The Satyrs Motorcycle Club of Los Angeles

Satyrs Motorcycle Club
P.O. Box 1137
Los Angeles, CA 90078

Gentleman,

The Satyrs Motorcycle Club of Los Angeles is saddened and sorry to announce our annual Labor Day Run “Badger Flat” August 30 – September 2, will be cancelled this year due to several things

Our Group Campground reservation of 11 months with California Land Management was just cancelled by the US Forest Service (USFS).

USFS have informed us that a special permit is required for groups of 75 people or more, and they will not allow water to be pumped out of the stream for showers and kitchen use. This year’s fire status is HIGH: No Bonfire. Additionally, the Forest Service would be in the campground 3 to 5 times each day with the Sheriffs to see that we are not breaking any rules.

We, the Satyrs Motorcycle Club, have made the decision to cancel this year’s run due to NOT being able to meet our standards.

Please take care of your self’s and stay SAFE

Who We Are...

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 & 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.