The web is a pretty United States-centric place. I thought it would be helpful for people from other places in the world to have some links to queer stuff in their countries and languages in one convenient place. Let me know what you think and if there's anything I should add.
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ILGA World Conference in Manila in November 2003.
Absueltos are a band with queer members from Argentina.
Celeste Carballo -- major lesbian musician from Argentina.
Cojidos Y Tatuados -- spanish language queercore webpage from Argentina. Has a lot of links, a discussion forum, and more information.
Muchacha Punk -- article on the queercore scene in Argentina.
"Perversos, Desviados y Invertidos" is a 7" compilation with songs from Islam, the She-Devils, The Haggard, and Limp Wrist
Updated July 2007: Eyeliner is a series of queer parties in Buenos Aires -- http://www.eyeliner.com.ar and www.myspace.com/eyeliner_gaylestrans
Updated July 2007: She-Devils, political woman-fronted punk band from Argentina -- http://www.fotolog.com/she_devils http://www.myspace.com/lasshedevils
Kristy Apps is a musician from Australia.
The Burning Times is a queer punk zine from Australia. No current website, but you can write them at burntime@melbourne.net
Donkey.Com.Au is a website with listings for Australian gay clubs, events and more.
Gareth's web site has Mardi Gras parade floats, some quite political, xrays, and links to his band the Porn Queens.
Gurlesque is a lesbian strippers club based in Sydney.
King Victoria -- Melbourne drag kings.
The Mavis's are an Australian band with great pop songs like "Do You Have a Brother."
Queer Collaborations -- annual conference in Australia.
Queeruption 7 in Sydney Australia 16-23 February 2005 http://www.queeruption.org/sydney/index.htm
Queer Radio is a weekly show in Brisbane.
Queers for Reconciliation was formed in response to the need for a presence in the 1998 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade to express support for the Reconciliation process and the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community.
Q + A -- queer and alternative -- is a queer club in Melbourne.
For radical queers in Australia, check out the email list rad_kweer
Raydar is a website with news, reviews, interviews, and queer club nites in Australia and around the world.
Revolt'n Pussycat is a dykey web-site for ratbag brat grrrlls.
Scooter is a non-profit venture set up by a bunch of queer Anarcho punk girls in Sydney to provide space for un-established girl musicians to perform and inspire more women to start playing instruments and form bands. They started at the Emu Cafe, which apparently closed in Summer 2001.
Scootstar is a new record label for indy unrecorded women's music.
Sheila Fest -- alterternative- fringe- dykey- womens- activist festival during Mardi Gras 2003.
Slit -- Australian lesbian zine based in Sydney.
Added June 2006:
Trough
is a non-mainstream queer music night in Melbourne.
Also see
http://www.myspace.com/stereogamous
Word Is Out is a queer publication from Australia. check out the article "Queers, anti-capitalism, and war" in the first issue.
Added 5 Oct 2006: CuntStunt is a lesbian zine from Vienna.
Added 5 Oct 2006: FMQueer is a queer group associated with the radio station FM4 that does events in Vienna including performances by queer bands.
Frauen Banden website.
Next Party -- Belgian queer events.
Queerilla.Be -- Queer Kafee and more in Gent.
Transformer - Queer Festival will take place in Brussels, Belgium from the 4th April to the 12th April 2008.
Article in Portugese on Oakland, California gay hiphop group Deep Dickollective.
Fernando Carpaneda is an artist from Brazil who does sculptures featuring punks, homeless people, and sex workers.
Dominatrix are an all-female band from Brasil. Here's a webpage about them, and their Official page. And the Haggard's page in English about Dominatrix.
Grind is a club night. They had a magazine which described itself as "Pop, Rock & Cultura GLS".
Otherkin are a band from Rio de Janeiro.
Queercore em Português has information about Pansy Division, Extra Fancy, Behead the Prophet, and more. And there's a queercore mailing list in Português!
Queernoise -- online queer punk - oi - metal - gay zine.
Added August 2007:
Queer Punk Queer Funk
is an event in the North and Northeast of Brazil.
