Gay skinhead

A gay skinhead, also known as a gayskin or queerskin, is a gay person who identifies with the skinhead subculture. Some gay skinheads have a sexual fetish for skinhead clothing styles. He was the British extreme right's most feared streetfighter. But almost right up to his death 20 years ago, Nicky Crane led a precarious dual existence - until it fell dramatically apart.

The. BGS is your gay skin community with an emphasis on friendships and a great social environment. Areas are available for those who wish to have more intimate fun. Admisison will be £10 at the door CASH. A coat check will be available for £1. While the gay traditional and gay generalist sites usually explicitly state that they are not gay sex sites, promote the skinhead subculture, and disavow both racism and the stereotypic racist skinhead image.

This chapter explores each of these issues through an examination of research, evidence from the /social networks, and interviews to determine why gay men become skinheads, their acceptance within the skinhead community, and the extent to which gay skinheads challenge skinhead identity. He was the British extreme right's most feared streetfighter.

But almost right up to his death 20 years ago, Nicky Crane led a precarious dual existence - until it fell dramatically apart. The skinhead gang marched in military formation down the High Street clutching iron bars, knives, staves, pickaxe handles and clubs. There were at least of them. They had spent two days planning their attack. The date was 28 March Soon they reached their target - a queue of mostly black filmgoers outside the Odeon cinema in Woolwich, south-east London.

Most of them belonged to an extreme far-right group called the British Movement BM. This particular "unit" had already acquired a reputation for brutal racist violence thanks to its charismatic young local organiser. Many victims had learned to fear the sight of his 6ft 2in frame, which was adorned with Nazi tattoos.

His name was Nicky Crane. But as he led the ambush, Crane was concealing a secret from his enemies and his fascist comrades alike. Crane knew he was gay, but hadn't acted on it. Not yet. Twelve years later, the same Nicky Crane sat in his Soho bedsit. His room looked out across London's gay village - the bars and nightclubs where he worked as a doorman, where he drank and danced. Crane flicked through a scrapbook filled with photos and news clippings from his far-right past.

For years he had managed to keep the two worlds entirely separate. But now he wasn't going to pretend any more. A boy stands in front of a poster featuring Nicky Crane. Nicola Vincenzo Crane was born on 21 May in a semi-detached house on a leafy street in Bexley, south-east London. One of 10 siblings, he grew up in nearby Crayford, Kent.

As his name suggests, he had an unlikely background for a British nationalist and Aryan warrior. He was of Italian heritage through his mother Dorothy, whose maiden name was D'Ambrosio. His father worked as a structural draughtsman.

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But from an early age Crane found a surrogate family in the south-east London skinhead scene. Its members had developed a reputation for violence, starting fights and disrupting gigs by bands such as Sham 69 and Bad Manners. In the late s, gangs like Crane's were widely feared. The south-east London skins also had close connections to the far right. Whereas the original skinheads in the late s had borrowed the fashion of Caribbean immigrants and shared their love of ska and reggae music, a highly visible minority of skins during the movement's revival in the late s were attaching themselves to groups like the resurgent National Front NF.

In particular the openly neo-Nazi BM, under the leadership of Michael McLaughlin, was actively targeting young, disaffected working-class men from football terraces as well as the punk and skinhead scenes for recruitment. Crane was an enthusiastic convert to the ideology of National Socialism.