Travels with Kyle, Dispatch #2: Boulder, CO and Sturgis, SD
“I’ve never been to Sturgis, I just thought I’d showed up at the ugliest gay pride parade I’ve ever seen. Really, that much leather and tassels and you’re going to tell me you’re all straight?”
We’re at The Knuckle Saloon in Sturgis, South Dakota, at the tail end of the 71st Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The Saloon is packed; there’s a handful of wary locals but many of the people in the crowd are bikers rounding out a weeklong bender. Kyle Kinane's on the stage, and as his opening lines swing out over the bar to mixed reactions I grip my pack tighter. In the bag, [...]
