Ku Klux Klansmen, neo-Nazis, Christian Identity adherents, racist Skinheads
and Odinists, along with your garden variety white supremacists, these are
the people that populate America's radical right. They inhabit, by
definition, the outermost fringes of our society.

And then there are the gay neo-Nazis.
Talk about a sect within a sect. The members of this tiny subculture on the
radical right, mainly men who inhabit Web chat rooms like "Gay Aryan
Resistance"  just can't seem to get any respect. After all, the real Nazis
murdered thousands of homosexuals, and most people on the modern white
supremacist right act pretty much as if they'd like to follow suit.
Take Pete Peters, a leading ideologue of the racist Christian Identity
religion. The title of his 1993 book, Death to all Homosexuals, leaves little
to the imagination. Or consider Fred Phelps, the radical Topeka Baptist. He
runs the godhatesfags.com web site. Tom Metzger, who leads the White Aryan
Resistance, offers up for his part cartoons that depict gay men being beaten to death.

No matter. Homosexual white men, declares a web page called the Gay Racialist Network
(www.geocities.com/ARCOrg/), are "nature's elite." While straight men are good for breeding,
gay white men are "charismatic leaders that possess genius." Similar messages appear on sites
like Gays Against Semitism (www.geocities.com/gasunited/), and especially in chat rooms with
names such as "Gay Nazi Sex," "Gay Nazi WP [White Power] Fetishists," "Gay Aryan
Neo-Nazi Skinheads," "Nazi Muscle" and, most curious of all, "Diapered Skinheads."

"The Gay Aryan Mann [sic] must rise up," writes one impassioned man in the
"Gay Aryan Resistance" chat room, "and destroy ZOG [the "Zionist Occupation Government"]
and end the Semitic homophobia imposed on our Kultur!" Or, in the posted message of a rare lesbian:
"Even if you are gay and white, or retarded and white, YOU ARE WHITE. BOTTOM LINE!

Instead of letting the white race go extinct because of worthless races such as the african [sic]
race or the mexican [sic] race popping out literally millions of babies a day, we have to fight this
fucked up shit they are doing. They are raping our country."

Although it will come as a surprise to many, there has long been a fascist
homosexual subculture. Hitler's paramilitary SA storm troopers had a
significant gay element  until SS head Heinrich Himmler announced that all
gays would be sent to concentration camps "and shot while trying to escape."
Small groups of gay neo-Nazis dotted the European landscape after the war,
while in America homosexuality continues to be a "secret of postwar American
National Socialism," according to Jeffrey Kaplan, a well-known scholar of extremism.

In fact, Kaplan writes, gays made up a "significant"  if carefully hidden part of George
Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party in the 1960s. In 1974, the first openly gay
American neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist League, was formed in Los Angeles
by Russell Veh. Before disappearing in the 1980s, the group put out a journal 
NS Kampfruf  complete with explicit photographs and racy advertisements.

This reality has been acknowledged by some white supremacists. Long-time
neo-Nazi Harold Covington, revealing his own homophobia, put it this way:
"[T]his movement has a distinct tendency to attract faggots because of the
leather-macho image that the System Jew media imparts to the SS uniform."
Today, life remains tough for the committed gay neo-Nazi.

After a heterosexual neo-Nazi chat room called the "Racialist Club of America"
expelled "practicing homosexuals" recently, one gay man wrote, "[W]e will
never win this war as long as they [straight neo-Nazis] are considered the
NORM of white pride groups." Another man, in considerably more despair, asked
this question: "What does belonging to a group, who would kill you along with
everyone else the second they found out what you were really, make you feel like?"