Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture

This book is a scholarly exploration of queercore, a transnational media subculture that stands in opposition to the homophobia of mainline punk and the sexual politics and assimilationist tendencies of dominant gay and lesbian society. Through archival research, interviews with queercore practitioners, semiotic and discursive textual analysis and contextualization within the broader fields of punk, queer and independent media studies, this book maintains that, through its films, fanzines, performances, art and music, queercore articulates and circulates a set of alternative identities, meanings and representations for queers to occupy and engage within social space.