With voices ranging from Penny Arcade to Brontez Purnell, we hear a vast history from around the globe, echoing everything queer, dirty, and true.” -Cristy C. While to some punk was inherently gay as fuck, the actual queer revolution came few and far between bands, scenes, and eras whose intersections were small, yet wildly significant. This does not just capture queer punk it is queer punk.” -Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives “Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution delivers a deeply invested history of the forgotten roots of queercore. This is very possibly the best and only way that subcultural histories should emerge-namely as incomplete and incoherent, as a magnificent poly-vocal roar, as sound, fury, rebel yells and screams. The whole book works like a giant jigsaw puzzle that never offers a final or complete picture but at least scatters the pieces around to allow the reader to assemble some truly exciting scenarios. Queercore is completely logical, relevant, and badass.” -Justin Pearson, The Locust, Three One G “This is a sensational set of oral histories of queer punk that includes everyone from Jayne County to Eileen Myles, from Vaginal Davis to Lynn Breedlove. Anarchists, the queer community, the roots of punk, the Situationists, and all the other influential artistic guts eventually had to intersect. It’s documents such as this book that give hope for our future. Gossipy and inspiring, a historical document and a call to arms during a time when the entire planet could use a dose of queer, creative rage.” -Michelle Tea, author of Valencia “I knew at an early age I didn’t want to be part of a church I wanted to be part of a circus. Praise for Queercore “Finally, a book that centers on the wild, innovative, and fearless contributions queers made to punk rock, creating a punker-thanpunk subculture beneath the subculture, queercore.
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