Den som däremot verkligen går företeelsen på djupet är Murray Healy som skrivit boken Gay Skins – Class, Masculinity, and Queer Appropriation (ISBN: 0304333239).
“When I’m out, I grade people. If someone’s got nationalist badges or Union jacks, that’s something. Fashion skins wouldn’t wear anything like that. White laces – I know on one level it’s superficial, it’s all image, but trendy skins, fashion skins go near that, they wouldn’t ‘stoop that low’ as they’d say. So if I see patches, Skrewdriver, Nationalist badges on t-shirts, 20-hole rangers, white laces, there’s a pretty good chance they’re real ‘cause they’re showing a bit more of a commitment.”
He believes an association with the right is what makes skinheads so sexy to all those who admire them, even if it’s disavowed.
“There’s a lot of people I’ve met, who love that image, and they’d love to be like that, but they won’t step over the line. Probably ‘cause they’re too politically correct – that’s what it comes down to. I know a lot of gay people who think I’m beyond the pale because of the right wing thing, they can’t accept that. But I also know they fucking wet themselves.”
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