Motorcycles are gay

You can have more kids, fewer, or none at all; your bathrobes can be his and his, hers and hers, theirs and theirs, in combination or number. Every June 21 is World Motorcycle Day, and you can bet that gay bikers around the world are celebrating.

From the first gay motorcycle club in the s to Lil Nas X on a Super73, the queer motorcycle aesthetic has taken a meandering cruise through U.S. pop culture. A post shared by RevZilla revzilla. After all, motorcycles have been revving up gay culture for decades now.

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Two point four kids, his and hers bathrobes, a white picket fence, a two-car garage — these are the things you're meant to aspire to, the standards you're supposed to want. From 's The Wild One to Lil Nas X's Super73 collabqueer people and motorcycles have often gone hand in hand — both forced to exist outside the "norm" of American culture.

But those goals don't work for everyone. Queer culture is far, far older than you — of course queer folks adopted motorcycling along the way.

Biker Clubs and Queer

The picket fence could be swapped out for an apartment fire escape, and the two-car garage could specifically house two-wheeled transportation. Here in the United States, there's a very established normal. Let's do a little history lesson so I can show you how queer and motorcycle culture are : Pyre Original Soundtrack - Surviving ExileYouTube.

When you look outside that norm, you start to find a lot more options. Drew's full piece is worth the read, his decade-by-decade walk through queer motorcycling looks from Stonewall to leather culture to metal music and even the Fast and Furious movies. Comment s.

That's the thesis laid out by Reymond Drew in his pride month piece for RevZillawhere he examines the history of queer culture as it relates to motorcycles.