Editing Queercore (section)

=== 1990s ===
In 1990, the ''J.D.s'' editors released the first queercore compilation, ''J.D.s Top Ten Homocore Hit Parade Tape'', a [[Cassette culture|cassette]] which included bands from Canada, such as [[Fifth Column (band)|Fifth Column]], [[Mykel Board|Big Man]], and Bomb from the U.S.; from England, [[The Apostles (band)|The Apostles]], Academy 23 and No Brain Cell; and, from New Zealand, Gorse.<ref>{{cite web |last=Doyle |first=J. D. |title=QMH Script: Pansy Division & Queercore Special |date=July 2009 |url=http://www.queermusicheritage.us/jul2009s.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202195422/http://www.queermusicheritage.us/jul2009s.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 2, 2011 |publisher=Queer Music Heritage |access-date=2009-07-09 |author-link=JD Doyle}}</ref>

During the period from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, many of the [[punk rock]] bands involved in queercore were not necessarily queer but their ethics were motivation for supporting this movement. Other bands, such as [[Los Crudos]] and Go!, had one outspoken member who was homosexual.

Other early queercore bands included [[Anti-Scrunti Faction]], who appeared in ''J.D.s'', and Comrades In Arms, ''Homocore'' editor Deke Nihilson's band. Shortly after the release of the tape ''J.D.s'' ceased publication and a new crop of zines arose, such as ''Jane and Frankie'' by Klaus and Jena von Brücker, ''Shrimp'' by [[Vaginal Davis]] and ''[[Fanorama]]'' by REB. The zine BIMBOX published statements such as "You are entering a gay and lesbian-free zone...Effective immediately, BIMBOX is at war against lesbians and gays. A war in which modern queer boys and girls are united against the prehistoric thinking and demented self-serving politics of the above-mentioned scum."<ref name="dupleissis"/>

The first queer zine gathering occurred at this time; "Spew", held in [[Chicago]] in 1991, offered an opportunity for all those involved in the scene to meet. Although organizer Steve LaFreniere was stabbed outside the venue at the end of the night, he quickly recovered and the event was deemed a success.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal |last=Hsu |first=Bill |title=Spew: The Queer Punk Convention |journal=Postmodern Culture |volume=2 |issue=1 |date=1991-09-01 |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]] |url=http://infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v2n1-hsu-spew.txt |id=E- |access-date=2007-06-21 |issn=1053-1920 |doi=10.1353/pmc.1991.0034 |s2cid=146753876 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507185223/http://www.infomotions.com/serials/pmc/pmc-v2n1-hsu-spew.txt |archive-date=May 7, 2005|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Spew 2 took place in [[Los Angeles]] in 1992,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Block |first=Adam |title=Spew 2 is the carnivallike convention of queer misfits |journal=The Advocate |issue=597 |date=1992-02-25 |url=http://www.monkeychicken.com/AdamBlock/1992_2_25spew.pdf |page=77}}</ref> and Spew III in [[Toronto]] in 1993. These Spew events also included musical performances by queercore bands.

Among the better-known bands from the early 1990s are [[Fifth Column (band)|Fifth Column]]; [[God Is My Co-Pilot (band)|God Is My Co-Pilot]]; [[Pansy Division]]; [[Pedro, Muriel and Esther (PME)]]; [[Sister George]];<ref name="queertothecore">{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Caroline |title=Queer to the core – The pop establishment has always had a handful of gay stars colourful, eccentric, lovable. But now there's 'queercore', a radical gay music movement with attitude |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |page=9 |date=1992-12-17}} - Gale Document Number: CJ170793462</ref> [[Team Dresch]]; [[Tribe 8]]; and [[Mukilteo Fairies]]. As these bands gained popularity and awareness of the movement grew, zines began appearing from around the world; ''The Burning Times'' from Australia, and ''P.M.S.'' from the UK are examples.

