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This playlist consists of tracks curated for an as-yet unreleased collection of early 90s queer rock and punk entitled Queercore Explosion! The songs are mostly from 1990-1995, to illustrate the queer punk rock explosion of the early 90s, a time when almost nobody in rock music was openly gay (even the ones you might assume were out were not). Some of this music overlaps with the Riot Grrrl movement of the same time. Listen, enjoy, and learn about a nearly secret underground musical movement that existed before the internet!

From Philadelphia, Halflings were not a gay band. They were a straight punk band who had once been accused of homophobia, and their response was to do a pro-gay song. The sweet irony is that the middle section steals from a famously homophobic white supremacist UK band called Skrewdriver, turning a white power chant into a gay power chant. Released on the 7" EP compilation Stop Homophobia Volume 2 on Texas label Turkey Baster Records, in 1995.