Gay motorycle club initiation video

Most attempts at LGBT activism here, as in the rest of the country, are regularly banned and the activists fined, shamed, and persecuted. Yuri is a man in his thirties. He has an apartment, a job, a boyfriend who hates motorcyclesa lover who goes crazy for themand a garage where the club members and LGBT activists sometimes go to hang out.

There is a historical precedent to Homoto gay St. Petersburg—a smaller video called Dykes on Bikes that existed a few years ago. It had no connection to the famous Chicago-based lesbian motorcycle club of the same name, and its ambitions were more commercial. Now Svyatoslava and a few more lesbian bikers are members of Homoto.

I had to arrange two different dates to meet them, as the girls were club on a ride to Belarus the day Yuri and the boys met me in the initiation hang-out spot in the city center. I met the girls two weeks later by a pond in a vacant lot in a suburb. Many of the members, he explains, are over They have good jobs, some family, and have learned how to conform to Russian society to a certain degree.

If you have a bike and you identify as homosexual, you can be one of us. Petersburg was the first official outing of the club, when they rode with the LGBT section of the march, though not all their members took part. However, the protest went as peacefully as it could in Russia, with the only incident being the homophobic MP Vitaly Milonov shouting abuse at the LGBT section of the procession—an event that was caught on camera and subsequently went viral in Russia.

Fascist scumbags! Whores, perverts! Sadly, he has become the public face of St. We destroy their stereotypes and their whole case has no foundation. There are several other motorcycle clubs in St. Yuri sometimes takes part in the big ride in the spring when the biking season opens—though without motorycle pride attire.

Is Homoto the gay answer to the ultra-patriotic, alpha-male motorbike club Night Wolves? Homoto is more closely associated with Grindr than it is politics.

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By Luis Prada. By Sammi Caramela. Yuri on his motorcycle. Videos by VICE. These People Think So. The Internet Went Nuts.