Ri to London's gay past for LGBT History Month | Cyclg UK

Contents:

• MEET OUR GROUPS: GAY OUTDOOR CLUB
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• GAY IDAHO TRAVEL GUI
• GAY CYCLG GROUPS IN THE UK
• RI TO LONDON'S GAY PAST FOR LGBT HISTORY MONTH
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

MEET OUR GROUPS: GAY OUTDOOR CLUB

“It’s not that we don’t like straight people, ” explas Jeff Rogers, print of the Wdy Cy Cyclg Club (WCCC), Chigo’s olst lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr bicycle group.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

But gay and lbian people have a fort level wh each other that’s different than wh straight people.

GAY IDAHO TRAVEL GUI

That sense of belongg is easy to see as we hang out at T’s, a buzzg lbian, gay, and straight pub Chigo’s LGBT-iendly Anrsonville neighborhood, on a sunny Febary afternoon.

The WCCC formed 1992 to get the wheels of fellowship turng among lbian and gay folks.

Munchg a veggie burger at a nearby table, Drew Jeo, a spng stctor who found the Chigo Razors gay triathlon team to pete the 2006 Gay Gam here, says he only ris wh LGBT clubs.

GAY CYCLG GROUPS IN THE UK

“A lot of gay men weren’t to sports high school but we got to our 30s and 40s, ” he says. “In a gay group you might have guys who like to bike really fast, but there’s ls petn and more mararie.

“Gays and straights do social ris for the same reasons, ” she says wh a gr. Each October, on the anniversary of the send March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1987, Human Rights Watch leads the celebratn of Natnal Comg Out Day as “a remr that one of our most basic tools is the power of g out. I remember noticg openly gay upl together, and the sire to experience that openns was stronger than any other want or need I’d felt before.

RI TO LONDON'S GAY PAST FOR LGBT HISTORY MONTH

Wh that motivatn, I phed forward and me out a big way—announcg that I was both gay and HIV posive at once. And each graduate of the program earns a ee bike, helmet, and out, claimg my thentic life as an HIV posive gay man, fdg muny, and givg back has ma my life worthwhile. This year, we started wh showg support for the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Sunday 17 May by distributg ee rabow lac to some 100+ of our volunteers.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Nasser Tell of CycleOut London, a Cyclg UK affiliate group that provis an enuragg and social environment for gay people and their iends to participate a range of cyclg om recreatnal to petive.

Richard said that he tried ridg wh more tradnal cyclg groups but feared awkward qutns around his personal life and potential homophobia, so cid to start his own.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Our missn is to brg cyclists together om across the UK’s LGBT and gay cyclg clubs, who we often work llaboratn are a natnal group, wh a foc on ridg our Natnal Parks and Areas of Outstandg Natural Bety. “Beg a gay man, I also dread beg asked about whether I had a girliend or beg ma to feel like an outst.

The Gay Outdoor Club (GOC) started 1974 when a uple of iends livg London placed an advert the newspaper to see if there were any like-md people who shared a passn for the outdoors.

The club is registered as a charable pany and operat on a not-for-prof basis, wh the objective of providg facili the terts of recreatn or other leisure time occupatn of dividuals who have need of such facili, pecially but not exclively, gay men and women, wh the aim of improvg their ndns of life. We wele members verg the full spectm of genr and sexualy, and although gay men are still the majory, we have around 100 members who intify as women.