We discuss the idea of black hole complementarity, recently suggested by Susskind and co-workers, and the notion of the stretched horizon, in the light of the generalized uncertainty principle of quantum gravity. We discuss implications for the no-hair theorem and we show that within this approach quantum hair arises naturally.

• Received 25 October 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.49.2918