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QUEERRE: BEHD A DOCUMENTARY RELIVG THE GAY PUNK MOVEMENT

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.

QUEERRE: A DIRTY HISTORY OF THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT THAT SPS ON RPECTABLE GAYS

”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.

'QUEERRE': A DES-OLD MOVEMENT FOR GAY PUNKS, FREAKS AND REBELS

”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).

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'Queerre': A Des-Old Movement for Gay Punks, Freaks and Rebels.

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