Satyrs MC [Edit]

The Satyrs MC was founded in 1954 in Los Angeles and is the longest continuously running gay organization in America, leather or otherwise. The Satyrs was formed by leather-clad male bikers interested in gay leather sex during an era when that sort of sexual expression often resulted in arrest. From the beginning, the Satyrs rode to national parks for camping and sex with men, and they still host their annual Badger Flat Run, now in its 49th year. Many clubs and organizations around the world can trace some part of their roots back to the Satyrs or the bylaws they adopted back in 1954. Members of the Satyrs stood up to the Los Angeles Police Department’s raids of the 1970s, eventually resulting in the end of those raids and entrapments. The Satyrs was inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame in 2010, and continues to be an active club today.