Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution 18
- Friday Night After Party: Non-Conformist Thrust with DJ Anna Kissed
What happens when the community you need is not
the community you have? Tell yourself it exists over and over, make fan zines
that fabricate hordes of queer punk revolutionaries, create subversive movies,
and distribute those movies widely—and slowly, the community you’ve fabricated
might become a real and radical heartbeat that spreads internationally. This is
the story that Queercore tells, from the start
of a pseudo-movement in the mid-1980s, intended to punk the punk scene, to the
widespread rise of artists who used radical queer identity to push back equally
against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture.
Interviewees discuss homophobia, gender, feminism,
AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list
includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters,
Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade,
Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many
more. Encompassing a breadth of history and influence, Queercore ends with a
glimpse towards Riot Grrl and artists like Peaches and The Gossip, who,
inspired by queercore legacy, were next to take the stage.
Underscoring the interviews are clips from movies,
zines, concerts, and actions iconic to the movement. As steeped in the radical
queer, anti-capitalist, DIY, and give-no-fucks approach as queercore itself,
the movie reveals the perspectives and experiences of bands, moviemakers,
writers, and other outsiders, taking audiences inside the creation of the
community—and art—so desperately needed by the same queers it encompassed.the start of a pseudo-movement in the mid-1980s, intended
to punk the punk scene, to the widespread rise of artists who used radical
queer identity to push back equally against gay assimilation and homophobic
punk culture.
- Duration
- 83 mins
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