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'QUEERRE': A DES-OLD MOVEMENT FOR GAY PUNKS, FREAKS AND REBELS
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. * gay is the new punk *
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* gay is the new punk *
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“I would have no reer whout Homore, ” Hanna says the book. ”The cultural explosn that emerged om the gay punk scene clus lumari like John Waters, Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myl, Lynn Breedlove, Jayne County, the first openly transgenr rock and punk mician, as well as bands like the Subtonix and the Germs, to name a few. ”By the mid-to-late ’80s, AIDS had vastated the gay muny.
Demands for gay liberatn and people’s solidary beme pleas for rourc for the dyg, and more mastream mands like the right to York Cy, an epicenter of the epimic — where, acrdg to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, more than 100, 000 eventually died of AIDS-related — had a thrivg punk scene where many bucked agast the ia of a genr bary. ”“Queerre wasn’t jt agast homophobia and the martyrg of gay people, ” journalist Adam Rathe, thor of a mi oral history on the movement, said the book. “It was agast the mastream gay society, agast the ia of upper-class whe men gog to the gym and spendg their nights at the baths.
”Queer thors like Sarah Schulman have argued that the actns and mands of queer radils ma more assiatnist mands, like gay marriage, palatable to the straight world.