Travis Shumake looks to make history as NHRA's first openly gay driver

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Steve Bull once raced agast time to try to save the memoirs of one of Mae's gay rights pneers. His trip led him down memory lane.

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”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. ”But what about the sponsors you ask — would an openly gay driver be able to attract a sponsor?

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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. The astal sailg legend and Mae gay rights pneer died six months earlier  the fall of 2012.

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Bull and Hasks helped found the groundbreakg stunt group at the Universy of Mae 1973 — then held the first Mae Gay Symposium 1974, which jump-started Mae’s LGBTQ+ rights stggle, lnchg much further ahead toward jtice than most other stat.

They are also anizg a 50th anniversary Mae Gay Symposium Orono and Portland this fall. They named Wil Ste after the famo gay and lbian wrers Osr Wil and Gert Ste.

The club was part of the first wave of gay and lbian stunt groups tryg to w official regnn om llege admistrators.

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A photographic ntact sheet showg Steven Bull speakg at the first gay symposium put on by the Wild Ste Club at the Universy pf Mae 1974, is part of Bull’s papers hoed the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversy’s LGBTQ+ llectn at the Universy of Southern Mae. One of the qutns was, “Do you have any homosexual tennci? A week before the Universy of Mae board of tste was to ci Wil Ste’s fate January 1974, the club issued a prs release about s tentn to hold the first Mae Gay Symposium April.

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That same week, gay and lbian stunts New Hampshire won their right to anize feral urt.

The symposium featured anizg meetgs, discsn panels and speakers, cludg Morty Manford of New York Cy’s Gay Activists Alliance.

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Manford was famo for publicly gog toe-to-toe wh the cy’s mayor orr to get the police off the gay muny’s back. Gerald Talbot to troduce a gay rights plank the state Democratic Party platform.

The move passed — makg Mae the send state to pass such a party plank — spe a BDN edorial equatg gays and lbians wh felons, dg ers and draft dodgers. “We secured a wrten mment om the head of the Mae Teachers Associatn that they would fend any teacher gone after solely for their homosexualy, ” Bull said.

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Bull is helpg to anize a gay rights symposium the fall, 50 years after he helped anize Mae’s first.

The son of 2000 European rally r champn Henrik Lundgaard, the IndyCar sophomore took advantage of his off-roadg background to secure the No.

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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. FLORION GOGA/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagRtersJun 8, 2022, 03:54 PM ETFormula One would now wele s first openly gay driver, acrdg to Germany's four-time world champn Sebastian champnship, which started 1950, has had only male drivers on the startg grid sce 1976 but has ma a ph for diversy and cln wh teams showg support for the LGBTQ Mart driver Vettel last year wore a rabow-loured T shirt Hungary wh the msage "same love" to prott anti-LGBTQ+ 34-year-old father of three has also peted wh Racg Pri logos on his r.

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"Perhaps wouldn't have been the se the past, but now I thk a gay Formula One driver would be weled, and rightly so, " Vettel said an terview wh LGBTQ magaze Attu that featured him on s ver.

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