In [[Chicago]], Mark Freitas and Joanna Brown organized a monthly "Homocore" night that featured queercore bands performing live, offering a stable venue for the scene to proliferate; most of the bands mentioned played at ''Homocore Chicago''. As well, as Amy Spencer notes in ''DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture'', "Through Homocore events, they aimed to create a space for men and women to be together, as opposed to the sense of gender segregation which was the norm in mainstream gay culture – They attacked the idea that due to your sexuality you should be offered only one choice of social scene..."<ref name=":1"/>

In 1992 Matt Wobensmith's zine ''[[Outpunk]]'' also became a record label, and began to release its own queercore compilations, singles, and albums, and was crucial to the development of queercore. The first recordings by Tribe 8 and Pansy Division were released by the label. Some of the bands appearing later in the mid-1990s on the label include [[Sta-Prest (band)|Sta-Prest]], [[Cypher in the Snow]] and Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live. It was also at this time in the early 1990s that [[Riot Grrrl]] emerged. Both groups deviated from the oppressive homonormative tendencies.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=J |last2=Nyong'o |first2=T |date=June 15, 2020|title=Queer as punk: A guide to LGBTQIA+ punk |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/876087623/queer-as-punk-a-guide-to-lgbtqia-punk |website=NPR |publisher=}}</ref> "In many ways the angry- girl genre owes its existence to punk homocore 'zines..." writes Emily White in ''Rock She Wrote''. It follows that many of the participants, their zines, and bands like [[Excuse 17]] were involved in both movements.<ref>{{cite book |first=Emily |last=White |title=Rock She Wrote |editor1-first=Evelyn |editor1-last=McDonnell |editor2-first=Ann |editor2-last=Powers |publisher=Delta |location=NYC, U.S. |isbn=0-385-31250-4 |date=1995 |page=406}}</ref> Along with Outpunk, [[independent record labels]] such as [[Alternative Tentacles]], [[K Records]], [[Kill Rock Stars]], [[Lookout! Records]], Yoyo Recordings and [[Candy Ass Records]] also supported and released material by queercore artists but in the mid to late 1990s several other small labels, alongside Outpunk, sprung up solely devoted to queercore.

Donna Dresch's zine ''[[Chainsaw Records|Chainsaw]]'' became a record label as well, and began to release recordings by newer bands such as [[The Need]], [[The Third Sex (band)|The Third Sex]] and [[Longstocking]]. Heartcore Records is another label, whose bands have included [[The Little Deaths]], Addicted2Fiction, Crowns On 45 and Ninja Death Squad. These bands, many of whom are no longer together, constituted the 'second wave' of queercore bands which also included IAMLoved, Subtonix, [[Best Revenge]], prettypony, and Fagatron from the U.S., Skinjobs from Canada and, from Italy, Pussy Face. Of these early queercore labels, Chainsaw and Heartcore are still active and are still releasing new material.

By the mid-1990s, zines in the U.S., such as ''Marilyn Medusa'', and in Canada, [[Scott Treleaven]]'s ''This Is The Salivation Army'', began to link queercore with [[Paganism]];<ref name="xtra"/> at the same time, other strands in queercore began to link themselves with Riot Grrrl, and still others with [[anarchy|anarchism]]. Mainstream media coverage intensified when Pansy Division toured the U.S. with [[Green Day]] (whose lead singer, [[Billie Joe Armstrong]], is openly bisexual).<ref name="dickinson"/> In 1996 in [[San Francisco]], the Dirtybird 96 Queercore Festival presaged other queer music gatherings which occurred in the following decade.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prismnet.com/~larrybob/dirtybird/ |title=Larrybob, Dirtybird 96 Queercore Festival Press Release |date=1996}}</ref> In the late 1990s and early 2000s, [[Dumba|DUMBA]] provided an ongoing venue in [[New York City]] for queercore bands,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/19919,trebay,5602,4.html |title=Trebay, Guy, "Queers in Space", ''The Village Voice'', May 12–18, 1999 |publisher=Villagevoice.com |access-date=2013-12-03 }}{{dead link |date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> continuing in the path of Homocore Chicago and leading the way for other, similar clubs to come in the 2000s. Dominick Cameron and Kieran are members of the Queercore clan.