{"id":23097,"date":"2015-09-03T20:24:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/mood\/2015\/09\/03\/cop-stops-motorcycle-couple\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T02:33:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T07:33:05","slug":"cop-stops-motorcycle-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/cop-stops-motorcycle-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_ntvs3cXJq81ql2ecio1_1280-1-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_ntvs3cXJq81ql2ecio1_1280-1-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_ntvs3cXJq81ql2ecio1_1280-1-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_ntvs3cXJq81ql2ecio1_1280-1-768x1123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_ntvs3cXJq81ql2ecio1_1280-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Police officer talking to male motorcycle riders with &#8220;Just Married&#8221; sign on bike. Circa December 1969.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/commiepinkofag.tumblr.com\/post\/127952741534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commiepinkofag<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just Married<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of The Blue Max Motorcycle Club \u2014 Fernando, seated on the bike, and his husband \u2014 talk with a police officer. c. December 1969.<br><small>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/digitallibrary.usc.edu\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p15799coll4\/id\/1824\/rec\/11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pretty sure th\u2019 fuzz is just congratulating the happy couple\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Blue Max Motorcycle Club was founded in 1968 as an alternative to L.A.\u2019s gay bar scene\u2014where the LAPD often harassed, entrapped and arrested men\u2014with annual \u201cmotorcycle runs\u201d throughout California on various roads and campgrounds. By the late 1970s, 20 gay motorcycle clubs were formed, each with its own distinctive traits and themes. Each club had official and unofficial uniforms, insignias and colors. The Blue Max Motorcycle Club became known for its irreverent references to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia and the Red Baron, and in 1969, the first annual Red Baron Run began.<br \/><small>Frontiers\u2019 Magazine, 7-20 August 2014<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>commiepinkofag: Just Married Members of The Blue Max Motorcycle Club \u2014 Fernando, seated on the bike, and his husband \u2014 talk with a police officer. c. December 1969.Courtesy ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives. Pretty sure th\u2019 fuzz is just congratulating the happy couple\u2026 The Blue Max Motorcycle Club was founded in 1968 as an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/cop-stops-motorcycle-couple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Something Blue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultrahistorical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77065,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23097\/revisions\/77065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}