It is about claiming a freedom from dulling and hypocritical normative pressures. It is all about bad behavior, anarchy, anti-sociality and noise. It celebrates it and rejects the society that rejects it. Punk and queer are a match made in the gutter. In Shakespeare's English, it meant a female prostitute later it also connoted young men who sold sex to older men. A 'punk' has always meant a person up to something disreputable and socially deviant. The term 'punk,' by the way, has a long queer history predating its use in contemporary music.
