QUEER ZINES is the first historical survey of serial, independent publications with a queer sensibility. The publication describes the trajectory of queer zine publishing from the early 70s to today, linking two zines of mega-importance: Straight to Hell, Boyd McDonald's ground-breaking, filthy, ofttimes political, sex zine of the seventies, and BUTT Magazine, the Dutch super-zine of today: never quite as filthy as STH, it mixes STH's straight-to-the-quick headlines and typewriter font with today's celebrity culture. Between these two we find the explosion of punk zines that are at the heart of this publication, perhaps best epitomized by the mythic JDs.

Crucial zine clusters from Toronto (JDs, BIMBOX), Los Angeles (Fertile La Toyah Jackson), and New York (My Comrade) crossed traditional boundaries of race, class, and gender; cheaply produced and largely distributed by mail, their formal dynamism, mixed media, and radical politics found a striking analogue in contemporaneous queer theory.

QUEER ZINES was first presented at the NY Art Book Fair in October, 2008.