Gay, Lbian, LGBT Runng, Walkg and Socializg Silin Valley, Palo Alto, San Jose and the South Bay
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BEG OUT: ELE GAY NNER DAVID MELLY PROUD OF HIS ‘WEIRDNS’
* gay running groups *
Front Runners New York (FRNY) is a nng club for people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ+) and those who are alli. In 2013, Matt Llano me out publicly as gay when he published a blog post tled “It’s Time” on his personal webse. Lavenr U was a San Francis-based perdil dited to fosterg social and tnal opportuni of special tert to gays.
In the 1970s, beg gay was a subversive act. If you advertised your homosexualy to the world, nsequenc often followed. “People uld lose their jobs if employers found out they were gay, ” Budlong told Runner’s World.
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Even the league for sports, like softball and bowlg, were sponsored by gay bars the area. “I was blown away bee as a gay man, I had never lled myself an athlete. It was the first ntemporary gay novel to achieve mastream mercial and cril the time that Front Runners changed s name, the first Front Runners group San Francis heard om two other LGBTQ nng groups that had popped up that year New York Cy and Boston.
They would munite, share ias, and send petors to the Gay Gam, an Olympic Gam for LGBTQ athlet, that started 1982 and has happened ever four years sce. “I thk the groups stem out of the fact that the gay and lbian muni felt exclud om opportuni and this was their opportuny to get to sports a nonjudgemental space, ” Clark told Runner’s World.