I shot this amazing punk show in Toronto at the Silver Dollar Room during the 1988 Anarchist Unconvention, on Super 8, with a lot of hot, sweaty skinheads and punks with their hands all over each other. I collaged extreme images from the gay world that coincided with punk, like Mohawks and leather, alongside images of actual punks.īruce LaBruce and G.B. But punk was kind of homophobic and misogynistic as well, so my friends and I made our fanzines and Super-8 movies as queer and in-your-face as possible, to tell the punks that they weren’t as radical as they claimed to be if they couldn’t accept us. I was partly caught up in all that but also disillusioned with the mainstream gay movement because it was sexist, misogynistic, racist and classist. In Toronto, the leather bars were always packed, and there would be lines at the saunas even on weekdays. It was the era just after gay liberation, the engine of which was a very aggressive, militant sexuality. When did you begin to think about sex and sexuality that way?īruce LaBruce In 1985, I started J.D.s, a queer-punk fanzine, with lesbian artist G.B. In your films, explicit queer sex is deployed as a means of empowerment and liberation. Michael Bullock Your work often explores queer subcultures and pornography as tools of political dissent.
