USC’s archive of LGBTQ materials — the largt the world — ntas untls stori, cludg those of Los Angel’ gay motorcycle clubs.
Contents:
- RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
- HARLEY STROKERS GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUB NEWSLETTERS
- STORI OM L.A.’S PNEERG GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE TOLD THROUGH USC’S ONE ARCHIV
RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Two 2 Newsletters—June and July 1990—for the Harley Strokers MC headquartered Portland, OR . Both stapled, taped, and fold for mailg both addrsed to Club member om Berkeley, CA , one prted on peach paper 8 pp. and the other on whe 10 pp. . About VG+ some wear, and one has wrg on rear . Both newsletters are maly ncerned wh the upg 3rd Annual Harley Strokers MC Renzvo “Open to all gay Harley owners & buddy * gay harley davidson club *
As a longtime biker and an openly gay man, Tom Hood says there likely always will be a place for motorcycle groups that ter to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr groups, he says, aren’t as necsary as they were years ago. Origally om Platteville, Hood is print of the Rirs Motorcycle Club Boston, one of the natn’s olst gay men’s motorcycle club was formed the early 1980s when the biker muny didn’t wele LGBT rirs who openly exprsed their, LGBT bikers say thgs are much better, although there are exceptns. Paras like this are a sign of better tim, acrdg to Hood, who attend Lawrence Universy Appleton om 1985 through ago, he belonged to an outlaw biker club, but as a gay man, he has sce ma Rirs his outlaw clubs — known as “1 percenters” bee 99 percent of bikers don’t belong to them — have a strong anti-gay most people motorcyclg pay ltle or no attentn to someone’s genr or sexual inty, acrdg to Hood.
HARLEY STROKERS GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUB NEWSLETTERS
”Yet Harleys are popular wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr bikers, said Chaz Antonelli, past print of the Empire Cy Motorcycle Club, New York, the olst gay men’s biker group the natn.
STORI OM L.A.’S PNEERG GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE TOLD THROUGH USC’S ONE ARCHIV
Still, not everyone has embraced some of the years ago, a Salt Lake Cy police officer got to trouble when he objected to ridg the motorcycle briga at the ont of a gay pri para, sayg was a vlatn of his relig Moutsos said he was unfairly labeled a bigot bee he simply asked to swap rol and work a different part of the para June 2014. Moutsos said he was offend by the notn that he would treat gays and lbians differently than anyone else.