Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
Started in the 1980s as a fabricated movement intended to punk the punk scene, Queercore quickly became a real-life cultural community of LGBTQ music and movie-making revolutionaries. From the start of the pseudo-movement to the widespread rise of pop artists who used queer identity to push back against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture, 'Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution' is just that: a how-to-do-it guide for the next generation of queer radicals. 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.
Genre
Documentary,
LGBT,
Rock and Roll
Web Site
Runtime
80
Language
English
Director
Yony Leyser
FEATURED REVIEW
Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star
Way back before social media, a group of queer activists cannily created their own “scene” by pretending it already existed. This documentary goes beyond cultural anthropology, exploring how queer activism briefly allied itself to the punk movement before becoming its own movement with the gay ...
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 9.28.18 - 10.04.18
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