He was also the official tattoo artist for the motorcycle club, the Hells Angels in Oakland, California. ![]() ![]() He continued: ‘Following the national release of the movie The Wild One with Marlon Brando the original motorcycle film, it seemed to crystallize or release, the obscure and long-hidden feelings of many homosexuals.’ Steward said: ‘One change, however, came about in the homosexual attitude towards tattoos around 1954.’ Steward published his thoughts on gay men getting tattoos in his 1990 book Bad Boys & Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks. He said: ‘I was overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of so many of these figures… as the impulse of many homosexuals to be considered more masculine – by the addition of a tattoo – grew stronger.’ Steward believes tattoos became a symbol of masculinity for gay men, closely tied with the gay leather community. There are also examples of lesbians in the 1940s and 50s literally wearing their sexuality on their sleeve by getting a particular tattoo (but more on that later). Nazis tortured the gay prisoners by castrating some of them and sodomizing them with items like broomsticks. ![]() They also performed dangerous experiments on them to find cures for typhus fever and homosexuality.Īccording to estimations, between 5,000 and 15,000 gay people died in German concentration camps.
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