Main entry:

Warfield, Liam.

Title & Author:

Queercore : How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History.

Publication:

Oakland : PM Press, 2021.

Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Notes:
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

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.

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ISBN:

9781629638201
162963820X

Subject:

Gay people.
Punk culture.
Personnes homosexuelles.
Punk (Mouvement)
male homosexuality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology General.
lesbian/gay/bisexual,transgender/transsexual plus studies
History of music & musical styles

Form/genre:

Interviews.
interviews.

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