Lynn Breedlove

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Lynn Breedlove (also known as Lynnee Breedlove) (born in Oakland, California) is an American musician, writer, and performer.

Breedlove was a founding member and lead singer of the San Francisco queercore punk band Tribe 8. One of the band's first singles was released by the queercore record label Outpunk and later releases were on the independent record label Alternative Tentacles. The band appeared on film in A Gun For Jennifer and also performed in She's Real, Worse Than Queer, and Rise Above: A Tribe 8 Documentary by Tracy Flannigan.

Breedlove has performed spoken word on Sister Spit tours, at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival doing outreach on subjects considered controversial by most feminists, such as BDSM, femme butch culture, and trans inclusion. Tribe 8 also played at the San Francisco Transgender March, multiple Ladyfests and LGBT Pride Festivals, including Europride 2000 in Rome, Italy.

From 2000 to 2006, Breedlove co-hosted a monthly queer open mike in San Francisco called K'vetch along with Tara Jepsen.

In 2002, Breedlove's first novel, Godspeed was published by St. Martin's Press. The main character of the book was a methamphetamine-using bicycle messenger named Jim.

Starting in 2004, Breedlove created the solo show Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show which has been touring the US, Canada, and Europe in 5 languages.

Since 2004 Breedlove often hosts Gender Pirates, a monthly benefit for the group United Genders of the Universe in San Francisco, and has hosted the Unka Lynnee Show on Pirate Cat Radio, as well as taught Unka Lynnee's Skool 4 Boyz at The Harvey Milk Insistute. The column, Unka Lynnee's Skool 4 Boyz originally at On Our Backs magazine is slated to begin anew at Velvetpark magazine. Breedlove is currently writing a collection advice from Unka Lynnee with a working title of "How Boyz and Girls Can Get Along by Someone Who Has Been Both."

In 2006, production began on a short film version of Godspeed[1] based on the novel, written, directed by and starring Breedlove as Jim, the antihero.

[edit] Filmography

A Gun For Jennifer, 1996
She's Real, Worse Than Queer by Lucy Thane, 1997
Step up and be vocal: Interviews zu Queer Punk und Feminismus in San Francisco by Uta Busch und Sandra Ortmann, 2001
Rise Above: A Tribe 8 Documentary by Tracy Flannigan, 2003