QUEER AS PUNK!!
Jubilee inspired Queer Punk Club Night!
Join us for our Jarman/Jubilee inspired Queer Punk night for LGBTQ+ History month!
Following on from our Derek Jarman talk and films we are paying homage to his 1978 classic film Jubilee.
Not enough anarchy in the UK? Then we are going to have a bit of anarchy (and fun!) in homage to all the LGBTQ+ punk trail blazers! including Buzzcocks, Jane County, Limp Wrist, Pansy Patrol, Husker Du, Bikini Kill, Peaches and more! Plus the return of the DIY Punk Karaoke hosted by The Violent Themmes, live music from Quiet Chaos and Fanny County, live performance by the punktastic Paul Coombs, spoken word by the amazing Lisa luxx and Lettie Precious and you can watch Derek Jarman archive to get in the mood!
The term "punk" has a long queer history predating its use in contemporary music. A "punk" has always meant a person up to something disreputable and socially deviant. In Shakespeare's English, it meant a female prostitute; later it also connoted young men who sold sex to older men. Punk and queer are a match made in the gutter. Punk rock embraces this abject status. It celebrates it and rejects the society that rejects it. It is all about bad behaviour, anarchy, anti-sociality and noise. It is about claiming a freedom from dulling and hypocritical normative pressures. In other words, punk is queer!! Learn about the history of queercore/homocore and its radical roots in the 80's, more than three decades after it was dreamed up in a Toronto basement, it seems queercore remains as relevant and as necessary as ever!!
So come on over and rock out to punk and new wave and anything noisy you can dance to from the 70‘s till now, grab the mic and generally say F*** to the system!
See you Queercore kids there!