Gay men’s adoption of skinhead style mixed homoeroticism, kitsch, and masculinization

Evidence

Since the mid-1980s skinhead style became increasingly popular amongst gay men in London. As mentioned previously there had been gay skinheads from the inception of the culture but during the 1980s and 1990s the style became ubiquitous in gay nightclubs. Murray Healy argues that the gay appropriation of skinhead styles is a complex combination of homoerotic desire, kitsch, and a masculinization of gay culture. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2987