Gutter punk
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A group of gutter punks in New Orleans, Louisiana, in May 2002.
A gutter punk is a homeless or transient individual who displays a variety of specific physical traits and characteristics that often, but not always, are associated with the punk subculture.[1] Attributes may include unkempt dreadlocks, nose rings, mohawk hairstyles and spray-painted faces.[2]
Gutter punks are often panhandlers with alcohol or drug addictions,[3][4] often displaying cardboard signs that make statements about their lifestyles.[3] Many of them carry dogs.
Gutter punks are generally characterized as being voluntarily unemployed in a "mainstream" sense. They are also known to some as "crusties", but most self-identified "gutter punks" will distinguish themselves from "crusties" and vice versa.
See also
- The Decline of Western Civilization III: film about young homeless punks of Los Angeles in the late 1990s
- Anarcho-punk
- Hitchhiking
- Hobo
- Punk subculture
- Freighthopping
- Crust punk
- Squatting
- Street punk
- Squeegee man
- Refusal of work
Footnotes
- ↑ "Ex-‘Gutter Punk' Tells All - The Daily Californian". Dailycal.org. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ↑ Glionna, John M. (29 My 2007). "There's not a lot of love in the Haight". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Punks invade Williamsburg as heroin-addicted hobos set up shop in trendy Brooklyn neighborhood". Nydailynews.com. 2009-07-14. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
- ↑ "MAKING IT WORK; Runaway Girl - New York Times". Nytimes.com. 1997-09-21. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
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