Daniel "Deke" Frontino Elash (born January 2, 1968) is an American zine editor, musician, actor, activist and historian. In 1988, Nihilson and Tom Jennings met at the Anarchist Survival Gathering in Toronto. Shortly thereafter they began publishing Homocore zine out of San Francisco. One of the earliest queercore zines, it followed in the wake of J.D.s and was instrumental in the expansion of the queer punk scene. The newspaper-style zine not only covered and influenced Bay Area and West Coast punks, it had an international readership. The name "Homocore" came from the pages of J.D.s and from 1988 to 1991, seven issues were produced. Contributors included musicians and writers such as The Apostles, , Donna Dresch, Larry Livermore, Daniel Nicoletta, and G. B. Jones. At the same time, Nihils