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Contents:

• NICKY CRANE: THE SECRET DOUBLE LIFE OF A GAY NEO-NAZI
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• SPECT COLORADO LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG HAD NEO-NAZI LEANGS, TARGETED GAY PEOPLE, OFFICERS TTIFY
• KEV SPACEY SAYS HE DIDN’T PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY BEE HIS FATHER WAS A ‘WHE SUPREMACIST AND A NEO-NAZI’
• NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI
• FORMER NEO-NAZI COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS JEWISH HERAGE
• FACT CHECK: DID 'LET'S GO BRANDON' GAY PORN STAR BEAT UP 35 NEO-NAZIS?
• LAS VEGAS NEO-NAZI CHARGED WH PLOT TO BOMB GAY CLUB, SYNAGOGUE
• GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS
• WAS THE STAR OF A ‘LET’S GO BRANDON’ GAY PORN SERI ARRTED FOR BEATG UP NAZIS?

NICKY CRANE: THE SECRET DOUBLE LIFE OF A GAY NEO-NAZI

Unbeknown to his ras, however, a very different si to Nicky Crane was was a Thursday night at Heaven, a gay nightclub below London's Charg Cross statn. His imposg ame meant he easily found work as a doorman at gay venu through a secury if the neo-Nazi world would have abhorred his sexualy, the vast majory of London's gay scene would have been equally horrified to learn that he was a the learship of the largely liberal-left gay rights movement that was growg London durg the 1980s, fascist symbolism was an obv and outrageo taboo - a remr of the persecutn that lbians and gay men had suffered. Acrdg to femist scholar Sheila Jefeys' book The Lbian Hery, a motn unfold 1984 when a group of gay skheads turned up at a gay bar London's Kg's Cross and began sieg heilg.

But appears that, at least ially, he was able to flect qutns about his polics by prentg himself on the gay scene as a skhead first and iend Byrne, who scrib himself as "sort of more a Labour person", had no time for the far-right element that had filtrated the skhead Byrne was nvced at the time that Crane "wasn't really a Nazi.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

The softly spoken Nicky he knew was too nice to be an extremist, Byrne wasn't as fanciful as might the mid-1980s, a gay skhead scene was begng to flourish London, says Murray Healy, thor of Gay Sks: Class, Masculy and Queer men had many different reasons for adoptg the look, he says. Others found that, an era when all gay men were wily assumed to be mp and effemate, "you were ls likely to get picked on if you looked like a queer-basher".

Jt as Adolf Hler's regime had thrown gays and lbians to ath mps, the neo-Nazi movement remaed stnchly was beg all too aware of the ntradictn of beg a gay neo-Nazi. "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 of this spread among the skhead aterny, too.

SPECT COLORADO LGBTQ NIGHTCLUB SHOOTG HAD NEO-NAZI LEANGS, TARGETED GAY PEOPLE, OFFICERS TTIFY

"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 1987 Crane and Donaldson set up a group lled Blood & Honour. 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 's sexualy might by now have been obv to any terted onlooker, but the neo-Nazi scene remaed nial. He was nonted by anti-fascists attendg a Pri rally Kenngton, south London, mpaigner Peter Tatchell rells a row eptg after emerged Crane had been allowed to steward a gay rights march.

KEV SPACEY SAYS HE DIDN’T PUBLICLY COME OUT AS GAY BEE HIS FATHER WAS A ‘WHE SUPREMACIST AND A NEO-NAZI’

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 his stat the far right was secure, he was beg phed to the g of the gay muny. Its star attractn was Nicky the programme showed rerd terviews wh an unwtg Donaldson, who sound baffled that such a thg as gay skheads existed, and NF lear Patrick then the mera cut to Crane, mouflage gear and Dr Martens boots, his Soho ptn, Nicky Crane terviewed the 1990s for a Channel 4 documentaryHe told the terviewer how he'd known he was gay back his early BM days. The e of ath was given on his ath certifite as bronchopnmonia, a fatal flammatn of the air passag to the was a victim of the disease that had killed so many other young gay men of his generatn.

Shorn of s polil associatns, the look was by now, if anythg, more popular London's Old Compton Street or Manchter's Canal Street than on football terrac or far-right s after Crane's ath, says Healy, the skhead is "regnised as a gay man unambiguoly London and Manchter". "He may be an extreme se, but Crane reflects an era which people's expectatns of what a gay man looked and behaved like began to shift.

"Everybody always knew gay people, but they jt didn't know , " says Max Schaefer, whose 2010 novel Children of the Sun featur a character fascated by Crane. This emphasis is rooted unter-readg other historil texts, which often nflate homosexualy and fascism as (1) one and the same or (2) learly related along a spectm, between the “moral generacy” of homosexualy and the atroci produced by fascist regim. The tradnal mols fail to scribe the Natnal Socialist League (NSL), a US neo-Nazi anizatn operatg om 1974 until the late 1980s, which was explicly stctured to rporate and clu gay men to the whe supremacist and fascist far right.

NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

The mechanisms provi discursive space for whe gay men to posn themselv as rponsible cizens and important actors wh the cultural, social, and ary mechanisms of an imaged fascist state. Conontg this polil and historil realy is cril to unrstandg the neo-fascist polil nfiguratns that rporate whe gay men that we see today. The spect charged wh killg five people at a Colorado LGBTQ dance party had vised the nightclub at least six tim before, cludg wh their mother, but repeatedly exprsed vlent tentn to hurt gay people, police officers ttified urt Wednday.

"The fense alleged that Aldrich had told Thomas Jam, who first nonted Aldrich before other patrons cludg Rich Fierro me to assist, that "my mom won't accept me bee I'm gay. Maxim Martskevich, the 36-year-old Neo-Nazi founr of Occupy Pedophilia, a Rsian vigilante group that tortured spected gay teenagers on vio, has reportedly mted suici while servg a 10-year prison sentence Siberia for an unrelated vlent offense, acrdg to the Mosw Tim. Through Format 18, he allegedly arranged the productn and sale of vios showg immigrants beg 2013, Martskevich beme famo amongst the Wtern LGBTQ muny for his vios associated wh Occupy Pedophilia, his group that ed social media to lure gay men wh promis of sex only to rerd their huiated and physil torment on mera.

In many of his vios, Martskevich and his horts punched and slapped the gay men, forced them to strip to their unrwear, shaved their heads reverse Mohawks, pated rabows the sheared strip upon their heads, forced them to hold sex toys, ma them state their full nam, had them utter self-nigratg statements like "I suck c*ck" and also forced them to drk one vio, Martskevich brandished a two-pronged fork towards a young man's eye and told him that he uld eher lose his eye or be sodomized wh the fork.

FORMER NEO-NAZI COM OUT AS GAY, REVEALS JEWISH HERAGE

One of the most popular groups had 75, 000 followers, acrdg to the Amerin tech news webse The mpaign also spawned a spoff group, Occupy Gerontophilia, which targeted young gay people acced of "prostutg" themselv to olr men.

FACT CHECK: DID 'LET'S GO BRANDON' GAY PORN STAR BEAT UP 35 NEO-NAZIS?

Martskevich's anti-gay group and s vios began to surface the Wt the same year that the Rsian feral ernment signed a natnal law crimalizg as "homosexual propaganda. " The law has sce been ed to shut down LGBTQ youth groups, tnal s as well as to fire gay teachers, arrt people monstratg for LGBTQ rights and harass queer cizens out of the untry. A former Neo-Nazi out as gay and reveals his Jewish herage, pictured is an Amerin Nazi party member rryg a Nazi flag September 25, 2004 Valley Fe, Pennsylvania.

"If you're gay, is acceptable society, but wh the group of people 's not acceptable, and I found on one or two ocsns when I was spected of beg gay I was subjected to abe. The reporter was nfed by Wilshaw's ments and had qutned him, sayg: "So at this pot your life, you're a Nazi wh a Jewish background who is gay? Jewish people are nsired to be the ma target, but other racial mory groups, gays, lbians and sometim Christians receive hate om the anizatn.

The ghost of Nazism has hnted Amerin polics the past few years, wh public figur parg Donald Tmp to Hler, his ralli likened to those anised by the German durg his rise to recent weeks, pop star Kanye Wt fanned the flam of antisemism public too, wh a seri of ments which has led to him beg dropped by multiple fashn labels and when a social media post went viral about a gay porn star beatg up nearly three dozen neo-Nazis, appeared to tap to raw anxiety about the morn face and fluence of fascism. The ClaimMultiple posts across Twter and Redd, posted on October 24-25, 2022, claimed that a gay porn star lled Brandon Cummgs "From The Famo 'Let's Go Brandon' Seri Of Male On Male Porn" was arrted after beatg up 35 Neo-Nazis. "As far as our rearch has shown, there is no Let's Go Brandon seri of gay adult films eher nor do there appear to be a porn star lled "Brandon Cummgs.

LAS VEGAS NEO-NAZI CHARGED WH PLOT TO BOMB GAY CLUB, SYNAGOGUE

" While there is an gay adult film star lled Brandon Parker, he has no likens to the photo the the person the photo has not been intified, their mugshot has been circulated onle for several years articl about attractive crimals and onle foms sce at least 2014. Orange County prosecutors say they are examg the possibily that the killg was a hate crime — Bernste was Jewish and openly gay — and some recent news reports have suggted that the alleged killer might hold far-right or even whe supremacist polil beliefs.

