This paper investigates the case study of queercore, providing a socio-historical analysis of its subcultural
production, in the terms of what Michel Foucault has called archaeology of knowledge (1969). In
particular, we will focus on: the self-definition of the movement; the conflicts between the two merged
worlds of punk and queer culture; the \u201cinternal-subcultural\u201d conflicts between both queercore and
punk, and between queercore and gay\lesbian music culture; the political aspects of differentiation.
In the conclusion, we will offer an innovative theoretical proposal about the interpretation of subcultures
in ecological and semiotic terms, combining the contribution of the American sociologist Andrew Abbot
and of the Russian semiologist Jurij Michajlovi\u10d Lotma