New August 2007:
Solange, tô aberta!'s main goal is to contest, deconstruct and expose situations, behaviours and discurses adopted by different sectors of society. We are against the catholic church's dogmas, the binarism and heteronormativity. We support de legalization of abortion, the black movement and the LGBT movement and women and anybody that is kept quiet. The band experiments with electronic music by creating original stuff as well as samples. Its main sources are from the music of mass culture and the invisible music that are done to entertrain and/or question. Rhythms both from Brazil and from other countries add to the electronic repertoire. Because of this mix, new rhythms are created by this overlapping.
Web page of Vange Leonel, Brasilian singer. Check out her poems under "Virtual Bilitis."
Vulvorama has information on women in rock bands in Brasil.
Riotpower page has Riot Grrrl information in Português!
the Anticapitalist Ass Pirates ( http://www.geocities.com/slutsagainstcapitalism) put on a queer party once a month (on a tuesday, not necessarily the first or last in Montreal. The location is now Bar Missy, 250 Mont Royal Est. We are open to queer bands or djs who want to play. Contact us at slutsagainstcapitalism@hotmail.com or call 514-920-7448 and leave a message for the Ass Pirates.
Filmmaker Bruce La Bruce has an official website at Brucelabruce.com ... Bruce has a column in the Toronto-based magazine Exclaim.
The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives in Toronto has a lot of queer zines.
NEW 1/25/2007: Val Desjardins is a queer artist based in Montreal.
Gay Stolz is a gay band from Montreal.
Greek Buck is a musical project which involves Don Pyle, formerly of Shadowy Men, the band that did the music for The Kids in the Hall.
G.B. Jones is a queer artist and filmmaker based in Toronto who was a founder of the pioneering queer zine JDs.
Kings Of Vancouver are a drag king troupe from Vancouver, BC.
Les Pantheres Roses (the Pink Panthers) are a group from Montreal.
Limp Fist is a feminist anti-capitalist anarchist anti-racist queer liberation group from Toronto.
Merkury Burn are a band from Toronto.
Miss Cookie is a drag performer based in Vancouver, BC.
Noise Queen is an on-line zine with lots of music info.
Oot and Aboot is a queer comedy troupe based in Toronto.
QUAK -- Queers United Against Kapitalism is an activist group based in Vancouver, BC.
In Toronto: Queer West Fest: Friday June 15th to Friday June 22nd, 2007: http://gaywest.905host.net/files/prideday.php
Queer Punk Collective is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Queer in Your Ear is a gay music column by Joe Clark.
Vancouver based band Skinjobs
Scott Treleaven, did the zine Salivation Army and the film Queercore: A Punkumentary.
WayOutWest.TV has clips of a TV show done by folks in Vancouver, B.C.
Vaseline is a monthly queer club in Toronto with live music. location: Lee's Palace [seems to be listed on their website as Club V, also known as Vazeline.]
GayChile.com is the official Chilean gay and lesbian resource directory.
Chatea.cl is a gay chat site based in Chile.
Queer Skinhead Nation is a website done by an anti-fascist Irish/English skin who lived Prague and offers a gay guide to the city.
Interview with Gritt Uldall-Jessen, who did the zine Mohawk Beaver.
European Tourdates of Grrrlbands.
Check out the Queeruption website for many UK and European resources.
NEW URL: Riot Grrrl Europe has links to bands and more from around Europe.
Väki -- Finnish feminist and queer info.
Act Up Paris -- AIDS activist group.
Androzine is a French queer zine, and the longest-running still published queer zine. Androzine web page.
Babes in Boyland is a radio show that features bands with women in them. There are a bunch of interviews with bands on the website.
Bang Bang is a French-languge anarcho-fairie zine. Visit the website for info on La Croisiere.
Jérémie Farel's writing is available at Le Marginal.
GayKitschCamp is the European Archives, Studies & Research on Homosexualities Centre. It's a registered association and has the support from the County Concil, the General Council, the DDASS, the DRAC, and the Town of Lille.
April 2008: Homozikal is a website about gay references in music, with song lyrics.
Itsogay.com is a French website which includes a directory of gay websites.
Les Pantheres roses -- gay group in France.
PinkPurplePop produces shows in France -- their first show was with Le Tigre.
Popingays is a French gay indie music association.
TaPaGes -- queer group in Strasbourg, France.
