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Class Issues
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 Gay
Skins : Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriation (Sexual
Politics)
by Murray Healy
Gay Skins: Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriation
Murray Healy In Gay Skins, Murray Healy contests the myths of masculinity that
constitute and are seemingly evidenced by the skinhead, and challenges
assumptions about class, queerness and 'real men'. He deconstructs the
'authentic masculinity' of the skinhead, drawing parallels between the extreme
masculinization of the skinhead and homoerotic desire and fantasy. He suggests
that straight and gay skins's lifestyles are radically similar. Healy assesses
what gay men have done to the hardest youth cult of them all, and how it has
transformed the gay scene.
Murray Healy is a journalist, academic and costume designer.
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Marxism in these web pages is understood as the theory and
practice of working class self-emancipation. This theoretical and political tradition is
radically different from the way Marxism is generally described by both critics and many
'adherents' who identify Marxism with the repressive state capitalist regimes that used to
dominate Russia and eastern Europe and still hold sway in China, North Korea, Vietnam and
Cuba.
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There are lots of e-texts of Marx and Engels. Works
actually stored, digitally, in the MEIA are noted by being "linked" -- that is,
the text's name is highlighted. You can click on it and see the piece in question. The
non-links are provided for the sake of completeness of perspective.
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By Thorstein Veblen
Although written during the late 1800s, the excesses of the higher echelons can still be applied to modern society. View an author portrait.
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