The Los Angel Tim quoted his mother, Jeanne Pepper Bernste, as sayg she had worried durg her son’s life that he might be a target — bee he was small, and Jewish, and gay. (AP) — The 22-year-old acced of rryg out the adly mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs November ran a neo-Nazi webse and ed gay and racial slurs while gamg onle, a police tective ttified Wednday. Anrson Lee Aldrich also posted an image of a rifle spe traed on a gay pri para and ed a bigoted slur when referrg to someone who was gay, Detective Rebec Jo said.

The FBI arrted and charged an alleged Las Vegas neo-Nazi wh plottg to bomb a synagogue and gay club the cy on Climo, 23, who worked as a secury guard, allegedly was found to be posssn of bomb-makg materials and was "munitg wh dividuals who intified wh a whe supremacist extremist anizatn g the Natnal Socialist Movement to promote their iology, " acrdg to the Las Vegas Jot Terrorism Task Force began vtigatg Climo April, acrdg to the crimal plat, after learned he was munitg wh Atomwaffen Divisn, a whe supremacist neo-Nazi group. "The FBI ed a nfintial rmant to beg discsg weapons and explosiv on an encrypted chat app and eventually quoted Climo "regularly [g] rogatory racial, anti-Semic, and homosexual slurs. "In late June and early July, Climo discsed preparg for an attack and dog surveillance " great tail" of a bar on Fremont Street downtown Las Vegas he claimed "tered to homosexuals.

GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE

8 and found therme, sulfuric acid, a solrg iron, circu boards and other bomb-makg ponents, acrdg to the was arrted and admted to agents he hated "Ain-Amerins, Jews, and Homosexuals" and was planng on buildg an improvised explosive vice. I spise and loathe the far right, but many, many gay men have been drawn not jt to the ludicro pantomime of fascism (footage om Msoli's Italy looks unnnily like a Mardi Gras), but also to the actual practice.

Ernst Rohm, one of Hler's close advisers until the Fuhrer had him shot, was a lirly promiscuo gay man; Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch hard-right nut who was assassated earlier this year, ed to boast that his anti-Mlim polici were not racist: "How n I be agast north Ains? "This is all a very roundabout way of sayg that was pretty tough for me to figure out which, if any, of the assembled lic Nazis were gay, and which jt looked .

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Sure, they rant about Jews and gays (the two mori clost to my heart), but jt seems so absurd that I n't help but se and do my job: pretendg to be one of them. We ma pole small talk about how evil blacks or gays or some other mory group are; he told me an unpublishably disgtg joke, and I chortled along and - what n I say? (In the event, there weren't that many sturdy walls Afghanistan, so after a while they gave this up and jt started beheadg them stead, but I wasn't gog to start lecturg Abu on gay-killg techniqu at this pot.

Sce I was nearg the end of my unrver gig, I tried to persua him that perhaps gay people weren't evil, pecially light of the fact that he had jt been havg wild gay to LA and Rs. The members of this ty subculture on the radil right — maly men who hab Web chat rooms like "Gay Aryan Ristance" — jt n't seem to get any rpect. After all, the real Nazis murred thoands of gay men and lbians, and most people on the morn whe supremacist right act pretty much as if they'd like to follow su.

Siar msag appear on s like Gays Agast Semism, and pecially chat rooms wh nam such as "Gay Nazi Sex, " "Gay Nazi WP [Whe Power] Fetishists, " "Gay Aryan Neo-Nazi Skheads, " "Nazi Mcle" and, most cur of all, "Diapered Skheads.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME - PHOTOGRAPHS

"The Gay Aryan Mann [sic] mt rise up, " wr one impassned man the "Gay Aryan Ristance" chat room, "and stroy ZOG [the "Znist Occupatn Government"] and end the Semic homophobia imposed on our Kultur!

WAS THE STAR OF A ‘LET’S GO BRANDON’ GAY PORN SERI ARRTED FOR BEATG UP NAZIS?

Hler's paraary SA storm troopers had a signifint gay element — until SS head Herich Himmler announced that all gays would be sent to ncentratn mps "and shot while tryg to pe. Small groups of gay neo-Nazis dotted the European landspe after the war, while Ameri homosexualy ntu to be a "secret of postwar Amerin Natnal Socialism, " acrdg to Jefey Kaplan, a well-known scholar of extremism.

Long-time neo-Nazi Harold Covgton, revealg his own homophobia, put this way: "[T]his movement has a distct tenncy to attract f------ bee of the leather-macho image that the System Jew media imparts to the SS uniform. After a heterosexual neo-Nazi chat room lled the "Racialist Club of Ameri" expelled "practicg homosexuals" recently, one gay man wrote, "[W]e will never w this war as long as they [straight neo-Nazis] are nsired the NORM of whe pri groups.