Long before there was ever a Lil Nas X (seriously, before Lil Nas X was even born), the queer music act Pansy Division had the right combination of in-your-face lyrics and unexpected public exposure.

Formed in 1991 in San Francisco by Jon Ginoli, Chris Freeman, Joel Reader, and Luis Illades, Pansy Division was conceived as the first openly gay rock band featuring predominantly gay musicians. They ...

Detroit, be nice to Pansy Division. After their 1995 stop in Motor City while on tour with Green Day, we're lucky the gay punk rockers are even returning. "Every night on the tour we'd get a really ...

Jon Ginoli had LGBTQ activism in mind when he started the queercore band Pansy Division, but it was also important to have fun and bring joy to the band’s audience. The San Francisco group has ...

The revered Lookout! Records may have called it quits in 2012, but it will be celebrated with a festival this January. It goes down at legendary Berkeley, CA club 924 Gilman, where tons of Lookout!

Three decades after Pansy Division released their debut album, Jon Ginoli looks back on how 'Undressed' was a way for them to celebrate at a time 'when things looked dark.' “We wanted to have joy,” ...

Queer pop punk pioneers Pansy Division have announced a reissue of their 1993 debut album Undressed, celebrating its slightly belated 30th anniversary. Originally released on Lookout! Records, the ...

2023 marks a landmark anniversary for iconic queercore rockers Pansy Division. It's 30 years since their groundbreaking debut album, Undressed, was released, catapulting them into the spotlight. To ...

When singer/guitarist Jon Ginoli and bassist Chris Freeman of pioneering San Francisco queercore band Pansy Division burst onto the scene with their debut album, Undressed, in 1993, there was ...

Last year, as Pansy Division played shows around the country marking 30 years of its first full-length album, “Undressed,” the pioneering gay rock band noticed more young people in the crowd than they ...