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This past December I highlighted a piece about Nicky Crane. For those of us in the US Nicky is a bit obscure, in the 80s Nicky was a far-right Neo-Nazi with a very dangerous secret. At the time of his death in 1993 from AIDS his "secret" was out.

In a July 27, 1992 Channel 4 documentary, Nicky Crane admitted to what had only been hinted at and ignored:

He told the interviewer how he'd known he was gay back in his early BM days. He described how his worship of Hitler had given way to unease about the far right's homophobia.

He had started to feel like a hypocrite because the Nazi movement was so anti-gay, he said. "So I just, like, couldn't stay in it." Crane said he was "ashamed" of his political past and insisted he had changed.

"The views I've got now is, I believe in individualism and I don't care if anyone's black, Jewish or anything," he added. "I either like or dislike a person as an individual, not what their colour is or anything."

The revelation attracted considerable press attention. The Sun ran a story with the headline "NAZI NICK IS A PANZI". Below it described the "Weird secret he kept from gay-bashers".

Crane reiterated that he had abandoned Nazi ideology. "It is all in the past," he told the paper. "I've made a dramatic change in my life."

So why I am returning to Nicky Crane's story?

It has come to my attention that there is a film in the works based largely on Crane's life and the culture or sub-culture he was involved in for most of his short life. It is an important story even for those of us living in the US as we have seen the re-emergence of Neo-Nazi like thought and in some cases calls-for-action masked behind cries of religious liberty.

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