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

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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.

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"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. 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.

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