There were serious cases for example, the scene in 1980s San Francisco, when white supremacist organizations came down from their strongholds in Northern California and started talking to the local skin heads. Punks have had to confront racism and fascism in the scene. There are plenty of examples of straight punks using queer sex as grossout punchlines. But these scenes struggled with homophobic, sexist and racist elements. They were created by the rabble, the hoi polloi. Punk scenes, at least in their early stages, tended to be heterogeneous places. It is about claiming a freedom from dulling and hypocritical normative pressures. It is all about bad behavior, anarchy, anti-sociality and noise. It celebrates it and rejects the society that rejects it. Punk and queer are a match made in the gutter. In Shakespeare's English, it meant a female prostitute later it also connoted young men who sold sex to older men. A "punk" has always meant a person up to something disreputable and socially deviant. The term "punk," by the way, has a long queer history predating its use in contemporary music.
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