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

Contents:

• RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
• THE 10 BEST FLORIDA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS FLORIDA
• GAY BIKERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB & WIMA
• GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS:
• GAY LEATHER/LEVI CLUBADULTS ONLY! PLEASE EXIT IF UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE.
• BEAR (GAY CULTURE)

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

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.

The club is one of the olst all-ridg, all-gay, all-male motorcycle anizatns the world.

THE 10 BEST FLORIDA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS FLORIDA

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. 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.

GAY BIKERS MOTORCYCLE CLUB & WIMA

ECMC also predat the fluential Stonewall Rts 1969; E actually participated Christopher Street Liberatn Day, which is now nsired the first ever gay pri para, 1970. ECMC survived the AIDS crisis of the 80s and 90s; and today some members have married their partners wh the passage of gay marriage New York State.

"Today, ECMC is vol about s existence—members wear those aforementned leather jackets and vts whout fear of repercsn; they rec members at fairs like Folsom Street East, the largt outdoor fetish ftival on the East Coast; and they hold meetgs the first Wednday of every month at The Center, which all terted men and prospective members are wele to be a member of the ECMC, you mt be a gay man over the age of 21, you mt own a motorcycle, you mt be sured for said motorcycle, and you mt be licensed to ri a motorcycle. 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 members.

Origally om Platteville, Hood is print of the Rirs Motorcycle Club  Boston, one of the natn’s olst gay men’s motorcycle groups. Years ago, he belonged to an outlaw biker club, but as a gay man, he has sce ma Rirs his group. Some outlaw clubs — known as “1 percenters” bee 99 percent of bikers don’t belong to them — have a strong anti-gay bias.

GAY MOTORCYCLE CLUBS:

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. Four 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 liberti.

Moutsos said he was offend by the notn that he would treat gays and lbians differently than anyone else. Hood 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. Gay men had bee a part of the post-World War II biker culture the '40s.

Leather bars were sprgg up major ci and simultaneoly, seems, pneerg gay motorcycle clubs were formed: the Satyrs, tablished Los Angel 1954; Oedip, also tablished Los Angel 1958; the New York Motorbike Club and early San Francis clubs, cludg the Warlocks and the California Motor Club, started as well. Leather clubs for gay men opened Amsterdam and Berl the was a unterculture wh a unterculture.

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

""Los Angel County once boasted more than 19 gay motorcycle and uniform clubs, " Satyrs print, Riley Black said, addg, "It was the 'goln years' of the '60s followg the ath of U. 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. The need for some kd of associatn for the regular gay visors to the clubs soon rose up.

Th, the first clubs and associatns were found, typilly as motorcycle clubs orr to bypass laws agast homosexualy. The first gay motorcycle club the Satyr MC was found 1954 Los Angel.

BEAR (GAY CULTURE)

Last but not least, homosexualy was illegal and/or seen as a clil mental disorr many untri. Leather and biker gays felt was val to tablish lks wh other leather men and between clubs to create a wir muny, to promote the gay leather/biker culture and liftyle, and better rpond to external threats.

Over the followg years, many important qutns would be bated si ECMC: the role of women si clubs and the ECMC, safe sex and the fight agast AIDS; the role of the Secretary, the fight for gay rights, the matter of privacy, and so on.

As the gay rights are marchg forward is often the rights for the vanilla majory.