Têtu has some interesting interviews, for instance with Bruce LaBruce.
Berlin Queer Festival 19-22 April, 2007
Spicy Tigers On Speed - we are from berlin. we are here to perform gender cliches and smash them. we will dance with you until your head spins. our hot fake and real stuffers and fake and real tits are way more important than germany or any other nation.
Cafe Fatal offers ballroom dancing in Berlin. I've heard great reports of how fun this event is.
Din-A-Queer is a queer music night in Münster.
Drag Kingdom -- German drag king website.
ETuxx includes an article on gaypunk.de with a long message board following it.
Feucht Rasiert -- all woman band from Germany.
Gay Berlin Punx website.
Gay Misfit -- "Be proud of who you are, not what you are." They are also involved I think in the event Maladjusted in Köln.
Gaypunk.De is a german gay punk website.
Genderterror -- party in AZ Mülheim.
Heartcore Records is a record label based in Germany and New York, with releases by gay artists.
Homo Elektrik does electronic music in Germany.
Webpage of cartoonist Ralf Koenig.
Low End Models are an all-dyke queercore band from Germany, based in Koln.
ohne-inhalte-cs.de/ has a good links page.
Oi Warning! is a film by Dom and Ben Reding about skinheads. Search around for more about the film. There is an official site for the film at www.oiwarning.de
Queerbeat is a booking and promotion agency based in Munich, Germany. They are also on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/queerbeatagency
Queer Gestellt is based in Köln.
Queerrr-hamburg.org has info and links about queers in Hamburg.
Queeruption 5 happened May 19-26 2003 in Berlin. Here's the Yahoo Group and an old webpage about it.
RockSie! is the website of the European Music Network for Women.
Step Up and Be Vocal is a documentary with interviews with people in San Francisco's queer punk scene.
Tuntenhaus Berlin -- queer squat in Berlin.
U-Turn -- queer radio show from Hamburg.
Vaginal Davis is now based in Berlin. See also Vaginal Davis' 2001 appearance in Berlin. Plus Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey's performances in October '96 in Germany.
Westdyke are a band from Germany.
[added 4 May 2008] Xposed is an international queer short film festival in Berlin. The 3rd annual one is June 26, 2008. http://www.myspace.com/xposedinberlin Trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ByaTm2Uu0
Zacker Nights is a multisexual party for the queer underground in Leipzig.
Knifed are from Dublin and have done a split 7" with Limpwrist. Rejected Records is label of Mero of Knifed.
Muffmonsters on Prozac is a zine from Ireland.
QueerHana -- group that does a Gay Shame type anti-commercial event. Site is mostly in Hebrew.
Clit Rocket is a dyke zine from Italy -- plus Veruska also does a Lesbopunkfeminist radio show. Here's the Clitrocket webpage. Veruska has a column about her radio show at Freeweel -- see here. You can email her at veruskaoutlaw [at] yahoo.it
Hup Concerti -- Hopelessly Ugly People -- does events in Rome.
Phag Off produces events like Queer Jubilee and a New Years 2005/2006 event in Roma.
Pornflakes produces queer events in Italy.
Queerzone -- Italian weblog with a visual focus.
Sally Cellophane does art stuff.
Speed Demon is an Italian queer zine. Their address: speed demon c/o magnani - via ponte seveso 44 - 20125 milano - italy If you have trouble reaching the website, try this address. Also check out their blog
The people from Speed Demon also have a radio show.
Squat.It -- independent queer ezine, with queer skinhead content.
Torazine -- counterculture zine.
J-FLAG is an organization based in Jamaica.
Books Rose sells Japanese gay books, magazines, and videos.
Genetic LOAD was a gay band in Japan, now broken up. That website doesn't work anymore, but the former leader Naoyuki is at http://www.g-drive.jp/naoyuki/ and has a song called "I'm a gay man."
Added March 2008: Queer Music Experience is a website by Takaki Fujishima with a blog about queer music (mostly in Japanese, with some links to English sites.) He also has Japanese Queer Musician Biographies in English and Overseas Queer Musician Biographics in Japanese.
Article in Japanese on queercore from this dictionary of hip stuff. See also the entry on Dennis Cooper.
