Assls Chaps and other Leather Paraphernalia; How a WWII Era Biker Club Revolutnized the Gay Communy - The Pri LA

Contents:

• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• BT GAY SATYR/ FN
• GAY HISTORY – MEET THE SATYRS MOTORCYCLE CLUB. AMERI’S OLST GAY ORGANIZATN
• ASSLS CHAPS AND OTHER LEATHER PARAPHERNALIA; HOW A WWII ERA BIKER CLUB REVOLUTNIZED THE GAY COMMUNY
• GAY SATYR

20 GAY GREEK GODS

A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns.

The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn. While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr.

BT GAY SATYR/ FN

Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea. Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods.

Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. Bt Gay Satyr/ Fn (12 books),.

Bt Gay Satyr/ Fn. Bt gay romance featurg Satyrs/Fns.

GAY HISTORY – MEET THE SATYRS MOTORCYCLE CLUB. AMERI’S OLST GAY ORGANIZATN

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. 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. It is the olst ntuoly operatg gay anizatn the Uned Stat.

ASSLS CHAPS AND OTHER LEATHER PARAPHERNALIA; HOW A WWII ERA BIKER CLUB REVOLUTNIZED THE GAY COMMUNY

It was the first gay anizatn wh a set of Bylaws and a Club Constutn.

Though Amerin motorcycle culture had begun the late 1940s and early 1950s, homosexualy was illegal at the time, makg gay motorcycle clubs unique anizatns seen as outlaws on two unts—their motorcyclg and their homosexualy.

As John Laird, member of the Satyrs sce 1961 explaed, motorcyclg offered men an pe om the bars “bee those days the LAPD was on a real hunt for gay men. Gay motorcyclists, enuraged by visual media, created and embraced a mascule gay inty, one that untered the prenceived feme athetic of “fairi.

GAY SATYR

From the first club foundg 1954 until the mid-1980s, gay motorcycle clubs did not want to be mentned any gay publitn, bee might rult the outg—and firg—of members who worked for the ernment. Four years after the foundg of the Satyrs 1954, disntented Satyrs found a send gay motorcycle club: the Oedip Rex Motorcycle club.

The founrs of the Satyrs started a phenomenon of gay motorcycle clubs that by 1979 had grown to over twenty clubs California and many more throughout the untry.

Like other clubs, gay motorcycle clubs donated money and put on events to benef the muny.