Contents:
- GRAEME OBREE REVEALS HE IS GAY
- ACCINTAL FIGUREHEAD: CLAY DAVI, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE ELE RIR THE UK
- TAYLER WIL: I HOPE THE MEN'S PELOTON BE MORE ACCEPTG OF GAY RIRS
GRAEME OBREE REVEALS HE IS GAY
"Estimat on the proportn of UK and US people who are gay or bisexual range om about three to seven per cent, as reported a recent Cyclg Weekly vtigatn to the absence of openly LGBTQ+ rirs the profsnal timat suggt there should be between five and 12 LGBTQ+ rirs currently ridg the Tour France. "The whole peloton, the whole cyclg fay, will have to face when somebody will feels fortable enough to clare [they are LGBTQ+], " Guarnieri says of how the more homophobic elements of the sport will have to tch up quickly when the first pro rir cis to e out. I mean people thk thgs like yeah, this job is too hard for a homosexual person.
ACCINTAL FIGUREHEAD: CLAY DAVI, THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MALE ELE RIR THE UK
Philippa York has suggted the macho culture profsnal cyclg is preventg rirs om g out as was Kg of the Mountas on the 1984 Tour France while petg as Robert Millar and later disappeared om public life before transng to bee a is 30 years sce York stggled wh genr dysphoria while still petg but she believ there is still an absence of a support system to allow an active rir to be openly homosexual. There will be 175 rirs petg for 22 teams and hundreds more backroom staff but York said her rmatn was that none of them is openly gay.
“There’s certaly no back up any of the teams which would allow you to show any kd of gayns, anywhere on that gay spectm, ” she said.
The crazy thg is that the cyclg mol is set up by sponsorships, and those big sponsors, they’re ually big pani, they have a whole system of alg wh what I ll the gay spectm and they have no issue wh at all. “But for some reason there’s a whole reluctance [to e out as gay], ” York told the ‘When Orla met... “If you look at even the set-up of the backroom staff, there’s no openly gay people.
TAYLER WIL: I HOPE THE MEN'S PELOTON BE MORE ACCEPTG OF GAY RIRS
“You n’t show any kd of weakns bee, beg gay, anywhere on that gay spectm is seen as a weakns. Image 1 of 4Graeme Obree on track at Palermo for World Track Champnships whout helmet (Jonny Lee Miller) (Image cred: MGM)Graeme Obree, a two-time World Champn and hour rerd holr, has admted the torment he faced as he me to terms wh his sexualy, after revealg that he is gay to a Brish an terview wh the Sttish Sun newspaper published on Monday, Obree admted that the anxiety associated wh hidg the fact that he was gay had led to two separate attempts to take his own life, 1998 and 2001.
"I was brought up by a war generatn; they grew up when gay people were put jail. Beg homosexual was so unthkable that you jt wouldn't be gay.
"I was brought up thkg you'd be better ad than gay. I mt have known I was gay and was so unacceptable, " said the Obree's private life and his achievements on the bike have bed to make him one of cyclg's most enigmatic figur.