13 Facts About Nicky Crane

Nicola Vincenzo "Nicky" Crane was an English neo-Nazi activist.

Nicky Crane came out as gay before dying from an AIDS-related illness in 1993.

Nicky Crane joined the British Movement in the late 1970s, and by 1980, he had become the BM organiser for Kent.

Also in 1981, Nicky Crane was convicted and jailed for four years for his role in a BM-organised attack on a group of black youths arriving on a train at Woolwich Arsenal railway station in 1980.

Nicky Crane once led an attack on an anti-racist concert being held in Jubilee Gardens in London.

Pictures of him storming the stage where singer Hank Wangford was performing appeared in national newspapers; although Nicky Crane was clearly identifiable, no action was taken.

Nicky Crane was jailed again in 1986 for six months following a fight on an Underground train.

Nicky Crane was leading a double life as a homosexual, even serving as a steward at the London gay pride march in 1986.

Nicky Crane was a regular at London gay clubs such as Heaven, Bolts and the Bell pub.

Nicky Crane worked for the protection agency Gentle Touch, and was able to shrug off any connection with the London gay scene as just part of his security work.

Nicky Crane appeared in the Psychic TV music video for Unclean, and in amateur gay porn films while still a neo-Nazi activist.

In 1992, Nicky Crane admitted his homosexuality in a segment of the Channel 4 magazine show Out titled "Skin Complex".

Nicky Crane's homosexuality is a central theme of Max Schaefer's 2010 novel, Children of the Sun, which follows James, a budding screenwriter in 2003 who becomes obsessed with the now deceased Nicky Crane.