Episode 319 - Bruce LaBruce (Filmmaker, Zinester, Queercore Icon)

BRUCE LABRUCE is an iconic filmmaker known the world over for his uncompromising approach to cinema… & a legendary zinemaker. Today on the show Damian sits down with one of his most anticipated guests to discuss the conception of Queercore & manifesting the punk you want. Listen in as the two discuss: the Toronto Zine Scene, Gavin & Vice, Nazi violence, Robin Wood’s cultural impact & tons of other stuff!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!!!!
Also Touched On:

Growing up in small town Ontario
Seeing a punk with fully charged hair in Toronto for the first time
Into the fashion first
Just Desserts: a place for rich people to eat cake and freaks to work
Meeting Fifth Column and a world opening up
MRR
Partying backstage with Husker Du
Disco and Folk
CKEW out of Detroit
Gucci’s Queercore line
Fanzine: The Ephemeral Art form
Nirvana before the boom
“Queering everything”: Creating Queercore out of reclaimed and found elements of punk
Trying to create a new gay culture
The Mumps
Vaginal Davis and “Fertile Latoya Jackson”
Pat Loud cooking for the punks
The rightwing appropriation of punk atheistic and strategy
The Vice days
DBDTD
The having to deal with Neo-Nazis Skinheads in Toronto
Loving Can-rock
Rough Trade
Will Munro, Vazaleen and making the JDs fiction real
The Gun Club at a boozecan
Zuzu’s Petals
Getting punched while covering the Dead Kennedys
The 1988 Anarchist Unconvention in Toronto
Robin Wood: more radical than the punks
Cineaction
being deprogrammed by punk
Pissing on the Cinema of Transgression
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!

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