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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). In my film, Bce LaBce talks about embracg the crimaly of gay sexualy, which is what Ge had done.

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