Gay skinhead

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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.^[1]

Gay skinheads figure in the work of gay artists such as Canadian painter Attila Richard Lukacs and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. Gay skinheads have been featured on the catwalks of fashion designers Alexander McQueen and Jean-Paul Gaultier since the early 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

Not all skinheads who are gay fetishize the skinhead image. These individuals may prefer not to be referred to as gayskins because of the sexual connotations—and they may not associate with self-identified gayskins for the same reason, but to traditional skinhead culture.^{[citation needed]}

There exists a vibrant, gay skinhead social scene, both online and at events,^[2][3] particularly in parts of Europe and the United Kingdom.^[4]

• Nicky Crane
• Queercore
• SHARP

• Borgeson, Kevin; Valeri, Robin (2015). "Gay Skinheads: Negotiating a Gay Identity in a Culture of Traditional Masculinity". The Journal of Men's Studies. 23 (1): 44–62. doi:10.1177/1060826514561975. ISSN 1060-8265. S2CID 146556362.
• Healy, Murray (1996). Gay Skins: Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriation. Cassell. ISBN 978-1-62517-435-2.
• Borgeson, Kevin; Valeri, Robin Maria (2017). Skinhead History, Identity, and Culture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-47479-3.
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• ""Oi! Skins": Trans-Atlantic Gay Skinhead Discourse on the Internet Archived 2020-07-11 at the Wayback Machine" by James Haines, Intercultural Communication (1999)
• "An Analysis of Skinhead Websites and Social Networks, A Decade Later" by Robin Maria Valeri, Nicole E. Sweazy and Kevin Borgeson, Michigan Sociological Review (2017)
• "Nicky Crane: The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi" by Jon Kelly, BBC News Magazine (Dec 6, 2013)

• "The Totally Frightful Issue: Gay Skinheads - Queerty.com". Archived from the original on July 16, 2008. Retrieved April 23, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
• Non-Fetish Queer Skinheads - internets oldest place for gay skinheads (on various platforms since 1998)
• "Queer Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice " Network of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Queer Skinheads and friends worldwide.
• "Skins and Punks United We Stand " LGBTQIA Skinheads, Punks and friends association.