Editing Queercore (section)

== Zines ==
As with punk and hardcore, queercore culture existed outside of the mainstream, so amateur-produced and inexpensively photocopied [[zine]]s were crucial to its development and to communication between members of the subculture.<ref name=":1" /> Hundreds of zines formed an intercontinental network that enabled queercore to spread and allow those in smaller, more repressive communities to participate and learn about bands, labels and scene activists. The [[DIY punk ethic|DIY]] attitude of punk was integral to queercore as well.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wiedlack |first=Maria Katharina |title=Queer-Feminist Punk |year=2015 |publisher=Zaglossus |url=https://archive.org/details/QueerFeministPunk/page/n33/mode/2up |isbn=9783902902276}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

In the 1990s, as the availability of the [[internet]] increased, many queercore zines could be found online as well as in print. Queercore forums and chatrooms, such as ''QueerPunks,'' started up. The [[Queer Zine Archive Project]] is an internet database of scanned queer zines that continues to grow.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About QZAP |url=https://gittings.qzap.org/about-qzap/ |website=QZAP|date=2 November 2022 }}</ref> All these developments allowed queercore to become a self-sustaining and self-determined subculture, expressing itself through a variety of mediums independent of the straight and gay establishment.