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144:, Amy Spencer writes, "Matt Wobensmith...feels that a person's self-identification as gay shouldn't form the basis of their whole personality. 'Gay people often sacrifice the cultures they come from just to belong to something.' This sacrifice of a radical culture, whether as an artist, punk or anarchist, is what the queercore movement has always battled against." 147:
Wobensmith ended the label in the late 90s, and began a new label called Queercorps, which was short-lived. He spoke about the reasons behind this in an interview included in the book
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acts. Outpunk records and CDs are much sought after by collectors, since most were produced in limited runs and are rare and hard to find.
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bands in existence, so some of the artists that appeared were politically motivated punk bands that supported the queercore movement.
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After this, Outpunk began to release many singles and LPs by queercore artists from the
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compilation LP/CD, which introduced many new queer bands to the public. Among them was
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ran for seven issues, from 1992 till 1997, with contributions from queer punks such as
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As of 2009, he runs the vintage zine store Goteblüd in San Francisco.
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We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet : The Collected Interviews
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We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, The Collected Interviews
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Index

record label
queer
punk
San Francisco
fanzine
Anonymous Boy
1992
queercore
Bikini Kill
7 Year Bitch
Tribe 8
Randy 'Biscuit' Turner
Big Boys
Pansy Division
Sister George
Sta-Prest
US
Canada
UK
Maximum RocknRoll
zine
homophobia
Punk Planet
zine
gay
hip hop music
7 Year Bitch
Bikini Kill
Cypher in the Snow
Fifth Column

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