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Online Queercore groups

Published by
Jeremy
at April 29, 2008 in Essays and Editorials, Multimedia, Product Plugs and Uncategorized. 1 Comment

If you’re like me, you’re looking to connect with other queers who like the same music you’re into for one reason or another. Whatever that reason may be, here’s a (surprisingly long) list of places you can get your talk on. Some of them are low-flow, but there’s still a strong showing of homos into rock out there. If I missed any, just comment and let me know so I can add it up.

QueerPunks.com related:

QueerPunks.com Myspace page
QueerPunks.com myspace groupfurniture Videnov
QueerPunks DList group
QueerPunks.com Last.fm group
QueerPunks Facebook (Note: Adam runs that group, and I know nothing about facebook. So if you have any problems with the group I’m totally useless in helping you, haha)

Myspace groups:
Note: Some of these groups are somewhat dead, but I’m linking them anyhow.

Queer Punx
QueerPunkBEARSandCHASERS
Queercore
xGay Edgex
The Alternative Queer

DList groups:

Indie Queers
Queer Trash
furniture BulgariaHeavy Metal & Hard Rock
More Brutal Than Most
Riot Bois

Other groups and forums

Queer Control Records - The Board
Queer punx drunx - tribe.net
Transpunk

Site not shutting down

Published by
Jeremy
at April 20, 2008 in Essays and Editorials and Podcast. 3 Comments

…as far as I know, at least. The site was just on hiatus while I moved. Well, now I’m all settled so I’m back to update the site. Thanks to everybody showing support and asking us not to shut down, it makes me glad to see that people care.

Now that I know you guys exist, why don’t you COMMENT on things? Sometimes it feels like we’re posting to audiences of none, so let us know you’re reading or listening to the stuff.

Speaking of listening, why don’t you go and recheck out the podcasts so far:

QueerPunks Presents 1
QueerPunks Presents 2
QueerPunks Presents 3
QueerPunks Presents 4

Now back to your regularly scheduled blog…

Adam Block 1951-2008

Published by
erbe38
at March 2, 2008 in Essays and Editorials and Music News. 2 Comments

Links to Many of Adam Block’s Articles on the Queer Music in San Francisco from 1985 to 1990  can be found on

  http://adamblockmemorial.blogspot.com/

Adam Parker Block—-1951-2008

Adam Parker Block, 56, died Sunday morning January 27th at his home in San Francisco after a protracted pulmonary illness. A fifth generation Seattleite, he was born at Swedish Hospital February 7, 1951. He attended high school at Lakeside and Putney Schools and college at Reed, California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), graduating from Harvard.

Adam was a writer, avid reader and keen social observer and critic whose deep curiosity and insights crossed many disciplines. He lived in San Francisco for the past 30 years. In the 80’s Adam was popular music critic for The Advocate where he wrote a regular column, “Block on Rock”. His writing also appeared in numerous publications including Mother Jones, the San Francisco Examiner magazine Image, the Bay Area Reporter, the New Musical Express and Creem. During that time, Adam interviewed virtually every pop star from Elton John to Bono.

Adam was a challenging and unforgettable friend, in turns fiercely loyal and loving and breathtakingly selfish, combative and self absorbed. His curiosity, knowledge, humor and spirit were contagious. Adam believed punctuality, deadlines and being awake during daylight hours were vastly overrated. He loved to outrage and often bragged that being gay, Jewish and half Texan (on his mother’s side)—he had something to offend most everyone. Adam loved literature, art, music, film, news, politics, humor, ideas, food, drink and travel—but most of all, smart lively conversation and animated debate.

Adam is survived by nine siblings; Jonathan, Daniel, Kenan, Susanna, Mary Judith, Tamara, Christina, Melinda, Newton and his step mother, Mary Lou Block as well as 13 nieces and nephews. Adam’s father Robert Jackson Block and mother Dorothy Wolens Block preceded him in death.

Another article on Adam Block by Larry-Bob can be found here.

Submissions From Queer Punks For Upcoming Book

Published by
jeff junker
at February 19, 2008 in Essays and Editorials, News, Product Plugs and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Looking for submissions from Queer street/travel/gutter/crusty punks 4 upcoming book.

I’m looking for your personal stories, entertaining stories, punk prose & poetry, travel, band, exc…

I’m also looking for stories about growing up both queer & punk. You can check out the webpage for the book project @ myspace.com/gutterfagpress

submissions must be in by may 1, 2008

any questions feel free to contact me.

-Gutterfag Press

World AIDS Day ‘07

Published by
Jeremy
at December 1, 2007 in Essays and Editorials, Features and Political News. 0 Comments

Jeremy’s note: For those of you who don’t know today, December 1st, is World AIDS awareness day. I’ve read a few things about the day on various sites and blogs, different peoples opinions and insights: but this one seemed to be most sincere and poignant to the kids of today.

