| Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture Subjects: Humanities; Social Sciences; Cultural Studies; Media & Film Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Cultural Theory; Subcultures; Film Studies; Media & Communications; The Body; Gender Studies; Gender; Sociology of Culture; Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the underground fanzine ("zine") J.D.s . Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s . declared "civil war" on the punk and gay and lesbian mainstreams, consolidating a subculture of likeminded filmmakers, zinesters, musicans and performers situated in pointed opposition to the homophobia of mainline punk and the lifeless sexual politics and exclusionary tendencies of dominant gay and lesbian society. More than thirty years later, queercore and its troublemaking productions remain under the radar, but still culturally and politically resonant. Curran Nault is a joint lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. |