“Punks are my people,” says John Waters, the infamous director whose transgressive, low-budget ’70s films helped spawn the midnight movie phenomenon around the same time punk rock was offering up an equally raw musical alternative to mainstream fare.
Though he eschews tattoos and lives in suit jackets, Waters tells Billboard he feels more at home in a punk bar than a gay bar. “Punks are usually never square. Some gay people are, and the gay people I like would be in the punk bar and are often on the down low, which I find kind of refreshing in today’s world where everybody knows everything about…