From Ryan at Spitshine Records:

Over some pints of good, dark English beer last night with a friend, I recalled my experience of seeing the AIDS quilt. I was in Washington, DC for the 2000 March on Washington. After the march and rally concluded, my boyfriend (at the time) and I decided to walk over to the Smithsonian. We were unaware at the time that the AIDS quilt was being displayed on the grounds outside the museum. Blindsided and unprepared for what we were about to witness, we were both overcome with emotion as soon as we approached the quilt. As is tradition, names of those who had passed were being read over a loud speaker by volunteers. Each person would read a list of names and, at the end, say something like, “And my brother…” and read one last name before passing the microphone on to the next volunteer.

If you’ve never seen the quilt, it’s an incredible visual representation of the lives lost. Each panel of the quilt is dedicated to an individual who succumbed to the disease. Sewn into the fabric are pictures, favorite sayings, favorite pieces of clothing, and other remembrances of the life that has passed. The quilt is no longer displayed in it’s entirety because it has grown to enormous proportions.

This morning, I read of the rise in HIV infections among young people in the United States. The experts interviewed in the story suggest that young people never witnessed the horrific results of the initial wave of AIDS deaths and are not afraid of the disease. The disease seems manageable to them - hey, look how healthy and happy everyone looks in those pharmaceutical ads! This development is a failure that stains all of us. We’re clearly not communicating to young people the danger that they face. We’re not communicating that the AIDS meds are no picnic and they ain’t cheap either. In short, we’re not explaining that, yes, great strides have been made, but AIDS is still fatal.

Today, remember those you have lost. Contemplate those that you never got to know.

Tomorrow, commit yourself to taking every opportunity to sound the warning to young people.

Reposted with permission from the Spitshine Records livejournal.

Spitshine Records

Queer Article on Fall Out Boy

Published by
samjmiller
at October 19, 2007 in Essays and Editorials and Features. 2 Comments

Greetings fellow queer punks,

I recently wrote an article about Fall Out Boy’s new attempts to appeal to gay audiences, and what’s creepy about it, and how it ties in to the bigger picture of “selling punk” and the rise of “gays” as a demographic to be pandered to…

Click Here to check it out! 

I’d love to hear folks’ thoughts on it!

Sam J M

QueerPunks.com Op-Ed in Alternative Press Magazine

Published by
Adam
at August 17, 2007 in Essays and Editorials, Features and QueerPunks.com News. 0 Comments

Hi Everyone,

I’d like to say Hi and thank you to all the new visitors who found out about this site from my article in Alternative Press Magazine .  I’d also like to thank the cool people over at AP for inviting me to write this article.

For the visitors that haven’t seen the article that I referred to a few months back - Here it is!

Adam LaRue from QueerPunks.com in Alternative Press Magazine

Click the thumbnail for the large version.

QueerPunks.com in Alternative Press Magazine

Published by
Adam
at June 24, 2007 in Essays and Editorials, News and QueerPunks.com News. 4 Comments

Pick up the August issue of Alternative Press, out on July 5th, with a full page OP-ED from yours truly about why people in bands need to come out of the closet.

Radical Queer History Zine

Published by
queerintifada
at April 17, 2007 in Essays and Editorials, GLBT News and Political News. 0 Comments

Greetings from the bang(a)rang! A number of us have just completed the first edition of our newest zine about radical queer history. This zine has been in the works since a queer history workshop at the Maine Social Forum in the Summer of 2006 and was completed recently in the Winter of 2007 as we are all inside hiding from the mountains of snow and ice.

It contains a collection of radical queer moments throughout the United States ranging from ACT UP and Gay Shame to Out of Control Lesbians and Homocore. The booklet contains almost 30 stories of intentionally erased and ignored histories, including that of punks very very queer roots…

To download booklet: click here!

It is designed as a booklet and should be printed double sided…

If you do not have a good printer available, please contact us by email at thebangarang(((at)))riseup.net or find our address on the website.

xo!
conrad

Not Your Battle

Published by
Jeremy
at March 27, 2007 in Essays and Editorials, Features, News and Political News. 1 Comment

A woman claims that after leaving a bar with a man she had met, she was raped behind a factory. She files a police report and later gets an admission out of him via email which she uses in the case against him. This man, a member of a touring band, is arrested following a show. His bands fans immediately show their support of him.

Another man goes to the home of a woman he previously had a thing with. The woman’s new man, angry at the way this he’s dealing with his feelings, confronts him. After words are shared the new man follows the other to an underground parking lot and in a fight is killed. It turns out the man who killed the other is in another popular band and once his fans catch wind of what happened begin rallying support for him as well. Eventually he gets off on a self-defense clause.

These are the stories of Dominic Davi of Love Equals Death, and Tony Lovato formerly of Mest respectably. Both news breaks occurring within the same week.

Continue reading ‘Not Your Battle’