A review by ryannrripley
Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History by Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser, Liam Warfield

4.0

Got this book at SF Zine Fest 2023. Really exciting to read about queer punks, especially SF Bay Area queer punks. Favorite part was learning about the Toronto zine JDs, which invented the fictional homocore/queercore subculture in Toronto. Then the fiction became reality! That’s how bad queer punks wanted it to be real, they just made up the scene and then inhabited it! That’s the power of queer desire and what we do to create the community we need to survive. Also, awesome to read the words of Lynne Breedlove, whom I’ve seen perform live multiple times as frontman for the Homobiles, a local queercore band. I love his identity as both a trans man and a dyke. I think that is transgressive and cool. Labels are something that I think about a lot.