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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, a band that was founded by Ginoli and Chris Freeman in 1991. He is openly gay. [2] Pansy Division is known as one of the founding examples of the queercore genre of punk rock, and has released seven studio albums, first on Lookout Records and later on Alternative Tentacles. [3]

Along with Pansy Division, Ginoli was featured in the 1997 documentary film Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary by Scott Treleaven; as an actor, in the 2002 comedy short Going West by Michael Mew; [4] in the 2008 film Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band by Michael Carmona; [5] and in the 2017 documentary film Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution directed by Yony Leyser. [6]

Prior to Pansy Division, 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. [7] [8] While in college, Ginoli served as a DJ at Urbana radio station WPGU. [9] He authored the memoir Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division, published in 2009. [9]

Ginoli is a 1978 graduate of Richwoods High School. In 1977 he created his own rock and roll fanzine, Hoopla.

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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. ↑ Myers, Ben (2006), Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion, The Disinformation Company, ISBN   1-932857-32-X, OCLC   237050027
  3. ↑ "Pansy Division". Discogs. Archived from the original on 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  4. ↑ "Going West (2002)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
  5. ↑ Walters, Maddie (2022-10-24). "Music and Mayhem with Maddie: an interview with Jon Ginoli". The Collegian, University of Tulsa. Archived from the original on 2023-04-23. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  6. ↑ Farber, Jim (2018-09-20). "Queercore: behind a documentary reliving the gay punk movement". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
  7. ↑ "The Outnumbered". Discogs. Archived from the original on 2022-03-26. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
  8. ↑ John "Jughead" Pierson (2023-01-16). "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 2023-04-23. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  9. 1 2 Ginoli, Jon (2009). Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division. Cleis Press. ISBN   978-1573443432.


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