Ridg wh the Olst All-Gay, All-Male, All-Ridg Motorcycle Club

Contents:

• GAY LEATHER/LEVI CLUBADULTS ONLY! PLEASE EXIT IF UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE.
• GAY HISTORY – MEET THE SATYRS MOTORCYCLE CLUB. AMERI’S OLST GAY ORGANIZATN
• RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
• DYK ON BIK & GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE U.S.
• GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS:
• CLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MONTRéALCLUBS ET BARS GAYS à MONTRéAL

GAY LEATHER/LEVI CLUBADULTS ONLY! PLEASE EXIT IF UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE.

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 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. The Satyrs was not the first gay & lbian anizatn, that was the Mattache Society formed 1950.

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. Homosexuals were emed as viants and unsirabl society.

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

The Satyrs was not the first gay and lbian anizatn, that was the Mattache Society formed 1950. Jo our vibrant muny of gay motorcycle enthiasts!

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

Open to both members and ved guts, the meetgs are a great way to nnect wh like-md dividuals wh our gay motorcycle muny. Jo for an unfettable journey, and be a part of our rich history as one of the longt nng gay motorcycle clubs! Crimal or otherwise, at least one MC mt be a part of an MC/ clarify, GAY romance, featurg at least one ma character a motorcycle gang/club.

GAY LEATHER/LEVI CLUB. Gay bikers were not ually weled to motorcycle gangs, so they cid to create their own.

The first gay motorcycle club was the Empire Cy Motorcycle Club, found the 1960s for gay men, followed the Rabow Motorcycle Club, which was tablished San Francis 1971 for the whole LGBTQ muny. It is the olst ntuoly operatg gay anizatn the Uned Stat. It was the first gay anizatn wh a set of Bylaws and a Club Constutn.

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

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.

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.

GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS:

52 Several gay motorcycle clubs durg the 1970 Christmas season threw toy parti to benef children and senr cizens need. 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.

"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.

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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.