HOMOCORE

"If ever there were a case for loud and proud, then it would have to be the band Fagatron. Imagine what must have gone through the minds of truck drivers and farmers as Fagatron passed them on the I-35, their name emblazoned on the car-top carrier en route from their native Nebraska to a Homocore Minneapolis show. Imagine, too, an insular Minneapolis scene hearing the ode to Brandon Teena, a female-to-male transsexual (FTM), who was raped and murdered in Nebraska the same year that Nirvana supposedly pushed the mainstream in the alternanation. While Fagatron's message was clear and simple, their raucous music wasn't. The duo's stage volume and antics blew the eardrums of those present at that all-ages show. This mix of queer-positive politics with punk is typical of Homocore Minneapolis, the vision of Ed Varga, the mastermind behind a movement second only to that surrounding Donna Dresch."

-Christina Schmitt