As we leave the taqueria to walk back to Ginoli's, we run into both Slade from Tribe 8 and Matt Wobensmith from Queercore records on the street, suggesting that reports of queercore's death have been exaggerated. For Wobensmith, obviously, it's still alive. People aren't ready to accept it on so many levels. And it doesn't mean that we won't do it. I feel really good about this movement, if you wanna call it that.
People are very self-sufficient.
We know that we like it, we know that our friends and our fans like it, but I don't think acceptance has ever been our No. 1 goal. Ten years from now, you'll look back on this time and it will be really something special. Maybe by then people will take it to the next level. I always wanted to see the queercore thing become bigger than just a little subgenre. It doesn't have to stay underground, because I think there's a lot more that we can do.