USC’s archive of LGBTQ materials — the largt the world — ntas untls stori, cludg those of Los Angel’ gay motorcycle clubs.
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
- GAY HISTORY – MEET THE SATYRS MOTORCYCLE CLUB. AMERI’S OLST GAY ORGANIZATN
- THE QUEER ISSUE: GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS NEW YORK
- STORI OM L.A.’S PNEERG GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE TOLD THROUGH USC’S ONE ARCHIV
LONGG AND BELONGG: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS THE US
Motorcycle clubs, a mastay of gay culture sce the 1950s, hered a new brand of queer masculy and gave rise to today’s leather/SM muny. Motorcycle culture emerged the Uned Stat the 1920s and 1930s, often revolvg around racg. The populary of motorcycl grew durg Wor... * gay motorcycle club history *
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.
RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Amazg imag om one of the earlit gay groups of the morn era. * gay motorcycle club history *
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. 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.
GAY HISTORY – MEET THE SATYRS MOTORCYCLE CLUB. AMERI’S OLST GAY ORGANIZATN
The vtigatn supposedly was to addrs munist fluence and filtratn, but quickly veloped a homophobic and anti-Semic edge. Homosexuals were seen as eher munists or secury risks, if not both, which lead to mass firgs of homosexuals om ernment agenci. By lkg munism wh homosexualy, the heargs created a sense of guilt through associatn, pecially when any real evince was lackg, as was so often the se.
By the time the first half of the 20th Century was drawg to a close, both gays and motorcyclists had inti as outlaws, threats to the Amerin Way of Life, imposed by the mastream.
THE QUEER ISSUE: GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS NEW YORK
And ntug the ncept of guilt by associatn, many saw the aggrsively mascule behavr of the motorcycle clubs and gangs as exampl of overpensatn by men who really weren’t mascule, that is, were gay, or latent homosexuals.
STORI OM L.A.’S PNEERG GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE TOLD THROUGH USC’S ONE ARCHIV
David Thomson his obuary of Brando for The Guardian claims “the biker…[is] a very mp figure, a gay in”.