Queer Trash Presents: Straight Panic

For their first program as 2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow, Queer Trash is delighted to present Brutal Measures (Lydia Lunch + Weasel Walter), Keijaun Thomas, and Straight Panic. Queer Trash cruises in relentless pursuit of bodily disruptions and sonic deviance against avant-normativity; the collective promises an evening of unhinged sound, linguistic onslaught, and remorseless rupture of the structures of power and subjugation in which everyone is implicated.

Straight Panic is the queer nihilist power electronics project of Thomas Boettner, formerly from Minneapolis, MN and now based in New Orleans, LA. Against assimilation, against ease, Straight Panic matches the intensity of queer rage and desire to richly layered sound, drawing on sources such as the writing of Dennis Cooper to the atrocities of the current “gay purge” in Chechneya.

Straight Panic is the primary solo project of artist Thomas Boettner. Straight Panic queers all that it touches; from release artwork, to subject matter, to blatantly homosexual subject matter, proving that—as always—Industrial music is protest music. Where earlier albums were self-released on the artist's (now defunct) Fuck Mtn. Ltd. Release imprint, more recent titles have been handled by Breathing Problem Productions, Petite Soles, Invocation Films, and Phage Tapes. Though originally based out of Minneapolis, MN, he currently resides in New Orleans, LA, with his husband and three dogs.