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These 21 rare photos of a gay motorcycle club will forever shift the way you see 1962
| 04/09/25
These 21 rare photos of a gay motorcycle club will forever shift the way you see 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Satyrs MC Archives is the largest collection of gay motorcycle historical documents, photographs, film, video, and club memorabilia of the oldest gay organization in the world.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 Bowie 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 three 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 respected 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.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
For more about the history of the Satyr's motorcycle club and to view more images, visit the Satyrs MC Archives on Facebook.
| 04/09/25
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