Stapled Before Sunrise: Underground Zines, Queer Stories & One Hell of a Time

Overview

Stapled Before Sunrise is a true-story dive into the underground—where Xeroxed pages, late-night confessions, and queer voices found each other long before algorithms and hashtags.

Through handmade zines, notebooks, letters, and raw images from the margins, Brett Butler documents a world built on necessity rather than permission. This is not a glossy nostalgia trip. It’s ink-stained, stapled together, sometimes messy, often reckless—and deeply human.

A love letter to misfits, creators, and anyone who ever needed to say something before the sun came up.