Jon Latimer Ginoli (born (1959-12-04)December 4, 1959, in Peoria, Illinois[1]) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter.
Ginoli was a singer, songwriter and guitarist for an indie band called The Outnumbered, which he formed while an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He founded queercore band Pansy Division in 1991 out of frustration with the lack of openly gay musicians in rock music at the time.
He quickly recruited bassist Chris Freeman through an ad Ginoli had placed in SF Weekly looking for "gay musicians into the Ramones, Buzzcocks and early Beatles".
[6] Along with Pansy Division, Ginoli was featured in the 1997 documentary film Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary by Scott Treleaven;[7] as an actor, in the 2002 comedy short Going West by Michael Mew;[8] in the 2008 film Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band by Michael Carmona;[9] and in the 2017 documentary film Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution directed by Yony Leyser.