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Motorcycle clubs -- United States -- History.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lucky gay motorcycle club collection

 Collection
Identifier: 7860
Scope and content

The collection includes photos from inside the Falcon's Lair, original Falcon's Lair posters with Tom of Finland's art, and the original artwork for the Falcon's Lair T-shirt, all from the 1960s. It also includes 2 of Lucky's leather vests (circa 1980s), a leather cap (1960s), an original T-shirt (1980s), and leather accessories from the Gauntlet (circa 1980s). Photographs (1958-1990s) from the Oedipus MC, a gay motorcycle club that started in 1958, also came with Lucky's belongings.

Dates: 1958 - 1998

United States gay male leather culture collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7872
Abstract

A collection of posters, handbills, buttons and other ephemera from the gay male leather subculture in San Francisco and other major American cities, ranging from the 1960s through to the early 1990s, and encompassing the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era, regarded as the 'Golden Age' of leather bars.

Dates: 1960's-1990's