Past Out - What is the History of Gay Motorcycle Clubs - OutVoic

Contents:

• LONGG AND BELONGG: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE US
• RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
• MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF
• DYK ON BIK & GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE U.S.

LONGG AND BELONGG: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE US

Satyrs MC Archiv is the largt llectn of gay motorcycle historil documents, photographs, film, vio and club memorabilia of the olst gay anizatn the world.

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

Looks like 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 emed as viants and unsirabl society.

The Satyrs was not the first gay and lbian anizatn, that was the Mattache Society formed 1950. The Satyrs Motorcycle Club is the olst gay ntuo motorcycle club the Uned Stat.

Established 1954 Los Angel and still gog strong, they have bee one of the bt known gay MCs the untry. We are lookg at how the nex of two inti – gay and motorcyclist – self-imposed as well as imposed by society at large, plays out public and private. While there have been gay and lbian motorcyclists almost as long as there have been motorcycl, thgs don’t get tertg until World War Two ends.

MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF

The first imag popular culture of the gay motorcyclist seem to be tertwed wh postwar and Cold War polics, often reflectg and optg the imag of mastream motorcyclists the procs. The vtigatn supposedly was to addrs munist fluence and filtratn, but quickly veloped a homophobic and anti-Semic edge.

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

Homosexuals were seen as eher munists or secury risks, if not both, which lead to mass firgs of homosexuals om ernment agenci.