Gay Skheads | 3 | A Part of or Apart om the Skhead Movement | Ke

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY: A CONTRADICTN TERMS; NICKY CRANE, AND KEV WILSHAW- GAY NEO-NAZI’S. PART 1.
• DOM LEATHER BULL’S FAG FEEDMY TWEETSSURRENR
• SUBS LOOKG FOR DOMS (GAY MEN ONLY)
• RSIAN CELEBRY NAZI AND GAY-BASHER TAK
• GAY SKHEADS

GAY HISTORY: A CONTRADICTN TERMS; NICKY CRANE, AND KEV WILSHAW- GAY NEO-NAZI’S. PART 1.

Subsequently, I fd the study of sub-cultur and “aberratns” wh the Gay and Lbian muny a fascatg subject. However, ocsnally a subject along that I fd particularly disncertg, and gay neo-nazi’s is one that nfounds me! How a gay man uld attach himself to the sid wrgs and philosophi of one of the twentieth centuri greatt tyrants – pecially one who nmned thoands of gay men and women to the ovens of the ncentratn mps – leav me nfed, and wonrg…have they really studied what this movement was all about, and if they did, how uld they be so dispassnate about !

Crane knew he was gay, but hadn’t acted on . He was outed as gay after was reported that he equented Heaven, a London nightclub. The possibily that Crane was homosexual would have never never crossed their mds, even though he secretly equented London gay bars.

DOM LEATHER BULL’S FAG FEEDMY TWEETSSURRENR

Nohels, Crane attend a gay pri rally on 1986 and appeared gay amatr pornography vios. Even a neo-Nazi dience might have been aware that Heaven was at this pot London’s premier gay club. And homosexualy was anathema to neo-Nazis.

Firstly, homosexualy was libly associated wh effemacy by the far right, and Crane was the very oppose of effemate. Sightgs at gay clubs were dismissed by Crane. Rumours circulated that a proment football hooligan and far-right activist had hurled a homophobic slur at Crane, who rponse had flicted a severe beatg which the victim was lucky to survive.

“People would e to say, ‘Have you heard Nicky’s gay?

SUBS LOOKG FOR DOMS (GAY MEN ONLY)

Jt as some the gay muny refed to believe that a gay man uld be a neo-Nazi, others on the extreme right were unable to acknowledge that a neo-Nazi uld be a gay man. Searchlight reported October 1987 that “Crane, the right’s ft example of a clil psychopath, is also engaged buildg a ‘gay sks’ movement, which meets on Friday nights” at a pub east London.

“Here were gay skheads wearg Nazi regalia, ” says Gary. The gay muny had, by this stage, begun to take notice of Crane, too. The mpaigner Peter Tatchell rells a row eptg after emerged Crane had been allowed to steward a gay rights march.

RSIAN CELEBRY NAZI AND GAY-BASHER TAK

But now they were, and Crane mt have realised he would no longer be wele much of gay London.

GAY SKHEADS

The gay skhead night may simply have been an attempt to rve out a space for himself where he would not be challenged eher for his sexualy or his polics. While his stat the far right was secure, he was beg phed to the g of the gay muny. It was until 1992 that the thls Neo-nazi lear publicly accepted his homosexualy a TV documentary lled Sk Complex.

It featured a seri of documentari about lbian and gay life the UK. The episo broadst on 27 July 1992 was about the gay skhead subculture. First the programme showed rerd terviews wh an unwtg Donaldson, who sound baffled that such a thg as gay skheads existed, and NF lear Patrick Harrgton.

He told the terviewer how he’d known he was gay back his early BM days. He scribed how his worship of Hler had given way to unease about the far right’s homophobia. He had started to feel like a hypocre bee the Nazi movement was so anti-gay, he said.