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Book cover consisting of a black-and-white photograph. In the photograph, are a group of people sitting and standing on a car. Two women on the car are kissing and another is smoking a cigarette. The cover reads" Queercore, How to punk a revolution, an oral history, Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser, introduction by Anna Joy Springer and Lynn Breedlove".

Queercore

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution: An Oral History

Book cover consisting of a black-and-white photograph. In the photograph, are a group of people sitting and standing on a car. Two women on the car are kissing and another is smoking a cigarette. The cover reads" Queercore, How to punk a revolution, an oral history, Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, Yony Leyser, introduction by Anna Joy Springer and Lynn Breedlove".

Cover of “Queercore: How to punk a revolution: An oral history”, 2022 Heritage Toronto Book Award nominee. Image courtesy of PM Press.

Editors: Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser

Publisher: PM Press

Queercore is the first comprehensive overview of a movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community. The book is a down-to-details firsthand account of the movement explored by the people that lived it: from punk’s early queer elements, to the moment that Toronto kids decided they needed to create a scene that didn’t exist, to Pansy Division’s infiltration of the mainstream, and the emergence of riot grrrl—as well as the clothes, zines, art, film, and music that made this movement an exciting middle finger to complacent gay and straight society.

Queercore stands as both a testament to radically gay politics and culture and an important reference for those who wish to better understand this explosive movement.

 

 

 

About the editors:

Liam Warfield is a writer, editor, and educator living in Chicago.

Walter Crasshole is a journalist in Berlin and English-language editor for the city’s forty-year-running queer magazine Siegessäule. He is also a regular contributor and columnist for Exberliner, Berlin’s English language magazine, covering queer and cultural topics. He occasionally translates books from German to English, having just finished his third book translation for punk performance artist Wolfgang Müller.

Yony Leyser grew up in Chicago and relocated to Berlin in 2010. He is the writer and director of three award-winning feature films: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within; Desire Will Set You Free; and Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution. He has received critical acclaim in publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian, Sight and Sound, and the Los Angeles Times.

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