Queer core

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Queercore (or homocore ) describes a part of the punk rock and hardcore scene, the protagonists of which confess themselves aggressively and confidently to homosexuality , bisexuality and queerness and also deal with these in their texts. Sometimes the queer core is seen as part of the political punk scene , as the political and socially critical aspect of the queer core has to be seen as part of the lesbian and gay movement, but for the most part the lyrics are simply about everyday topics or love and romance, not unlike heterosexual members of punk bands who deal with these topics. Anders leaves as the name suggests, Queercore includes not "gay hardcore punk", but generally gay, lesbian, trans - and bisexual artists and musicians from the entire environment of the punk subculture of experimental art-punk and no wave up to hardcore punk . Especially after the second wave, the queer core movement also opened up musically to electropunk . In addition to bands and independent labels , fanzines are an important medium in the scene. In terms of content, they can range from dealing with punk music in general and political issues to pornographic content .

The term queer core

The term "Queercore" goes back to the Canadian Fagzine J.Ds , which existed from 1985 to 1991 and was published by the gay punks, artists, musicians and filmmakers GB Jones and Bruce LaBruce . The term “queer” was chosen to contrast the negative term “homo” with a positive and self-confident designation. Instead of being marginalized by society, the demarcation from social norms was now adopted by the actors themselves, the pride of being different and not submitting to the currently dominant system of norms and values, reflected the ideational basic ideas of punk and should Define queer core as a direct subculture .

precursor

Already in the 70s there were important homosexual main actors in the punk scene such as the transsexual singer Jayne County with the band Jayne / Wayne County & The Electric Chairs , Douglas Pearce from Crisis or Andy Martin from The Apostels . The British punk singer Tom Robinson from the Tom Robinson Band , who released the title Glad to Be Gay in 1978, was significant .

In the early hardcore scene, musicians like Randy "Biscuit" Turner from the Big Boys , Gary Floyd from The Dicks or Mike Bullshit (from SFA , later Go! ) Openly addressed their homosexuality and spoke out against homophobia and for a pro-gay- Attitude within the hardcore punk scene.

Queer core

After JDs first appeared in 1985, the influential punk fanzine Maximum RocknRoll published a manifesto called Don't Be Gay , which sparked a broad discussion and inspired the founding of other queer core fanzines. For example Holy Titclaps (from San Francisco), Homocore , Outpunk , the Bullshit Monthly published by Mike Bullshit or the Chainsaw sheet published by Donna Dresch (from the band Team Dresch ) . With this wave not only did feminist lesbians appear in queer core, but also the first queer core independent labels developed from fanzines such as chainsaw and outpunk .

Early queer core bands that were active during this period included Anti-Scrunti Faction, Fifth Column and Bomb. These appeared among others on the tape sampler JD's Top Ten Homocore Hit Parade Tape in the early 1990s .

In the late 1980s and early 1990s groups like God Is My Co-pilot , Pansy Division , PME, Sister George, Team Dresch , Tribe 8 , Mukilteo Fairies, Extra Fancy, Excuse 17, Sta-prest, Cypher in the snow followed and “Behead the prophet, no lord shall live”, with Team Dresch and Tribe 8 in particular, as all women bands, also belonging to the Riot-Grrrl movement.

The fanzine startups of this time included Jane and Frankie , Shrimp , Bimbox , Marilyn Medusa from the famous drag queen Vaginal Davis, PMS from Great Britain , Speed ​​Demon from Italy , This Is the Salivation Army from Canada and Queercore from Brazil E-zine .

Heartcore is one of the better-known of the Queercore labels founded during this time .

From 1995 to 2000 people sometimes talked about the "Second Wave", bands from this period include: The Little Deaths (USA), Addicted2Fiction (USA), Crowns on 45 (USA), Ninja Death Squad (USA), iamloved (USA), Subtonix (USA), Best Revenge (USA), Fagatron (USA), Skinjobs (Canada) and Pussy Face (Italy).

Due to the persistent problem of homophobia in the hardcore punk scene, initiatives such as love hardcore hate homophobia and Gay Edge Liberation emerged .

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More bands

See also: Riot Grrrl

literature

documentation

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ beatpunk.org