Ken Death Gets Out of Jail

Native of Portland, Oregon, Ken Mieske was a heavy metal rock musician and skinhead. As a teenager, Mieske was the live-in “houseboy” of homosexual film-maker Gus Van Sant, who made a film about the teenage rent-boys of Portland. The film featured Mieske, who was jailed for burglary at one point, and Van Sant made a special film about him called “Ken Death Gets Out of Jail.”

In an interview with The Advocate LGBT magazine, Van Sant said “The subjects of my films… were about gay characters. They were what brought me out of the closet… The films brought me out. That’s what my interest was. These gay characters and gay stories. And I was gay. My private life became my public life.” [1]

Mieske went on to come under the influence of the White Supremacist Movement, White Aryan Resistance (WAR) founded by Tom Metzger. He and two friends Kyle Brewster and Steve Strasser formed a gang calling themselves East Side White Pride (ESWP). He was a hero in skinhead circles with his style of brash punk rock music and blatant racism.

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