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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.
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'QUEERRE': A DES-OLD MOVEMENT FOR GAY PUNKS, FREAKS AND REBELS
“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.
QUEERRE: A DIRTY HISTORY OF THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT THAT SPS ON RPECTABLE GAYS
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).
In my film, Bce LaBce talks about embracg the crimaly of gay sexualy, which is what Ge had done. In the late 80s, Jim Yolg, edor of the LA-based gay sk magaze In Touch, regularly featured rockers like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Henry Rolls homoerotic photo shoots and terviews well before they beme natnal New York the late 80s, Dean Johnson and his band, Dean and the Weeni, created Rock’n’Roll Fag Bar, spirg the later NY club Squeezebox, -curated by the mician who went on to wre the glam-rock mil Hedwig and the Angry Inch. 1994 Homore Chigo.
Photograph: Christopher WilEven at s most succsful, queerre has never e close to tersectg wh the gay or punk mastream. Many speakers the film cry this “gay orthodoxy”, unrsrg the fact that queerre has as much to do wh sensibily as sexualy. “Ultimately, queerre relat much more to the punks than to the gay movement, ” Leyser today’s “gay mic” has bee more mastream, wh the rise of such h-faced “queer pop” artists as Troye Sivan and Kim Petras.