Jon Ginoli

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| birth_name = Jon Latimer Ginoli

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1959|12|4}}

| birth_place = Peoria, Illinois

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| instrument = Guitar, vocals

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| years_active = 1982–present

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| current_member_of = Pansy Division

| past_member_of = The Outnumbered

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Jon Latimer Ginoli (born {{birth date|1959|12|4}}, in Peoria, Illinois{{citation |last1=Ciminelli |first1=David |first2=Ken |last2=Knox |title=Homocore: The Loud and Raucous Rise of Queer Rock |place=New York |publisher=Alyson Books |year=2005 |isbn=1-55583-855-3 |oclc=60491880 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/homocoreloudrauc00cimi }}) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a member of Pansy Division.

Early life

Ginoli "lived a normal life in a normal place with a normal family with two parents and a younger sister."{{cite book |last=Ginoli |first=Jon |title=Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division |date=2009 |publisher=Cleis Press |isbn=978-1573443432}} In 1965 at the age of five, he developed an interest in music by listening to Chicago radio stations. He attended Richwoods High School which he graduated from in 1978. In 1977 he created his own rock and roll fanzine, Hoopla.

Career

= The Outnumbered =

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.{{cite web |title=The Outnumbered |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1568428-The-Outnumbered |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326020911/https://www.discogs.com/artist/1568428-The-Outnumbered |archive-date=March 26, 2022 |access-date=March 26, 2022 |work=Discogs |language=en}}{{cite web |author=John "Jughead" Pierson |date=January 16, 2023 |title=Episode 159: Jon Ginoli of The Outnumbered and Pansy Division on LoFi Interviews with HiFi Guests |url=https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jugheadsbasementtnh/episodes/2023-01-16T08_00_00-08_00 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423144148/https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/jugheadsbasementtnh/episodes/2023-01-16T08_00_00-08_00 |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |access-date=April 23, 2023 |publisher=Jughead's Basement Podcast |language=en}} While in college, Ginoli served as a DJ at Urbana radio station WPGU.

= Pansy Division =

Ginoli moved from Illinois to California in the late 80s. He founded queercore band Pansy Division in 1991 out of frustration with the lack of openly gay musicians in rock music at the time. He quickly recruited bassist Chris Freeman through an ad Ginoli had placed in SF Weekly looking for "gay musicians into the Ramones, Buzzcocks and early Beatles". The band went through many different drummers before settling on Luis Illades in late 1996. The band has released seven studio albums, first on Lookout! Records and later on Alternative Tentacles.{{cite web |title=Pansy Division |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/398013-Pansy-Division |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312053512/https://www.discogs.com/artist/398013-Pansy-Division |archive-date=March 12, 2023 |access-date=March 12, 2023 |work=Discogs |language=en}}

Personal life

Ginoli is gay.{{citation |title=Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion |last=Myers |first=Ben |year=2006 |publisher=The Disinformation Company |isbn=1-932857-32-X |oclc=237050027}}

Other Work

Along with Pansy Division, Ginoli was featured in the 1997 documentary film Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary by Scott Treleaven;{{Citation |last=Treleaven |first=Scott |title=Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary |date=March 1, 1997 |type=Documentary, Short |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402456/ |access-date=January 28, 2025 |others=Jen Angel, Chris Freeman, Jon Ginoli}} as an actor, in the 2002 comedy short Going West by Michael Mew;{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354601/ |title= Going West (2002) |publisher= IMDb |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170209024913/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354601/ |access-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-date= February 9, 2017 |language=en}} in the 2008 film Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band by Michael Carmona;{{cite web |url=https://tucollegian.org/music-and-mayhem-with-maddie-an-interview-with-jon-ginoli/ |title= Music and Mayhem with Maddie: an interview with Jon Ginoli |last= Walters |first= Maddie |date= October 24, 2022 |publisher= The Collegian, University of Tulsa |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230423123954/https://tucollegian.org/music-and-mayhem-with-maddie-an-interview-with-jon-ginoli/ |language=en |access-date=April 23, 2023|archive-date= April 23, 2023 }} and in the 2017 documentary film Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution directed by Yony Leyser.{{cite web |last=Farber |first=Jim |date=20 September 2018 |title=Queercore: behind a documentary reliving the gay punk movement |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/20/queercore-punk-revolution-documentary-yony-leyser-bruce-labruce |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022073739/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/20/queercore-punk-revolution-documentary-yony-leyser-bruce-labruce |archive-date=22 October 2022 |access-date=22 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |language=en}}