Travis Shumake: NHRA's first openly gay driver to but Friday

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• THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM
• THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER QU WHEN HE ME OUT. NOW HE’S RETURNG TO THE TRACK AS HIS TE SELF
• HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'
• TRAVIS SHUMAKE STRIV TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NHRA FUNNY CAR DRIVER
• EVAN DARLG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY RACER DRIVER
• THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT
• AFTER MAKG HISTORY AS AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, DEVON ROE CHAS EVEN BIGGER NASCAR DREAMS
• WATCH: LEGENDARY RACE CAR DRIVER HURLEY HAYWOOD OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY NEW DOCUMENTARY
• PARKERSBURG MAN DISCS BEG AN OPENLY GAY RACE R DRIVER SPORTS ILLTRATED
• F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL
• THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT
• TRAVIS SHUMAKE: NHRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRIVER TO BUT FRIDAY

THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM

He took to Instagram and me out as gay last June. If he tak the green flag there, he will jo Stephen Rhos on the list of openly gay drivers a NASCAR natnal seri.

Empire sports has article statg that Jeff Gordon has fally e out and adm he is gay. Gordon was a romantic relatnship wh openly-gay driver Stephen Rhos:. wh a fellow openly gay NASCAR member.

Jeff Gordon who is gog through a divorce said that he is now datg openly gay driver Stephen Rhos. athlet who are new to the openly gay sports world.

THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER QU WHEN HE ME OUT. NOW HE’S RETURNG TO THE TRACK AS HIS TE SELF

If they wanna be gay go be a fashn.

HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'

Zach Herr didn’t thk was possible to be an out gay pro race r driver.

TRAVIS SHUMAKE STRIV TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NHRA FUNNY CAR DRIVER

But this time, as an out gay man. “I never actually had the opportuny to disver who I was as a person, and what that other part was, once I realized I was gay, ” Herr said. He heard the slurs around the tracks and uldn't thk of another gay driver.

Herr and his boyiend, who had also recently e out, started immersg themselv the gay muny. Herr, as one might expect for a baby gay, remembered the experience as “overwhelmg.

EVAN DARLG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY RACER DRIVER

The ultra-macho culture of NASCAR has slowly been changg recent years: Devon Roe, another out gay pro to racer, was recently featured on NASCAR’s Twter page.

Devon Roe looks to do the same 2021 as the first openly gay NASCAR driver years. Like Wallace last year, Devon Roe uld be that NASCAR driver 2021 who brgs a pletely new set of fans when he be the first openly gay driver to pete at a NASCAR natnal tourg seri event sce 2003. Devon Roe to but 2021 as first openly gay NASCAR driver years.

THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT

Stephen Rhos was first openly gay NASCAR driver. Like Bubba Wallace was a trailblazer on the NASCAR Cup Seri as the lone Black driver, Devon Roe will do the same this year on the NASCAR Tck Seri as the only openly gay driver. Stephen Rhos was the first gay NASCAR driver and he raced a uple of tim 2003.

”The is the fact that Haywood is gay.

Haywood, after all, didn’t jt hi pla sight at a time when homophobia was monplace and panic over the Aids epimic was reachg fever pch. “I didn’t have any gay male role mols. I had to al wh all that stuff myself, work through all the problems of what would be like if I sudnly me out as gay.

AFTER MAKG HISTORY AS AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, DEVON ROE CHAS EVEN BIGGER NASCAR DREAMS

I’m gay and I jt don’t know where to go and what to do. ” And now that he’s out, he’s hopg he n be the gay male role mol that he never had.

WATCH: LEGENDARY RACE CAR DRIVER HURLEY HAYWOOD OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY NEW DOCUMENTARY

“I thk one of the problems that gay people face is how they are portrayed by televisn and by movi and the prs, ” he says. “It’s always kd of a negative image of a gay person, and gay people are rol that are obvly gay.

PARKERSBURG MAN DISCS BEG AN OPENLY GAY RACE R DRIVER SPORTS ILLTRATED

I always fd that disturbg bee I know lots of very, very succsful gay people who are every form of bs that you n thk of, and that are not your typil gay personaly or [have] gay tras”And yet for all of Haywood’s good tentns, the odds of him spirg one siarly proment to racer to go public wh their own g out story seem slim. Travis Shumake is the son of former NHRA Funny Car driver Tripp Shumake, who was killed a motorcycle accint 36, Travis Shumake hop to bee the first openly gay driver the NHRA Funny Car class. Shumake plans to h the racetrack by season’s end, memoratg his father’s last NHRA Funny Car victory 40 years ago at the Fals—and beg the Campg World Drag Racg Seri’ first openly gay June 15, Shumake earned his Nostalgia Funny Car license at the Frank Hawley Drag Racg School Florida.

But they're not givg me a mulligan for beg gay bee my dad was great or whatever.

F1 WOULD WELE AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER - SEBASTIAN VETTEL

”Curly, he has gotten oppose advice om mentors about whether to tra on the fact he’s gay. You don't want to be the guy who was gay and terrible. Shumake said, “So I'm back and forth on playg up the gay rd, but I thk 's a good bs mol.

”Tripp Shumake didn’t live to see his son bee a foster parent and an advote for homels gay teens through his work Arizona wh one•n•ten, a non-prof anizatn dited to helpg LGBTQ youth ag 14-24. Now is the time to show the world there is a place for gay petors and fans motorsports.

I affectnately ll the Gay Mafia.

THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT

There's about 10 people I know the sport that are gay that haven't taken the steps like I am takg, jt bee of that fear, ” Shumake said.

“There have been so many more gay people, but we don't talk. “Maybe if, for some reason, someone is able to e out of the closet or enter the sport—gay, lbian, transgenr—bee of my attempts at this, that would certaly be rewardg enough to me.

TRAVIS SHUMAKE: NHRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DRIVER TO BUT FRIDAY

“I'm like, how do people not know you're gay?

’”Devon Roe, 22, a dirt-track sprt-r veteran om Wt Burlgton, Iowa, is a iend of Shumake, and they enurage one another as Roe embarks on his NASCAR journey as the first openly gay Campg World Tck Seri driver.