Editing Queercore (section)

=== 2000s ===
In the 2000s, queercore club nights and events continued to take place throughout Europe and North America. In Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighbourhood an underground queer music scene was in existence at the monthly queercore club called "The Freak Show" hosted by the leather bar The Gauntlet II for three years, where bands such as [[Best Revenge]], IAMLoved, and Nick Name and The Normals (aka Kent James) played regularly. In Toronto, the queercore scene thrived for a number of years at the monthly club Vazaleen, or Club V, run by [[Will Munro]], which featured bands from across the U.S. and Canada, including such legendary performers as [[Jayne County]]. The festival Queer Panic was organized by Gordon Gordon of the zine Teen Fag in [[Seattle, Washington]] in June 2000. Scutterfest was organized by Rudy Bleu of the zine [[Scutter]] in [[Los Angeles, California]] in 2001, 2002, and 2003.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ziegler |first=Chris |title=Queer As Punk |newspaper=OC Weekly |date=2002-06-20 |url=http://www.ocweekly.com/2002-06-27/features/queer-as-punk/ |access-date=2010-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627083450/http://www.ocweekly.com/2002-06-27/features/queer-as-punk/ |archive-date=2009-06-27 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Bent Festival was held in Seattle in 2002 and 2003.

The festival ''Homo-a-go-go'' was held the summers of 2002, 2004 and 2006 in [[Olympia, Washington]], featuring queer films, zines, performance and musical groups during the week-long event; in 2009 the festival was held in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite news |last=Maerz |first=Jennifer |title=Homo A Go Go Moving to SF in 2009 |newspaper=[[San Francisco Weekly]] |date=2008-09-19 |url=http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2008/09/homo_a_go_go_moving_to_sf_in_2.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=B. |first=Marke |title=Teh ghey |newspaper=SF Bay Guardian |date=2009-08-12 |url=http://www.sfbg.com/2009/08/12/teh-ghey |access-date=2011-01-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110195657/http://www.sfbg.com/2009/08/12/teh-ghey |archive-date=January 10, 2011}}</ref>

''[[Queeruption]]'', which takes place in a different city each year, has been hosted by Berlin, Rome, New York and London in the past. In 2004 and 2005, a group of queercore bands toured throughout the U.S.; the tour was called ''Queercore Blitz'' and was yet another way to connect the like-minded. Queer groups active in the UK included Edinburgh QueerMutiny, Queers Without Borders, Queer Mutiny North, Cardiff Queer Mutiny and Queer Mutiny Brighton. A number of these are organised as Queer Mutiny groups.

In 2002, [[Agitprop! Records]] released a compilation titled ''Stand Up & Fucking Fight For It'', which collected new music from queercore bands. It was the first release from the label, which features many queercore acts in its roster. 16 records is a queercore label that releases albums by such Pacific Northwest bands as Shemo, The Haggard, and [[Swan Island (band)|Swan Island]], as well as the Brazilian band Dominatrix. Other new labels include Queer Control, which features the bands Pariah Piranha, Tough Tough Skin, Nancy Fullforce, Once A Pawn, and others.

In September 2005, ''[[Homocore|Homocore: The Loud and Raucous Rise of Queer Rock]]'' by David Ciminelli and Ken Knox was published by Alyson Books. It traced the history of the movement in the 1990s in the United States, and included interviews with some of the contemporary musicians who have been inspired by it. Queercore became an increasingly international phenomenon in the early 2000s, with bands such as Low End Models, Triple Creme from NYC, and Rhythm King And Her Friends from [[Germany]], Kids Like Us out of [[Norway]] and [[She Devils]], from [[Argentina]]. From Toronto, Canada came [[Kids on TV]], whose industrial background offered a new, more electronic direction for queercore. Similar electronic instrumentation was explored by [[Lesbians on Ecstasy]] from [[Montreal]]. Canada also birthed [[The Hidden Cameras]], an [[anti-folk]] band from Toronto<ref name="xtra"/> and Eekum Seekum, a queercore band from Halifax.

