. As these bands gained popularity and awareness of the movement grew, zines began appearing from around the world; The Burning Times from Australia, P.M.S. from the UK, Speed Demon from Italy, and Brazilian e-zine Queercore, these last two still on-going, are just a few examples. A fifth column is a group of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group to which it is expected to be loyal, such as a nation. ... God Is My Co-Pilot is a queercore band from New York City that has been recording and playing since 1991. ... Pansy Division is a punk band that was a founding example of the queercore genre. ... Sister George, named after the 1960s movie The Killing of Sister George, were an influential and important band from London. ... Team Dresch are a queercore band who performed and recorded in the 1990s and made a significant impression on that movement, as well as on the independent music scene. ... Tribe 8 is an all-women outspoken dyke punk band from San Francisco, USA. Considered one of the first queercore groups, they take their name from the practice of tribadism. ... Mukilteo Fairies was a Queercore band from Olympia, Washington in the 1990s. ...

In Chicago, Mark Freitas and Joanna Brown organized a monthly "Homocore" night that featured queercore bands performing live, offering a stable venue for the scene to proliferate; most of the bands mentioned played at Homocore Chicago. As well, as Amy Spencer notes in DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture, "Through Homocore events, they aimed to create a space for men and women to be together, as opposed to the sense of gender segregation which was the norm in mainstream gay culture - They attacked the idea that due to your sexuality you should be offered only one choice of social scene..." ^[5] Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ...

In 1992 Matt Wobensmith's zine Outpunk also became a record label, and began to release its own queercore compilations, singles, and albums, and was crucial to the development of queercore. The first recordings by Tribe 8 and Pansy Division were released by the label. Some of the bands appearing later in the mid-1990s on the label include Sta-Prest, Cypher in the Snow and Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live. Outpunk - the record label - enjoys the distinction of being the first record label entirely devoted to queer punk bands. ... Sta-Prest is a Queercore band from San Francisco that was active in the 1990s. ... Cypher in the Snow are an all women queercore band from San Francisco. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

It was also at this time in the early '90's that Riot Grrrl emerged. "In many ways the angry- girl genre owes its existence to punk homocore 'zines.." writes Emily White in Rock She Wrote. It follows that many of the participants, their zines, and bands like Excuse 17 were involved in both movements ^[6]. Riot grrrl (or riot grrl) is an indie-punk feminist movement that reached its height in the 1990s but continues to exert influence over alternative cultures. ... Excuse 17 is a punk rock queercore band from Olympia, Washington that performed and recorded in the mid 1990s. ...

Independent record labels such as Alternative Tentacles, K Records, Kill Rock Stars, Lookout! Records, Piao! Records, Yoyo Recordings and Candy Ass Records also supported and released material by queercore artists but in the mid to late 1990s several other small labels sprung up solely devoted to queercore. Donna Dresch's zine Chainsaw became a record label as well, and began to release recordings by newer bands such as The Need, The Third Sex and Longstocking. Heartcore Records is another label, whose bands have included The Little Deaths, Addicted2Fiction, Crowns On 45 and Ninja Death Squad. These bands, many of whom are no longer together, constituted the 'second wave' of queercore bands which also included iamloved, Subtonix, Best Revenge and Fagatron from the U.S., Skinjobs from Canada and, from Italy, Pussy Face. Of these early queercore labels, Chainsaw and Heartcore are still active and are still releasing new material. The concept of an independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of one of the major record labels, which are generally defined to be the handful of media corporations which have recently dominated the recorded music industry in the West. ... Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979. ... K Records is an independent record label in Olympia, Washington, co-founded, owned, and operated by Calvin Johnson, formerly of the bands Cool Rays, Beat Happening, The Go Team, The Halo Benders and, at present, in the band Dub Narcotic Sound System. ... Kill Rock Stars is an independent record label founded in 1991 by Slim Moon and based in Olympia, Washington, United States, though it will be moving some of its operations to New York City and Portland, Oregon in 2007. ... Lookout! Records is an independent record label based in Berkeley, California. ... Yoyo Records (aka Yoyo Recordings) is an independent record label and recording studio in Olympia, Washington owned by Pat Maley. ... Candy Ass Records is an independent record label run out of Portland, Oregon by Jody Bleyle, formerly a member of the band Team Dresch and, at present, a member of the queercore group Family Outing. ... Chainsaw Records is an independent record label run by Donna Dresch, devoted to Queercore bands and operating out of Portland, Oregon. ... The Need From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Need is also a 1992 novel by Andrew Neiderman. ... Longstocking were a Los Angeles queercore-punk band. ... Best Revenge is a queercore punk band from Los Angeles, CA. They were active as a studio and live act from the beginning of 1998 until December 2002. ...

