Queercore was the original scene that never was, dreamed up as a what-if-it-were utopia. “People thought that Toronto was the centre of this hardcore movement,” said Bruce LaBruce, the co-founder of seminal fanzine and queercore springboard J.D.s, in the 2017 documentary Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution. “But it was just me and two women who sat in their basement and churned out alternative publications and experimental movies.” Promoter Mark Freitas, who would go on to create a queer punk haven in Chicago alongside Joanna Brown with their regular Homocore nights, agreed. “Bruce and G.B. Jones had created this zine that depicted this scene that didn’t really exist, other than in their minds,” he told Out magazine. “They made themselves larger than life, the superstars...