QUEERCORE: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History Book

Before there was a flag for everything, there was a fanzine. Queercore erupted in the mid-80s out of exactly the kind of double rejection that breeds the best punk, too queer for the pit, too punk for the parade.

This oral history documents the movement that gave the world Tribe 8, Pansy Division, G.B. Jones, and Bruce LaBruce, along with a thousand xeroxed manifestos stapled at the corner. It traces the underground networks, the DIY labels, the confrontational art, and the fury that made Queercore one of the most genuinely radical corners of alternative culture. Not nostalgia, not a museum piece, a living document of what happens when people build their own scene from scratch because no existing one will have them.

Paperback. Essential reading for anyone serious about punk history, alternative subcultures, or the politics of identity in the underground. Ships from our Frankston store.