Dyk on Bik (DOB) is a motorcycle club prised of gay, bisexual, and trans women. This is their history, and what they've done 2020.
Contents:
- DYK ON BIK & GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE U.S.
- RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
- LONGG AND BELONGG: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE US
- GAY BIKERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB & WIMA
- LONGG AND BELONGG: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE US
DYK ON BIK & GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE U.S.
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The advent of gay motorcycle clubs the last half of the 20th century was grew out of a need for eedom, safe haven, and above all, pri. Unlike gay bars, LGBTQ motorcycle anizatns uld more easily eva police raids and chronic harassment om lols.
Jog a gay biker club provid support, safety, mararie and eedom to a group of people who stggled to fd those thgs an anti-gay society. Te to s name, Dyk on Bik (DOB) is a motorcycle club prised of gay, bisexual, and transgenr women that supports the larger LGBTQ muny through ridg events and fundraisers. This is a closer look at how a small group of gay women motorcyclists planted the roots of one of the largt and most wily known gay motorcycle clubs the world, and how current Dyk on Bik members ntue that legacy 2020.
RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
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A uple dozen gay women motorcycle rirs had joed together at the start of the para, and one person the group ma a ment about “dyk on bik. ” The gay women’s motorcycle club then went back to urt, head up by San Francis lawyer and longtime club ally Brooke Oliver. She sometim spoke about the pri she felt ridg her motorcycle wh other gay women durg those dozens of pri paras: “To ri down Market Street wh all those people lookg and appldg and sharg and ridg wh other women on motorcycl has got to be one of the highlights of my life.
Today, this gay women’s motorcycle club is officially lled the San Francis Dyk on Bik Women’s Motorcycle Contgent (SFDOBWMC). The signifince of the pk triangle is a heavy one: Begng the 1930s, German Nazis ed the symbol of upsi down pk triangle to intify gays ncentratn mps. But durg the AIDS crisis the 1980s, gay activists om ACT UP retook the symbol, flipped the triangle and created inic posters that ntaed the words “Silence=Death.
Found 1969, the Borr Rirs Motorcycle Club is one of the olst and largt gay motorcycle clubs North Ameri. We provi social and tnal opportuni for members and other gay men terted recreatnal motorcycle tourg.
LONGG AND BELONGG: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE US
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The Satyrs Motorcycle Club of Los Angel is the olst nng gay men’s motorcycle club and anizatn the world. It was not an easy time Ameri for gay men to ngregate wh fellow gay men. Homosexuals were.
The Satyrs was not the first gay & lbian anizatn, that was the Mattache Society formed 1950. Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club "gbmcc" began 1977 as a club for gay men and women bikers the UK.
Wh a current membership approachg 500, we are the largt gay bikg club Europe. The club is one of the olst all-ridg, all-gay, all-male motorcycle anizatns the world.
GAY BIKERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB & WIMA
While other motorcycle clubs have perhaps been active for longer perds of time (at least one group disput that they are the olst all-male, all-gay group), Empire Cy is the only one that requir, and has always required, all of s members to ri a motorcycle. "Beg a gay biker, beg a group, you fd yourself wh people who have the same terts, the same fort level, " he go on. Though E stopped ridg 1996, he is currently an ECMC Emer member, meang he don't have to own a bike or license signatn, or pay the 1960s, when E joed, "gay" was not somethg you discsed and "out" was not somethg you were.
LONGG AND BELONGG: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE US
Beg openly gay put you at risk for losg your job, your apartment, your fay, and iends.
It don't mean that you're gay, don't mean this, don't mean that. "E lowers his voice when he says the word "gay, " even though we are chattg the lobby of The Center, as New York's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy Center is known.
Followg ECMC's history is a b of a Forrt Gump-like experience of gay history post-1950: E himself was a member of the Mattache Society which, tablished 1950, was one of the earlit gay rights anizatns the untry.