The pioneering queer rock band Pansy Division first begin confronting the heteronormative patriarchy back in 1991 — that’s twenty-five years fighting an uphill battle. Jon Ginoli and bassist/singer ...

Long before there was ever a Lil Nas X (seriously, before Lil Nas X was even born), the queer music act Pansy Division had the right combination of in-your-face lyrics and unexpected public exposure.

Formed in 1991 in San Francisco by Jon Ginoli, Chris Freeman, Joel Reader, and Luis Illades, Pansy Division was conceived as the first openly gay rock band featuring predominantly gay musicians. They ...

Detroit, be nice to Pansy Division. After their 1995 stop in Motor City while on tour with Green Day, we're lucky the gay punk rockers are even returning. "Every night on the tour we'd get a really ...

Having formed in 1991 in San Fransisco, Pansy Division were the pop-punk pioneer in the "homo-core" movement. The band was a Lookout! Records staple. Touring with Green Day at the height of their ...

The revered Lookout! Records may have called it quits in 2012, but it will be celebrated with a festival this January. It goes down at legendary Berkeley, CA club 924 Gilman, where tons of Lookout!

Jon Ginoli had LGBTQ activism in mind when he started the queercore band Pansy Division, but it was also important to have fun and bring joy to the band’s audience. The San Francisco group has ...

In July of 1997, Rob Halford, who exited Judas Priest earlier in the decade, performed "Breaking the Law" onstage with queercore icons Pansy Division at a San Diego Pride event less than a year before ...

In the ’90s, Pansy Division went where no openly gay band had gone before: punk rock. Founder and guitarist Jon Ginoli has now written a book about eschewing disco, hitting the semi-big time with the ...