Bubba Wallace was a trailblazer for NASCAR 2020. Devon Roe looks to do the same 2021 as the first openly gay NASCAR driver years.
Contents:
- THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
- 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
- THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT
- HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'
- AFTER MAKG HISTORY AS AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, DEVON ROE CHAS EVEN BIGGER NASCAR DREAMS
- NASCAR WILL HAVE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY DRIVER YEARS DURG 2021 SEASON
- EVAN DARLG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY RACER DRIVER
- TRAVIS SHUMAKE STRIV TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NHRA FUNNY CAR DRIVER
- WATCH: LEGENDARY RACE CAR DRIVER HURLEY HAYWOOD OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY NEW DOCUMENTARY
- ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
- GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS 2021
THERE ARE MORE 'OUT' GAY RACG DRIVERS THAN YOU THK
On Tuday, Raphael Orlove and Bill Caswell posed the qutn on Jalopnik, “Why Aren’t There More ‘Out’ Gay Race Car Drivers?” Actually, there are more than you thk. * gay race drivers *
On Tuday, Raphael Orlove and Bill Caswell posed the qutn on Jalopnik, “Why Aren’t There More ‘Out’ Gay Race Car Drivers? ” Actually, there are more than you EVs Can’t Get A Break From The HeatOffEnglishEvan Darlg is an openly gay driver known bt for his efforts road racg. In an exclive terview wh Queers4Gears, the current NASCAR Sprt Cup Champn, Brad Kelowski said, “I don’t thk anyone r (if a driver is gay.
”That statement is accurate, as the reprentatn of openly gay people the sport is not limed to recently profiled Matthew Pattison, an openly gay official who’s worked the sport for 15 years and is one of the ma officials the Timg and Srg Tower.
Queers4Gears profiled an openly gay employee at Michael Waltrip Racg — who works the anizatn wh his partner.
THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER IS OUT AND PROUD, AND CHASG HIS MOTORSPORTS DREAM
”But what about the sponsors you ask — would an openly gay driver be able to attract a sponsor? Will there be fans that refe to accept an openly gay driver? Openly gay drivers.
Nothg chang a person’s views more than them knowg and rg about a gay person their life. But Cheney’s view on LGBT rights is squarely the progrsive mp — bee he has a gay child. Attus about gay people are changg Ameri and the grandstands at the race track will not be immune to this shift.
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.
THIS GAY RACE R DRIVER QU WHEN HE ME OUT. NOW HE’S RETURNG TO THE TRACK AS HIS TE SELF
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. If they wanna be gay go be a fashn.
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.
THIS GAY NASCAR DRIVER JT RACED AT DAYTONA FOR THE FIRST TIME SCE G OUT
Zach Herr didn’t thk was possible to be an out gay pro race r 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.
HURLEY HAYWOOD ON LIFE AS A GAY RACG CHAMPN: 'I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MALE ROLE MOLS'
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.
AFTER MAKG HISTORY AS AN OPENLY GAY DRIVER, DEVON ROE CHAS EVEN BIGGER NASCAR DREAMS
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. Last weekend, he returned to Daytona as an out gay man.
”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.
NASCAR WILL HAVE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY DRIVER YEARS DURG 2021 SEASON
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. 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.
“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.
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.
EVAN DARLG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY RACER DRIVER
The son of 2000 European rally r champn Henrik Lundgaard, the IndyCar sophomore took advantage of his off-roadg background to secure the No.
Deep down, he knew he was gay and wanted to be himself.
TRAVIS SHUMAKE STRIV TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY NHRA FUNNY CAR DRIVER
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.
WATCH: LEGENDARY RACE CAR DRIVER HURLEY HAYWOOD OPENS UP ABOUT BEG GAY NEW DOCUMENTARY
Devon Roe to but 2021 as first openly gay NASCAR driver years. 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.
ARE THERE ANY GAY F1 DRIVERS?
Stephen Rhos was the first gay NASCAR driver and he raced a uple of tim 2003.
We were both young, and the gay world was jt such turmoil. I went back to the team I raced wh at Laguna Se, only to disver that the team’s manager was really homophobic. I’d love to create an all-gay team or a mixed-genr team.
GAY NATN’S TOP FORMULA ONE DRIVERS 2021
Takg The Res at the Gay Polo League. Takg The Res at The Gay Polo League. 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. ”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.