Sindbad Bookmarks -- gay Japanese search engine.
Ubiqueer Diary -- blog with info on queer, asexual, etc. stuff.
Your Factory is a Japanese record label that has put out a compilation of music by gay musicians, as well as other CDs by gay musicians.
March 2008: Article on violence against Emo kids and gays in Mexico.
GAYSTENCIL es un proyecto de arte urbano (en Guadalajara Mexico) en el que todos podemos participar. GAYSTENCIL consiste en sacar a la calle las frases, iconos y puntos de vista de la comunidad gay con sentido del humor, como un proyecto artistico y politico, sin intenciones activistas. http://www.gaystencil.com
Les Voz -- lesbian publication from Mexico.
MSN Club for gays who love rockers and alternative ways of life: Por Un Beso - Rockeros Gay and blog: http://www.rockerosgay.blogspot.com
Butt is a Magazine for Homosexuals based in Amsterdam.
Cruise Control is a 'queerparty electronique' in Utrecht, the Netherlands. A clubnight for alternative queer people who like electro & synth musique. The website has playlists, party pix & dates. http://www.cruisecontrol.nu
Doorbreakers are a band from Amsterdam.
Herbert is a queer punk in the Netherlands.
Homodok is a gay and lesbian archives in Amsterdam.
Joke Kaviaar is a lesbian poet from Amsterdam.
Kutt is a cross border dyke zine.
The Pink Light House is a queer squat in Amsterdam.
Queeruption Netherlands (Queeruption 6) -- held in 2004.
Artium Elegantium Studium is the website of artists Karl Amundsen and Xavier Radic, who live in New Zealand and teach art and run retreats for queer & straight artists in New Zealand.
Diversityworks is the website of queer disabled performer Phillip Patston.
There is going to be a Grrrl Punk Festival in Warsaw in December 2003. Details at http://riotgrrrleurope.net/tourdates.html
EmancyPunx is a distro and record label formed to spread independent women culture. They're based Warsaw, Poland. They have been involved in "Noc Walpurgii", and antisexist, antihomophobic festival in Poland which happens every two years -- see below.
Homomilitia was a band from Poland. They also have a song on the second "Stop Homophobia" compilation.
Noc Walpurgii is an anti-sexist, anti-homophobia festival in Warsaw, Poland, which happens every two years (including in April/May 2008.) http://parada.gej.net http://www.myspace.com/nocwalpurgii
Added February 2008:
Sister to Sister distribution
- feminist and pro-queer zine and music distro, based in Wroclaw, Poland.
http://www.sistertosister.prv.pl/
Panteras Rosa -- Group combatting homophobia.
Russian webpage on Bruce LaBruce.
Webpage with Russian translation of the chapter on feminism and queers in punk in punk from Craig O'Hara's book "The Philosophy of Punk".
Lesbiru is a Russian Lesbian website. Here's an interview with one of the founders.
Website on writer Yaroslav Mogutin aka Slava, who's been in Bruce LaBruce films. Also here's another website with photos of him.
Trippers -- Lesbian punk zine from Singapore. Back issues can be ordered from Puinkilla Distro.
Ying yang Club hosts parties in Ljubljana, Slovenija. http://www.myspace.com/yingyangclub -- http://yingyangclub.mojforum.si/
Aupa! Somos un grupo de Barcelona con muchas ganas i energia que hemos decidido de organizar Queeruption 2005 aqui en Barna (la fecha exacta os la diremos mas adelante). Nos gustaria que nos ayudareis con todo tipo de informaciones que podeis aportar (como experiencias de organizacion de queeruption, problemas que habeis tenido.....y cualquier cosa que nos puede ayudar). Tambien necesitamos ayuda economica. Entonces si tienes ganas de hacer alguna fiesta de beneficio, vender a tu abuela o tu culo... acceptamos cualquier donacion!!!! monton de besos y gracias de karcelona para mas informacion juntarte al yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/queeruption8karcelona/
Spanish Pansy Division page.
Caos -- ett radikalt queer webzine -- has info about Stockholm Shame, 14 Juli 2001. Here's info on the 2003 Shame.
Club Slick is in Stockholm starting in 2003.
