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Assless Chaps and other Leather Paraphernalia; How a WWII Era Biker Club Revolutionized the Gay Community
A community of mostly gay veterans who remained in Los Angeles after WWII created the Satyrs Motorcycle Club in
Satyrs launched the gay motorcycle club identity and heavily influenced the leather community in L.A. One of their signature activities, the Badger Horizontal Run, is an annual event where members go to national parks and celebrate sexual expression. This tradition continues today, making Satyrs one of the longest continuously running same-sex attracted organizations in the Merged States.
Founded in mostly by a group of gay veterans who stayed in Los Angeles after World War II, the Satyrs Motorcycle Club is one of the longest continuously running gay organizations in the United States. Satyrs launched the lgbtq+ motorcycle club culture and heavily influenced the leather community in L.A. for over half a century. One of their signature activities, the Badger Planar Run, is an annual event where members sit on to national parks and celebrate sexual expression. This tradition and the club con
A Brief History Of Leather And The Gays
Give to me your leather, get from me my gays&#;
By Fraser Abe
Cubs, pups, otters, silver foxes and bears, oh my. The gay ecosystem has a rich taxonomy of subcultures that all somewhat stem from one Adam(4Adam)’s rib – the leather community. It’s been around since the s, when the notion of otters and the like were just a twink-le (get it?) in some queen’s eye. We’re here to snap down the history of leather for you, going all the way endorse to the greatest generation.
It’s generally assumed that leather identity got its commence in the s, as an offshoot to post-World War II motorcycle clubs that began popping up around the same time. Gays had flocked in droves to big cities following Navy Discharges from the army, a way of removing homosexuals from service, as dishonourably discharging and imprisoning gays became impractical with the huge number of recruits during WWII. It led to large groups of homosexuals in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.
Meanwhile, a dissatisfaction with the post-WWII white picket fence view of Ame
Motorcycle Leathers and the Construction of Masculine Identities Among Homosexual Men
The following paper was presented as part of a panel discussion on the role of motorcycles in American popular culture, held at the Annual National Conference of Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association held in Atlanta, Georgia in April
The leather-jacketed man on his motorcycle has been an archetypal image in American culture since the release of the movie The Wild One in [1] Marlon Brando’s character, Johnny Strabler, in white t-shirt, leather jacket and Harley cap, immediately became synonymous with aggressive masculinity and disregard for social norms (below, uppermost left). Subsequent films, including EasyRider and Chrome and Hot Leather, perpetuated the image of the biker as a free-spirit, an outlaw, and a renegade.[2] More recently, Arnold Schwarznegger re-popularized biker macho and its associated attire in the Terminator movie series. Bikers were and are stereotyped as overtly masculine, hard-fighting, sometimes hard-drinking, ‘real’ men. And almost as soon
The Surprising Homoerotic Roots of The Ramone’s Style
If you’re a big streetwear top then you’ll no suspect have heard about or watched the online series, PAQ. Billed as the “Top Gear for Hypebeasts”, PAQ is a Youtube channel covering men’s fashion and streetwear, presented by stylish British twenty somethings Shaq, Danny, Elias and Dexter. In each minute-ish episode, they undertake a challenge and test out the latest hyped trends, such as playing sports in expensive sportswear, scouring charity shops to locate a whole outfit in two hours with a £50 budget &#; or working with Levi’s to customise a fire festival fit, which I was lucky enough to evaluate last year.
A few weeks back PAQ’s parent organization, Kyra hit me up and asked me to take part once again on one of the shows upcoming challenges on ‘70s subcultures. Instead of judging, I was called in to assist on Danny’s ‘hustle’ and support share some knowledge on his chosen subculture, Punk. Now I know what you’re probably thinking &#; punk is an blatantly obvious choice for the 70s theme. And what’s more we wanted to explore the Ramone