By the mid 1990s, zines in the U.S., such as Marilyn Medusa, and in Canada, This is the Salivation Army, began to link queercore with a pagan sensibility; at the same time, other strands in queercore began to link themselves with Riot Grrrl, and still others with anarchism. Mainstream media coverage intensified when Pansy Division toured the U.S. with Green Day, but nonetheless, queercore remained a grassroots movement in flux. Look up pagan, heathen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Anarchy (from Greek: anarchía, no authority) has a popular meaning of disorder[1]. However it has a more precise meaning in political philosophy to describe any human society which exists without a state. ... This article is about the band Green Day. ...

In 1996 in San Francisco, the Dirtybird 96 Queercore Festival presaged other queer music gatherings which occurred in the following decade ^[7]. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, DUMBA provided an ongoing venue in New York for queercore bands ^[8], continuing in the path of Homocore Chicago and leading the way for other, similar clubs to come in the 2000s. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... DUMBA was a collective living space and anarchist, queer, all-ages community center and venue in Brooklyn, New York. ... “NY” redirects here. ...

2000s

In the 2000s, Queercore club nights and events continued to take place throughout Europe and North America. The festival Queer Panic was organized by Gordon Gordon of the zine Teen Fag in Seattle, Washington in June of 2000. Scutterfest was organized by Rudy Bleu of the zine Scutter in Los Angeles, California in 2001, 2002, and 2003. The Bent Festival was held in Seattle in 2002 and 2003. The festival Homo-a-go-go was held the summers of 2002, 2004 and 2006 in Olympia, Washington, featuring queer films, zines, performance and musical groups during the week-long event. Queeruption, which takes place in a different city each year, has been hosted by Berlin, Rome, New York and London in the past. In 2004 and 2005, a group of queercore bands toured throughout the U.S.; the tour was called Queercore Blitz and was yet another way to connect the like-minded. Queer groups that are flourishing now in the UK are Queers Without Borders, Queer Mutiny North, Cardiff Queer Mutiny, Queer Mutiny Brighton. A number of these are organised as Queer Mutiny groups. The 2000s are the current decade, spanning from 2000 to 2009. ... “Seattle” redirects here. ... Character descriptions and casting details for the Red Dwarf BBC sitcom and series of novels by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Coordinates: , County Incorporated January 28, 1859 Government  - Mayor Mark Foutch Area  - City 48. ... Queeruption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Queer Mutiny is an anarchist Queer organization. ...

16 records is a new queercore label that has been releasing albums by such Pacific Northwest bands as Shemo, The Haggard, and Swan Island, as well as the Brazilian band Dominatrix. In 2002, Agitprop! Records released a compilation titled Stand Up & Fucking Fight For It, which collected new music from queercore bands. It was the first release from the label, which features many queercore acts in its roster. Swan Island is a five-piece rock band from Portland, OR. Their music is influenced by classic rock, new wave, prog rock, and metal, as well as Queercore bands from the Pacific Northwest. ... Note: for Chumbawambas UK-based record label, see Agit-Prop Records. ...