Combustion is a queer club in Stockholm. Also see Combustion Malmö [added August 2006, updated March 2008]
Pharmacy are a band from Sweden.
MaaSen -- queer Swedish Hiphop.
Sylvester -- queer Swedish website, and they also publish a magazine.
http://www.brewberg.com Out & About with Brewer & Berg is a philosophical travelogue of Europe with two zany guys in an amazing filmed documentary of their vision quest in search of a new mythology that includes gay and lesbian consciousness.
Offstream -- the alternative gay party.
RadikalSugarPuff -- Family Plüsch had a house in Zurich, and now have other projects.
Various DIY distros have the Swiss feminist band "Re-Sisters" 7" titled "Riots Not Diets" which includes a track "Lesbisch" -- see google search [released circa 2000.]
Suendikat - queer events and band bookings. email nicole@jennywoolworth.ch, http://www.suendikat.ch
July 2007: Icimdeki Ayi is a bear blog based in Ankara, Turkey, in English and Turkish.
Kaos GL is a Turkish queer anarchist group which publishes a magazine.
Information and links about Istanbul, including the cafe and restaurant Kapris dö Pera.
Paul Baker's homepage includes information on vintage gay movies and more amusing stuff. Plus links to his research about Polari.
Charlotte Cooper's website has information about her new novel, Cherry, plus her zines including "Kink."
Chaos/Order has info on the UK queercore scene by Sarit M. [archive version from 2000.]
"Queer literary journal" Chroma: http://www.chromajournal.co.uk/
Club V was a now-defunct queer indie club in London, England. Check out their page for their zine, the V Files.
Club Wotever is club night for DragKings, Butches, Trannifags, FTM's, Femme Fatales, Transgendered grrlz, Queer Bois and...
DJ Hushpuppy DJs at clubs in Glasgow, Scotland -- check out Record Playerz Club -- and see also this article. He's and expert in rare groove and Northern Soul, and has also remixed The Free Design.
Duckie is a London-based queer club. They have also done the Nightbird series of performance events. queer and lady bands.
Added 6/9/2007: F.A.G. Club puts on events for QuAGS (queers of all genders and sexualities) in Cardiff, Wales, showcasing all that is unusual, subversive and freaky. They also release records by great people. http://www.fagclub.net/ http://www.myspace.com/lovefagclub
Fanny published a comic book of the same name, and Dyke's Delight comics.
Freewheel is an e-zine with an emphasis on female and queer bands. Based in the UK, also with an Italian contributor, Veruska of Clit Rocket.
Frock On is a female collective based in Glasgow which puts on events including shows with
http://www.fuckthepainaway.co.uk is the website of an alternative queer club night in Brighton, England, which does regular benefits for queer/radical causes.
Gay London Writers is a group of gay male writers in London.
Gingerbeer is a lesbian/bi guide to London.
Homocrime is a queer music night in London that started in 2003. They also put out records. Make sure to check out their links.
Homophone is a queer open mike that happened in London.
irrk is a record label based in England. Their releases include the Viva La Diva compilation.
Kaffequeeria is a queer collective based in Manchester.
Kill Everybody In the Whole World is a website by and for slightly disturbed queers in Scotland.
Added Dec 2007: Local Kid is a DIY punk feminist kid collective based in Bristol, UK.
Peppermintpatti puts on shows with female fronted bands headlining in Cardiff, Wales at the Chapter theatre.
Check out this page on the secret gay language, Polari.
Popstarz has info on various clubs in London that play indie and other music. Also check out Ghetto which has different theme nights seven days a week.
Pottymouth is a London-based weekly club that features music with female vocalists.
Queer Cymru is two weeks of queer fringe events in Cardiff, Wales in August 2006.
Queer Rebel Alliance is a Wales-based group.
Queer Storytelling Festival website is at http://www.qsf.org.uk/
Queeruption.net is the new site for the London group variously known as Anarquist, Queeruption and Queer Mutiny.
Comix adventures of Spykegrrl and Misster Scratch addresses the issues of transnational queer relationships -- www.spykeandscratch.com
Added April 2008: Transpunk webzine for queers and non-queers of all persuasions.
UK Gay Indie Scene website lists lots of clubs.