states still outlawed consensual sodomy, the AIDS epidemic was piling up bodies faster and faster, and gays were barred from the military. Homocore Chicago hosted queer punk nights once or twice a month at its peak in the mid-90s-a time when most U.S. Le Tigre take the stage at roughly the six-minute mark in this fan-shot video of the final Homocore Chicago show.Jones, is also a filmmaker, and in 1985 she and director Bruce LaBruce founded influential Toronto queer punk zine J.D.s, which coined the word “homocore.” Brown and Freitas kept the series going till May 20, 2000, when it went out in a blaze of glory with Le Tigre’s Chicago debut at the Preston Bradley Center in Uptown-a show that not at all by coincidence also featured a screening of Jones’s short films. Homocore Chicago debuted on November 13, 1992, with a Czar Bar show by Toronto queercore band Fifth Column. It was the early 90s, and young queer punks Joanna Brown and Mark Freitas used those flyers to announce the kinds of shows they’d always dreamed of attending: rowdy all-ages rock nights where it was OK to be gay. Beneath that, they would add “CORE,” accompanied by a list of bands, a venue, and a date. “HOMO.” That’s what the flyers would say, in four-inch-tall letters-dozens of them, stapled to lampposts, telephone poles, and bulletin boards in and around the Wicker Park neighborhood. Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content).Donate now! I'm not interested right now.
