Dyk on Bik & Gay Motorcycle Clubs the U.S.

Contents:

• RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
• GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS:
• DYK ON BIK & GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE U.S.

RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB

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. The club is one of the olst all-ridg, all-gay, all-male motorcycle anizatns the world.

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.

GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS:

"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. 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.

DYK ON BIK & GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE U.S.

ECMC also predat the fluential Stonewall Rts 1969; E actually participated Christopher Street Liberatn Day, which is now nsired the first ever gay pri para, 1970.