Queercore became increasingly an international phenomenon in the 2000s, with bands such as Low End Models and Rhythm King And Her Friends from Germany, Kids Like Us out of Norway and She Devils, from Argentina. From Toronto, Canada, Kids on TV, with an industrial background, offer a new, more electronic direction for queercore, as do Lesbians on Ecstasy in Montreal, and Gravy Train!!!!, an electropop band from California. The Hidden Cameras are an anti-folk band from Toronto. Representing a more contemporary breed of hardcore punk are the straight edge band Limp Wrist from the United States. The Honeybuns are another prominent queercore band in America, who introduced the trend of having homosexual sex during live shows. Three Dollar Bill from Chicago are more eclectic, ranging from punk to indie rock to metal. Also citing metal as an inspiration is ASSACRE, a one man fantasy metal/spazz noise act from Austin, Texas, and Gay for Johnny Depp, a thrash metal band from New York. With each new band the range of musical genres expands the definition of Queercore. She-Devils She-Devils is an Argentine punk band that started to play in the year 1995. ... Kids on TV are a punk-house queercore band based in Toronto. ... Lesbians On Ecstasy is an electroclash band from Montréal, Québec. ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... Gravy Train!!!! (the spelling of which includes the four exclamation points) is an electropop group from Oakland, California. ... Electropop (also called Technopop) is a form of synth pop music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The Hidden Cameras are a Canadian indie pop band. ... Anti-folk (or antifolk) is a genre of music related to punk rock and American folk music that originated in the mid-1980s in New York City. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For the drawing or cutting tool, see Straightedge. ... Limp Wrist is a gay straight edge punk rock band featuring members of Los Crudos, Hail Mary, Devoid Of Faith and Kill the Man Who Questions. ... Three Dollar Bill is a band founded by Jane Danger and Chris Piss in Chicago, Illinois in 1998. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... ASSACRE is a one man fantasy heavy metal / improvisational noise project from Austin, TX. See also Queercore List of queercore musicians External links www. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: , Country State Counties Travis County Government  - Mayor Will Wynn Area  - City  296. ... Gay for Johnny Depp is a hardcore/metal band formed in New York, USA. Members are: Sid Jagger (Guitar), Marty Leopard (Vocals), Fabrizio Coxboi (Bass) and JJ Samanen (drums). ... “NY” redirects here. ...

Influences

Influences vary for each musician, zine editor and filmmaker involved, but it is doubtful that queercore would have come into existence without the atmosphere surrounding the early punk years. Performers at that time either conspicuously played with conceptions of gender, such as Wayne County (now Jayne County) of Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, and Phranc from the aptly named Nervous Gender or, like Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks, Darby Crash of The Germs, members of The Screamers, The Leather Nun, Malaria! and other bands, were not interested in hiding their sexuality. In 1979, members of Nervous Gender told Slash magazine,"...people think we're weird cause we're queer." The early punk scene with its connections to artists had an inherent diversity of sexualities; Vivienne Westwood used homoerotic Tom of Finland imagery for her now iconic punk t-shirts and punk style incorporated fetish wear that, while employed to shock, also signalled acceptance to those in the know. Many artists who later came to be known as 'Industrial' such as Throbbing Gristle and Coil, employing similar shock tactics, also had queer members and were equally influential. In the seminal punk film Jubilee, Derek Jarman captured the ambivalent and ambiguous sexuality of punk's early years. Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. ... Wayne County is the name of a number of counties in the United States of America, some named for the American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne: Wayne County, Georgia Wayne County, Illinois Wayne County, Indiana Wayne County, Iowa Wayne County, Kentucky Wayne County, Michigan (most common references) Wayne County, Missouri... Jayne County, formerly known as Wayne County, is an influential transsexual performer, musician and actress whose career has spanned several decades. ... Wayne County & the Electric Chairs were part of the original first wave of punk band froms the 1970s. ... Phranc Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb in 1958) is an influential singer-songwriter from California whose career has spanned several decades. ... Nervous Gender was a punk band founded in Los Angeles, California in 1978 by Gerardo Velazquez, Edward Stapleton, Phranc and Michael Ochoa. ... Pete Shelley Pete Shelley (born Peter McNeish, April 17, 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the leader of Buzzcocks, one of the first generation punk rock groups from England. ... Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Manchester in 1975, led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Pete Shelley for nearly their entire existence. ... Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm) (A.K.A. Bobby Pyn) (September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980)[1][2] was an American[3] punk rock musician who co-founded (with long time friend, Pat Smear) The Germs. ... The Germs are a punk rock band from Los Angeles formed in the late 1970s. ... The Screamers were a punk rock group active in the Los Angeles, California area in the late 1970s. ... The Leather Nun are Swedens dark answer to ABBA. Careening from garage rock to goth and industrial, Leather Nun became cult heroes in their native land. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... slash is the hottest man alive and the best guitarist that ever lived,,.... BOW DOWN TO THE KING! ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... A typical Tom of Finland hunk Tom of Finland (May 8, 1920 – November 7, 1991) (born Touko Laaksonen in Kaarina, Finland) was a fetish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. ... Fetish clothing includes any type of clothing and clothing material which is commonly fetishized. ... Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975, in London) is a British experimental music and industrial music group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ... Coil was an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as Jhonn Balance—and his lover Peter Christopherson, aka Sleazy.[1] The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by... Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell (Little Nell), Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant, Jordan (the Malcolm McLaren protege), Ian Charleson, Hermine Demoriane and Wayne County. ... Derek Jarman Derek Jarman (January 31, 1942 – February 19, 1994) was an English film director, stage designer, artist, and writer. ...

