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- RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
- TRANSCRIPT: THE GAY QUTN AT JEREZ
- MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF
RIDG WH THE OLST ALL-GAY, ALL-MALE, ALL-RIDG MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Photography by Gold & Goose Today’s MotoGP prs nference advance of this weekend’s Grand Prix of Spa was ma a ltle ls dull when the subject of qutng strayed om the ual racg and racg polics to a topic that h mastream sports media this week after NBA player Jason Colls’ announcement that he is gay. Colls is referred to as beg the first openly gay athlete playg a major Amerin team sport. ’s David Emmett asked the panel of rirs: “Last week Jason Colls, an NBA player, admted he was homosexual.
Now there are no openly homosexual MotoGP rirs. Are people aaid of g out gay or are you jt more really terted women?
It’s never me out that anybody is gay. “For the people who ask me on Twter or whatever if they are wag this is the time that they will know I’m not gay, ” Je Lorenzo said.
TRANSCRIPT: THE GAY QUTN AT JEREZ
“I rpect gay people. “I never thought about that, that some rirs n be gay, ” Doviss said.
“I’m not gay. For sure I rpect the guys that are gay – they are also normal person, ” he fished more serly. The club is one of the olst all-ridg, all-gay, all-male motorcycle anizatns the world.
While other motorcycle clubs have perhaps been active for longer perds of time (at least one group disput that they are the olst all-male, all-gay group), Empire Cy is the only one that requir, and has always required, all of s members to ri a motorcycle. "Beg a gay biker, beg a group, you fd yourself wh people who have the same terts, the same fort level, " he go on. Though E stopped ridg 1996, he is currently an ECMC Emer member, meang he don't have to own a bike or license signatn, or pay the 1960s, when E joed, "gay" was not somethg you discsed and "out" was not somethg you were.
MEET OPENLY GAY PRO MOTORCYCLE RACER LE HUFF
Beg openly gay put you at risk for losg your job, your apartment, your fay, and iends.
It don't mean that you're gay, don't mean this, don't mean that. "E lowers his voice when he says the word "gay, " even though we are chattg the lobby of The Center, as New York's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy Center is known.