The 2000s also brought a new crop of bands to prominence in the [[United States]]. The band [[Limp Wrist]] represent a contemporary breed of [[hardcore punk]]. Butch Vs Femme, formed in 2004, are a [[riot grrrl]] inspired indie punk keyboard and drums duo originally from the small town of [[Dixon, California]], saturated with politically powered lyrics surrounding queer issues. [[Gravy Train!!!!]], a raucous [[electropop]] band from [[Oakland]], [[California]], known for their sexually explicit lyrics and onstage antics, has released several albums on Kill Rock Stars label. One offshoot of Gravy Train!!!!, [[Hunx and His Punx]], are a [[power pop]] act more indebted to girl groups and 1960s [[garage rock]]. Three Dollar Bill from Chicago are an eclectic band whose sound ranges from punk to [[indie rock]] to metal. Three Dollar Puta was a synth punk queer core band from Los Angeles. Also citing metal as an inspiration are ASSACRE, a one man fantasy metal/spazz noise act by artist [[Ben Aqua]] from [[Austin, Texas]], and [[Gay for Johnny Depp]], a hardcore band from [[New York City]].

[[The Shondes]], a four piece rock band from [[Brooklyn]] combine riot grrrl punk with classical and traditional Jewish music influences; similarly, [[Schmekel]], an all-transgender, all-Jewish [[Brooklyn]] band combines punk rock with [[klezmer]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Reiss |first=Jon |title=Schmekel: Your Friendly Neighborhood All-Jewish, All Transgender Punk Band |url=http://www.jewcy.com/arts-and-culture/%20schmekel_your_friendly_neighborhood_alljewish_all_transgender_punk_band |work=Jewcy |publisher=JDub Records |access-date=October 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407035233/http://www.jewcy.com/arts-and-culture/%20schmekel_your_friendly_neighborhood_alljewish_all_transgender_punk_band |archive-date=April 7, 2012}}</ref> The Homewreckers are a [[riot grrrl]] / pop-punk band, also based in Brooklyn. [[Your Heart Breaks]] are a multi-instrumental low-fi band with a fluctuating line-up based in Seattle, Washington. Along with these new bands, queercore pioneers Team Dresch reunited in the mid-2000s for several tours. The underground Chicago DIY punk scene remains a safe haven for queercore artists to flourish and share their art. FED UP fest is a yearly three-day festival of music, zines, and workshops which celebrate queer culture in the punk community. It also serves as a benefit project for PROJECT FIERCE CHICAGO which aims to reduce the number of LGBTQ youth who are homeless through transitional housing and support services.<ref>{{cite web |title=FED UP FEST: FED UP FEST Website |url=http://fedupfestchicago.org/about.html |access-date=April 30, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502000427/http://fedupfestchicago.org/about.html |archive-date=May 2, 2014}}</ref>

In the [[UK]] there was a burgeoning queercore scene, fuelled by aforementioned groups such as Queer Mutiny, Homocrime, and record labels such as Local Kid arranging shows and releasing records by bands and artists such as Corey Orbison, [[Sleeping States]], Drunk Granny, Little Paper Squares, Husbands, Fake Tan and Lianne Hall. These bands all combine elements of the DIY culture that spurred queercore and the punk sensibility, as seen in two of Manchester's offerings, the lesbian disco-punk band Vile Vile Creatures and solo lo-fi electro-punk-popster [[Ste McCabe]] (whose previous band Stephen Nancy were considered a major reference for UK queercore in the early 2000s). Music historian Julia Downes additionally identified the following artists and bands in an overview of UK queercore music circa 2003-2009: Candy Panic Attack, Chaps, [[Flamingo 50]], Headfall, hooker [now LIINES], Hotpants Romance, Humousexual, Lake Me, Lesbo Pig, Robin Osterley, Roseanne Barrr, Sad Shields, Sailor Tongue, Scragfight, The Battys, the Jelas, the Rayographs, [[Rachel Aggs|Trash Kit]], Truly Kaput, Valerie and [[Wetdog]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2383/1/uk_bl_ethos_522933.pdf |title=DIY Queer Feminist (Sub)cultural Resistance in the UK |last=Downes |first=Julia |publisher=etheses.whiterose.ac.uk |date=2009 |access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref> Members of these bands later played in [[Electrelane]], [[Shopping (band)|Shopping]], [[Dream Nails]] and others.

Club-wise, Psycho:Drama in Bristol was a passionate advocate of queercore and maintained a presence for alternative queer youth in the city for over 4 years. Collectives in the North West of England such as Manifesta, and Lola and the Cartwheels, promoted and organised alternative queer events whilst simultaneously having a strong feminist identity.