Referred to by co-founder Bruce LaBruce as a “softcore zine for hardcore kids,” J.D.s was a queer punk zine founded in Toronto by G.B. Jones and co-published with LaBruce. It ran for eight issues from 1985 to 1991 and was highly influential in its pairing of bootlicking fetishes, B-movie aesthetics, punk interests and sophisticated discourse, inspiring future zines such as Homocore and Fanorama, among others in the queercore community.
J.D.s initially stood for Juvenile Delinquents, but, according to LaBruce, “also encompassed such youth cult icons as James Dean and J.D. Salinger.”
Peres Projects has reprinted the zine’s full 8 issue run.
The sixth issue is J.D.s Music Issue. It contains the feature “Queercore”, “Tales from the Pit” by Jim, “Continuing Story of Butch” by LaBruce, the continuing saga of G.B. Jones’ “Tom Girls”, a look at LA’s punk scene by Vaginal Davis, and many other things.
