The word “disappointed” does not even begin to describe how I felt tonight upon finishing the book Homocore: The loud and raucous rise of queer rock by David Ciminelli and Ken Knox. The fact that this book blows is probably old news to some of you, but to those queercore fans who don’t know, let me tell you so you can avoid my mistake.
Homocore posits itself as a comprehensive review of the history of the queercore movement. The back of the book lists all the right bands (Pansy Division, Team Dresch, the Skinjobs), as well as some I haven’t heard of (Extra Fancy, Super 8 Cum Shot), and says that it was written by a “queer music insider” (Ciminelli) and a freelance journalist. I was pretty stoked to come across this book–I don’t know how I missed it in the past four years–since it sounded like EXACTLY what I wanted to read.
It turned out to be anything but.
