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21 Rare Gay Motorcycle Club Photos From 1962
The guys are kicking it up at the Satyrs and Oedipus Spring Poker Run and Field Meet in May of 1962.
Satyrs MC Archives is the largest collection of gay motorcycle historical documents, photographs, film, video and club memorabilia of the oldest gay organization in the world. All items displayed are copyrighted & displayed for educational purposes only. Thanks to Garry for letting us run these photos that bring back what leather used to be in the middle of the last century. Looks like fun.
The Satyrs Motorcycle Club of Los Angeles is the oldest running gay men's motorcycle club and organization in the world. Formed in 1954 during the height of the McCarthy era, seven men came together, bonded by the love of the motorcycle to form a club. It was not an easy time in America for gay men to congregate with fellow gay men. Homosexuals were deemed as deviants and undesirables in society.
The Satyrs was not the first gay and lesbian organization, that was the Mattachine Society formed in 1950. But the Mattachine Society had a Communist "cell structure"and drew the spying interest of J. Edgar Hoover who was focused on getting, founder, Harry Hay. Plus Senator Joe McCarthy's hunt for "un-American activities and communism, along with internal fighting caused the Mattachine to shut down by 1953. They reorganized again 3 years later with a few rough starts as the One Society. Today, they are known as the One Archives Foundation at the USC Libraries, a respectful national repository of LGBT history.
The Satyrs are currently preserving the club's archives to be entrusted in the near future at the One Archives Foundation for public and academic studies.
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Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.