Later, in the U.S. during the eighties when the Hardcore punk scene arose, The Dicks' Gary Floyd was writing queer-themed songs, as were many hardcore bands, except that he, along with Randy Turner of Big Boys were both open about being homosexuals. In England, in the anarcho-punk scene, Andy Martin of The Apostles was equally forthright. Politically motivated bands such as MDC and 7 Seconds in the U.S. were also introducing anti-homophobia messages into their songs at this time. However, it was the confrontational attitude and shock tactics of the punk and industrial scenes that Queercore employed, rather than activism, or politics, or the mainstream approval and major label deals that gay and lesbian musicians of that time courted, since those involved in the queercore scene weren't seeking the acceptance of society, be it homosexual or heterosexual, but rather to condemn it. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The Dicks are a band considered influential in introducing the sound of hardcore punk, particularly in their home state of Texas. ... Randy Biscuit Turner (ca. ... The Big Boys were a pioneering band who are credited with helping introduce the new style of hardcore punk that became popular in the 1980s. ... The anarchy symbol commonly used by anarcho-punks Anarcho-punk (sometimes known as peace-punk) is a subgenre of the punk rock movement consisting of groups and bands promoting specifically anarchist ideas. ... Andy Martin is a groundbreaking musician, lyricist and writer who lives in London, England. ... The Apostles are an experimental punk rock band who developed within the confines of the 1980s Anarcho Punk scene in the UK, but did not necessarily adhere to the aesthetics of that movement. ... MDC are a punk band formed in Austin, Texas in 1979. ... 7 Seconds are a hardcore punk band from Reno, Nevada. ...

Filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, early Andy Warhol and John Waters, Vivienne Dick and the aforementioned Derek Jarman were influential also, with their depictions of queer subcultures. In 1990 the editors of J.D.s began presenting J.D.s movie nights in various cities and, after the demise of J.D.s, each made films exploring the queercore milieu; Bruce LaBruce released No Skin Off My Ass in 1991; G.B. Jones' The Troublemakers was released in 1990, followed by The Yo-Yo Gang in 1992. In 1996, J.D.s contributor Anonymous Boy completed the first animated queercore film, Green Pubes. Documentary films about Queercore include the 1996 releases She's Real, Worse Than Queer by Lucy Thane and Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary by Scott Treleaven. Gay Shame '98 by Scott Berry documents the first Gay Shame event. Tracy Flannigan's Rise Above: A Tribe 8 Documentary was released in 2003. 2003 also saw the premiere of the no budget comedy Malaqueerche: Queer Punk Rock Show by Sarah Adorable (of Scream Club) and Devon Devine, which brought the third wave of queercore to the screen. All these films impacted the scene and broadened the scope of Queercore to include film as another of its mediums of expression. Kenneth Anger Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927 in Santa Monica, California as Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer) is an underground avant-garde film-maker and author. ... Jack Smith (14 November 1932 in Columbus, Ohio - 25 September 1989 in New York) was a US-American film director and one of the pioneers of American underground cinema. ... Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987) was an American artist who became a central figure in the movement known as pop art. ... John Waters (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. ... Vivienne Dick is an Irish experimental and documentary filmmaker. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... No Skin Off My Ass is a comedy-drama film made in 1991 by Bruce LaBruce. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... The Yo-Yo Gang is a thirty minute exploitation movie about girl gangs released in 1992 that has become a cult film. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Anonymous Boy is the pen name of Tony Arena, an artist, writer and filmmaker who resides in New York City. ... Shes Real, Worse Than Queer is a seminal documentary film of the mid 1990s period of the queerpunk movement. ... Lucy Thane is a documentary filmmaker. ... Scott Treleaven, Canadian artist. ... Gay shame is a movement whose adherents describe it as a radical alternative to the gay mainstream. ... Tracy Flannigan is an award winning independent filmmaker residing in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles who began making movies when she was seventeen years old. ... Template:Unrefenced A no budget film is an extremeley cheaply produced film using very little or no money to the cost of the picture. ...

As with punk, queercore culture existed outside of the mainstream so zines were crucial to its development. Hundreds of zines formed an intercontinental network that enabled queercore to spread and allow those in smaller, more repressive communities to participate. The DIY attitude of punk was integral to queercore as well. In the 1990s, as the availability of the internet increased, many queercore zines, such as Noise Queen could be found online as well as in print. The queercore zine label Xerox Revolutionaries run by Hank Revolt, was available online and distributed zines from 2000 to 2005. Queercore forums and chatrooms, such as QueerPunks started up. The Queer Zine Archive Project is an internet database of scanned queer zines that continues to grow. The DIY punk ethic refers to the idea of doing it yourself, i. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

All these developments allowed queercore to become a self-sustaining and self-determined subculture, expressing itself through a variety of mediums independent from the straight and gay establishment.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} du Pleissis, Michael; Chapman, Kathleen (Feb 1997). "Queercore: The distinct identities of subculture". College Literature. ISSN 0093-3139. Retrieved on 2007-06-21. 
2. ^ Amy Spencer, DIY: The Rise Of Lo-Fi Culture, Marion Boyars Publishers, London, UK, 2005
3. ^ Hsu, Bill (1991-09-01). "Spew: The Queer Punk Convention". Postmodern Culture 2 (1). E-ISSN: 1053-1920. Retrieved on 2007-06-21. 
4. ^ Adam Block in The Advocate, 2/25/1992, Issue 597, p.77
5. ^ Amy Spencer, DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture, Marion Boyars Publishers, London, UK 2005
6. ^ Emily White, Rock She Wrote, Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers, ed., Delta, NYC, U.S. ISBN 0-385-31250-4 1995, pg. 406
7. ^ Larrybob, Dirtybird 96 Queercore Festival Press Release, 1996
8. ^ Trebay, Guy, "Queers in Space", The Village Voice, May 12-18, 1999

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Sources

• Spencer, Amy; DIY: The Rise Of Lo-Fi Culture, Marion Boyars Publishers, London, England, 2005 ISBN 0-7145-3105-7

See also

• Gay shame
• Queeruption
• Queer Mutiny
• Genderqueer
• Queer theory
• Anarcho-punk

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External links

• Queer Control Records
• QueerPunks.com
• Queercore 101
• The Queer Zine Convention - 'SPEW'
• "Queercore: The distinct identities of subculture"
• A History of Queer Zines
• QZAP: Queer Zine Archive Project