Gay bike club
According to journalist Liz Highleyman (“Past Out”), gay “motorcycle clubs, a mainstay of gay culture since the 1950s, ushered in a new brand of homosexual masculinity and gave soar to today’s leather/SM community.” The first gay motorcycle club, the Los Angeles Satyrs, began in 1954 and is still in existence.
In South Florida, the Thebans Motorcycle Club, Inc. of Miami began its history as a domestic, nonprofit corporation on Aug. 6, 1975. By 1976 the Thebans were important enough to be one of the cofounders of the Dade County Coalition for Human Rights. Theban Marty Rubin, “the Old Bike Daddy,” was active in the DCCHR and went on to chair Pride South Florida and write a widespread column for twn (The Weekly News) and David.
By the 1990s, gay bike and leather clubs prefer the South Florida Eagles, Sunrays MC, the Brotherhood of Man MC, Stingrays, Saber MC, Key West Wreckers, and the South Florida chapter of Trident International were a major part of the local gay leather scene. These “patch” clubs, named after the patch or colors that members wore on their leather vests, were patterned after “outlaw” motorcycle clubs like the Hell’s Angels. They incorporated most of the exclusive
A crew of burly, bearded men wearing black leather pants, hats, vests, and jackets appeared in the doorway of Rockbar, a dive at the very edge of the West Village in Manhattan. They looked around, perplexed, at the the sight of long-haired guys in broken glasses wearing comic-book T-shirts. I realized this bar must normally be the group’s haunt of choice and the nerdy comedy reveal I was there to see was perhaps not first on their list of amusements. They turned and walked out, not before I saw the back of one leather vest—a yellow circle enclosed by a blue and red male symbol and the words Empire City MC.
A few months later, I’m waiting in a coffee shop for “Evil” Ed Caraballo and Chaz Antonelli, the current president and secretary, respectively, of what I possess learned is the Empire City Motorcycle Club, or ECMC. The club is one of the oldest all-riding, all-gay, all-male motorcycle organizations in the earth. Founded in 1964 by a community of 12 bikers from the Modern York metropolitan area, the club acknowledged its 50th anniversary in October 2014. While other motorcycle clubs have perhaps been active for longer periods of time (at least one group disputes t
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