USC’s ONE Archiv holds the stori of L.A.’s gay motorcycle clubs

Contents:

• RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
• GAY HARLEY RIRS THAT BIKERS ROAR THROUGH FABULO DATG WEBSE
• GAY MOTORCYCLE
• STORI OM L.A.’S PNEERG GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE TOLD THROUGH USC’S ONE ARCHIV

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

As a longtime biker and an openly gay man, Tom Hood says there likely always will be a place for motorcycle groups that ter to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr groups, he says, aren’t as necsary as they were years ago.

Origally om Platteville, Hood is print of the Rirs Motorcycle Club  Boston, one of the natn’s olst gay men’s motorcycle club was formed the early 1980s when the biker muny didn’t wele LGBT rirs who openly exprsed their, LGBT bikers say thgs are much better, although there are exceptns. Paras like this are a sign of better tim, acrdg to Hood, who attend Lawrence Universy Appleton om 1985 through ago, he belonged to an outlaw biker club, but as a gay man, he has sce ma Rirs his outlaw clubs — known as “1 percenters” bee 99 percent of bikers don’t belong to them — have a strong anti-gay most people motorcyclg pay ltle or no attentn to someone’s genr or sexual inty, acrdg to Hood.

”Yet Harleys are popular wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr bikers, said Chaz Antonelli, past print of the Empire Cy Motorcycle Club, New York, the olst gay men’s biker group the natn.

GAY HARLEY RIRS THAT BIKERS ROAR THROUGH FABULO DATG WEBSE

Still, not everyone has embraced some of the years ago, a Salt Lake Cy police officer got to trouble when he objected to ridg the motorcycle briga at the ont of a gay pri para, sayg was a vlatn of his relig Moutsos said he was unfairly labeled a bigot bee he simply asked to swap rol and work a different part of the para June 2014.

GAY MOTORCYCLE

Moutsos said he was offend by the notn that he would treat gays and lbians differently than anyone else. … It’s a ltle too tight, ” he there will probably always be a place for LGBT motorcycle groups, Hood said, over time there will be ls need for them as society be more one time, Rirs Motorcycle Club had 140 members; now ’s down to about said he thks the LGBT muny n claim a victory when ’s no longer a big al for sports stars and celebri to announce they are homosexual.

STORI OM L.A.’S PNEERG GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS ARE TOLD THROUGH USC’S ONE ARCHIV

Early on, such clubs beme a vibrant subculture wh Wisns’s gay and lbian movement.

More than 40 years ago, Si Sms beme a face of Milwkee’s LGBTQ muny when he was featured ridg his motorcycle a WTMJ seri, “Some Call Them Gay. LGBTQ bikers reprented what the straight world uld not fathom: gay men not as fey and mcg stereotyp but as mascule, rough-and-tumble guys; and gay women not as nuns and spster librarians but as tough, n-do gals.