Queercore / How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History
Warfield, Liam / Crasshole, Walter / Leyser, Yony
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- Author
- Warfield, Liam / Crasshole, Walter / Leyser, Yony
- Publisher
- PM Press
- ISBN
- 9781629637969
- Language
- English
- Condition notes
- 2021, 224 pp, paperback
- Category
- Textbooks › Sociology
About this book
*Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History* is the very first comprehensive overview of the movement that defied both the underground music scene and the mainstream LGBT community: queercore. Drawing on exclusive interviews with key figures such as Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Jayne County, Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, film director and author John Waters, Lynn Breedlove of Tribe 8, Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division and many others, combined with a wealth of previously unseen photographs and reprinted zines from the era, *Queercore* traces the history of a scene that was originally ‘invented’ by a handful of young, queer punks in the bedrooms and coffee shops of Toronto and San Francisco, right through to its emergence as a relevant and genuine revolution. Queercore offers a detailed, first-hand account of the movement, as told by those who lived through it – from the early queer elements in punk, to the moments when young people in Toronto decided they had to create a scene that didn’t yet exist, to Pansy Division’s breakthrough into the mainstream and the emergence of riot grrrl as a sister movement – as well as the fashion, zines, art, film and music that made this movement an exhilarating, in-your-face middle finger to complacent gay and straight society. Queercore will serve both as a testament to radical gay politics and culture and as an essential reference for anyone wishing to better understand this explosive movement.