Jon Ginoli

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Jon Ginoli
Birth nameJon Latimer Ginoli
Born(1959-12-04)December 4, 1959
Peoria, Illinois
Instrument(s)Guitar, vocals
Years active1982–present
Member of Pansy Division
Formerly ofThe Outnumbered

Jon Latimer Ginoli (born December 4, 1959, in Peoria, Illinois [1] ) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a member of Pansy Division.

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Early life

Ginoli "lived a normal life in a normal place with a normal family with two parents and a younger sister." [2] In 1965 at the age of five, he developed an interest in music by listening to Chicago radio stations. He attended Richwoods High School which he graduated from in 1978. In 1977 he created his own rock and roll fanzine, Hoopla.

Career

The Outnumbered

Ginoli was a singer, songwriter and guitarist for an indie band called The Outnumbered, which he formed while an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Outnumbered released three studio albums and a compilation album; two of these albums were released on the label Homestead Records. [3] [4] While in college, Ginoli served as a DJ at Urbana radio station WPGU. [2]

Pansy Division

Ginoli moved from Illinois to California in the late 80s. He founded queercore band Pansy Division in 1991 out of frustration with the lack of openly gay musicians in rock music at the time. He quickly recruited bassist Chris Freeman through an ad Ginoli had placed in SF Weekly looking for "gay musicians into the Ramones, Buzzcocks and early Beatles". The band went through many different drummers before settling on Luis Illades in late 1996. The band has released seven studio albums, first on Lookout! Records and later on Alternative Tentacles. [5]

Personal life

Ginoli is gay. [6]

Other Work

Along with Pansy Division, Ginoli was featured in the 1997 documentary film Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary by Scott Treleaven [7] ; as an actor, in the 2002 comedy short Going West by Michael Mew; [8] in the 2008 film Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band by Michael Carmona; [9] and in the 2017 documentary film Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution directed by Yony Leyser. [10]

He authored the memoir Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, published in 2009. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Ciminelli, David; Knox, Ken (2005), Homocore: The Loud and Raucous Rise of Queer Rock , New York: Alyson Books, ISBN   1-55583-855-3, OCLC   60491880
  2. 1 2 3 Ginoli, Jon (2009). Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division. Cleis Press. ISBN   978-1573443432.
  3. ↑ "The Outnumbered". Discogs. Archived from the original on March 26, 2022. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  4. ↑ John "Jughead" Pierson (January 16, 2023). "Episode 159: Jon Ginoli of The Outnumbered and Pansy Division on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests". Jughead's Basement Podcast. Archived from the original on April 23, 2023. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Pansy Division". Discogs. Archived from the original on March 12, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
  6. ↑ Myers, Ben (2006), Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion, The Disinformation Company, ISBN   1-932857-32-X, OCLC   237050027
  7. ↑ Treleaven, Scott (March 1, 1997), Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary (Documentary, Short), Jen Angel, Chris Freeman, Jon Ginoli, retrieved January 28, 2025
  8. ↑ "Going West (2002)". IMDb. Archived from the original on February 9, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ Walters, Maddie (October 24, 2022). "Music and Mayhem with Maddie: an interview with Jon Ginoli". The Collegian, University of Tulsa. Archived from the original on April 23, 2023. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  10. ↑ Farber, Jim (September 20, 2018). "Queercore: behind a documentary reliving the gay punk movement". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 22, 2022. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
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