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TAYLER WIL: I HOPE THE MEN'S PELOTON BE MORE ACCEPTG OF GAY RIRS
"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. 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.