Queerre was a movement of radil gay punks who sparked an explosn of mic, lerature, film, and art that changed the face of punk rock and gay activism alike.
Contents:
- QUEERRE: BEHD A DOCUMENTARY RELIVG THE GAY PUNK MOVEMENT
- 'QUEERRE': A DES-OLD MOVEMENT FOR GAY PUNKS, FREAKS AND REBELS
- QUEERRE: A DIRTY HISTORY OF THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT THAT SPS ON RPECTABLE GAYS
QUEERRE: BEHD A DOCUMENTARY RELIVG THE GAY PUNK MOVEMENT
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The primive DIY projects they produced poed a philosophy that drew on a long history of polil and artistic subversn, one that loted a nnectn between the radil roots of punk and the re surrectn of gay inty. ”The very term “punk” has roots gay sex, referrg to a man on the receivg end of anal terurse prison.
Siarly, the mastream gay muny was, by then, prentg an exponentially more hetero-normative image. “And I would get kicked out of gay bars for wearg swastika earrgs. ”Leyser also fell between two worlds as a punk-lovg gay teen growg up Chigo the 90s.
He found the first klgs of a nnectn between gay and punk cultur through the work of untamable artists like film-maker John Waters and wrers like Jean Ge and William Burroughs (whom Leyser had ma an earlier documentary about).
'QUEERRE': A DES-OLD MOVEMENT FOR GAY PUNKS, FREAKS AND REBELS
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QUEERRE: A DIRTY HISTORY OF THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT THAT SPS ON RPECTABLE GAYS
The rejectn of mastream gay culture and the full-throttled embrace of an alternative to the fight for wispread acceptance are among the fg characteristics of a queer unrground scene born the 1980s wh punk rock roots. Directed by Berl-based filmmaker Yony Leyser, “Queerre: How to Punk a Revolutn” is a feature-length snapshot to the mic and magaz that gave voice to LGBTQ outsirs — those who didn’t subscribe to the domant gay scen eptg vogue dance or macho drs, for example. I was always rejected by society, and I also felt rejected by the gay muny.
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