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Contents:
- NICKY CRANE: THE SECRET DOUBLE LIFE OF A GAY NEO-NAZI
- GAY SKHEADS
- GAY HISTORY: A CONTRADICTN TERMS; NICKY CRANE, AND KEV WILSHAW- GAY NEO-NAZI’S. PART 1.
- RSIAN CELEBRY NAZI AND GAY-BASHER TAK
NICKY CRANE: THE SECRET DOUBLE LIFE OF A GAY NEO-NAZI
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GAY SKHEADS
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Crane knew he was gay, but hadn't acted on . His room looked out across London's gay village - the bars and nightclubs where he worked as a doorman, where he drank and danced. 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.
"Image source, Getty ImagHe appears to have thrown himself enthiastilly to the gay scene around this time. 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.
GAY HISTORY: A CONTRADICTN TERMS; NICKY CRANE, AND KEV WILSHAW- GAY NEO-NAZI’S. PART 1.
A huge row epted the followg year at the London Lbian and Gay Centre Kg's Cross when a gay skhead night was held at the venue. 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. 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". Durg the 1980s, says Healy, "gay Nazis were assumed to be left-wg even if they had Nazi tattoos".
RSIAN CELEBRY NAZI AND GAY-BASHER TAK
"And ed wasn't jt gay sks who flirted wh the inography of fascism. "Image source, Gav WatsonOn the surface, the ia of a gay man embracg neo-Nazism might appear bafflg and self-featg. 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.
"A lot of people that I did ed to hang around wh, they did sort of like hate , " he said 1992 - "" meang gay men. "Certaly, after g out, Crane always scribed himself as gay rather than bisexual. "Even a neo-Nazi dience might have been aware that Heaven was at this pot London's premier gay club.