Queercore : how to punk a revolution : an oral history / editors: Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser ; introduction: Anna Joy Springer and Lynn Breedlove.
Includes filmography (pages 156-160) and discography (pages 167-173).
Contents:
Extremely forward introduction / Lynn Breedlove and Anna Joy Springer -- Introduction / Liam Warfield -- Wrecking Nerves: Stonewall to CBGB (1969-1976) -- Gloriously Wrong: The LA Scene (early '80s) -- Nothing was sacred: Vaginal Davis in LA -- Faction: Toronto's "fabricated" scene (mid-1980s-early 1990s) -- Caught in the cracks: Between gay and punk -- Let's get back to gay liberation: AIDS activism and beyond -- Freaks on the edges: The West Coast scene (late 1980s-mid 1990s) -- Bodies colliding: Machismo (and machisma) in the punk scene -- Groovy underwear: Pansy division flirts with the mainstream (1994) -- The name game: Homocore vs. queercore -- We had our photocopiers: The queer zine explosion -- Why don't you just get together?: The SPEW convention and Homocore Chicago (1992-2001) -- Baseball bats and high-heel shoes: Punks on parade (San Francisco 1989/Chicago 1993) -- We were so ready: Riot grrrl emerges (early 1990s) -- Tempers flare: Tensions in Toronto (late 1980s) -- Contagious euphoria: Queercore on screen -- Smoke signals: Theater and performance -- Manufacturing gay: Assimilation and its discontents -- A herd of cats: The Queercore "agenda" -- All the labels: Navigating gender -- I don't want what you want: Thoughts on style -- "Where are they now?"/where are we now? -- Afterword: Smashing orthodoxies / Walter Crasshole.
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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