You don't just decide to be a skinhead and go out and buy gear. You are born a skinhead and the lifestyle becomes you not the other way around. When a nipper I always admired the skinheads in my area, their disregard for convention and authority, but then I was just like them. I didn't decide to be a skinhead, I identified with them and it was natural for me to be one of them when I was old enough to think for myself. When was that? Well I don't really know but I think I always was one of them from when I started high school, but I suspect earlier.
I was no Einstein and looked forward to a life on the dole queue or a mindless occupation on a minimum wage but one day walked past a recruiting house and I stopped and looked. Then I ventured inside and talked to several guys inside. Before I knew it I had signed on for 6 years. The military taught me a trade and how to kill; that I already knew from an early age; but they taught me to do it legally. The comradery of a squad became my family much like a skinhead squad. I had a uniform like my skinhead clobber, and I felt I had finally found a purpose in life.
I was still a skinhead, shaved head, a uniform and a squad, but I had a trade I could use when I got out but I stayed for 25 years. Did I enjoy it? I supose I did in a way. It was my life, it was my family and I was always myself, a skinhead. The fact that I was gay never was questioned even though had they found out, I would have been discharged. Now I write about skinheads, about their power and agro, their social position as working class and unemployed or employed in menial jobs, their illiteracy and lack of government understanding. Their love of soccer and a rumble. Their needs are few; a skinhead family, and drink down the pub with their mates, a soccer game or two and a rumble afterwards. What do they ask for? A job that pays their worth and a government that understands them. Look at the number of skinheads in the UK alone and tell me they are not a force to be recond with. They are the forgotten minority.
Welcome to my blog. I am a gay skinhead and a SHARP. I am also an author of skinhead books and my favorite author is Richard Allen, and no I don't style my writings after his books. My characters are as real as I can make them in my mind and all my books try to show my feelings against racial, sexual and religious hate. Being a skinhead is not just being a lout although that does help in a fight, but upholding a creed and brotherhood established by working class youth in the late 60's.
