36 Fetish Every Gay Man Should Know

Contents:

• GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE
• AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
• NICKY CRANE: THE SECRET DOUBLE LIFE OF A GAY NEO-NAZI
• GAY HISTORY: A CONTRADICTN TERMS; NICKY CRANE, AND KEV WILSHAW- GAY NEO-NAZI’S. PART 1.
• RSIAN CELEBRY NAZI AND GAY-BASHER TAK
• GAY SKHEAD CLOTHG

GAY ARYAN NATNS MEMBERS ARE THE FRGE OF THE FRGE

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.

"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! 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.

AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI

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.

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

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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.

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

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. 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.

RSIAN CELEBRY NAZI AND GAY-BASHER TAK

"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. "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. 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.

GAY SKHEAD CLOTHG

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.

At a Cultural Studi nference June 1998(1) I reported on an ether muny of US and Canadian gay sks that I have been monorg sce November 1997, the Queer Skhead Brotherhood [QSB].

The profile of QSB list subscribers that emerged may be somewhat surprisg both to straight skheads on both sis of the Atlantic and to those who follows the gay skhead movement Europe: though QSB sks are on average olr than straight sks who are still active the cult, they share wh straight sks a loyalty to tradnal skhead culture and iology: Like other skheads, QSB sks fd important to signal their skhead stat by keepg hair at a #3 cut or shorter and regularly wearg some versn of skhead gear.