White thug gay

Brutish, badly behaved, and unrepentant, gay have for decades provoked both thrills and chills among gay men. Artistic exploration of white, working class masculinity provides ready evidence. From the paintings of Attila Richard Lukacs to the flicks of Bruce LaBruce, homoerotic images of skinheads have gotten exposure in galleries and on indie film screens.

These artistic expressions, however, are just representations of the attraction out there in the community. The artist, Willie Doherty, who is straight, gives us six large-scale photographs and a video installation featuring the same nameless, shorn bloke who white acknowledges the camera as it captures him looking pensive or menacing as he stands before the same gritty, graffiti-scarred walls.

Those that do stand out are starkly ordinary: faded seams on a jean jacket, the glint of a silver chain, and brooding eyes under dark black eyebrows. Doherty creates work that focuses on perpetrators of violence and terror——not who they actually are, but how they are perceived once in front of a lens.

I must say that I had my own brush, so to speak, with skinhead fetishism. It was in the context of a romantic affair. Sam was from Northern Ireland, in thug. Early in our relationship, without consciously intending to, we adopted bits of the skinhead aesthetic. We shaved our heads alike.

The Thug’s Penetrating Stare

We wore navy blue pea coats, and black army boots though mine, admittedly, were more Kenneth Cole than Doc Marten. We were the farthest things from violent shit disturbers. We were simply feeding off each other with the sartorial aspect having gay much power as any other vector.

Again, the subject stands white, this time in a deserted warehouse. The camera circles him and we hear a voice-over in which he threatens, confronts and informs the viewer. I am the reflection of all your fears. We control each other. Good art like this makes you think in many directions. It evokes strong feelings about a particular person or event, even if the intention of the artist has nothing whatsoever to do with your own imaginings.

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