Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 212 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

1. "Is the phenomenon of the gay skin a cop-out to oppressive straight patriarchy? Or does it queer this totem of authentic masculinity? Sharing a uniform, a propensity for stripping to the waist, all-male environments and hard lads, straight and gay skins are radically similar - which could spell bovver for both parties. Are the two practically indistinguishable? Were all skinheads always just a touch queer? As many a gay skin will recall of his straight mates, 'You'll be amazed what a skinhead'll get up to after a few pints ... '" "Through accounts from straight skinhead subculture, contemporary news coverage, subcultural theorists and memories of gay skins in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Murray Healy puts the boot into those myths of masculinity which constitute and which are seemingly evidenced by the skinhead, and challenges assumptions about class, queerness and real men. Tracing the historical development of the gay skin from 1968, he assesses what gay men have done to the hardest youth cult of them all - and how it has transformed the gay scene."--Jacket.

Subject

1. Gay men > Great Britain > Identity
2. Gay skinheads > Great Britain
3. Alienation (Social psychology) > Great Britain
4. Alienation (Social psychology)
5. Gay men > Identity
6. Gay skinheads
7. Skinhead
8. Homosexualität
9. Skinheads
10. Homoseksuelen
11. Great Britain
12. Großbritannien

Contents

1. 1. Introduction -- 2. Kids, cults and common queers -- 3. Getting harder : skinheads and homosexuals -- 4. "I am what I want" -- 5. Cult fiction -- 6. Fetishizing masculinity -- 7. Real men, phallicism and fascism -- 8. "The hardest possible image" -- 9. The queer appropriators : simulated skin sex -- 10. What does it all mean?

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.